A new impressive graphical showcase of Avatar Frontiers of Pandora has been released, showing Ubisoft’s title running in 4K with over 100fps.
Created by known German YouTuber ‘Digital Dreams’, this new video features Avatar with the creator’s own custom ReShade ray tracing preset. Truth be told, we’re not entirely sure why custom ReShade ray-tracing effects are being used in addition to the game’s hardware-accelerated ray tracing. For this video, Digital Dreams used a Ryzen 9 7950x CPU combined with an NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPU and plenty of other high-end hardware. The result is impressive, to say the least. Check out the graphical showcase below and judge for yourself:
Avatar Frontiers of Pandora is out now on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series. Here’s what we wrote about the game in our review last month.
Admittedly, there are times when all the visual splendor and detail can feel a bit much. A bit cluttered. Thankfully, Frontiers of Pandora doesn’t just have one visual note to play. While you begin in a dense jungle biome, eventually you’ll make your way to the Upper Plains, and gorgeous grassland home to herds of alien beasts and gales so strong all the trees grow at a permanent windswept angle. Then, in the last act of the game, you’ll make your way to the misty coniferous Clouded Forest where secrets and revelations await you. Visual glitches do occasionally spoil the graphical grandeur, although, by Ubisoft standards, the jank level is fairly low (that said, I did encounter a serious progress-blocking bug at one point, which is a major reason this review is a bit late).
So, yes, the world of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is pretty, but what do you do there? There are plenty of your typical Ubisoft open-world activities to pursue – RDA outposts to take down, research posts to revive, and so on – but overall, Frontiers of Pandora’s world feels a lot more engaging than your typical Far Cry map. The Western Frontier brings to mind the Xenoblade Chronicles games or even the likes Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Getting to certain location isn’t just a matter of setting a map marker and mindlessly running toward it for a couple minutes, as getting around often feels like a challenging environmental puzzle.
