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New AMZ Section: AMZ's Avatar Gaming Corner Showcasing Ubisoft's Avatar The Game
AMZ's Gaming Corner showcases the much anticipated Avatar the Game by Ubisoft. In this section, we collect all the goods we can find regarding the game.
Ubisoft hit E3 2009 with a big bang in their grand presentation of James Cameron's Avatar the Game, lighting the web on fire with screenshots, overviews, and video interviews. Yet, it was just a sneak peek of a much larger Avatar gaming universe by Ubisoft many expect to come.
In this section are resources you can explore both within the pages of AMZ and on the web. We plan to expand this section as more info and media comes in. . . . . continue by following sig link below.
AMZ Interview Exclusive: Meet the Artist Who Designed the Na'vi! AMZ's interview with Avatar's Lead Character Designer JORDU SCHELL Interview by T. F. Powell
As you may know the recent unveiling of the Na'vi has been front and center in news media and we had the fortunate opportunity to speak by phone with Avatar's Lead Character Designer Jordu Schell!
His talent as a designer and sculptor is world renowned, and his credits include 'The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian', '300', 'Hellboy', and many more.
Besides his film industry accomplishments, Jordu also heads Schell Studio and has taught around the world at some of the most prestigious companies in the industry.
The amazing thing about his work for Avatar is the design of the Navi in the final film is very faithful to Jordu's original designs. This rarely happens with film designs as Jordu explains in the interview . . . . CONTINUE
New Avatar Game Images from Playstation The Official Magazine James Cameron's New Blockbuster Avatar the Game Brave New World: The Entertainment Event of the Decade Cameron: "We're trying for minimum suckage" The October 2009 issue features a showcase article and pictorial | Images Scanned by AMZ
September 2009 - Besides the images seen below, the October issue offers a detailed article along with a discussion with James Cameron. Avatar: The Game adds a whole new dimension to the videogame landscape. It's a watershed moment in the history of this industry, and PTOM owns the very first in-depth story on what the future looks like. James Cameron on the movie and the game having different storylines: "They exist in the same world . . . . . CONTINUE
Brave New World From Nintendo Power Magazine's October 2009 Issue Excerpts transcribed by AMZ
September 21, 2009 - The Nintendo Power October 2009 issue provides a full feature on the Wii version of Avatar the Game. In our Games Images/Video section, we also provide a few scans of the article's pictorials. Here are a few highlights from the magazine's feature.
The Wii version of Avatar takes place a few years prior to the events of the movie. You play as a Na'vi hunter name Ryuk. He and his sister Kyuna are the only surviving members of their tribe.
When the siblings were very young, a group of humans wiped out the rest of the clan and stole it's sacred artifacts, which are considered works of art back on Earth and command a high price. As the game begins, our hero's first priority is to infiltrate the human outposts and take back what's rightfully his. . . . . . CONTINUE
For me it was when I knew James Cameron wouldn't spend huge resources on adapting a kiddie Saturday morning cartoon into a $250 million epic movie with the most cutting edge film equipment and production team in existence.