Ubisoft has announced that their Massive division is working on an
Avatar game, but the project still doesn't have an official title and it's clear that the game is in an early stage of production. It will be Ubisoft's second approach to Cameron's smashing cinematic hit which still holds the title of the highest grossing film in the history of cinema.
James Cameron's Avatar: The Game was better than most of the movie video games, but it wasn't exactly what the fans expected and Ubisoft wants to fix that.
David Polfeldt from Massive shed some light on the mysterious
Avatar project. “
What Cameron said is that everyone who walks out of Avatar the movie, and it'll be this thing with the next [movie], has a dream that we can fulfil, and that is to go to Pandora and exist on Pandora, and live an alternative life on Pandora. That's what you can do in the game,”. The game won't be released before the movie version of
Avatar 2 which is scheduled to debut in December 2020, so the developer still has a plenty of time to successfully realize this ambitious and technically challenging premise.
The game runs on Ubisoft Massive's Snowdrop engine. It was used in
Tom Clancy's The Division and this year's
South Park: The Fractured But Whole. Polfeldt ensure the fans that their Avatar won't be another
The Division, but a unique experience. “
It's very very different from The Division. It's built from the same engine, and we have access to any kind of feature or any kind of solution that exists in The Division. But it also needs to be a different game, because Avatar is ultimately about world and discovery and nature. It's not a city. It's a very, very different kind of scenario," Polfeldt concluded.