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Today at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles, Ubisoft announced new product details for James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game. James Cameron personally announced the first details of Avatar: The Game at the Ubisoft press conference together with Yannis Mallat, Managing Director of Ubisoft Montreal.
According to Ubisoft, the title takes players deeper into the heart of Pandora, an alien planet beyond imagination. They encounter the Na’vi, Pandora’s indigenous population, and discover creatures and other life forms that, according to Ubisoft, have never before been seen in the world of video games. When conflict breaks out between the Na’vi and the RDA Corporation, a space consortium searching for valuable resources, the player is drawn into a battle for the heart of the planet and the fate of an entire civilisation.
“In technical terms, we have quite a lot in common with Ubisoft and the video-games industry,” Cameron said during the press conference. “We use highly sophisticated techniques in the production of Avatar, so when selecting a video-game partner we considered not only how fully it could express its creativity in the world of Avatar, but also whether it could meet our technical requirements. Ubisoft was and remains such a partner.”
James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game will be released in December 2009 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, Nintendo DS, PSP and PC.
According to the company, Ubisoft will show James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game to selected media partners at its E3 exhibition stand. With support from Panasonic, Ubisoft is presenting James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game on Panasonic’s 3D Full HD Plasma Home Theater System with true 3D full-1080p HD images, using a specially configured 103-inch plasma HDTV capable of delivering full HD resolution (1920×1080 pixels) separately to the viewer’s left and right eyes.
