Avatar Reviewed

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The video game, that is. Several times during its making, director James Cameron spoke at length about how involved he was in the home console version of his upcoming film Avatar, but he'd better hope that the movie earns better reviews. "It's not a bad game, and portions of it are competent, if not quite remarkable," says Gamespot, echoing most critics. "But Avatar wears thin quickly, and the story is too fragile to compensate for the deficiencies." Clearly, developers are ruing the day they decided to cut Sigourney Weaver's closing credits rap. [Gamespot]