Avatar: The Last Airbender

Master the Elements

NA release: 10th October 2006
EU release: 9th February 2007
JP release: N/A
Developer: THQ Studio Australia
Publisher: THQ
NGC Magazine Score: N/A
Mods Used: Widescreen Code

Based on the extremely popular cartoon, this Avatar game is a beat-em-up with some light RPG areas. Whilst most beat-em-up focus on the co-op experience, this one is singleplayer-only, despite how you have other characters that fight alongside you and swap over to take control of them. It’s a baffling oversight. It’s quote basic, with only one attack button, and rather dull fetch quests.

Then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Well, perhaps not everything, but they do attack at the end of the first level and when you start the second level, they’ve just got an immense amount of health, which just means you mashing A to fight bullet sponge enemies. It seems that the RPG elements are just a way to force you to grind by fighting weaker enemies .

And it’s just all rather dull. One early mission has you investigate a missing person. You fight wolves along a long corridor and find their bag next to a large hole, and skid marks going into a hole. But you just leave it there, go back down the corridor of wolves (fighting them again) and that’s it. I’ve not seen the show, but Aang doesn’t seem like the kind of person that would just abandon someone. This game did get a sequel, and it ended up being very popular on the Xbox 360. But only because you could get 1,000 GamerScore and all achievements within the tutorial.

Poor

Avatar: The Last Airbender isn’t so much a bad game as it is one that’s disappointing because it fails to capitalize on its many interesting concepts. Even though it’s geared toward kids, the game is so watered down that even they won’t find it challenging. The RPG elements are underdeveloped and the fighting quickly becomes tedious due to its simplicity. The failure to include co-op multiplayer support of any kind doesn’t help either. Just being able to play with one friend, much less three, would have made the whole experience more fun. Toss in some unfriendly design choices and lots of backtracking, and you’re left with a game that’s just not that much fun to play.
Aaron Thomas, GameSpot

Remake or remaster?

Only in a full collection for Avatar fans.

Official Ways to get the game

There’s no official way to buy Avatar: The Last Airbender.