Jen’s an experienced games critic and is justified in communicating her opinion about a wide range of genres. Disagreement is healthy. It’s great that you enjoyed the game. She didn’t, and that’s fair too.

On scores: we don’t do half-marks. Straight out-of-ten. Have a read of our scoring guidelines, linked below the mark, if you’d like to read more about what a 3 means here.

As Amber said, Avatar is not a bad game. Nothing in this game is groundbreaking, true, but it isn’t bad. Avatar TG is well designed. Steering is handy and causes no problems. Aiming is ok (aim-assist is not needed, unless you are truly retarded or are playing an action game for the first time). Your characters’ moves are ok (A cover system? What for? This is an action game, your character is running all the time and is able to perform pretty neat dodges). GFX are superb. Attention to details is incredible (all the behind-the-scenes stuff like other characters, included encyclopedia etc. is done very very well) and so on. Even flying a chopper was handy (and since flying always sucks in shooters, that was a nice touch). The only problem might be the story. It would be an awesome game if the story wasn’t so simple. The game is clearly supposed to be a completion to the movie, not not be a stand alone product. I enjoyed the movie. I truly like this game.

I am a veteran gamer. My fav. titles are Unreal, HL2, The Witcher (the best game ever made). If you like these games, you will definitely like Avatar. Give it a try. It’s a cool game.

I’d say that score 7.5/10 would be fair.

[Snippety-snoo. Less of the degrading and swearing, please. -Lewis]