It’s not. This is a pirated game manual. A really, really funny one.
Reader Andrew noticed this Avatar for the Nintendo DS manual at the game retailer where he works. The non-legit pirated game was inadvertently accepted as a trade-in — and whoever pirated this title went as far as creating a 20-something-page instruction manual that doesn’t so much explain how the game works, but ultimately roasts the hell out of it.
Choice bits from the manual:
“This is a pretty game that gives you a glimpse at the inviting world of Pandora, and there are a few interesting ideas buried within. However, the broken targeting system and inconsistent aiming constantly yank you from the reverie, and the story’s overt moralizing doesn’t do the game world any favours.”
“Avatar is sometimes boring and sometimes frustrating but rarely satisfying, and it can be safely categorized as ‘another movie game you don’t need to play.’”
“It’s like the Neverending Story, expect it ends, and the story stinks.”
The images in the manual are of the PC version of the game based on the Hollywood film.















































Joshy206
Thursday, April 29, 2010 at 11:21 PMHeh.
I like it :)
Matt
Friday, April 30, 2010 at 12:02 AMmade me lol
by the looks of it, it was purchased over in Asia on someone’s holiday at some cheap stall, where whoever pirated it, cut and paste a review of the game along with images. the warning page, print quality and paper are signs whoever did it did it for a living, and wasnt some isolated case.
and how did this get accepted for trade in?
Steven Bogos
Friday, April 30, 2010 at 12:27 AMLol, it’s kind of cute how you think people who work at game retailers notice/give a fuck about their trade ins.
I once went to my local EB to trade in my Hong Kong version of Blue Dragon, which inadvertently didn’t work with my Xbox even though play asia said it wasn’t region locked.
The moron who was serving me tried to scan the game, but when it didn’t come up in the system he just said ‘OH DON’T WORRY, I’LL JUST TYPE IT IN MANUALLY. DUM DE DUM DE. NTSC? WUTS THAT MEAN? LOL! HERE’S YOUR CASH!’. I mean seriously. Both the blurb AND title were written in Chinese.
I feel kind of sorry for the poor guy who actually comes in and buys my game, only to find out it doesn’t work on their system. But then again, he kind of deserves it for shopping at EB
NotoriousR
Friday, April 30, 2010 at 9:41 AMEbgames hire people with retail skills, and gaming knowledge is not essential. I traded in my sixaxis and they scanned it as a dual shock. They say I can’t trade in my game because it’s european and doesn’t have the OFLC ratings on it, even though I’ve bought a region 1 bioshock for ps3. They don’t give a sh*t about their customers, only money.
Cheezel
Friday, April 30, 2010 at 12:13 AMWOW! I would buy that particular copy if i could!
706
Friday, April 30, 2010 at 1:11 AMThat’s pretty funny, and I actually wish game manuals these days were that long. Reminds me of when I had a friend go to china and brought back a bunch of pirated movies, on the back of The Matrix Reloaded was a movie review that just tore it to shreds saying how horrible it is. Now that’s advertising.
Some of them were pretty dodgy, but it did lead to one of the greatest lines I have seen in a movie. Watching the first LOTR movie with english subtitles, when Gandalf faces off against the Balrog and does his big dramatic ‘YOU SHALL NOT PASS’ the subtitles simply read ‘Go away’.
RonnyGunz
Friday, April 30, 2010 at 3:42 AMIt looks like they just pasted in the reviews of the PSP and PC games from Gamespot.
http://www.gamespot.com/psp/action/jamescameronsavatar/review.html?tag=mncol;txt
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/jamescameronsavatar/review.html
rpgplayer83
Friday, April 30, 2010 at 5:59 AMI think it was more than one review used in fact:
http://reviews.cnet.com/psp-games/james-cameron-s-avatar/4505-10078_7-33673280.html
Adam Ruch
Friday, April 30, 2010 at 10:41 AMMy god that’s hilarious.
WiseHacker
Friday, April 30, 2010 at 12:29 PMHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHahahahahahaha………..
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*BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*
*Dies laughing.*
hristinho18
Friday, April 30, 2010 at 7:47 PMYeh I’ve got a handful of similar ‘review-manuals’ from Asian purchases- this is definately the funniest… Way to big-up the game, Mr Pirate.