WAIT IS OVER – An Avatar MMORPG Is Coming To Mobile Devices Soon
If the idea of “Avatar mobile MMORPG” excites you, we have good news for you. Avatar: Reckoning is an upcoming new “multiplayer online role-playing shooter,” which is based on James Cameron and Disney’s Avatar franchise, and it’s soon coming to iOS and Android later this year.
The game will allow players to create their character (or in other words, Avatar avatar) and then travel to never-before-seen parts of the world of Pandora, meeting new Na’vi clans, battling human troops from the infamous RDA, and also, meet other aliens. The players will be able to do all of this in either multiplayer or solo matches, leveling up their character, equipping with new gear, and completing single-player story missions, PvP modes with touchscreen combat or co-op missions.
The Avatar game is also built using Unreal Engine 4.
Accompanying the announcement is a single piece of concept art, showing a Na’vi overlooking the horizon on Pandora while wielding an assault rifle and dressed in camo.
Avatar: Reckoning is under development by Archosaur Games and produced by Lightstorm Entertainment, Tencent, and Disney. Archosaur, which is a Chinese mobile game studio, with old games like Dragon Raja, Novoland: The Castle in the Sky, World of Kings, and Naval Creed.
This is pretty much it for major details, but if you want more info, you can visit the official Avatar: Reckoning site to even sign up for a beta test and receive latest news.
Meanwhile, over in movieland, we’re finally starting to get some looks at what James Cameron’s much-anticipated Avatar 2 might look like. We’re also getting to learn some plot details, like the original protagonists Jake Sully and Neytiri have a mixed species family now, which also includes an adopted human son.
If mobile games aren’t your type, there is always Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, an upcoming open-world adventure game, coming from Ubisoft. It uses an updated version of Ubisoft’s Snowdrop Engine, which the company is using to add more realistic clouds and denser vegetation, with other weather effects to improve Pandora’s look on next-gen systems.
