Fans of James Cameron’s Avatar franchise will soon be able to explore the open world of Pandora thanks to the upcoming release of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. Since the game’s reveal just earlier this week, many have already begun speculating about what the gameplay will eventually look like – and which particularly annoying mechanics they should be dreading.

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora was just one of the games introduced during Ubisoft’s 2021 E3 conference, and is one of the many media resurgences that the Avatar franchise has experienced recently. From success in Disney’s theme parks to progress in the filming of Avatar 2, the series has been garnering more attention following the announcement of four upcoming sequels to the 2009 film.

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The game will be a first-person action-adventure experience set in a new, never-before-seen region of Pandora called the Western Frontier. Iconic activities featured in the Avatar film such as banshee riding and bow-and-arrow hunting make an appearance, and the open-world nature of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora seems to imply that exploration will be a large part of the game. Though few concrete details have been revealed thus far, fans are already theorizing about everything the game could include.

How Will Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora Handle Unobtanium?

The specifics of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora‘s story are vague at the moment, but there were some large hints provided in Ubisoft’s reveal trailer. The human-Na’vi conflict seems to feature heavily in the game, and the RDA’s (Resources Development Administration) presence on Pandora implies that the hunt for Unobtanium is what will push the situation to a breaking point. Because of this, some Avatar fans are already anticipating that finding the rare mineral across Pandora may be a large part of gameplay. The Avatar series is no stranger to collection mechanics – James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game from 2009 had players collecting Unobtanium shards. Collection quests are notorious in open world games, as completionists often consider it frustrating or repetitive to explore so much of the map just to track down items that often have little bearing on the main story of the game.

When implemented correctly, however, collection quests can help give players incentive to discover areas of the world that they otherwise might not have. There are several different ways that Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora could handle Unobtanium collection. Bethesda’s Skyrim has players search for unmarked rare gems named the Stones of Barenziah across the game, and similar unmarked deposits could be utilized by Ubisoft. The Mass Effect franchise utilizes planet scanning to uncover minerals, but this particular possibility seems more unlikely given that players in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora will be playing as a Na’vi rather than a human and will lack that level of technological advancement. It’s probable that more details regarding Unobtanium’s role in the game will be revealed as development continues, so for the moment all fans can really do is speculate.

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Ky Shinkle is a Senior Gaming Features Writer for Screen Rant as well as an overall avid gamer and writer. Her prior experience is primarily that of a narrative designer for video games, although her writing has covered all formats from screenplays and novels to stage scripts. A graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design, when she isn’t writing she works on digital media projects and other types of fiction writing. Ky currently works out of Ohio and enjoys spending her free time either playing RPGs or running with her dog.

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