Saber Interactive teams with Paramount to blueprint triple-A Avatar mission

Picture by way of Nickelodeon/Avatar Studios.

Saber Interactive has one different mission lined up: growing a recreation for Paramount’s Avatar franchise.

The Dwelling Marine 2 developer has been tapped to blueprint an circulate-RPG based mostly totally on Nickelodeon’s hit circulate-delusion franchise. Paramount’s video video games SVP Doug Rosen well-known the studio’s licensed video video games historical past made it an ideal match for the sequence.

Paramount and Saber will co-fund the mission collectively, which reunites them after their previous crew-up on the 2019 recreation World War Z.

“By video games, we’re in a position to broaden the world-building and permit followers to expertise new [Avatar] content material in a totally immersive means,” said Rosen. “We’re excited to co-fund this title alongside them and let followers expertise this world first-hand.”

“It is an honor to hitch forces with Avatar Studios and Paramount Video games to additional broaden the universe in video video games,” said Saber’s IP sample head Josh Austin. “We’re excited for all that is on the horizon.”

What’s novel about this Avatar recreation?

Nickelodeon has launched Avatar video video games at a traditional cadence given that present conceal started in 2005. However most had been tie-in titles, or characters (specifically sequence leads Aang and Korra) have been inserted into video video games extra centered on the bigger Slit mannequin.

Completely completely different extensions of the Avatar franchise dangle centered on novel characters scenario lots of of years sooner than Aang or Korra’s experiences. That vogue will proceed right here, and the press beginning up notes this may possibly be scenario “1000’s of years prior to now” starring a totally novel Avatar.

Rosen explicitly describes this mission as “triple-A”, which places it in a particular tier. Paramount has a few completely different video video games in sample: Dim Woodland’s Ninja Turtles: The Closing Ronin is within the works, and A Silent Put: The Boulevard from Stormroad releases later in Octobeer.

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