James Cameron’s much-awaited movie “Avatar” has finally hit the screens and has kept the audience spellbound with some fascinating visuals and extra-ordinary 3D effects. He has taken cinema into next generation but sadly the same cannot be said about the game. All the visuals surrounding the planet and the aliens are well captured on silver screen but one could hardly see a planet in the game.

The visuals of flora and fauna in the complex world is there in the game but the drawback is that there is not enough story telling. Even the emotions could not be well captured in the game but one can’t blame it for this reason, as there are limits to games in story telling and displaying emotions when compared to movies. The game starts of by selecting whether to destroy planet Pandora and the Navi tribe as RDA or rebel against the mankind that is invading the planet, as an Avatar. We are given with unique weaponry and both the game styles are different from one another. Another flaw in the game is that when we select as RDA, there is nothing much for Avatar to do and when we select as Navi, we get disappointed with the weaponry they have. So it easily shows up that the game is very unbalanced when compared to the movie and has many flaws in it.

Cameron has used the technology with brilliance in making the movie an epic wonder but unfortunately there is a lack of technology to embed it in a game. The only positive point of the game is its 3D effects where one can see the beauty of the Planet Pandora wearing the 3D specs. Whoever has had a hand on the game cant wait to watch the movie for the technical grandeur that Cameron was supposed to have shown on screen.

One can also be satisfied with the way the weaponry gets developed from stage to stage but it would have been much better if the game is well replicated to what Cameron has shown in the movie.

There is also heavy competition for the game given the fact that Red Faction: Guerilla is much more satisfying game play with sophisticated guns and much more. And there is also lost planet 2 coming up in a few days.

There can be no doubt in anyone’s mind about the technical marvel that Cameron has set for Avatar-the movie, but sadly the game is not up to the same standards of the movie and unfortunately the universe isn’t much fascinating to the video game lovers.