When the first Avatar <\/em>movie came out, I chanced upon an Imax showing while knowing nothing at all about the movie. When I left the theater, the only thing I recall feeling was a deep sense of yearning, almost like nostalgia for a world I had never seen before. I wanted to fly. I wanted to hunt, be hunted, and run through the jungles of Pandora. 14 years later, I found myself scratching an itch that I had forgotten was ever there. I was flying on the back of an Ikran in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora <\/em>for the first time while the same hauntingly triumphant orchestral score from the film of 14 years ago played, and I could almost feel the cooling spray of foam from the waterfalls I was soaring over. It wasn\u2019t until this moment in the game that it really set in\u2014this IS Pandora. I was finally there.<\/p>
Call me a hater, but I always expect games that are based on movies to suck. Perhaps it\u2019s because I\u2019ve been hurt before, or maybe it\u2019s a subconscious bias toward original storytelling\u2014but I went into Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora <\/em>with the belief that it would be okay at best. I\u2019ve never been so happy to say that I was so completely wrong.<\/p>
