Man, I think it's pretty ballsy to give players the choice to play as an RDA soldier, slaughtering the Na'vi. Even if they imply that it's the immoral choice, it's still a fully viable way to play and that's dope.
well get it when the game out back in 2009, and play as RDA about 3 times campaign, and for navi just once as gman mention, yes starting of the campaign for them is pain in ass.
I feel like I'm almost at that age where I end up in a nursery home reading that this game was a huge part of your childhood. 2009 feels like 5 years ago to me.
It was pretty good.... But Ninja Gaiden II got there first and was better. Admittedly though, NGII was BALLS TO THE WALL hard. What separated the men from the boys.
@@arnox4554I hate that they made the so called sigma edition worse than the original ninja gaiden 2. And it's harder to get the original now except through Xbox marketplace
This game IS underrated especially since it's one of the few actually good games that ties in to the events of a movie while not being too overbearing. The Riddick games are also good examples of a video game tie-in to a movie IP that is pretty satisfying. Also, the RDA campaign is actually the canon decision considering you take part in the final battle against the Navi at the Well of Souls.
It's pretty insane how high budgeted and ambitious Riddick manages to be despite being a licensed tie-in game. And how they manage to pull it off properly too. They took a risk with the game instead of just making a cheap/safe cash grab.
I question how well it ties in, it takes place before the movie but you'd think it would have a bigger impact on things like relationship with the Navi or the Avatar program or the potential of another avatar going native before sully comes along as it is the most that's happened is vehicles get spears lodged in them the RDA maybe shot up a school for navi one time
i was playing a lot of crappy games back on the 360, especially licensed ones, but this one was pretty good. repetitive and a bit clunky, but more ambitious than most tie ins. i kinda miss games like this nowadays...
I remember being a kid in italy in the early 2000’s and not owning a ps3 or a 360. One day a classmate invited me to his place and he had a ps3 with this game, needless to say i was totally blown away and at that moment i got hooked to games for life. Prior to that my favorite game was metal slug, i used to play it in a neogeo cabinate they had at my dad’s favorite bar which also had a fishtank with live piranhas
I remember avidly playing this my junior year in high school, it was/is a surprisingly good and addicting game. Edit: to answer your question about "being shot from nowhere" there are actually human sniper perches in some of the missions (little dugouts which contain humans with precision rifles) Also one thing that separates the human and na'vi factions are how quickly you can gain spare lives. With the na'vi you can gain it by harvesting plant material while with the RDA you can only gain it as drops from defeated enemies. (you need to collect 10 pieces of material to gain one spare live with a total of 5 spare lives)
I loved the 3rd person mech driving xbox game. What's really neat is that Cameron only added the mechs in the film after he saw them created in the videogame first.
The open world is completely devoid of side content, there are no consequences for dying, and yet, I had such a blast playing this game back in the day. I sank a lot of hours into aimlessly wandering Pandora and shooting the fauna. XD
@@turdzilla1675 I think you can still play it on PC that's how I played it originally. Can use an Xbox controller too if you prefer. Shouldn't be too taxing on modern laptops or PCs.
I played this game when it came out. I bought the Nvidia 3d vision 3d glasses and monitor to play it on. It was EPIC! The 3d gaming was 100x better than movie 3d! Had no idea stereoscopic gaming looked so good. Been gaming in 3d that way with 90% of my games ever since, and Avatar the game was the catalyst.
Choosing between an RDA and Navi really is an interesting concept they put in this game. They really did watched the movie’s plot,and made it into a game where we can choose from a soldier or a Navi.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that had a great time with this game. So much fun playing as the RDA. Reminds me of the Deathworld books. Great looking game too! Too bad the upcoming Avatar game limits you to playing as a Navi.
The multiplayer was great, but I don't think the devs intended that. When I played, the servers were empty, you'd get a 2 v 2 at best. But the low player count turned the game into a Predator-like team deathmatch, where the phase run and invisibility skills were the best skills to use. Combined with the airstrike/bird swarm thing, it was a team deathmatch ruled by gorilla tactics. The Navi bow was so hard to use, but super powerful. Sadly the RDA pistol and rifle were the most OP weapons in any multiplayer, and were basically Insta kills at short or long range respectively. While it might have been a tacked on mode, it was pretty fun and a gem of a mode that I won't forget from 2009.
YES!! I've loved this game for so long and I've always heard more people say it sucked than hearing people give it any praise whatsoever. Never understood the hate. Loved this game more than the movie.
Hello, i'm your average youtube gun nut, and i'd like to spend a word about James Cameron's ability to create some of the most credible, versatile, interesting and realistic sci-fi weapons i've ever seen. You are probably thinking about the alien franchise, but no, today i am talking about the CARB modular weapon system seen in the Avatar franchise. These weapons (unlike the overwhelming majority of sci-fi terrible looking crap usually put toghether with whatever the department could find) look belivable, usable, reliable while still being recognizable. Some people might say that they look generic, but honestly they do not. Sci-fi weapons who try to be realistic are normally just real life weapons with plastic stuff glued on top, while the team of Avatar actually took the time to create something new that still looks like something people would actually use and you can even still guess the role of each weapon and how they work. You can see the assault rifle with the underbarrel semi auto grenade launcher/shotgun (depending on the ammo) that can be removed and used separetely. Unfortunately the revolver is the usual "normal gun with stuff glued on top", but still i liked the effort.
I'm gonna be real with you, Chief. The franchise is tripe (the story, the world, the characters, everything is uncomparably crappy compared to, say Aliens), the game was a bit better but still very forgettable. The only good thing is you can side with the RDA and eliminate those blue beligerents.
The game is actually pretty easy to run on modern PC despite its age, in fact i didn't have a single compatibility issue, it support various resolution, high framerate, smooth mouse & keyboard controls (tho i needed to edit 1 line in a config to disable mouse accel but it took me 5 seconds honestly) and i think the game hold up pretty well on PC, specially for a 2009 title.. let alone compared to those horrible PS3/X360 versions, night and day 👍🏼
I never realized how old the "BOSCHITT!" voice was until now.. I mean I heard it back in 08, but I never considered it outside of being "DASBOSCHITT" INTRO.
For me the biggest sell of the game was being able to play as the RDA. And as someone who replayed the campaign tones of times, the RDA from a gameplay sense was easily the best. If I can’t play as the RDA in Ubisoft’s new avatar game I don’t want it
Yes! Love that this game is getting more recognition. I got it near when it came out because it hit the bargain bin pretty quick and special edition came with a figure. By the standards of most movie games, it's a surprisingly competent lite open world action RPG. My favorite aspect is that the game has a Metroid Prime-style scanner in which you scan objects, enemies and NPCs to unlock lore entries in the encyclopedia, and naturally between the two very different campaigns you get different opportunities to scan certain things. I'm not sure if there was anything exclusive to each campaign, but it was still fun to try to get all the encyclopedia entries and see the neat little worldbuilding lore they wrote into the game.
reviewers literally play hundreds of games as their jobs, at that rate what gamers think should be an 8/10 would have to do a lot more to Garner praise
Remember playing this game a long time ago... completed it despite having a budget pc and fps being near if not single digits for the whole playthrough.
Had no idea there was even an Avatar game but gotta say, it looks cool. Definitely nice with the visuals and the fact the gameplay isn't shit feels illegal for a game based on a movie.
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I only completed the Navi campaign back in the day, but I found the game to be pretty competent even if it didn't make a big impact on me. It was good enough to keep me playing till the end.
A friend of mine was really into the movie, and he picked this up in the discount bin. And you know what? He loved it. He tried to get me to play it. But I had already read the reviews and decided it wasn't worth my time. I suppose you can't judge a book by the book's judge.
Woo! I frickin loved this game when I was a kid and have been talking about how underrated it is for years, so glad to see someone else talk about it lol
So surprised to see this... it's such a great game and it really annoyed me when people were excited for the new one "YAY AN AVATAR GAME" as if we didn't get one ages ago.. I played it a few years after it came out and rebought my copy like a year ago XD such a great game. IF THEY COULD BRING IT BACK TO STEAM THAT'D BE NICE.
I liked this game ever since I first played it back in the day. I know you weren't too hot on messing with the PC version to get it running, but even to this day, it's as easy as installing and starting it. Plus, you'll get insanely high framerates at all times too, and with maxed out graphics. If you can find it (read: download), and it seems to be a game you might enjoy, it plays best on PC nowadays by far, and with full controller or mouse and keyboard support. It's not an amazing game, but dang it it's fun sometimes, and blowing stuff up and running around exploring the world is just enjoyable. Hopefully this next Avatar game they're making is even better.
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I've wanted to retry this game for ages now. Last time I played it it was the demo on PC and it was completely broken. I don't know if it was because of my PC, which it portably was, or the demo, but it was a mess.
THIS VIDEO! this is the reason why most post on r/piracy exploded. I asked for a keygen a few months ago because, yeah, i like this game a lot, a true guilty pleasure. I made the post, got a reply, then zero activity, now its got like 600 comment all begging for keys. I figured some youtuber made a video or something.
One thing I find really funny about this game is the RDA ending where you side with the Navi. Like to get to the finale zone you have to metal gear solid your way into a now enemy RDA base to steal a helicopter so at all can go to the finale zone. Because if you thought it was hard to fight the Navi as a human, then you have no idea how hard it is to fight humans as a human. The other thing I find hilarious about this ending is the ending cutscene. Because it is the same one as the Navi campaign. Which makes no sense. Because your character talks to Tanjala like you have known each other for a long time now. And that's not mention that one of the missions for the RDA before you get to switch sides is to kill Tan Tanjala. So Tanjala came back to life and you are completely fine with it.
I used to have this game on PC. I had such a blast playing as both factions and using their different abilities and weapons. And the Environments are actually really beautiful
I remember this. Playing as a Na'vi felt like playing a Predator. Hiding in trees and cloaking. Then calling in a thanator to mess up an amp suit then going ham with the dual blades while blicking everywhere. While RDA is while just a SIG SPEC you become a one man army with lmgs and flamethrowers calling in airstrikes and dropping repulsors to send wildlife flying back. Damn it was fun. Then mucking about in the Planes of Goliath. The warzone was amazing to fight in
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Remember this was a fun experience, did go with the human faction all the way through. Visuals wasn't bad and remember that i found the armour upgrades was pretty rad looking. Atmosphere was on point and It did run well on pc back when it launched as well. Will probably not go back and replay it, rather have the experience i remember instead of replacing it today
I think it's amusing how these old games seem to have aged well because all things we hated about games back then - they could be derivative, a little ugly, a little jank, and "short", didn't take themselves seriously enough for us "mature" gamers in our 20's - are now not big deals when games are ABSURDLY derivative, overly polished to the point of lacking gameplay, and broken and full of day 1 patches and in-game microtransactions and season passes, that a fun, campy, okay video game from the late 2000's manages to stand head and shoulders above the fifteenth assassin's creed game or freemium pay to win mobile game mechanics. It's why Hifi rush is blowing the world up right now - it's campy, fun, not overly long, doesn't take itself seriously, and released as a finished, complete game with no microtransactions or season pass.
Does anyone remember the Avatar map from Warcraft 3? That was a good one. You could play as one of the humans (my favourite faction), where your goal was to first harvest Unobtanium and one by one eliminate the AI Na'vi resistance to at the end blow up Eywa itself. You had access to troops, heavy machines and orbital bombardment. You could play as Eywa, where you were this all-seeing being harassing and working against the humans, controlling animals and using powers to impede their work. Or you could play as one of the Avatars, where the game changed into an RPG, where you collected experience, lore and items to, again, harass and impede humans until Eywa was strong enough for the final push. It was climactic, interesting and with tons of cool visuals and sound effects. Good shit.
Bought this games years ago and never got around to playing it. Eventually I decided to play it bofore Avatar 2 came out. The movie came and went and I still need to play it... I guess I'll play it before Avatar 3 comes out.
I’m not surprised this game has aged better than anyone could have thought, considering the AAA industry has been driving itself into an absolute state for the last decade. The latter half of the 00s was really a golden age for AAA games, where we had finally achieved this beautiful cornerstone between mechanical complexity and visual fidelity that allowed devs to consistently build big, satisfying, complete experiences. This was the era of Halo: Reach, Gears of War 2, Modern Warfare 2, Assassin’s Creed II, Mass Effect 2, and etc, so of course this game seemed extremely mediocre when it came out. Stacked up against those games, it was! Stacked up against many AAA games today, it’s surprising how good something like this looks for just being relatively stable, full-length, content complete, and not monetized to hell. Maybe my perspective is flawed because I see those beautiful muddy 2009 graphics and get all nostalgic for that aesthetic, but I just think when around 2013 devs really started to realize it was a lot more profitable to sell cosmetics and update your game as you go rather than releasing full, complete story experiences, gaming started to lose a lot of magic. And now, by 2023, we are calling a 2009 game based on the film Avatar “pretty good”. It’s just funny how that works.
i always felt this game was underrated as well. i actually enjoyed this game very much and loved both campaigns. i remember comparing ths game's engine to Far Cry 2 because not only does it use the same engine and physics but also utilizes the fire mechanics and character animations when you talk to NPCs. The game was pretty fun and i had recently come back to it on PC. the PC port unfortunately doesn't have an optional "Controller Overlay" so playing with a controller leaves you with PC key prompts leaving you a bit confused at times but if you can get over that the rest of the game still plays out as expected.
This game is fire, using blue nev is lack weapon but the speeed and rising wild.. Is lit Of course human side is lit with full weapons. And the world is big!!
I agree with his assessment of the film Avatar, frankly I don't think Cameron's current films after True Lies were anything special compared to his classic films (i.e. T1-T2), but Avatar was a visual masterpiece, I definitely will give it that, and I just realized the A.D.A. remind me of Weyland Yutani from Alien and Aliens.
I played this way back when the first Avatar came out. A friend in high school had let me borrow it, and because I went in with (let's be real here) less than stellar expectations, I was surprised to find a pretty solid 3rd Person shooter, with that classy James Cameron veneer. Solid game, got more shit than it deserved.
God, this was my childhood. One of 3 movie games I owned (the other two being transformers 2 and 3 iirc) and by far the best of the lot. I weep every time I remember that I in fact don't have it anymore, that it was lost during a move. One of the best 3rd person games I owned up to that point, and one that I desperately wish to get my hands on again. RDA was just so unbelievably fun and all the vehicles were just chef's kiss.
I recently remembered this game when watching the way of the water. I was a kid and my uncle was visiting from Florida during the time and I remember having a lot of fun with it. It was relatively stable from what I remember and the gameplay felt good and varied. It’s cool seeing this obscure game get any positive coverage.
Man, I think it's pretty ballsy to give players the choice to play as an RDA soldier, slaughtering the Na'vi. Even if they imply that it's the immoral choice, it's still a fully viable way to play and that's dope.
RDA side... Is Rad.. Pack with weapon, but wild creatures sure give challenge like black looking tiger.
You'll get canceled for something like this nowadays
well get it when the game out back in 2009, and play as RDA about 3 times campaign, and for navi just once as gman mention, yes starting of the campaign for them is pain in ass.
people do seem to be missing more evil options in games these days
It's also one of the colorful games to come out at that time. In 2009 everything was a gray and brown shooter.
Finally, someone's giving this game an actual chance, this was a huge part of my childhood, played it five times
Just get a life maybe?
@@goldenman8825 you want my child self to not play this game to get a life? Okay...
I feel like I'm almost at that age where I end up in a nursery home reading that this game was a huge part of your childhood. 2009 feels like 5 years ago to me.
@@govardhanposina17 You are alive. Your child self succeeded.
@@sandercohen9712it's worse than that. It came out in 2005 lol. I was 14.
The movie license game *X-Men Origins: Wolverine* is arguably an underrated gem as well.
fuck yeah, that shit went hard
It was pretty good....
But Ninja Gaiden II got there first and was better. Admittedly though, NGII was BALLS TO THE WALL hard. What separated the men from the boys.
Not even arguably. It was very underrated. Very good game
@@arnox4554I hate that they made the so called sigma edition worse than the original ninja gaiden 2. And it's harder to get the original now except through Xbox marketplace
@@arnox4554 Yeah, but that wasn't saddled with being a movie tie-in.
This game IS underrated especially since it's one of the few actually good games that ties in to the events of a movie while not being too overbearing. The Riddick games are also good examples of a video game tie-in to a movie IP that is pretty satisfying.
Also, the RDA campaign is actually the canon decision considering you take part in the final battle against the Navi at the Well of Souls.
It's pretty insane how high budgeted and ambitious Riddick manages to be despite being a licensed tie-in game.
And how they manage to pull it off properly too. They took a risk with the game instead of just making a cheap/safe cash grab.
I question how well it ties in, it takes place before the movie but you'd think it would have a bigger impact on things like relationship with the Navi or the Avatar program or the potential of another avatar going native before sully comes along
as it is the most that's happened is vehicles get spears lodged in them the RDA maybe shot up a school for navi one time
I’m going to download and play it
This game was amazing back in the day! Even the multiplayer was quite enjoyable, it was a glorious mess of Navi, Mechs and explosions
I'm surprised anyone remembers there was a multiplayer, I got into it for a hot minute before the match ended and I never touched it again
If it wasn’t for mw2 it would’ve had the best multiplayer on 2009 imo. Clubbing dudes in mechs during games of capture the flag was so satisfying.
i was playing a lot of crappy games back on the 360, especially licensed ones, but this one was pretty good. repetitive and a bit clunky, but more ambitious than most tie ins. i kinda miss games like this nowadays...
Me too, I’ve still got my 360 and ordered a few movie tie in games from EBay. Including the Disney Pixar ones.
Compared to the annual shitwave that is COD, and the pay to win triple AAA fest, it was an golden age of gaming!
I remember being a kid in italy in the early 2000’s and not owning a ps3 or a 360.
One day a classmate invited me to his place and he had a ps3 with this game, needless to say i was totally blown away and at that moment i got hooked to games for life.
Prior to that my favorite game was metal slug, i used to play it in a neogeo cabinate they had at my dad’s favorite bar which also had a fishtank with live piranhas
You mean late 2000s or early 2010s right?
Dioporco
@@ManateeMentality yeah i was 10 in the late 2000’s
@@lucignolo8333 yeah but you said early 2000s
I somehow love the little details about your dad's favorite bar 😂
I remember avidly playing this my junior year in high school, it was/is a surprisingly good and addicting game.
Edit: to answer your question about "being shot from nowhere" there are actually human sniper perches in some of the missions (little dugouts which contain humans with precision rifles)
Also one thing that separates the human and na'vi factions are how quickly you can gain spare lives. With the na'vi you can gain it by harvesting plant material while with the RDA you can only gain it as drops from defeated enemies. (you need to collect 10 pieces of material to gain one spare live with a total of 5 spare lives)
This game was so freaking fun those mech suits were insanely fun to control here’s hoping for a an actual high budget version of this game we NEED it
Did you not notice the year? This was a high budget game. That's what third person games looked like in 2009.
Well Ubisoft is making an Avatar game ,but only from the Navi perspective witch sucks since I want to shoot the blue people ;D
@@cenciende9401 my bad I mispoke, what I meant was a modern high budget version. Just hoping they don’t do it cheaply and have it be a cash grab
@@Assassin5671000 The new game is cringe as fuck.
I loved the 3rd person mech driving xbox game. What's really neat is that Cameron only added the mechs in the film after he saw them created in the videogame first.
Running this game on a 9800GT back in the day I was truly impress on the graphic quality and performance ratio.
The open world is completely devoid of side content, there are no consequences for dying, and yet, I had such a blast playing this game back in the day. I sank a lot of hours into aimlessly wandering Pandora and shooting the fauna. XD
Play for the alien furries: 🤢🤮💨
Play for humanity: 💲💪🗿⚒️🏆
Allen from Generation Films/Tech was right!
It's just like how chronicles of Riddick was an under rated movie game. Loved that shit.
Escape From Butcher Bay was so damn good. Genuinely good melee combat and it demanded you to think carefully and explore cautiously.
I wish it was on the Xbox backwards compatible list.
@@turdzilla1675 For real.
@@turdzilla1675 I think you can still play it on PC that's how I played it originally. Can use an Xbox controller too if you prefer. Shouldn't be too taxing on modern laptops or PCs.
@@mechanizedmind2472 yeah kind of reminded me of the condemned games in some areas.
The fact they let you choose your campaign is amazing. RDA here we go
I played this game when it came out. I bought the Nvidia 3d vision 3d glasses and monitor to play it on. It was EPIC! The 3d gaming was 100x better than movie 3d! Had no idea stereoscopic gaming looked so good. Been gaming in 3d that way with 90% of my games ever since, and Avatar the game was the catalyst.
Choosing between an RDA and Navi really is an interesting concept they put in this game. They really did watched the movie’s plot,and made it into a game where we can choose from a soldier or a Navi.
That ending talking about all the god tier releases towards the end of the 00s, that zapped me back into so much nostalgia. We really did have it all
I'm glad I'm not the only one that had a great time with this game. So much fun playing as the RDA. Reminds me of the Deathworld books. Great looking game too! Too bad the upcoming Avatar game limits you to playing as a Navi.
Sam Worthington kills it as Alex Mason in Black Ops. He’s not totally talentless
His accent slips a bit but apart from that I agree.
The multiplayer was great, but I don't think the devs intended that. When I played, the servers were empty, you'd get a 2 v 2 at best. But the low player count turned the game into a Predator-like team deathmatch, where the phase run and invisibility skills were the best skills to use. Combined with the airstrike/bird swarm thing, it was a team deathmatch ruled by gorilla tactics.
The Navi bow was so hard to use, but super powerful. Sadly the RDA pistol and rifle were the most OP weapons in any multiplayer, and were basically Insta kills at short or long range respectively.
While it might have been a tacked on mode, it was pretty fun and a gem of a mode that I won't forget from 2009.
YES!! I've loved this game for so long and I've always heard more people say it sucked than hearing people give it any praise whatsoever. Never understood the hate. Loved this game more than the movie.
Hello, i'm your average youtube gun nut, and i'd like to spend a word about James Cameron's ability to create some of the most credible, versatile, interesting and realistic sci-fi weapons i've ever seen. You are probably thinking about the alien franchise, but no, today i am talking about the CARB modular weapon system seen in the Avatar franchise.
These weapons (unlike the overwhelming majority of sci-fi terrible looking crap usually put toghether with whatever the department could find) look belivable, usable, reliable while still being recognizable. Some people might say that they look generic, but honestly they do not. Sci-fi weapons who try to be realistic are normally just real life weapons with plastic stuff glued on top, while the team of Avatar actually took the time to create something new that still looks like something people would actually use and you can even still guess the role of each weapon and how they work. You can see the assault rifle with the underbarrel semi auto grenade launcher/shotgun (depending on the ammo) that can be removed and used separetely. Unfortunately the revolver is the usual "normal gun with stuff glued on top", but still i liked the effort.
Dang! The shade at Sam!
The Earthling campaign gives me serious Lost Planet/ Earth Defense Force vibes.
You really just unlocked a recessed memory i pushed deep down... Like, i completely forgot this game existed but i remember loving it
I'm gonna be real with you, Chief. The franchise is tripe (the story, the world, the characters, everything is uncomparably crappy compared to, say Aliens), the game was a bit better but still very forgettable. The only good thing is you can side with the RDA and eliminate those blue beligerents.
The game is actually pretty easy to run on modern PC despite its age, in fact i didn't have a single compatibility issue, it support various resolution, high framerate, smooth mouse & keyboard controls (tho i needed to edit 1 line in a config to disable mouse accel but it took me 5 seconds honestly) and i think the game hold up pretty well on PC, specially for a 2009 title.. let alone compared to those horrible PS3/X360 versions, night and day 👍🏼
Game performance dropping was probably done to avoid game crashing due to memory limitations.
Just wanna say: Your reviews are really good and entertaining. Even though I probably won't play 90% of the games you present.
Agreed
I never realized how old the "BOSCHITT!" voice was until now.. I mean I heard it back in 08, but I never considered it outside of being "DASBOSCHITT" INTRO.
For me the biggest sell of the game was being able to play as the RDA. And as someone who replayed the campaign tones of times, the RDA from a gameplay sense was easily the best. If I can’t play as the RDA in Ubisoft’s new avatar game I don’t want it
It's sad how much older games are more enjoyable to play, then compared to a lot of today's games coming from triple AAA developers.
Retro gaming forever, bitch! 💪😎
Humans are the good guys.
I like the part where John Avatar shows up and is like "It's Avatarin' time!"
And then he proceeded to Avatar all over the place.
Hearing the Tourettes Guy laugh clip was such a joy.
Missed opportunity to mention The Abyss, a great James Cameron movie
Yes! Love that this game is getting more recognition. I got it near when it came out because it hit the bargain bin pretty quick and special edition came with a figure. By the standards of most movie games, it's a surprisingly competent lite open world action RPG. My favorite aspect is that the game has a Metroid Prime-style scanner in which you scan objects, enemies and NPCs to unlock lore entries in the encyclopedia, and naturally between the two very different campaigns you get different opportunities to scan certain things. I'm not sure if there was anything exclusive to each campaign, but it was still fun to try to get all the encyclopedia entries and see the neat little worldbuilding lore they wrote into the game.
Reviewers backed then could easily destroy a game's chance. Happy this one plays well
Back then, as now, most people don't read reviews.
reviewers literally play hundreds of games as their jobs, at that rate what gamers think should be an 8/10 would have to do a lot more to Garner praise
I was kinda addicted to this game when it came out, loved the multiplayer
The world of avatar is so interesting it's really cool. We have games that you can explore it on the world with
Remember playing this game a long time ago... completed it despite having a budget pc and fps being near if not single digits for the whole playthrough.
Lost Planet is a nice game to star drawing comparisons, this one does fill more expensive than the other one despite the lack of graphic fidelity.
Love the fact the last human armor literally turns you into a Gears soldier
3:23 funny you said that as Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is often referred as "just another Far Cry game"
Had no idea there was even an Avatar game but gotta say, it looks cool. Definitely nice with the visuals and the fact the gameplay isn't shit feels illegal for a game based on a movie.
I mean you say gameplay isn't shit despite all the things he says about the gameplay that indicate otherwise
Nice to see Gman is a man of TIGHT(s) culture!
I'm guilty how fun I found it sending those Na'vi flying with the shotty.
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I adored this game as a kid, it wasn't groundbreaking, but being a fan of the movie made exploring pandora a dream! Even the online was a lot of fun.
RDA campaign basically plays out as a Harry Harrison's "Deathworld" adaptation and I love it.
I only completed the Navi campaign back in the day, but I found the game to be pretty competent even if it didn't make a big impact on me. It was good enough to keep me playing till the end.
@Hope died last LMAO. Don't blame me, I played it shortly after watching the movie :D
@Hope died last reject humanity, embrace blue monke
Finally someone says it hahaha
Ngl i loved being at Pandora back then.
Even got the 1k Gamerscore :O
A friend of mine was really into the movie, and he picked this up in the discount bin. And you know what? He loved it. He tried to get me to play it. But I had already read the reviews and decided it wasn't worth my time.
I suppose you can't judge a book by the book's judge.
Yeah this game was pretty intriguing in terms of licensed games. The new game seems pretty interesting as well.
Being with the RDA is just acknowledging your inner chaos-
*and having fun with it*
Adulthood is when you realize that the marines were good guys.
adulthood is when you have the mentality of a 15 year old?
@Feasco A 15 year old is 10 years more mature than a 5 year old, yes 😎
HOLY HECK I REMEMBER THIS GAME! I LOVED IT AS A KID
Woo! I frickin loved this game when I was a kid and have been talking about how underrated it is for years, so glad to see someone else talk about it lol
So surprised to see this... it's such a great game and it really annoyed me when people were excited for the new one "YAY AN AVATAR GAME" as if we didn't get one ages ago.. I played it a few years after it came out and rebought my copy like a year ago XD such a great game. IF THEY COULD BRING IT BACK TO STEAM THAT'D BE NICE.
I liked this game ever since I first played it back in the day. I know you weren't too hot on messing with the PC version to get it running, but even to this day, it's as easy as installing and starting it. Plus, you'll get insanely high framerates at all times too, and with maxed out graphics. If you can find it (read: download), and it seems to be a game you might enjoy, it plays best on PC nowadays by far, and with full controller or mouse and keyboard support. It's not an amazing game, but dang it it's fun sometimes, and blowing stuff up and running around exploring the world is just enjoyable. Hopefully this next Avatar game they're making is even better.
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The PC Version was always pretty solid because of the good frame rates. But I remember the xbox 360 version having way too much in way of frame drops.
I've wanted to retry this game for ages now. Last time I played it it was the demo on PC and it was completely broken. I don't know if it was because of my PC, which it portably was, or the demo, but it was a mess.
THIS VIDEO! this is the reason why most post on r/piracy exploded. I asked for a keygen a few months ago because, yeah, i like this game a lot, a true guilty pleasure. I made the post, got a reply, then zero activity, now its got like 600 comment all begging for keys. I figured some youtuber made a video or something.
One thing I find really funny about this game is the RDA ending where you side with the Navi. Like to get to the finale zone you have to metal gear solid your way into a now enemy RDA base to steal a helicopter so at all can go to the finale zone. Because if you thought it was hard to fight the Navi as a human, then you have no idea how hard it is to fight humans as a human.
The other thing I find hilarious about this ending is the ending cutscene. Because it is the same one as the Navi campaign. Which makes no sense. Because your character talks to Tanjala like you have known each other for a long time now.
And that's not mention that one of the missions for the RDA before you get to switch sides is to kill Tan Tanjala. So Tanjala came back to life and you are completely fine with it.
>"Avatar" and "underrated" in the same sentence
Gman's spiciest take yet 🙃
Game bro
I honestly had no idea this thing existed, as heard of it in development but I assumed it got cancelled
I used to have this game on PC. I had such a blast playing as both factions and using their different abilities and weapons.
And the Environments are actually really beautiful
Came for the review, stayed for the Captain Planet reference. Chefs kiss
The use of Little Richard music in this caught me totally off guard, but I loved it, it's fantastic
I remember this. Playing as a Na'vi felt like playing a Predator. Hiding in trees and cloaking. Then calling in a thanator to mess up an amp suit then going ham with the dual blades while blicking everywhere. While RDA is while just a SIG SPEC you become a one man army with lmgs and flamethrowers calling in airstrikes and dropping repulsors to send wildlife flying back. Damn it was fun. Then mucking about in the Planes of Goliath. The warzone was amazing to fight in
I had no idea this game existed and it looks amazing I’m shocked I never knew this game
Paul Eding also voiced Grandpa Max from The Ben 10 Franchise.
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Man this has unlocked some very old memories of playing this game lmao
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Bro this game was amazing. It really captured the open world wonder of Pandora and made you want to explore it.
@Hope died last based
Never knew there was a Avatar game
Wow my gf and I are gamers and she absolutely loves Avatar and just told me last night they made a game and this pops up in my algorithm.
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I think this game is what Warframe would've been if it was singleplayer.
As a man who enjoyed the avatar games as a kid, I’m glad you made this video
I remember playing at the moment It launched, quite fun and enjoyable to be honest
This is one of my favorite XBOX 360 games. It is one of the few that I continue to replay to this day.
Remember this was a fun experience, did go with the human faction all the way through.
Visuals wasn't bad and remember that i found the armour upgrades was pretty rad looking. Atmosphere was on point and It did run well on pc back when it launched as well. Will probably not go back and replay it, rather have the experience i remember instead of replacing it today
I lost my Captain Planet ring inside a Mcdonald's ball pit when I was a kid. Life has never been the same.
I think it's amusing how these old games seem to have aged well because all things we hated about games back then - they could be derivative, a little ugly, a little jank, and "short", didn't take themselves seriously enough for us "mature" gamers in our 20's - are now not big deals when games are ABSURDLY derivative, overly polished to the point of lacking gameplay, and broken and full of day 1 patches and in-game microtransactions and season passes, that a fun, campy, okay video game from the late 2000's manages to stand head and shoulders above the fifteenth assassin's creed game or freemium pay to win mobile game mechanics.
It's why Hifi rush is blowing the world up right now - it's campy, fun, not overly long, doesn't take itself seriously, and released as a finished, complete game with no microtransactions or season pass.
Does anyone remember the Avatar map from Warcraft 3? That was a good one. You could play as one of the humans (my favourite faction), where your goal was to first harvest Unobtanium and one by one eliminate the AI Na'vi resistance to at the end blow up Eywa itself. You had access to troops, heavy machines and orbital bombardment.
You could play as Eywa, where you were this all-seeing being harassing and working against the humans, controlling animals and using powers to impede their work.
Or you could play as one of the Avatars, where the game changed into an RPG, where you collected experience, lore and items to, again, harass and impede humans until Eywa was strong enough for the final push. It was climactic, interesting and with tons of cool visuals and sound effects. Good shit.
Bought this games years ago and never got around to playing it. Eventually I decided to play it bofore Avatar 2 came out. The movie came and went and I still need to play it...
I guess I'll play it before Avatar 3 comes out.
I’m not surprised this game has aged better than anyone could have thought, considering the AAA industry has been driving itself into an absolute state for the last decade.
The latter half of the 00s was really a golden age for AAA games, where we had finally achieved this beautiful cornerstone between mechanical complexity and visual fidelity that allowed devs to consistently build big, satisfying, complete experiences.
This was the era of Halo: Reach, Gears of War 2, Modern Warfare 2, Assassin’s Creed II, Mass Effect 2, and etc, so of course this game seemed extremely mediocre when it came out. Stacked up against those games, it was!
Stacked up against many AAA games today, it’s surprising how good something like this looks for just being relatively stable, full-length, content complete, and not monetized to hell.
Maybe my perspective is flawed because I see those beautiful muddy 2009 graphics and get all nostalgic for that aesthetic, but I just think when around 2013 devs really started to realize it was a lot more profitable to sell cosmetics and update your game as you go rather than releasing full, complete story experiences, gaming started to lose a lot of magic. And now, by 2023, we are calling a 2009 game based on the film Avatar “pretty good”. It’s just funny how that works.
i always felt this game was underrated as well. i actually enjoyed this game very much and loved both campaigns. i remember comparing ths game's engine to Far Cry 2 because not only does it use the same engine and physics but also utilizes the fire mechanics and character animations when you talk to NPCs. The game was pretty fun and i had recently come back to it on PC. the PC port unfortunately doesn't have an optional "Controller Overlay" so playing with a controller leaves you with PC key prompts leaving you a bit confused at times but if you can get over that the rest of the game still plays out as expected.
We as a species need to bring back 6/10 mid-budget AA games
They never left, they were just renamed "AAA."
@@nimrodery except for the mid-budget part
If God wanted the Na'vi to live, he wouldn't have created *Me*
I remember playing this with the 3D glasses on a big 3D TV at the armageddon expo in NZ back in the day. That was a unique experience!
I genuinely love this channel, I watch almost every video even if I’ve never played the game because you make it entertaining as fuck.
This game is fire, using blue nev is lack weapon but the speeed and rising wild.. Is lit
Of course human side is lit with full weapons.
And the world is big!!
I agree with his assessment of the film Avatar, frankly I don't think Cameron's current films after True Lies were anything special compared to his classic films (i.e. T1-T2), but Avatar was a visual masterpiece, I definitely will give it that, and I just realized the A.D.A. remind me of Weyland Yutani from Alien and Aliens.
I played this way back when the first Avatar came out. A friend in high school had let me borrow it, and because I went in with (let's be real here) less than stellar expectations, I was surprised to find a pretty solid 3rd Person shooter, with that classy James Cameron veneer.
Solid game, got more shit than it deserved.
God, this was my childhood. One of 3 movie games I owned (the other two being transformers 2 and 3 iirc) and by far the best of the lot. I weep every time I remember that I in fact don't have it anymore, that it was lost during a move. One of the best 3rd person games I owned up to that point, and one that I desperately wish to get my hands on again. RDA was just so unbelievably fun and all the vehicles were just chef's kiss.
The thing that some people don't realize is that the navi playthrough is easier the flying bits are a pain in the ass but Thanator spawn is hella fun
It's my dad's favorite game we played it together when it released, we are both very excited for the sequel.
I loved this game when I was younger, played it several times
I recently remembered this game when watching the way of the water. I was a kid and my uncle was visiting from Florida during the time and I remember having a lot of fun with it. It was relatively stable from what I remember and the gameplay felt good and varied. It’s cool seeing this obscure game get any positive coverage.
I still remember watching the trailer for this game inside the main menu of Assassin's Creed 2.