James Cameron talks about Avatar - interview
(hx) 06:01 PM CEST - Jun,02 2009
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Here're three new images of James Cameron's Avatar: The Game,
an action game with RPG elements based upon his long-time-coming film
of the same name. Amidst a conflict between a space consortium and a
planet's primitive indigents, players will customise weapons, choose
skills, and ride vehicles and honking great beasts. The
game is scheduled for release in December on PC, Xbox 360,
PlayStation 3, Nintendo DS, PSP and Wii, tying in with the film's
December 18 launch date.
In related news, Ubisoft's E3 2009 press conference today included an
on-stage appearance by massive movie director James
Cameron who told the audience about his upcoming new sci-fi
epic Avatar. The movie is due out this December but Ubisoft, in
collaboration with Cameron, is developing a Avatar game that is set in
the same universe but tells a different story than the movie. Cameron
admitted that most movie-to-game adaptations "suck" and that he wanted
to avoid the same fate with Avatar, which is set on an alien world
where humans communicate with the intelligent native race through live
"avatars"; a real hybrid of human and alien that can live on the planet
but is controlled by humans via an advanced form of technology. Cameron
said that Ubisoft's game became a true partnership; weapons and units
in the movie that were cut are used in the game and sometimes things
made first for the game made their way into the movie.
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