The highly anticipated and believed to be the costliest Hollywood movie of all time, Avatar has not got itself a highly publicized video games of the same name and the director of the movie, the legendary, James Cameron is expecting that, the sale of the video game would add significantly to the publicity of Avatar, the movie. The game has been designed and developed in conjunction with the gaming industry behemoth, Ubisoft Canada.

The movies slated for release on December 9th, 2009 and stars, Terminator Salvation’s key actor, Sam Worthington, who is playing the role of a paralyzed Marine soldier, who then lives the life of a Na’vi, an alien species that is inhabiting the paradise planet of Pandora.

According to Kevin Shortt (Story Desinger, Avatar, The Game),

“James Cameron did something really smart. When he started preproduction on the movie three-and-a-half years ago, he said, ‘I want a game. I know I want a game. I want them working on it right now.’ Because, what often happens is they make the movie, and then somebody says, ‘Hey, let’s tack on a game.’”

The game theme and storyline strays from the actual movie and provides the player the opportunity of taking on the role of either a native Na’vi or a human security personnel, who is working for the Resources Development Administration, a fictional enterprise, that has sole task carrying out mining activities for natural resources on the planet Pandora.

In a statement, Mr. Cameron said,

“Let’s face it. Games derived from movies, historically, some of them have kind of sucked. And I didn’t want ‘Avatar’ – I didn’t want anything associated with ‘Avatar’ – to suck. So I proposed to Ubisoft this theory that the game should not be a slave to the movie.”

Via Associated Press.