Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Burning Earth (Xbox 360, 2007)

I bought this game for my kids, and they thoroughly enjoyed it. The game follows the avatar cartoon fairly well and only makes minor changes to the story to make it fit with in the realm of the game. Though the video graphics during the informational scenes could have used a bit more attention and a lot more detail, though the game play was very well scripted. It took my 4 year old about a week to beat it on his own which is pretty good for a kid’s game. I am not sure if it was harder in co-op mode or if my kids are not good team players but when my 8 and 4 year olds played it together it took them much longer to make it through the game.

It should be noted that you can have no more than 2 players in game at any one time and some of the earlier bosses are harder than the later ones. In fact the only complaints my kids had was when they reach the end it was too easy to beat. The main reason I know this is I had to beat the lower end bosses for them so they could advance on. I highly recommend this game for kids 12 years old and younger; my 13 year old who liked the cartoon found the repetitive play of the game to be boring and never finished it.

Special moves for each character are some what limited and you never truly get to use all of the avatars powers.

I gave this game a Good rating since it followed the original story line pretty well and the over all game play was smooth and simple. There are no special characteristics that set this game apart from any other... if your kids like the avatar its more than likely they will like the game.