Ubisoft have released a playable demo for the upcoming James Cameron's Avatar: The Game, the videogame tie in to the much-hyped 3D film.

The PC demo can now be found locally on AusGamers (1.55GB)

Here's the all-important minimum specs:

Operating System: Windows XP (with SP2) or Windows Vista (with SP1)
Processor:
* 3 Ghz Intel Pentium D 830
* AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ or better
RAM: 1 GB Windows XP / 2 GB Windows Vista, Windows 7
Video card:
* NVidia 6800 or ATI X1650 or better
* 256 MB DirectX 10.0-compliant video card or DirectX
* 9.0c-compliant card with Shader Model 3.0 or higher

James Cameron's Avatar is due on PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, PSP and Nintendo DS on December 3rd 2009 - a couple of weeks ahead of the film's December 18 release. For more details on the game, check out AusGamer's hands on preview from this year's Tokyo Games Show.

Question: will it ruin the movie for me?

There's some crossover characters (including voice-actors from the film's cast) but the storylines are supposed to be separate.

its set before the movie i think

damn no 3fl mirror

Demo fell well below my hopes. Given a fraction of a linear level to shoot stuff in, half of the game features are locked and just a rather waste of the 1.6g.

Thanks alandalf I was going to download this tonight wont waste my time now, I hope the movie lives up to the hype.

yeah i was excepting some cool exploration demo where I get to shoot arrows and perv at blue boobs (blue penis).

roger that - totally underwhelming

Question: will it ruin the movie for me?

Nope

You'll do that for yourself once you've watched it

You'll do that for yourself once you've watched it

I lol'd

My friend said he has this on PS3 and he's addicted to it. This is a guy who has never bothered with video games before and prefers to be outdoors doing stuff. I predict it will be the next WoW.

Next WoW?

I doubt it unless they make some huge world that's an MMORPG.

The only thing that will kill WoW is WoW2.

wow will kill itself.

the only thing that will topple wow is wow2.