James Cameron's Avatar: The Game for Xbox 360 Reviews by Gamers

first i'll be fair, i played the game for about an hour. That being said, I am also a huge gamer, owning all but the wii. I own upwards of 3-400 games (didn't take the time to count) but it is a hobbie. I was looking forward to this game but sadly it didn't hold my interest. While the graphics were nice ( the jungle almost on par with farcry 2 in detail) and controls decent, I felt like run from point A to point B and shoot things inbetween. Meanwhile take pictures of plants and critters (like pokemon snap). You drive in a jeep and watercraft with no weapons and they are just meant to get from A to B. The map has branched paths but for all this jungle you are stuck on these paths (no free roaming like farcry2 or oblivion). Your objectives show on a minimap but you'll find yourself wandering aimlessly trying to get to the destination (most the time I ended up in an empty room/dead end on accident but the map showed to go that way).
What's really disappointing is the missed oppurtunity here. The dialog is boring an bland serving just to tell you to go somewhere to do something, nothing more. Condsidering they had all of the resourceds from James Cameron's movie I would have thought this in particular would have been more polished. As for the 3d, I own the hl67a750 dlp from samsung, 3d ready but even google cant show me the easy way to setup for it with this game and all of the peripherals required (I.e. do I need a computer with nvidia enabled 3d and shutter glasses or will just polarized glasses do?) Since they are trying to pioneer this tech to take off it would help if they catered more to the general public like "3d for dummies" or something.
Like I said, I may have not given this game a fair shake with just an hour but I have been playing games since Pong first came out. I just couldn't get into it enough to stay hooked. I asked my friend if it was my age (I'm 35) he both his kids lost interest in it as well. Hmmm.... they never even played pong.