And thus, we arrive at the end of another year. A year filled with some very excellent games, and some very not excellent games. And through it all, the RPS guides team has been quietly toiling away, appeasing The Beast That Is Google with medium-rare slabs of SEO meat, and providing the answers to oft-asked gaming questions.
It's important to me to have a moment in the year where we can step into the light for a little bit and celebrate everything the guides team has accomplished this year. Usually we stay well out of the spotlight, because people only like seeing guides if they're actively searching for it. But today, we're staging a coup. We're taking centre stage, and threatening the lighting technician with all manner of disagreeable bodily experiences unless they keep the spotlight fixed firmly on us for the duration of this post.
2023 has been an amazing standout year for guides. Let's take a look at the games that have defined the year for us, and celebrate some of the fantastic work our team has published.
]]>Wondering what's the best armor in Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora? Armor in Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora is split up into five different gear slots. As you progress through the game you'll gain access to more armor and crafting specs.
]]>Wondering how many quests are in Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora? Ubisoft's open-world extravaganza in the alien world of Pandora offers a good chunk of quests to keep you busy.
As you fight against the RDA (the human militant force on Pandora) and learn what it is to be a Na'vi, you'll have access to a range of main quests that introduce three major Na'vi clans. For a full list of main missions and a rundown of how long it takes to beat Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora, see below.
]]>Wondering how to complete Finding Home Part One and Two in Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora? Finding Home is an optional side quest in Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora that follows the life of an RDA botanist who wrote a selection of sci-fi comics.
During these quests, you'll be given a photo and asked to find the location it was taken from within the world of Pandora. As such, it can be a little tricky knowing where to go. Read on for a rundown of Finding Home Part One and Two in Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora and the locations you need to progress the quest.
]]>Wondering how to find Nor in Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora? Early on in the Becoming quest, your fellow clan member Nor will go missing from the Resistance HQ. This is the game's way of introducing the investigation system to players.
]]>Wondering where to get Swamp Hive Nectar in Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora? Swamp Hive Nectar is a crucial quest item in The Eye of Eywa, the tenth main mission in Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora.
]]>Wondering how to solve The Missing Hunter quest in Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora? The Missing Hunter is the eighth main quest in Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora, needed to advance the story and increase the approval of the Aranahe Clan.
]]>Wondering how to complete the Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora Crush quest? Crush is a quest you can get fairly early on in Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora. After completing the fifth main quest 'Becoming' and starting 'The Aranahe Clan' quest you can speak to the NPC Nawuk at the Aranahe Hometree.
]]>Wondering which are the best weapons in Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora? In the game you'll receive the option to use both Na'vi and RDA weaponry in the fight against the sky-people.
]]>Wondering which are the best recipes in Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora? Like most open-world best RPGs, Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora relies on a cooking system to provide players with temporary buffs and health regeneration.
]]>Want to know the best skills in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora? The skill tree menu in Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora is represented by a screen that shows a tarsyu, one of Pandora's native fauna that allow the Na'vi of the Sarentu clan to connect with the shared collective memories of their people.
Each frond of the tarsyu contains a host of skills that your player character can unlock as they accumulate skill points, and with such a wide array of choices, it's tricky to determine which to proritise first. While much of this decision depends on how you personally prefer to explore the lush realm of Pandora, there are a few choices that we found especially useful.
]]>I find myself agreeing with Ed’s Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora review so closely that we may as well have plugged our USB dreadlocks into the same magic tree. This is indeed an extremely Ubisoft game, with all the busywork and go-here-shoot-that roteness that entails, and although it throws some genuinely gorgeous visuals into the bargain, these also come at the cost of steep hardware requirements.
That said, good performance ain’t out of the question, at least not for modern CPUs and graphics cards. It will just take some digging through the graphics menus – digging that I’ve now completed, so join me as my blackened fingers bash out a convenient guide to Frontiers of Pandora’s PC performance and best settings.
]]>Wondering when you'll get a Direhorse in Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora? As you explore the vibrant hues of Pandora you may notice the curious horse-like beasts roaming around.
]]>Wondering how to get Na'vi Favour in Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora? Na'vi Favour is one of three main currencies early on in Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora and is needed to trade valuable items with the clans like weapons, armour and rare crafting materials.
]]>Wondering when you'll get an Ikran in Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora? As you spend your first few hours within the lush forests of Pandora in Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora, you may be wondering when you can expect to get your own winged companion. After all, flying is the fastest and most entertaining way to travel.
]]>Want to master the art of the hunt in Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora? The lush forests of Pandora are full of all manner of fauna in Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora, from the small and sleek Viperwolves to the hefty Sturmbeests. Many of the creatures you'll run into can easily escape your grasp or dash you into pieces at a moment's notice, and hunting them is a delicate balance between acknowleding the power of nature and gathering the resources you need to survive. Those who expect to rush in and harvest materials with guns blazing are going to be sorely frustrated.
With this in mind, patience and preparation are key to succeeding on Pandora's fertile grounds. This guide will detail general tips that'll make your life easier on any hunting expedition in Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora, from reading up on your prey to ensuring that you maintain the traditional Na'vi respect for the land.
]]>Looking for tips and tricks on Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora? Ubisoft's sprawling RPG set within the world of Pandora is, well, confusing at times. Although the world is undeniably beautiful, it's hard to tell the flora apart and know which are used for crafting and cooking and which are just out to kill you.
Luckily, we've gathered a nifty little guide of top tips to make your life a little easier as you navigate through the vibrant hues of Pandora. This includes things like map navigation, how to get different currencies, gathering materials and other useful tidbits. See below for our top tips of things we wish we knew about Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora beforehand.
]]>After my time spent with open world action adventure Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora, all I wanted was a jeep, maybe a jet to get around quicker. The jungles and the plains might be wonderful to look at, but they're too vast, filled with boring tasks, and overly reliant on level-gating to force a sense of progress. Sure, there's some spectacle in narrow escapes from the nasty humans - and their factories that make the plants droopy - but throughout the rebellion I ditched my bow for a shotgun with extended mags and a muzzle brake. For a game that's all, "the humans are bad", I was ready to defect. At least I would've been able to keep my shotgun.
]]>Looking for the Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora release time? Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora is geared up to release globally on December 7th as an early Christmas treat for those of us wishing to explore the lush environments of Pandora.
]]>Back in June, when our Ed got a 30-minute hands-off glimpse of Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora, he had suspicions that Ubisoft's next big open world-athon was hiding some dark, terrible secret beneath the surface. It was almost too good, and too lovely-looking to be completely true, he proposed, and the brief tour of this rather enormous-looking game wasn't quite long enough to really dig beneath the surface to see if Ubisoft's lofty promises would hold up to closer scrutiny.
Now, just over a month from release, I've finally been able to put it under a proper microscope, playing two hours of the thing from around the 25% mark of its campaign. And it really is as visually impressive as Ed suggested all those months ago. At long last, this is a game that looks and feels like an actual "next-gen" blockbuster (or as much as a game can, at least, when we're already several years into the current generation cycle). But Ed was also right to feel a wee bit suspicious of Frontiers Of Pandora. Perhaps not in the way he expected, but enough that I heard the same thing being muttered over and over again by almost everyone at the end of my preview session at Ubisoft's UK offices: "I can't work out where the heck I'm meant to be going, or what I'm supposed to do."
]]>Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora is due to launch December 7th, and Ubisoft have now detailed the graphics features that will set the PC version apart. The list includes raytraced reflections and shadows, "extended graphics settings" and an in-built benchmarking tool.
]]>I may not have seen Avatar or its sequel, but I like to think that means I'm numb to any preconceptions or bias. I am a man who understands only that there are lanky Smurfs who live in a world you'd get if you mashed Halo and Viva Piñata together. So, having seen roughly 30 minutes of Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora, I can give you the unfettered lowdown of a person who's analysed it with a cold, hard stare. In brief, the game looks rather lovely! If… too lovely. I worry there's a big catch somewhere and I can't put my finger on it.
]]>After several years missing in action, Ubisoft have put a date on their open world first-person Avatar game. Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora will arrive on PC on December 7th later this year, tonight's Ubisoft Forward showcase confirmed, and cor, it sure is cribbing hard on a lot of scenes from the first film, isn't it? Come have a watch of the new six-minute gameplay trailer below.
]]>The season of big video game announcements - otherwise known as NotE3 season - is in full swing and Ubisoft have decided to join the trailer festivities by teasing their own showcase. The Ubisoft Forward show will be broadcast live from Los Angeles on June 12th at 6pm BST/10am PDT, with a pre-show starting 15 minutes earlier. The publisher also released a small clip to confirm that AssCreed, Avatar, and The Crew: Motorfest will all make an appearance, alongside a non-descript mystery game. Take a peek below.
]]>What is Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora, and when is it coming out? It's a big time for Avatar fans, with the recent release of Avatar: The Way Of Water predictably having surpassed $2 billion worldwide at the box office, and the opportunity to jump into the jawdroppingly beautiful (and deadly) world of Pandora for ourselves seemingly just around the corner.
Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora is an open-world first-person adventure game being developed by Ubisoft's own Massive Entertainment, and from what admittedly little we've seen of the game so far, there's still a lot of reason to be excited.
Below we'll walk you through absolutely everything we know about Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora, from its expected release date and platforms to trailers, story and gameplay info, engine details, and more.
]]>Some details from Skydance New Media’s in-development Marvel game appear to have leaked, ahead of the game’s debut at Disney D23's games showcase later today. The game is alleged to star national superheroes Captain America and Wakanda’s Black Panther, and take place during World War 2. Skydance’s project is being headed up by former Uncharted director Amy Hennig, helmer of such unfortunately cancelled projects as Visceral's Star Wars action-adventure.
]]>Disney and Marvel have revealed they’ll be hosting a joint games showcase for the first time during this year’s D23 Expo. The in-person and digital showcase starts at 1pm PST/4pm EST/9pm BST on September 9th. Have a watch of the very concise trailer below to get an idea of what’s being shown at the event.
]]>Ubisoft has slipped the delay of upcoming first-person action adventure Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora into their first quarter sales report. The game has been pushed back to fiscal year 2023-2024 release window, so it would launch after March 31st 2023 at the earliest. If you’re sad about the news then just watch the announcement trailer below a few times to keep the tears at bay.
]]>2022 is finally here and that can only mean one thing. We've got another year of hip new video games to look forward to, and we've been busy rustling up the ones we're most excited about. In truth, there are tons of games on the horizon that could easily sit on this list, and some of them are so close to release we can practically already see the pixels on our screens morphing into their lush, polygonal landscapes. Games like Monster Hunter Rise, God Of War and Rainbow Six Extraction. You won't find them here, but trust us, you'll be seeing a lot of them over the coming weeks.
There are always more games coming out than we have fingers to write about them, but the 2022 games we've listed below are the ones the RPS team are personally most looking forward to playing. We've got games big and small here, and they're all listed in alphabetical order. After all, release dates are increasingly slippery beasts these days. Think we've missed something? Why not take to the comments below and tell us all about it. You might just convince us to put it on our radars. But enough from me. Here are our 43 most anticipated games of 2022.
]]>Avatar is a more interesting world than it is a story, and so in some ways feels better designed for a Ubisoft open world game than a movie. Also, by "interesting world" I mostly mean it's visually interesting, with floating sky islands, colourful dinosaurs and bioluminescent plants. Ubisoft have released a new trailer to talk about the graphical wizardry being employed in creating that world for Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora, including ray tracing and some chat about NPC AI.
]]>I thought that the 2009 film Avatar, of big blue cat people fame, was a bit underwhelming. Speaking as a massive speculative exobiology nerd (which is to say I think theoretical aliens are well cool), I found it baffling that with a budget of 237 million big ones and a brief of "create a convincing alien planet", they couldn't have let their brains rip just a little bit harder. The beasts were all very spectacular and that, but every design basically boiled down to "a normal animal, but it's bigger and more brightly coloured, plus we've stuck a bit from another animal on it". Same goes for the floating mountains and, if we're honest, the entire story.
Unsurprisingly, then, when Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora was announced at Ubisoft Forward last night, I shrugged. Weird flex, etc. But in the course of watching the trailer, I changed my mind. It told us nothing about what the actual game will be like, but it made me realise there's at least a lot more potential here than I might have thought. Here's why.
]]>Ubisoft today revealed Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora, a video game based on the film which made a colossal splash for two months then was entirely forgotten by anyone who ever saw it. Due to arrive in 2022, Frontiers Of Pandora is a standalone story starring a new smurf who's also fighting against the villainous forces of an allegory for the invasion of Iraq. Check out the trailer below.
]]>Any time I read that there are four more Avatar movies on the way, I involuntarily ask the air "FOUR?" You can add another video game to the list of things starring James Cameron's spacesmurfs, as Ubisoft have announced one coming from their Massive studio - the mob behind Ubisoft's Massive Entertainment's Tom Clancy's The Division. Ubisoft already released a mediocre Avatar game alongside the first movie so hey, maybe they'll make a good one this time.
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