Avatar: The Last Airbender Is Going to Try Getting Into Games Again

Aang and the gang, arsenic good arsenic the Avatar franchise astatine large, person had a comparatively coagulated way tally successful expanding to different mediums–books, comics, spinoffs similar Korra, and adjacent Netflix’s live-action show. That’s thing Paramount is keen to proceed going arsenic it makes plans to rotation up aggregate caller continuations of the franchise, with a dedicated workplace built astir a bid of new movie projects and much successful the works. But 1 area Avatar‘s ne'er managed to crack, contempt a fewer attempts, is video games… and it’s not going to halt trying immoderate clip soon.

Revealed done IGN this morning, Paramount and the aforementioned bending-dedicated workplace Avatar Studios has confirmed that it is teaming up with Space Marine II developer Saber Interactive to enactment connected a new, large-scale crippled acceptable successful the Avatar universe. The game, an action-RPG, volition beryllium acceptable successful what is present being referred to arsenic the “Avatar Legends” universe, and instrumentality spot thousands of years earlier the events of The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra. Players volition inhabit the relation of the Avatar, 1 antecedently unseen successful immoderate prior Avatar material, arsenic they get acceptable to “master each 4 elements, prosecute successful dynamic combat alongside companions, and acquisition the challenges and decisions that travel with being the keeper of equilibrium successful the world,” according to a connection from Paramount and Saber.

It’s not the only Avatar gaming task that’s travel retired of the post-Avatar studios propulsion to bash much with the franchise–earlier this year, Maximum Entertainment confirmed it was moving connected an Avatar warring game, and both Last Airbender and Korra person received important collaborations with Epic’s conflict royale shooter Fortnite this year, bringing characters, locations, and bending abilities to the game. But that that Fortnite crossover is arguably the astir occurrence the franchise has ever seen successful the gaming abstraction says a batch to Avatar‘s decidedly unsmooth past with the mean implicit the past 2 decades.

The franchise has seen respective infamous flops implicit the years, including 2007’s The Burning Earth–infamous among Xbox gamerscore aficianados for being capable to get its implicit achievements database completed successful conscionable a substance of minutes, and that being astir arsenic overmuch worth arsenic you could get retired of the crippled astatine all–and Platinum’s awkward Legend of Korra enactment crippled successful 2014. Last twelvemonth saw the merchandise of the archetypal important propulsion to bring Avatar backmost to games in Quest for Balance, which was slated for clunky design, dodgy graphics, and a full big of method issues upon launch. Fingers crossed this clip volition beryllium the charm.

Saber’s Avatar crippled is presently acceptable for merchandise connected some PC and consoles with an undisclosed merchandise date.

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