Game Reviews

This is a fun, arcade style fighting game based on the popular Nickelodeon series and the new movie release. You play the parts of Aang, Katara and Sokka. You battle the enemy by using cards with specific actions on them. These cards are also used to move the characters, heal the characters and innocent bystanders, block the enemy, restore your chi by meditating, etc. You begin with a basic card pack and then can buy upgraded cards that will give you a number boost (you begin with cards that are labeled as 1’s and 2’s), weapons that will help Sokka do more damage, and other special skills. The bigger the skill number that you earn through battling or escaping, the better cards you can buy. This game uses the movie screenplay to create a full story for you to play through. You begin with Aang training with an airbending master, flash forward 100 years in the future to Aang being found in an iceberg and help him battle the Fire Nation to reunite the land.

This was a cool, fun game to play that will really appeal to fans of the Avatar: The Last Airbender series. There are movie stills that are used as the background images when you are waiting for a new level to load so you can see what the movie characters look like in the film. Also, there are computer/cartoon images that “talk” and take you through the movie that are based on the movie actors. I admit that I am much more attached to the cartoon series than to the movie, but I thought that the graphics were really well done and there was a lot of really nice detail. The story and the authentic graphics made this game something special and more enjoyable, in my opinion, but you can easily skip through the storylines without reading the dialogue if you are not interested.

I am a horrible fighter in computer games, but the fighting in this game is much easier than most other games. First, you click on the card that you want to use. Blue tiles will show you where you can move and red tiles will show where you can attack if you use that card.