Haze PS3

[Pared]

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lmao what did I say about the dialogue.

I think I may rent the game just to hear how stupid it is.

[SidVish]

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Stupid Dialogue - After you hear one of your Mantel buddies spout out a brain-dead line like "This is the most fun I've ever had with my pants on!" or Promise Hand rebels repeating "Remember your promise to Moreno!" for the hundredth time, you'll wish they were all dead. There's an an odd mix of mangled rap lyrics, heavy handed philosophy and dramatic cut scenes that come off as unintentionally comedic. "Yeah, boyeeee!"? Really?

Oh man. I'm with you Pared. Now I have to hear this stupid dialogue for myself.

[Flawless]

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Gamespot Review - 6.0

The Good

• Some utterly fantastic and thrilling set-piece battles.
• Co-op support for up to four players makes the campaign more entertaining.
• Most of the weapons feel right and are fun to shoot.

The Bad

• Abysmal storytelling and voice acting squander the interesting premise.
• Stupid artificial "intelligence".
• Multiplayer is uninspiring and unbalanced.

A seven-hour campaign and uneventful multiplayer modes just don't cut it in light of the far better modern shooters available on the market. The patchy quality of the entire package is surprising, considering the developer's fine pedigree. Yet Haze is a roller-coaster ride made up of tall peaks and unfathomable valleys, and it won't leave you so much breathless as disappointed with its squandered potential.

[ThaGenecyst]

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[Scott]

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[countryboy]

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7 hours?!

Yes, I'll definitely pass. My question now is....why the delay? And why release it now? They've delayed it this long, why not wait and work on the game, make it at least 10 hours long, fix the issues and release in November?

Free-Radical completely dropped the ball on this one.

[Altimus]

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LOL

That is hilarious. That is what they probably doing over at Free Radical.

[countryboy]

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[Flawless]

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Giant Bomb Review

In multiplayer, the game likes to loop a bunch of embarrassingly-rote hip-hop over the menus, the gameplay, everything. Hearing one song over and over for 20 minutes just seems like a bug, straight-up.

[Altimus]

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Giant Bomb Review

I love the header:

Winners don't use drugs.

[Spectre]

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What an overhyped piece of garbage- this might be one of the worst console exclusives I've had the privilege of laying my eyes on.

I got my PS3 back a couple days ago and downloaded the trailer- this game is terrible. Thank goodness that they have demos so it can save me from trash like this.

[Flawless]

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GameSpy Review

The poor performance is particularly noticeable during the driving portions, which perhaps the engine wasn't originally designed to handle. Not only does the action become bogged-down with stuttering frames, but in some cases the environment simply refuses to load at all. Note that it's not that the environment's textures don't load; the entire environment won't load, leaving you without a game world to play in... or stand on! There were a few times when we'd figure that the level was still trying to load in the textures, drive forward into the nothingness, and fall out of the world to our death because there was no floor to the level to begin with. These issues were typically cleared up after a reload, but that didn't help maintain any sense of immersion.

Wow

[DickDalewood]

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Haha, this game is getting MURDERED...

[countryboy]

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Hmmm...makes me wonder. Which game was/is worse..

Haze or Mobile Suit Gundam

[Flawless]

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Eurogamer review is harsh.

If there's one thing the world doesn't need right now, it's another spirit-crushing first-person shooter, but here it is anyway. And after enduring such teeth-grinding nonentities as Blacksite, Turning Point and Conflict: Denied Ops in recent months, the fact that such a respected, reliable developer as Free Radical Design can turn out such a desperately uninspired effort is not only a shock, but a massive disappointment.

But, after a three-year absence, rather than launching onto the next generation scene with bold concepts and dazzling technology, Haze limps along apologetically - a stark demonstration of a developer completely out of touch with a genre it used to help boss. It's fallen into line with what everyone else is doing in the most depressing fashion possible.

Haze is stultifyingly dreadful from the very beginning. Featuring some of the most excruciating dialogue in videogaming history, it makes Army of Two look like a masterclass of narrative subtlety.

It's possible that at some point in Haze's protracted development the designers intended to flesh out the squad-based mechanics, but the end result is a no-fuss, no-frills system where everyone gets on with what they're doing, which is to say drunken squad-mates frequently stumble right into the path of your bullets, and generally make a complete nuisance of themselves while you do all the grunt work. Hilariously, when they become incapacitated (which is often), you can revive them by wandering up to them and, err, touching their heads. But with so many corners so obviously cut in making a convincing, credible shooter, such moments of clunky nonsense pass you by a blur of farce. There's the side-splitting disco-dancing death animations, the appalling clipping, that flame effect, and the goldfish memory of everyone around you.

To compound the feeble narrative and utterly sterile gameplay, the game struggles to look as impressive as a late-period PS2 title. It all runs at a native resolution of 576p, and while that really wouldn't have mattered in the slightest if the game world was smooth, vibrant and alive with detail, instead it's encumbered with possibly the worst texturing we've seen on a PS3-exclusive (or a next-gen game full stop, come to that), and blighted by dreadful pop-up, a horrible blur effect and a mystifying glare [surely "Haze" - Ed]. At no point can you step back and admire the view. Not only that, but the generic-looking character models clip into scenery, especially when the pathetic death animations kick in. There's barely anything positive to say about the way the game looks apart from the lack of tearing or frame-rate issues. It's a cigarette paper away from being a total disaster - and this for a company that once appeared to pride itself on great technology and making its games look different from everyone else's. Not only does Haze look generic, but the execution is as half-arsed as we've come across in recent years.

You really have to wonder how it all ended up this dreadful, especially after all the time and resource Ubisoft and Free Radical expended telling people the opposite. The combat's weak, the storyline's excruciating, it's technically deficient - Haze really is this year's most significant gaming disappointment. The fact that the creative forces behind this moribund excuse for a blockbuster feel that it is BAFTA-worthy has to be one of the most tragically comic examples of self-delusion we've ever witnessed.