Saber Interactive has one other undertaking lined up: making a sport for Paramount’s Avatar franchise.
The Area Marine 2 developer has been tapped to develop an action-RPG primarily based on Nickelodeon’s hit action-fantasy franchise. Paramount’s video games SVP Doug Rosen famous the studio’s licensed video games historical past made it an ideal match for the collection.
Paramount and Saber will co-fund the undertaking collectively, which reunites them after their earlier team-up on the 2019 sport World Battle Z.
“By means of video games, we’re capable of develop the world-building and permit followers to expertise new [Avatar] content material in a totally immersive manner,” mentioned 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 develop the universe in video video games,” mentioned Saber’s IP improvement head Josh Austin. “We’re excited for all that is on the horizon.”
What’s new about this Avatar sport?
Nickelodeon has launched Avatar video games at a gradual cadence for the reason that present started in 2005. However most have been tie-in titles, or characters (specifically collection leads Aang and Korra) have been inserted into video games extra centered on the bigger Nick model.
Different extensions of the Avatar franchise have centered on new characters set a whole bunch of years earlier than Aang or Korra’s tales. That pattern will proceed right here, and the press launch notes it will likely be set “hundreds of years prior to now” starring a completely new Avatar.
Rosen explicitly describes this undertaking as “triple-A”, which places it in a special tier. Paramount has a number of different video games in improvement: Black Forest’s Ninja Turtles: The Final Ronin is within the works, and A Quiet Place: The Street from Stormroad releases later in Octobeer.