Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Confirms Cross-Play

Highlights

• Ubisoft’s Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora will feature cross-platform co-op multiplayer, allowing players on different platforms to play together.
• The game offers an open-world first-person experience set in the Avatar universe, with moments that switch to a third-person perspective.
• Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora tells a standalone story centered around a Na’vi raised by the antagonistic human faction, with potential tie-ins to future Avatar movies.

Ubisoft’s Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora will allow players to experience cooperative multiplayer with their friends even if they are on different platforms. Details regarding this and other features like support for image upscalers have started to surface as the game nears its December 7 launch on PC, consoles, and cloud streaming platforms.

Set in the universe of the Avatar sci-fi media franchise created by filmmaker James Cameron, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora will let gamers take on the role of a member of the series’ most prominent alien race, the Na’vi. A third-person action shooter that served as a tie-in for the first Avatar movie from 2009 offered a similar premise, but the new title promises to be grander in scale and have even more features.

Among these features is cross-platform co-op multiplayer for up to two people, which the game’s social media page confirmed in a recent Instagram post. Swedish developer Massive Entertainment explained in an interview with Wccftech that one of the players will act as the host, while the other one will be a guest. The latter will supposedly keep whatever progress they achieved throughout these sessions, including gear, items, and collectibles.

In addition to supporting cross-play co-op, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is looking to step up from the 2009 Avatar movie tie-in game by offering an open world first-person experience. Although Massive Entertainment did note that the game will switch to a third-person perspective during some moments to give players a smooth and enjoyable experience. These moments will allow the game to showcase the world of Pandora too, according to the developer. As expected of a modern release, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora will also support image upscalers like Nvidia’s DLSS, AMD’s FSR, and Intel’s XESS.

Plot wise, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora will tell a standalone story that revolves around a Na’vi raised by the Resources Development Administration, the human faction that served as the main antagonist in Cameron’s movies. Elements of the game could carry over into future Avatar movies, the series’ film studio Lightstorm Entertainment previously revealed. While such integrations could enrich the respective stories of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and the movies, particularly the still-unnamed third Avatar film, they could also muddy the existing lore and make the franchise’s timeline more confusing. Fans will have to have some time to make their own conclusions as the next movie in the series is scheduled to be released in late 2025.