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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Why? WHY? WHY?!?

I have to admit, I was looking forward to Haze before it became a PS3-exclusive title (and, just so you know, I believe Sony got the exclusive rights to the game because they knew Killzone was going to be delayed - it'd make sense).

Everything seemed so awesome. The story, the design, the graphics and everything in between. It was developed by Free Radical - a company formed by some of the key people behind Goldeneye and Perfect Dark, not to mention the Timesplitters trilogy. How could something with this great foundation go so wrong?!

Quite easily, it appears, unfortunately.

Just for the record, I think I'll pick up this game after I give the demo a whirl. I enjoyed Grandia 2, Killzone, Shellshock 'nam, Gangs of London, The Getaway, GRAND THEFT AUTO 4 and a slew of other games that most reviewers didn't enjoy but which i had emmense pleasure in playing.

Keep it pants...

Err, real. Keep it real.

P.S. Points for whoever guesses where the title of this blog is from.

Category: Games
Posted by raghraghragh, 6:35am
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Wow... That's way worse than I expected.
I didn't really expect much from the game... it started out sounding cool, but as I heard more it sounded more pedestrian... but 4.5? that's bad.

But I'm pretty sure it's the first review out... maybe they had a buggy copy or something?
Posted May 20, 2008 7:02 am PT
there have been 2 other reviews out that have given better scores like Famitsu so i just think its ign but i have given up on ign.
Posted May 20, 2008 7:09 am PT
It's a pretty bad review too. The whole thing is basically 'the graphics are bad'.

I doubt the game doesn't DESERVE the 4.5, but at least give us some good reasons!
Posted May 20, 2008 7:25 am PT
Wow that's gotta be tough for Sony to swallow. It can't be that bad. We will just have to wait and see what other scores it gets.
Posted May 20, 2008 10:52 am PT
I had all intentions of getting this game even if it scraped through with average scores. Quite disappointed really. I only also learnt tonight it was a PS3 exclusive
Posted May 20, 2008 1:48 pm PT
Suicide SIlence - The Fallen. Do I win?

Who knows. Maybe it's just one review. Pray that everyone else doesn't share the same view.
Posted May 20, 2008 1:54 pm PT
@Darth_Homer

Famitsu gave it 34/40 which is VERY impressive.
Posted May 20, 2008 2:51 pm PT
Gamespot gave it 6.0. The review has just gone live.
Posted May 20, 2008 2:54 pm PT
alas no Haze for me. (no ps3) but, i'd still like to give it a try. It's hard to listen to anything critics and reveiwers say. good luck with your demo.
As for the song, It sounded fremilar but if yout gentleman who said it's suicide silence is right then I'm mistaken.
Posted May 20, 2008 4:02 pm PT
I never really got what looked so good about it, but i was surprised it got a 4.5... i mean, that means its more bad than Spiderman 3... and that was really, really bad.. Ooh, im watching an ad for haze now. Anyway, review scores are all over the place atm. I mean, look at the Wii ware scores!
Posted May 20, 2008 9:44 pm PT
@Darth

You got it...thank to google?

@jim

I still have hopes for the game. I really like everything about it, but I heard some of the dialogue in it and it is ATROCIOUS. And Korn having the song also helps ruin it for me - I hate Korn.

@jj

C'mon, you gotta admit, the whole Nectar thing seemed pretty awesome! And it was made by Free Radical!
Posted May 20, 2008 11:29 pm PT
It sounds to me like they just didn't implement Nectar, or the AI, right... Seems a broken, bad game.

I'd still like to try it though, if only to satisfy my curiosity over the scores.
Posted May 21, 2008 12:55 am PT
Hmm, Haze is looking alot like Kane and Lynch at the moment. Hyped up, but a big let down when it finally arrived.
Posted May 21, 2008 1:50 am PT
and I was so looking forward to it, I'll probably still rent it to see what its like as this is begging for some more reviews to see whether it really is as bad as they say, and I need some more co-op games
Posted May 21, 2008 2:21 am PT
Apparently the game sucks. GS gave a 6 rating, so it must be pretty vanilla. A shame,really .
Posted May 22, 2008 5:47 am PT
Meh, honestly don't get tied down by gaming website's scores.

If you want it get it, if you like it great, if not so be it.
Posted May 23, 2008 11:05 pm PT
Oh trust me, I'm getting it.

Actually, I can't even remember why I wrote this blog.
Posted May 23, 2008 11:19 pm PT
Im probobly not going to get it seeing im on low budget and there are way better games for a new ps3 owner
Posted May 25, 2008 2:59 am PT
Sal, may I direct your eyes over to Ratchet and Clank...
Posted May 25, 2008 3:35 am PT
raghraghragh: - Yeh! Ratchet & Clank! FTW!
Posted May 27, 2008 11:27 pm PT
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