2024-10-03 19:16:55| Engadget
Paramount just announced that it's going ahead with a new video game based on Avatar: The Last Airbender, which will be developed by Saber Interactive. For the uninitiated, Saber is behind titles like Snowrunner and Teardown. It also has plenty of experience making licensed content, as it published Evil Dead: The Game and World War Z: Aftermath, among others.
A new game in the Avatar-verse isnt that notable on its own. After all, there have been plenty already. Paramount is already crowing about the title, though, calling it a AAA RPG and claiming itll be the biggest video game in franchise history. Thats not exactly a high bar, given the cartoons rocky history in gaming. There was that one good Bayonetta-like game that featured Avatar Korra, but everything else is pretty much trash.
This upcoming RPG wont follow Aang or Korra. Players will control an all-new, never-before-seen Avatar. The games set thousands of years before the events of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra. The story has been developed in close collaboration with Avatar Studios, though we dont know if franchise creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko are involved in any way.
This looks to be an action RPG and not a turn-based affair, as a press release suggests dynamic combat and a quest to master all four elements. However, theres no release date and no suggestion as to how far along the game is. Paramount says itll be available soon, but the company hasn't released a trailer or even artwork, so one persons soon is another persons probably sometime in 2026.
In any event, sign me up. Im a big-time cabbage head, or honorary member of the Aang Gang or whatever fans are called. Saber Interactive has proven itself worthy with other pre-existing IPs, so why not this one? It could work.
The Avatar franchise has been relatively quiet lately, though the live-action Netflix show was renewed for two more seasons to finish up the story. Franchise creators DiMartino and Konietzko are making an animated film that follows an adult Aang and friends, but its been awhile since weve heard anything about that.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/saber-interactive-is-making-a-aaa-rpg-based-on-avatar-the-last-airbender-171655351.html?src=rss
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