Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Burning Earth

Avatar: The Last Airbender—The Burning Earth
Developer(s)	THQ Halfbrick(GBA)
Publisher(s)	THQ
Composer(s)	Andrew Curnock (GBA version), Daniel Fournier
Platform(s)	Wii, Nintendo DS, PS2, GBA, Xbox 360
Release	Wii NA: October 16, 2007 EU: October 26, 2007 AU: November 1, 2007 PS2, NDS NA: October 16, 2007 AU: October 25, 2007 EU: October 26, 2007 Xbox 360 NA: November 12, 2007 EU: November 16, 2007 AU: November 22, 2007 Game Boy Advance NA: October 16, 2007
Genre(s)	Action Adventure
Mode(s)	Single player, multiplayer, Air battles, Arena combat

Avatar: The Last Airbender—The Burning Earth (in Europe known as Avatar: The Legend of Aang—The Burning Earth) is a video game for Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance, and based on the animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender. It was one of the last games released for the Game Boy Advance in North America. The game was followed by a sequel, Avatar: Into the Inferno, around a year later.

The Xbox 360 version of the game is notorious among 360 gamers as the easiest game to earn 1000/1000 achievement points, which can be done in less than a minute.

Synopsis

The game is the sequel of Avatar: The Last Airbender series, which is about the war the Fire Nation started. As the Avatar, Aang has to master all four elements and stop the Fire Nation from destroying the Earth Kingdom, just as they did with the Air Nomads. Experience for first time in the Avatar games the bending of all four elements, playing as Aang, Sokka, Katara, Toph, Zuko, Iroh, Jet and even Appa and Momo. The game is based on the second season of Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Features

Unlike Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Burning Earth features a multiplayer mode. In each stage, two characters can explore the area. Animal allies, Momo and Appa, appear in special "dramatic air battles." Players can also use all four bending styles. Another feature is Aang's ability to go into the Avatar State and unleash its power on enemies.

Playable Characters and Bosses

Playable Characters

• Aang
• Katara
• Sokka
• Toph
• Zuko
• Iroh
• Jet (Console versions only)
• Momo
• Appa

Bosses (In order of appearance)

• General Fong
• The Governor
• Swamp Monster
• Toph
• Xin Fu
• Air Battle against Azula, Mai and Ty Lee
• Wan Shi Tong
• Long Feng
• Double Battle against Azula and Zuko

Bosses in DS version

• General Fong
• The Governor
• The Swamp Monster
• Xin Fu
• Long Feng & Dai Li Agents
• Princess Azula

Bosses in GBA version

• Toph
• Azula
• Long Feng
• Big Wang

Goofs

• Zuko's in-game character icon shows the scar over his right eye, rather than his left, when Zuko is Player 2.

Xbox 360 Achievements controversy

The Xbox 360 version of the game is derided as the easiest game to earn all achievements and Gamerscore among all titles released for the platform. The game features just five achievements, and all 1000 Gamerscore can be easily earned in just 59 seconds in the first level of the game. The publisher of the game was interviewed by MTV.com game blogger Tracey John, regarding the easiness of the achievements, and stated that they were simply created with kids in mind.

Laura Massey referred to the controversy while watching a trailer during Microsoft's Kinect reveal at E3 in 2010.

Other websites

• Official Site Archived 2008-03-14 at the Wayback Machine
• GameSpot.com: Avatar: The Burning Earth
• NintendoWorldReport.com: Avatar: The Burning earth Preview
• Ign.com: Avatar: The Burning Earth Archived 2008-09-25 at the Wayback Machine
• Xbox360-Achievements