Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora review - welcome to the jungle, it’s yours to reclaim

PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S/X, PC; Massive/Lightstorm/Ubisoft
Take back Pandora from those puny humans in this spin on Ubisoft's Far Cry formula

It's rare you'll find two creative works in such perfect alignment as the cinematic universe of Avatar and the video game series Far Cry. Lush yet dangerous worlds that yearn to be explored? Check. Themes of rebellion and guerrilla warfare? You betcha. Political commentary that's at best simplistic and at worst downright hypocritical? Er, look over here at our explosive combat sequences, we've got those too!

For its virtual spin on James Cameron's preposterously lucrative movies, Ubisoft Massive sensibly follows the contours between Avatar and Far Cry, arriving at a perfectly capable video game about soaring through eye-popping environments and battling the industrial scourge of Avatar's human colonists. Yet while Frontiers of Pandora is entertaining, it does little to move either Avatar or the open-world format forward.