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: 55%
- 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
Playing as Aang you wander around simplistically blocky environments whacking beasties with a stick. Quite why a child with the ability to command a ferocious elemental power – albeit the tamest element of the lot, wing – has to resort to bashing things with a stick is totally beyond us.
Matthew Castle, NGamer Magazine #6 (Wii Review)
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.
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