Retrospective: Haze was overhyped and underrated

stewgart - 262 days 17 hours ago

heh, it was a fun game I admit and I agree it was underappreciated. Victim of its own hype.

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Nineball2112 - 262 days 17 hours ago

I downloaded the demo. It wasn't all THAT bad. I just wasn't about to pay $60 for it. :-)

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dorron - 262 days 17 hours ago

I bought it second hand. While not a great game, it actually was a nice game to play...but just wasn't the AAA title everybody was expecting.

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sulack - 262 days 16 hours ago

Disliked every moment of playing haze

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redsquad - 262 days 15 hours ago

It was a workman-like FPS.
Apart from the pretentious dialogue and cut scenes that you COULDN'T SKIP (and the fact that, personally, I wanted to play as a Mantle trooper for far longer), I enjoyed it for what it was.

I certainly didn't feel the need to jump on the "HAZE is crap in every conceivable way" bandwagon. I've played far worse both in this generation and previous ones.

As it's so cheap now, I'd actually recommend it as a fun diversion.

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zapata2119 - 262 days 15 hours ago

I got it at launch and i still play the multiplayer from time to time I do hope that they make a Haze 2 maybe with the cry engine??? i can dream can't i lol

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Bazookajoe_83 - 262 days 14 hours ago

Too many games lack coop :-(

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grantps3 - 262 days 11 hours ago

the game wasnt anything worse than timeshift other mediocore FPS, but like it says....the hype destroyed it

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dimeford - 262 days 11 hours ago

Overhyped and underrated? So it was crappier and better than you'd expect?

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anubis12 - 262 days 11 hours ago

yeah i agree it totally blew...get shot in the back and you just cant control anything and you shoot around like a retard the dumbest concept ever

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food86 - 262 days 11 hours ago

I owned the game and enjoyed playing the single player split screen. It was also to easy even in its hardest settings. (the nectar had something to do with that lol) This game is not a must buy day 1 or worth owning but it is worth a play through. But this game is not as horrid as people make it out to be. I could say the same thing about conflict denied ops! or timeshift. at that moment there was nothing better out there other than halo or call of duty. so basing haze or comparing it to halo of course it had a lot to live up to......

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kingme71 - 262 days 10 hours ago

The problem with gaming media and journalism everything has to be black or white. Either Haze has to be great or total garbage. In reality Haze was somewhere in between. I played through it to the end and it was largely a forgettable game. It has its faults that many have talked about, but they weren't game crushing faults. The nectar idea was a neat concept, but many FPS's nowadays rely on one new concept to the fault of everything else (like Fracture).

The fact it was a PS3 exclusive didn't help the hype buzz. If it has been multiplatform it wouldn't have gotten the same hype and would have sold more.

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Highatus - 262 days 10 hours ago

Unfortunately i bought this game at launch. Not to say i didn't really enjoy it, But it should have been a rent instead.

There are concepts in the game that could have made it alot better than what it was, The nectar to the feigning death just felt way to uneven in terms of being balanced. Though the nectar bombs were pretty funny to see them OD and start shooting each other.

In my eyes not a terrible game that most have made it out to be, but not an entirely great game either. I was hoping for a suped up Timesplitters and what i got was a suped up Eat Lead.

**Edit** The comedy is there in Eat Lead, but my god where did the get the gameplay?

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food86 - 262 days 10 hours ago

okay can anyone tell me of a better game in terms of fps that was better than haze during the time haze came out? For me the only outstanding was halo for its multiplayer and resistance for its single campaign. but other than those two what other fps were really steps beyond haze? please compare in the same timeline and not shooters of now like kz2, geow2, or cod4. what game out there was actually better as an fps?

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Vip3r - 262 days 10 hours ago

It has a certain "chunkiness" to it but still failed. Storyline was cheesy imo.

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AclayPS3 - 262 days 10 hours ago

It's ironic really... there's many people that enjoyed HAZE for what it was, and I felt the exact same way about Lair. Lair got horrible reviews, but I picked it up the exact same day it came out.

Lair was a VERY short game, and the Sixaxis controls took me a while to get used too, but I did enjoy it while it lasted and I don't think that it deserved some of the really low review scores that it got.

I think HAZE got so hyped up because Free Radical was the developers, and as many know, they were the same dev. team that brought the successful TimeSplitters series.... I guess I can see why HAZE got so hyped just for that reason alone, but ultimately Free Radical fell short.

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heyheyhey - 262 days 10 hours ago

it was ok... i had fun in co-op, but considering it was being made by FRD (my favorite FPS dev)... it seriously underwhelmed me

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Gun_Senshi - 262 days 10 hours ago

Well Haze is exactly like Halo 3. Just different consoles, colour scheme, and story. But it plays very very similar and has very similar feel and everything.

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Spike47 - 262 days 10 hours ago

I knew Haze wasn't going to special but it still kept the hype which hurt the game.

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DeathroW22 - 262 days 10 hours ago

I agree, wasn't an amazing game. But wasn't terrible like the reviews made it out to be, i played online for a good two weeks.

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Eiffel - 262 days 9 hours ago

The game was never intended to be exclusive if we all do our history.

Should have kept it multiplatform.

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Slinger420 - 262 days 9 hours ago

I was one of the unfortunate souls that donated 60$ to Gamestop for that garbage FPS

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Pugovitz - 262 days 8 hours ago

Wow, what a timely article...

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idontcare - 262 days 8 hours ago

i wasn't hyped for the game but nonetheless ... Haze svcked major ass, that's for sure.

overhyped and overrated!

even Too Human was way better than this game.

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PirateThom - 262 days 8 hours ago

If you like twitch shooters and you can pick it up cheap, I'm sure anyone who likes Halo/Resistance or whatever could find a lot of good in Haze, even if it's just to pass time between the next big games.

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Figboy - 262 days 8 hours ago

the controls were silky smooth (like most Free Radical games, honestly), but the downsides were overlly hammy story, and moderately decent visuals.

towards the end, the gameplay REALLY picked up, but it's fate was set the moment it stopped being multi-platform, and the gaming media began to tout it as "the next killer PS3 exclusive," then it's expectations were set too high.

NONE of Free Radical's earlier games (Timesplitters, Second Sight) were ever hyped to the level that Haze was. to suddenly expect GOLD from them was ridiculous.

i know that they had a rather significant hand in creating Goldeney 64 and Perfect Dark 64, but i never expected Haze to be a revolutionary FPS title, just a good time. and it was.

i ended up trading it in, because i realized that i probably wouldn't play it much more after beating it that first time, but i don't regret the experience.

as a first next gen effort from the company, i was really looking forward to seeing what they would have done with Timesplitters 4.

it's a shame that the media has let the "Console War" completely decimate their perspective on what makes a genuinely GOOD game, and what makes a MEDIOCRE game.

here's a list of some of the most medicore, horrible FPS games i've played this generation:

Frontlines
Turok
Legendary
Turning Point
Blacksite
Bomberman: Act Zero

THOSE are genuinely sh*t tastic FPS games.

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PSGamingInc - 262 days 2 hours ago

Why are we talking about this debacle now? Twist it around all you want, the bottom line is Haze flatout stinks. It looks terrible, plays terrible has a terrible story, terrible characters and some of the cheesiest dialogue I have ever heard. Let the debacle known as Haze die and never, I mean NEVER bring it up again.

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ThatCanadianguy420 - 262 days 11 hours ago

I had alot of fun with Haze.It was by no means a GOTY contender but it held me over till MGS4 came out.

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Bathyj - 262 days 9 hours ago

Yeah, the game wasn't even bad, it just wasn't awesome. Thats a felony nowadays I guess.

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