The man who has admitted that games based on movies mostly suck has promised that won't be the case with his movie-based game project. Now James Cameron's Avatar: The Game has a final release date to put up or shut up. Developer-publisher Ubisoft has announced the game will be released in the US on December 1, a couple of weeks before the highly anticipated sci-fi film Avatar shows up in theaters on December 16

Cameron, who has made films that have highly influenced game designers over the years (The Terminator and Aliens especially) made a promise at Ubisoft's E3 press conference last June that the Avatar game would not suck. Will the game, which is being made with 3D technology in mind, live up to that promise? Good question.