10 Awesome Multiplayer Video Games Nobody Played
5. James Cameron's Avatar: The Game
Even with James Cameron's involvement, Avatar: The Game couldn't find a way to break the movie-licensed video game curse, at least as far as its mediocre single-player campaign was concerned.
The online multiplayer mode was a wholly different beast, however, with 16 players able to duke it out in epic battles between the Na'vi and human RDA forces.
Beyond the solid wealth of maps and gameplay modes on offer, the multiplayer feels like a more accurate translation of Cameron's movie than the campaign, focused on the utter chaos of two diametrically opposed forces slugging it out.
The map design was inspired, the sheer variety of assault options on both sides was terrific, and while not the most balanced game in the world, it was a credit to what games based on movies actually could be.
Sales were middling due to mixed reviews, yet the sparsely-populated servers at least stayed online for almost five years.
With The Division devs Massive Entertainment currently working on a tie-in to Avatar 2, hopefully it'll offer up a similarly dynamic and compulsively addictive multiplayer suite.