Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is a BETTER Far Cry | Brutally Honest Review 

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This is the game I’ve had literal dreams about since I was like 8. Avatar in general has its narrative issues but honestly I fell in love with the world and na’vi culture years ago and my love of the world hasn’t changed. I’ve always wanted to experience exploring pandora on my own accord and I *finally* get to do it. It’s not perfect but it delivers what I personally wanted and for that, I love it. Of course DLC would be absolutely awesome too. Imagine all the cool stuff they could add especially with the upcoming sequels later this side of the decade. I can’t wait

Remember that the game takes place between the two movies, when the Sky People presence had been significantly reduced after their defeat.

I love how the beginning story of the school and the cryo beds sets you up for the wonderment of exploring the world outside. Your character doesn't know what anything is at first and neither do you as the player. New players shouldn't be ignorant of the world and it's inhabitants when the character would be well versed in the environment. The setup at the beginning puts both the player and the character on the same footing when it comes to exploring and learning the ropes out in the world.

Been playing co-op with my son and we’ve been having a blast in this gorgeous world. We loved the Far Cry series. So for us, this is a win. It’s fun, immersive, and although we do like to make fun of cheesy dialog, most of the voice actors are pretty decent. Co-op does not feel generic and was well thought out.

Maybe one day Ubisoft eill realise the talent they have at Massive and give them free reign. One day.

I just watched a different review that said the world doesn't throw a billion different sidequest and enemies like a typical Ubisoft game. Just gotta buy the game myself and see I guess.

imagine this game with remnant 2 enemy mechanics and remnant 2 combat and itemization depth

W review I might just pick this up as the world looks VERY FUN to explore, even if it gets repetitive after 10+ hours. Been looking for a big open world game to play after recently finishing Cyberpunk and LoTF! UPDATE: I bought Avatar and so far it has been AMAZING. The world is the *most* beautiful atmosphere in ANY game so far and the gameplay is extreeeeeeeemely smooth. Parkour feels SO GOOD!! The missions are kiiiiiinda like basic Far Cry quests, but everything else is really good!

I share the same sentiment about how you explained your initial interest in the game. I was kinda like, 'Isn't it just that old movie i'm sure, it's gonna be mid", but after looking at this review, I'm glad to see they actually put work into it. Thanks for the review!

Picked up Avatar Frontiers of Pandora on PS5 and man the graphics are absolutely stunning! It’s the first game since Horizon Forbidden West that has blown me, the world of Pandora is so lush, the natural environment, lighting is top notch. Flying around on the Ikran is a treat, Far Cry Primal is one of my all time favorite games and Avatar Frontiers of Pandora captures the vibe of that game perfectly. 😊

Every single youtuber that uses "bRuTaLlY hOnEsT" in their videos should he banned from the internet.

@LegacyGamingUS still remember me? still I watch your videos. btw how long is the main story line, means like ac Valhalla is long and ac mirage well just 24hr. thanks for the review.

I have put about 130 hours into this game so far absolutely loving it currently on level 15 but I’m literally doing every thing else other than main missions. I love the gathering and crafting systems. Everything has a purpose there is not much waste one of the best crafting and gathering mechanic systems I’ve seen in a game ever.

How does the co-op work?

Thanks for the review. I appreciate your analysis and honesty.

i'm launching into this game basically blind as i've never watched either of the movies, so today is gonna be interesting!

I think all these channels like this and Dreamcast Boi etc who say "Brutally Honest!" need to drop that. If I'm watching your review, I'm expecting honesty, that's a given. I'm not expecting a "slightly honest" review.

I do think that since they announced two DLC's coming later in 2024 im sure there will be references and hell maybe even a full on story quest relating to the most recent movie

Best Buy dropped it to $50 (1/14/24), so I picked it up. I've just now taken down my first refinery, so I'm still going through the early tutorial-like missions. First impressions: first off, yes, it's a very pretty game, regardless of what display setting you use. Since I can't stand 30 fps, I've stuck to the performace mode with an FOV of 90 on the Series X. Second, the game overwhelmes the player with a ton of on-screen information, the minute you leave the TAP facility in the introduction. The information dump can be a bit distracting, but if you stick to the prinary missions, all of the various game mechanics start to make more sense. So far, I can't make mich of an informed opinion, but if you like Far Cry (I do), it's probably a safe bet that you'll like what I've seen in the first 4 hours.

One thing I do wish they can bring is aiming down sights instead of just hip firing but other than that game is amazing

but is it still worth it to get it cause of the story and exploring and the other stuff🤔🤔🤔🙂?

this it’s a game its a world and mostvof the time i’m juts flying above the clouds listening to to the music and hearing the wind blow

Can anyone explain to me, what call of this phenomenon? In my county before the release of avatar 2, so many are so obsess with avatar, but after the avatar 2, no one talking about it, but why?

I enjoy your review, but there was no mention that Melee combat is essentially not in the game what so ever which is quite important to the combat styles presented.

I like Far Cry. I don't care if the formula never changes as long as it improves the mechanics. It's just a series of open world action shooters with a main campaign and a list of side objectives to do around the map. I don't get what's the problem with that. Why do people who are not into this series, want it to change it's formula? That's like me going to Resident Evil and ask it to stop focusing on horror...oh wait...it did happen and it backfired with 6 in 2012. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

One thing that we need in the future is water biome

I do agree that the game should offer ways of transportation or traversal variety when it comes to these scale, to keep it exhilarating or "fun" and id be a wasted potential for how big the Avatar universe is. They do hit the park when it comes to environmental design/landscape with how alienating it was.

I want Far Cry Primal meets Green Hell then amplified, adding regions and animal hide clothing and shelter building material options.

So with this game, we can kind of get an idea of how their Star Wars open word game will play. The Far Cry formula will be in there somewhere.

I love this game the only gripe that I have is the lumpy mechanics of the character. It would have been nice to have an option of 3rd person if the player chooses to do so. The movement of the character is lumpy breaking off Flora and not knowing which direction to snap the fruit or plant can be a little frustrating at the start of the game I noticed there was a guide with a pivot point as a triangle that showed the breaking point that isn’t apparent now and you know how much pressure to apply and where to snap and to get the perfect break is now near impossible. There is room for improvement and I hope the feedback to the Devs they end up making some changes to the mechanics in the game. Other than that is a huge game and it’s fun to play but I have to say this game isn’t for everybody. If you want a normal stop all action game with loads of rewards then this game isn’t for you. You could spend over an hour looking for a superior fruit but as with all Ubisoft games the Devs leave it to the player's initiative and common sense of the player to work out and it doesn’t come with a tone of clues even the guided game can be a little confusing at times.

100% agree! This game scale and details made me fall in love with this universe again!

Before I learned how to play avatar I was super confused and not having fun. Now I know how to play i'm having a BLAST

seeing it as a vibrant FC3 + Primal, and the mechanics of AC mehanics with Eagle vision and audio cues.

The game having go south or west is bad as it doenst tell you whats north or south as compass moves in circle.aslo the sense trail doesnt work half the time

The box office says otherwise on its traction in pulp culture

Man nice review but i had to skip a lot because i felt i was seeing spoilers hahah

Let publishers worry about the popularity of an IP. As a consumer, you shouldn't base your opinion on what's most popular but what it is you like. Alien, Terminator, and Robocop aren't as popular as they once were but I welcome every new game in those franchises with open arms. In Avatar's case, Massive is behind it and I have faith in their ability to deliver a solid game at the very least.

ty nice keep it up kodiak

I'll wait for it to come on steam I wanna play the game but not on the ubisoft store.

I recently tried Far Cry 5 and 6 and only lasted a few hours in each before getting bored. I'm concerned this will end up the same.

homie was BRUTALLY reading wikipedia to us

I thought the game looked cool initially, I kept in mind Division 1’s release trailer and what was actually delivered to the player, leaving aside the 7+ years of patches and nerfs. Ubisoft Massive is great at false advertising or releasing incomplete games, albeit nowhere as terrible as Todd Howard. Based on my experience with Massive, this game will be one I wait on for a solid year because if it’s great now, they’ll update and mess that up soon. I hope it turns out well without taking several years to get there.

Absolutely well done video brother 👊

I've only played for a couple of hours... In fact I've stopped playing - at least until I unwrap my game controller on Xmas day. 🙂This game is not very K&M friendly and I would go so far as to say you won't get far trying (I made it to the base above the waterfall). But I'm looking forward to exploring the game using a controller. First impressions are good ones. [60yo woman who is moderately familiar with open world games].

This game is actually really good in my opinion the hunting and gathering gameplay loop is awesome

Great video thanks man

Honestly I think this game appeals 60/40 more towards women gamers interests. I think with a solid romance interaction storyline like in the movies it would have hit it out of the park for most players.

How bad are the microtransactions? Or have they not been put in yet?

Great review!

11:12 Are you seriously really complaining that about this?? Knowing Ubisoft if they had any real purpose they'd try to monitize them to make this single player (or 2 player co-op) game pay to win. We don't need that shit.

Far Cry: Pandora?

I didn't miss (or even notice) the lack of the water tribe, but players traditionally hate water levels/worlds, and I'll bet Ubisoft knew to steer clear.

Just started playing looks beautiful kind of seems confusing and I hate how u sprint around haven’t got much playtime yet thoygh

So you only get to ride/tame a couple of creatures?

Very good game, impressive graphics, good experience,story, a beautiful environment not like 90% of the new games

The division games still feel like the most real, active open world games with things everywhere.

I wanna try it. But i dont wanna pay full price il wait for the discounts. I like fary cry but i havent finished a fary cry since Primal

I’m pretty sure Ubisoft is listening to all this feed giving from the community and will add it into the upcoming expansion packs, that’s why they are far from now

Outstanding review. Thanks for the recommendation. I just beat it and loved every minute. This is no my favorite open world game. GG!

The game is good. The NPC facial animations and speaking its really good.

😅 I want to play that reality but me only down side is devs says no game plus and that kill this tipe of games soon or later hope people start asking and they see game+ is much have on this tipe of games

It's farcry: avatar

Honestly - The Witcher 3 , released in 2015 !!!! , looks far more better with a much better history . Red Dead Redemption 2 , released in 2018 . So we are in 2023 !!!!

IMO Combat seems pretty bad, crafting seems tedious, who wants to do the same minigame to pull out a plant. Main story will probably be short, side missions are usually meh unless they actually entail some story

PLEASE FIX THE FLIGHT MECHANICS FOR CONTROLLER UBISOFT. I CANT ASCEND!

The Farcry 3 dev are not the guys that created this game, Massive studio, the guys behind The division I and II games who did.

Early squad let's goo!

Look out guys, we got a BRUTALLY honest review here...

Farcry primal was an excellent game that changed up the Farcry formula. This game was an attempt, a fair and nicely done attempt but still feels lacking and new. It should have been FC Primal with new gameplay mechanics and immersion.

Not a huge fan of Ubisoft, was not planning on getting this until this review.

I've put about 40-60 hours of gameplay and even platinum'd it. Visuals are great. I find most of the humans on the resistance side very cringy at times. Story is super predictable and the most interesting character is the villain. The only thing good I found in this game was the visuals. Sidequests are boring or repetitive. The combat is tough even on easy, especially since the humans can shoot through boulders. Having all the tribes members speaking English felt lazy. It would have been better if the MC and the other Sarentu slowly learned the Na'vi language. So much propaganda too.

Just close your eyes and jump… this game is phenomenal and worth every cent. My only complaint? No loading screens to catch your breath, lol…

People are saying this is boring and tedious as hell while others are saying its fun and great. lol Very interesting.

Been waiting for this one for awhile. The price of the super deluxe edition or whatever it's called is ridiculous. But I'll fork over the $70 to play it at midnight tonight, sure why not. This video was like a pump me up video lmao thanks bro

Beautiful looking game! I like eye candy games, so I`m in.........Hurry up and release!

I missed more variety of carnivores.

Every single review I watch is like meh 7.3/10 😆

if u didnt know this games between avatar n the way of water lol

i love avatar but i so mad no 3rd person so i dont no if i going to buy make 3rd person first game was 3rd person for me it suck

"good" ground traversal = literally just running and jumping

Me personally I actually like AfoP

I actually found a game i want to play after years of searching for that one special visually stunning game and this is it but here's the catch i dont have the pc power to play it in 4k maxed out this game needs a 4090 and a top end cpu and at least 32 meg of ram and that isn't what i have Oh well looks like i have to stick with the same old crap games until a miracle happens lol

Is Halo infinites campaign just Sci Fi Far Cry?

Ubisoft is the publisher not the developer so I think I’m going to give it a go at some point

I can't wait to explore this world!

To me a single player game in 1st person start at 8/10

Eh it just looks like a re-skin of Farcry. I'll pass but thank you for the review.

Not having stuff from Latest movies put me of

I remember people saying Way of Water was going to flop because Avatar had no cultural impact.

Wait for a price drop lol look at far cry 6 right now 25 for GOTY edition 😂😂

What‘S the difference between brutally honest and honest? Asking for a friend🤣

Far cry: frontiers of Pandora

As you point out this is a beautiful game. Your review was very well done. That's why I subscribe to Legacy Gaming. I'm not an experience gamer like you guys. I like to pick up a game and just have fun. I didn't have fun crafting/building my weapons and character dress code. Exploring was visually beautiful and fun at first. The game as a whole was to complicated for me, a part time gamer. Being complicated, not intuitive and often having to figure out the right time and right place was frustrating. I play video games for one reason, to have fun. As beautiful as this game is, I never got emotionally involved with any character. To me this game quickly became no fun. I'm back to playing a quick game or two of "Gwent" on "Witcher III" before I wash my Tesla today.

This review was fair

farcry used to be one of the most popular and anticipating games, what’s with the crowd complaining so much?

Let's give credit where credit is due...Massive developed this game and ubisoft published it.

Patches will be coming to the game I’m sure.

Bdo's map is bigger, gta's map is bigger, red dead's map is bigger, rougue's map is bigger

You left out a lot of brutal honesty. Main story is unenthusiastic and voice acting is abysmal. I fealt no connection to certain npc’s and honestly hated more npc’s than i could tolerate. The points of interest were cut and paste. Same rda bases in different locations. Prolly saw maybe 4 different layouts. Navigation system is trash too. Waypoints to points of interest were not near the point of interest. Combat is repetitive. Skills dont allow much variety in gameplay. There is a lot this game lacks. Only real compliment is movement and the surroundings. Everything else is sub par from a game