PRAY TO MOTHER EYWA THAT WE GET A PAYAKAN DLC
★★★★
PS5, XBOX SERIES X, PC
TYPICAL: YOU WAIT ages for a new dip into the world of Avatar, and then two come along (almost) at once. Arriving a year after The Way Of Water, Frontiers Of Pandora’s long delay (it was announced in 2017) hasn’t been quite as gruelling as the 13-year gap between James Cameron’s films, but you’d be forgiven for forgetting it was even on the horizon. Any such memory lapses work in its favour, though, as the game proves a delightful surprise.
Woven around the two Avatar films to date, the game sees you play a nameless Na’vi from the heretofore unseen Sarentu tribe, a clan of storytellers. Orphaned as a child and raised in the Resource Development Administration’s insidious Ambassador Program —an attempt to mould young Na’vi to more human perspectives to “bridge the gap” with Pandora’s other inhabitants —an escape leaves you to recover your heritage while aiding the mounting rebellion against the exploitative ‘sky people’.