Product Description

Avatar: The Last Airbender is the hot new game based on Nickelodeon's new hit show. Set in a fantastic, Asian-influenced world of martial arts and elemental magic, Avatar: The Last Airbender follows the adventures of Aang, the successor to a long line of Avatars. Their quest is to save the world from the merciless Fire Nation, while avoiding capture from pursuers including Prince Zuko. Play as Aang, Katara, Sokka and Haru as they grow into an unstoppable team utilizing the kung fu inspired bending arts through the Avatar universe. Players will explore the four Avatar nations in beautifully detailed environments and battle new enemies.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3033 in Video Games
• Brand: THQ
• Model: 785138301235
• Released on: 2006-11-15
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Dimensions: 2.00 pounds

Features

• Nintendo Wii

Customer Reviews

Disappointing
Avatar is an engaging TV show. The Avatar videogame is a generic RPG with Avatar characters and Wii remote support tacked on.

Most disapointing is the magic system. A central aspect of the show is the magic system - earth/air/water/fire "benders" cast spells using martial-arts-like motions, and I was really looking forward to using the Wii remote to cast spells using the same kind of cool motions as the characters use, making different gestures to cast different spells. Unfortunately, Avatar is a completely generic RPG, with controls that don't take advantage of the Wii remote at all - it feels like they tacked on some trivial remote waving after the game was done.

Aside from that, the game is generic "run around, have one sentence 'conversations' with people who tell you what to do next, kill everything that moves, and collect treasure". Of course, none of this makes any sense for Avatar, because the characters in the show do what they want, don't kill anything unless there's no other choice, and never collect treasure.

Unfortunately, while an Avatar videogame is a fantastic idea, this game gets everything wrong. I can only hope that someone with some imagination gets the rights to do another Avatar videogame for the Wii.

Could have been so much more...
Being a fan of the Avatar show on nickelodeon, i had to buy the wii version of this game... it seems to me the game was rushed into being relased on time with the wii console... Playing with all the characters and have them bend the elements is the only fun part that made me give this game 3 stars... looking at the characters from the top the entire time makes this game feel like i'm playing some nintendo game from the 90's.... so when comparing it to zelda twilight princess then this game is a complete bust... if you are a fan of the avatar series, then this game brings some level of fun though...

Very Disappointing
I was having a conversation with a friend of mine recently and mentioned that with the revolutionary gesture control possibilities with the Wii, it should be worth getting a Wii just for Avatar. Unfortunately, gestures from the show aren't really employed. Furthermore, I'm a fan of the show and the game doesn't follow anything that makes sense in the show's storyline whatsoever. I was looking forward to traveling the world mastering the elements as Ang in my living room making the gestures myself, but it just doesn't work out that way. In my opinion the game would probably have been more fun 10 years ago and for someone that hadn't seen the show. The Wii is still great, however.