Haze Demo Has In-Game Friends List

Watchful reader StevieK08 has alerted us to the fact that the new Haze Demo has an in games friend list. To see it, get to the main menu, hit triangle once, triangle a second time, and voila!, up pops the friends list. We have not had a chance to verify but Steve attached a screen shot that appears to confirm his story. If you have the demo, please give it a try and let us know. Thanks!

[SUP3R]

Wow
Welcome to 2 weeks ago.
I thought everyone noticed this when the demo dropped?

[CViper]

sad

[Chubear]

Exactly. I mean there are a number of games that already have this, even Lair has it.

[-EvoAnubis-]

Yeah, really. I thought this was common knowledge.

[MisfitSmurf]

and in other new the sun is hot

[Ace Ventura]

Every PS3 game has this.

[Sayai jin]

Good news if it is true. I have not downloaded the demo. Now all games for the PS3 need to have this feature and XMB.

[Sayai jin]

LOL, disagrees. Then not all games should have in-game XMB. N4G, should have a nickname called D4G. Disagree for (real) Gamers.

[_Q_]

WOW This is really old news. I sent this out to my friends the same night the demo was out. Good eye guys<sarcasm>

[chasuk08]

WOW really :|

Come on how did this get approved

[Killzownz84]

ok I'm tired of hearing people bash this game, some of u guys act like this game is as bad as lair or something and it isn't. The demo was actually great and a must buy for me. I don't knowwhy all the hate

[pow3r of t3h c3ll]

no they dont but they will do, then the PSN will have surpassed live especially when home drops!!!

Why do xtards pay for online gaming when it has always been free? if something has always been free then it should always be free, no one has the right to make you pay. trust nazi$oft to come up with such a fascist idea!!!

[LenHart]

i expect old xbox owners to purchase x360 no matter what.
so by the end of 2012 you might have around 25 million x360 owners worldwide.

No matter whatever we say brand preferences dont change

[Meresin]

Not necessarily. I had an original Xbox, but bought the PS3 this generation. It provided the better bang for my buck...$400 for a game console and a Blu-ray player, or $350 for a game console and an additional charge of $50 a year for online play. Not much of a contest.

That's also why I bought an original Xbox. It provided the best value at the time because it had a hard drive in it and had a lot of multimedia functionality.

Brand preference only ever comes into play when you're dealing with fanboys, and they're the monitory in this market, whether they like it or not. :P

[Premonition]

This is as old as my fart i blew out last month.

[trancefreak]

LOL you made me laugh. Its about as old as the demo that got deleted off my hdd too.

[trancefreak]

wher'es the new full haze game review wtf is going on with this. Is their some kinda review deal in place for this game to prevent reviews from happening before the release. I laready made up my mind to buy this game in fact 2 copies because my 2 boys 10 and 6 love the co op and have been beggin me for the game so if the game suks im out 120 + some tax.

[resistance100]

Its had 2 reviews so far Famistu gave it a 34/40 and the italian playstation mag gave it a 9/10

[Meresin]

I'd really like to know whether the demo is representative of the finished game's graphics. I'm waiting to see some feedback from people that bought the game, honestly, because I'm not sure if it's worth $60, or if I should just rent it.

[MACHone]

Lost Planet had an in-game friends list, too. Even Lair let you send messages while in-game. This is hardly what I'd consider newsworthy.

[gnothe1]

see that where your wrong. MS doesnt MAKE the devs add friends list to all games. because for one the friends list is built into XBL. therefore all devs have to worry about is getting the game running. not separate friends lists (PSN) an not setting up expensive servers for their games(PSN) most PS3 games, the devs have to worry about online servers, friends list, voice chat ect. on the 360 all they have to worry about is getting the game finish.( oh an space, NO BLU RAY) other than that more time is actually spend on THE GAME!!

[PirateThom]

And that's why Xbox Live is a lot laggier than PSN

I'd take dedicated servers that don't cost me anything over paying for no dedicated servers any day.

[n4gzz]

buying 2 copies for me and my brother. Can't wait !!
Mgs4, Lbp, Afrika (may be), rfom 2, killzone 2, ff13, re5, ff13, gow3 and list goes on and on

[PoSTedUP]

and on and on and on.........

[aiphanes]

I believe the problem could be a dirty bluray laser lense...we need the Maxell bluray laser lense cleaner to come out...this might save a few PS3 effected...

[mccomber]

So far Burnout is the only game I've played where you can pause it anytime you want, in multi- or single-player modes, and access the friends list. Although Haze's (and many others) sort of implementation beats nothing, I won't be happy with it until I can send and receive a message at any point in the game, not just at predetermined menu screens.

[WelshGunner]

Resistance has had this for how long ?

Ages

[TheMART]

@ Piratethom

"Eh, laser diodes dying and overheating?". Yes, since the 40GB PS3.

In The Netherlands, many consumers united online. I have a connection with the transport company that sends the broken PS3's back to Sony, which declared that 600 PS3's a DAY only for the Netherlands (which is a small, small country) are going back to Sony. And that especially the 40GB model is represented in those batches.

It even was on TV overhere. Remember: the same program also called out MS over its scratching DVD drives (the Toshiba/Samsung drive it was). So it works both ways. Legit source for sure. Links to article, forum with united customers etc.:

http://www.xboxkings.com/in...

[PirateThom]

Yeah, and the site who said that 40% of PS3s were defective retracted the claim a few days later.

"Then, this morning, Gamed itself issued a full retraction. "Yesterday we published a report that the Belgian chain Game Mania had recovered a large number of faulty PS3 40GB it had sold to customers," read the article. "Today we got the report that this information is not correct. According to Sony and Game Mania the report was based on an unfortunate coincidence of circumstances and was totally not representative [of PS3 sales]. Thusly, both parties asked us to retract this report."

http://uk.gamespot.com/news...

Sounds to me like a faulty batch, if any were faulty at all.

Not to mention, 600 a day is just an outright fabrication, especially considering they weren't even sending that many 360's back a day in the UK.

[TheMART]

Tom wrong again. The Belgium story is a whole different one.

If you can read Dutch, you can see those numbers are growing over time. No batch, its a common problem from the time that the 40GB model was introduced.

How do you think a 200 Euro pricecut from 600 to 400 Euro was reached? Not by only cutting some USB ports. Internal, the system has been built with cheaper parts/production processes.

The 40GB PS3 stops reading discs after a while. And that 600 PS3's a day isn't fabrication. I know the person that is working on the central distribution centre and these numbers are counted daily.