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Avatar: De Legende van Aang for PlayStation 2
In Avatar: De Legende van Aang for PlayStation 2, you travel with Aang, Katara, Sokka and Haru through a world where martial arts meet elemental powers. This action RPG tells an original adventure involving missing masters and a new threat. You explore villages, forests and temples, talk to residents and fight soldiers and other opponents. Your party grows during the journey, giving you an expanding range of abilities for tackling battles and obstacles.
You control one hero at a time and switch between the available party members. Aang uses air, Katara water and Haru earth, while Sokka fights with his weapons. Their different attacks and special actions also help outside combat, such as clearing a barrier or reaching a hidden chest. Completing quests and defeating enemies earns experience. New techniques and equipment you find then let you develop your characters' attributes further during the adventure.
This is a single-player game; the four heroes are not a party for four human players. You use a standard PlayStation 2 controller and choose whom to control directly. Between battles, you visit merchants, check your quests and look for useful items. The pace therefore alternates between fighting, exploring and preparing your team. Familiar faces from the animated series make the journey recognisable, while the original story leaves room for new enemies and locations.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 2 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Avatar: De Legende van Aang for PlayStation 2 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Avatar: De Legende van Aang
THQ released the first Avatar game in 2006, while Nickelodeon's animated series was still growing rapidly. THQ Studio Australia developed the PlayStation 2 version and versions for several other home consoles. In North America, the game appeared as Avatar: The Last Airbender; Europe used The Legend of Aang, including the Dutch name De Legende van Aang. These names refer here to the same first adventure, not to a later film adaptation with the same English title.
Development formed part of the long-running collaboration between THQ and Nickelodeon. The publisher's 2006 line-up also announced games based on SpongeBob and other television series. For Avatar, the team chose a structure featuring a party of heroes, experience and equipment. This gave the journey a different shape from a straightforward collection of recreated episodes. The original story could use familiar places and characters without following the entire first television season scene by scene.
The choice of Haru as a controllable party member also belongs to this first game. The later instalments De Brandende Aarde and De Vuurmeester focused more on the second and third television seasons and added cooperative play. This original PlayStation 2 game instead preserves the combination of solo play, an expanding party and straightforward RPG systems. It shows how THQ initially translated the different elemental powers into attacks, quests and obstacles within one continuous journey through Aang's world.
Similar games for PlayStation 2
Avatar: De Brandende Aarde for PlayStation 2 builds on the same world and again lets you use elemental powers in battles and puzzles. The sequel follows the second television season more closely and lets two players travel together. De Legende van Aang focuses on one player switching between four party members, with more attention to experience, equipment and residents' quests. Your choice is therefore between an original party adventure and a more direct cooperative retelling of a season.
Avatar: De Vuurmeester on PlayStation 2 takes Aang to the conclusion of the television adventure. You again use different elements and familiar heroes, but aiming and moving water or stones plays a more prominent role in the controls. De Legende van Aang comes earlier in the game series and places more weight on party development and inventory. You also play this first instalment alone, whereas De Vuurmeester offers local cooperative play for two people.
The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning for PlayStation 2 also combines an animated fantasy world with direct combat and elemental attacks. You develop Spyro's powers and use different breath attacks against enemies. Avatar distributes such abilities among several human heroes and adds village quests and equipment. Spyro focuses more on one dragon and consecutive action scenes; with Aang, you regularly choose another party member to tackle an obstacle or opponent in a different way.
LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy on PlayStation 2 also uses familiar characters with different abilities to open routes and solve puzzles. As in Avatar, you frequently switch between heroes. LEGO places more emphasis on building, hidden collectibles and humour, and supports two players together. De Legende van Aang is a solo adventure with experience and equipment, in which conversations and quests receive more attention than rearranging LEGO pieces.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix for PlayStation 2 likewise gives you supernatural abilities to explore a familiar fictional world and help others. At Hogwarts, you move objects with spells and complete tasks for students. Avatar spreads its journey across several regions and alternates such tasks with more party battles. Harry's school forms one connected place to explore; Aang travels from destination to destination with his increasingly powerful team.
