James Cameron's Avatar: The Game

James Cameron's Avatar: The Game
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Platform:	PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, Wii, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS, iOS, Android, Java ME, Symbian^3
Release Date:	December 1, 2009
Developer:	Ubisoft Montreal

James Cameron's Avatar: The Game is a 2009 third-person action video game based on James Cameron's 2009 film Avatar. The game was developed by Ubisoft Montreal and released on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, Wii and Nintendo DS on December 1, 2009, with a PSP version released later on December 7. It uses the same technology as the film to be displayed in stereoscopic 3D. As of May 19, 2010, the game has sold nearly 2.7 million copies.

The game, which acts as a prequel to the film, features Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, and Giovanni Ribisi, who reprise their roles from the film. The casting and voice production for Avatar: The Game was handled by Blindlight.

The online services for the game were shut down on August 8, 2014.

A standalone second game based on the series, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, is scheduled to be released in 2022.

Ubisoft developed Avatar: The Game in conjunction with director James Cameron as he filmed Avatar. According to Cameron: "For the movie Avatar we are creating a world rich in character, detail, conflict and cultural depth. It has the raw material for a game that the more demanding gamers of today will want to get their hands on - one that is rich in visuals and ideas, and challenging in play". While Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, and Stephen Lang reprised their voices for their characters, Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana, leading roles in the film, did not. The game was developed as an adaptation of the movie of the same name, with an original storyline and similar features. The developers had carte blanche from the movie.

Composer Chance Thomas was hired to write the music for Avatar: The Game. It was unclear at the time whether the score would contain pieces of the original score composed by James Horner for the movie.

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