David Doak talks Haze

Haze is Free Radical Design's first big push on next-gen, and a recent demonstration at UbiDays suggests it's got more ideas than most. Having talked about how the game itself is put together in last week's preview, today we're offering up the rest of our chat with David Doak, during which he deals with everything from PlayStation 3 and Halo 3 to making games more emotional

[Diselage]

A bit misleading in the title, he really doesn't say any thing bad and don't give me that stuff "oh the title didn't say it was bad words". When some one says they have some choice words to say about something i have never heard those words to be anything but negative.

[Odion]

I disagree he first off agreed that American gamers are flag waving players, I find this personally a generalization and frankly rude to say about us.

Also he implied that Haze was going to have these features that Halo 3 wasn't going to be able to match and that in the end his game would be better.

[tethered]

It's a good thing Americans are big flag wavers because he would be speaking German right now if we weren’t. lol

Anyway, the game does look cool.

[masterg]

@tethered

If you knew anything about World War two you would know that the one country that did the most difference in winning the war was Russia.
I'm not saying the US didn't help, it's just so typical American to think it was all you.

[tethered]

@ masterg.

I know all about it.
We lost a lot of men on Frances beaches so please don't downplay the US involvement.
http://battlefieldsww2.50me...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

[Eclipticus]

okay honestly, i dont like this guy, every post in regards to him, is how such and such product sucks and his will be bigger and better. blah blah blah. Haze is a FPS correct? what does it do better? does it give you a guy, you manually have to reload, spare magazines and all? isnt he French? i mean honestly what does he know bout fighting and wars? okay thats kinda harsh. but funny.

[Odion]

I agree this thinks far to highly of himself considering that he was only really apart of one big game Goldeneye.

Most people don't know or played Time Splitters.

[Eclipticus]

goldeneye rocked. partly because it was the only good fps on n64. time splitters was okay, nothing special lack of coherent story prevented me from playing it more than 3 or 4 times.
suddenly my interesting is decreasing.

[Lygre]

It seems like the Haze people are talking very high about their own game. Like it's so innovative and bringing new elements to FPS and that it's going to be so good.

We'll know that after Halo 3 and Haze has been launched...

[OC_MurphysLaw]

And was it me or did it feel like they cut parts of it out? Maybe it was just the writing style, but on things like Brothers in Arms...it seemed like the guy was going to say something specific about the game, but the article in a sense cuts him off. It's like he had 2 or 3 incomplete thoughts and the interviewer never asked him to clarify or finish them. Or if he did finish them...they left them out.

One thing that did make sense was the reasoning to lead on the PS3. With no other big FPS coming out for the PS3 this holiday it makes sense to get it out on there now and maximize the opportunity of less competition. I wonder how long they are waiting to release the PC and 360 versions?

As for TimeSplitter...I loved the premise of the game but hated...HATED the contol scheme. I recall being utterly frustrated by the controls and never coming back to the game.

I will definitely want to see more from these guys inregards to the game before I am going to buy.

[Blasphemy]

No other big shooters for the PS3 this year? Then what do you call Unreal Tournament 3, Call of Duty 4, and Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway. All of these are highly anticipated games this year and they are all coming to PS3. Then there's Medal of Honor: Airbone, The Orange Box, Timeshift and Army of Two. There's also the possibility of Killzone 2 coming this year.

[OC_MurphysLaw]

None of those with the exception of Killzone are exclusive to the PS3 and no word as of yet has been given as to when Killzone is coming for sure. So looking at the lineups...all those shooters go to 360 and PS3...PLUS...360 is getting Halo 3, Mass Effect, Too Human & BioShock. So if I am the Haze dev...I make a bold choice...dont release my 360 version up against all those shooters plus all those exclusives this Holiday. I make it PS3 for this holiday to maximize whatever advantage I can get by being offered on the PS3 only this holiday and then a short time later...when hopefully the PC/360 crowd has more money again....I release to them and reap the benefit of post holiday sales.

NOW ....one flaw in that is "if" Haze gets horrible reviews on the PS3 version...it will drastically effect the perception of the later releases.

So they are taking a gamble...but it could pay off. I personally am ok with the delay on the 360 because of all the titles I listed above...those are going to consume me for a LONG, LONG time.

[SIX]

I hate the way all fps shooters all look like they've been created on a pc. You know, all shiney with textures shot with a camera (instead of hand drawn). Resistence didn't look like this. To me that game looked like it had more of an art style. More polish with less out of place textures. Gears also had a more polished art style, and everything looked like it belonged. I hope this game turns out the same. That new Black Site game looks like your typical PC (CRAP) game with shiney cut and paste textures..........I don't know if what I wrote made any sense.....I'm kinda drunk at the moment actually...Anyways, back on topic. Either Doak is a complete moron, or he's very confident about his game. I hope for the latter myself.

[KoolMan]

looking good