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A Decent Game -  - A video game adaptation of the hit Nickelodeon series, "Avatar: The Last Airbender" is a decent game in its own right.
Following the TV series' storyline, the Avatar game's plotline focuses around a land where there are four types of elemental wielders, or "benders": Air, Fire, Water, and Earth. Each has its own nation; of them, Fire is the most aggressive. Declaring war on the Air nation, the Fire nation wiped out all of the Airbenders except the immature-but-powerful Avatar - their actual target - who was able to seal himself away for 100 years to avoid danger. After he awakes, he finds the world still imperiled by the Fire nation and he, himself, as the last person capable of bending Air. Now he must bring down the Fire nation before they can conquer the rest of the world.
In Avatar, you play as four different characters working as a group (though they may not all be present at the same time): Aang, the young Avatar and Airbender, Katara, a Waterbender who uses healing spells, Sokka, a Water-Nation warrior, and Haru, an Earthbender. Each has unique talents that need to be used both in battle and out of it. Each character has different equipment, combo attacks, and special attacks. Furthermore, some puzzles are solved by elemental bending; these require not only the proper character to be in your party, but also a short calligraphy-style minigame using the Wii remote.
Regular combat is a simple combination of normal attacks (done using the A button) and special attacks (done with a combined A button and Wii remote shake, depending on the attack). Occasional special videos for certain attacks and the party system spice things up a bit, but mostly it's fairly repetitive. However, it's nice to see that they're at least trying to use the Wii's features.
The graphics are done in a Cel-Shaded style. It's okay, but not the best example of it that I've seen. They seem a little less neat and clean than could have been done, though they're at least functional. The voice acting isn't great, but that's more because of the TV show than the game itself. The music is rare and barely noticeable when it is present.
As a whole, this game is a decent adaptation of the Avatar TV series. Even people not familiar with the series might want to pick it up and learn about it. But by itself, the game doesn't stand out much from other games of its genre.
7/10.
Fun game, not too frustrating or boring -  - This is the first game we rented with our new Wii. I have to say that I have really enjoyed playing (34 yr old mom). My seven year old daughter also enjoys it. The game play is very simple, allowing you to conquer the "boss" in each level after trying just a couple times or even the first time you try. My daughter was also able to play without getting frustrated.
Even though it might be too easy for hard core gamers, there are still several levels to the game that make it more than a kiddie game. You can try to find all the hidden objectives in each level, and the items you collect are an interesting mix of headbands, rings, robes, boots, and various amulets and ingredients for potions. I found myself rushing to get dinner finished so we could spend more time at play!
Very Disappointing -  - I was having a conversation with a friend of mine recently and mentioned that with the revolutionary gesture control possibilities with the Wii, it should be worth getting a Wii just for Avatar. Unfortunately, gestures from the show aren't really employed. Furthermore, I'm a fan of the show and the game doesn't follow anything that makes sense in the show's storyline whatsoever. I was looking forward to traveling the world mastering the elements as Ang in my living room making the gestures myself, but it just doesn't work out that way. In my opinion the game would probably have been more fun 10 years ago and for someone that hadn't seen the show. The Wii is still great, however.
Really fun.......but could be a lot better - - I think this game is really fun,but I was dissapointed because I was excited to do bending skills like the characters in the show.The menu controls don't always work. The game controls don't work well.Fighting Firebenders is fun.The game is not too hard, but not too easy.If u reaaly want this game, you should wait untill the price goes goes down, or buy it for gcube,because it's probably not too different.
Disappointing - - Avatar is an engaging TV show. The Avatar videogame is a generic RPG with Avatar characters and Wii remote support tacked on.
Most disapointing is the magic system. A central aspect of the show is the magic system - earth/air/water/fire "benders" cast spells using martial-arts-like motions, and I was really looking forward to using the Wii remote to cast spells using the same kind of cool motions as the characters use, making different gestures to cast different spells. Unfortunately, Avatar is a completely generic RPG, with controls that don't take advantage of the Wii remote at all - it feels like they tacked on some trivial remote waving after the game was done.
Aside from that, the game is generic "run around, have one sentence 'conversations' with people who tell you what to do next, kill everything that moves, and collect treasure". Of course, none of this makes any sense for Avatar, because the characters in the show do what they want, don't kill anything unless there's no other choice, and never collect treasure.
Unfortunately, while an Avatar videogame is a fantastic idea, this game gets everything wrong. I can only hope that someone with some imagination gets the rights to do another Avatar videogame for the Wii.
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