E3: James Cameron bigs up Avatar game

By Ellie Gibson Published 2 June, 2009

Famous director scared of sharks, wolves.

Movie director James Cameron took to the stage at the Ubisoft's E3 press conference today to tell us all about Avatar.

Specifically, to tell us all about how much he likes the videogame tie-in. "It's pretty fantastic," said Cameron, revealing he got the chance to play the game the other day.

"It's one of the first times in a videogame I was actually afraid," he said. The hammerheads and viper wolves are particularly frightening, apparently.

Cameron initially wrote the treatment for the Avatar movie 14 years ago, but realised technology wasn't advanced enough to bring his vision to life. The project was resurrected, however, when he saw photo-real characters like Gollum in Lord of the Rings.

Now Avatar is finally about to hit the big screen, and Cameron is confident the game will be great. "I think you're going to really like it," he said.

Expect more on Avatar once E3 kicks off properly.

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Comments (10) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • AphoticCosmos #1 3 years ago

    If the movie as half as awesome as he and the industry promise it to be, and the game is half as awesome as that, it'll be great.

  • cheekyjay #2 3 years ago

    Let's hope the game has a more focused design than his 30 minute rambling speech!

  • Daikon #3 3 years ago

    James Cameron. Didn't he use to make movies quite some time ago?

  • space_ace #4 3 years ago

    6/10?

  • justsomeone #5 3 years ago

    your intended irony on "sticker titanic" is noted, however your irony fails due to the fact that this film really *is* a pile of crap.

    cameron is one of the most overrated directors of all time. for proof, see the directors cut edition of abyss, which takes a tightly cut, suspenseful movie and pads it out with an extra hour of guff and a pompous, eco-warrior, save the world message that causes me to gag even thinking about it.

    not to mention the directors cut of aliens - more unneeded flab. he's not bad, but he requires someone with talent to walk around behind him, removing the unnecessary bobbins he tries to put in his movies.

    also, you missed "true lies"...

  • LowEnergyCycle #6 3 years ago

    "but he requires someone with talent to walk around behind him, removing the unnecessary bobbins he tries to put in his movies

    ...Which they generally do, hence the Directors Cut being a separate release to the Theatrical Cut.

    I prefer his Director Cuts, personally. Aliens SE is especially good.

  • woodyrulesok #7 3 years ago

    I'm not holding out much hope for the Avatar film to be honest.
    And when has any movie tie in game been really good? Chances are it'll stink.

  • bodypopper #8 3 years ago

    As much I love sci-fi, watching JC explain the plot of the film had me a) nodding off and b) thinking this will be such a hard sell to mainstream Joe Public that it has no chance of making its money back. We could be looking at another Final Fantasy or (shudder) Battlefield Earth movie fiasco here.

  • BBIAJ #9 3 years ago

    @woodyrulesokay:

    Never played Butcher Bay then I assume?

  • woodyrulesok #10 3 years ago

    To be honest I've never heard of it before. Just been watching some gameplay and it looks alright to be fair.