I’m all for the idea of Far Cry: Avatar, but I feel like I’m missing something in the gameplay trailer based on how positive the comments I’ve seen are. I thought the visuals were terrible! Particularly anything involving fire. Every time I saw an explosion, it looked like something I’d expect in a game from 10 years ago. The rest of the visuals were fine, but nothing special. Particularly compared to what was shown for AC: Mirage and the Star Wars game.

I’m not usually such a stickler for the visual quality of a game (although it’s always nice) because it’s far from the most important aspect. However, the visual effects in the films are phenomenal and their most defining characteristic, so it’s a bit disappointing when the game looks so basic. The story trailer also stood out to me as being very clunky and poorly edited, but I’ll give them the benefit of doubt due to the amount of exposition they had to convey.