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GamesRadar Reviews Haze, Not Too Bad Of A Score

Linkin Park Fan | May 20, 2008 | Reviews | Playstation 3 
Big news today is the review Haze got from IGN. With a stunning 4.5. Gamesradar has posted their review of the game. Its not amazing but its not a 4.5 bad.

Final Score=7/10

So, is Haze really that bad
After five years of hype, speculation and delay, Ubisoft’s Haze breaks cover - and despite being developed by Free Radical, the team behind the excellent TimeSplitters 2 on PS2 - it fails to better UT3, Resistance and CoD4. Haze looks poor, lacks set-pieces and feels like a novel idea that missed its window of opportunity, frayed by the requests of nervous Brand Managers and cruel demands of next-gen development.

Haze’s fall is, in part, amplified by our heightened expectations, but by next-gen standards, it looks undeniable shabby. While we’re impressed by the scale of the environments (and the absence of loading times), they’re populated by uninspiring terrain and objects. The trees look like they’re made from cardboard, the flat-textured interiors are poor and the pop-up that sees a soldier’s armor disappear when you nudge the left stick toward or away from them is embarrassing. It’s not even on par with Half-Life 2 from The Orange Box, and that was originally made in 2004. To our eyes, the game looked better at E3 over two years ago - but maybe that’s the pace of change. Thankfully, Free Radical’s shooting mechanics are as tight as ever - so Haze, disappointing or not, retains focus.

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  • 0 thumbs!
    chautemoc | May 20, 2008
    Onion gave it 58, Gamer's Hell, 65.
    Its only a few reviews though..there's almost always a few crap reviews for any game.
    Nevertheless, Im not expecting a lot.
    • 0 thumbs!
      Linkin Park Fan | May 20, 2008
      The onion?! Boy, because everyone knows the onion for their trust reviews...
  • 1 thumbs!
    Newcloud | May 21, 2008
    this review seem more realistic then 4.5
    its more what i thought it would be
  • 1 thumbs!
    Zero and X | May 21, 2008
    jeez, what did this game do that was so bad? I mean come on, its a shooter, theres not alot that you can *bleep* up.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Red 9 | May 21, 2008
    7/10 still stinks. I had hoped that Haze was gonna break the 7/10 trend of PS3 exclusives.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Final Blade | May 21, 2008
    I don't really care about the reviews, I've played games that wasn't 8s or 7s and be great. Kane and Lynch comes to mind.

    So im sure this game will be a great addition to my library.
  • 0 thumbs!
    StabWound | May 21, 2008
    It's metacritic is 54/100 based on 11 reviews.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Silver Mirror | May 21, 2008
    Hmm, so Haze has now got some quite good scores, some pretty bad ones and now some average ones.

    Are the reviewers even playing the same game?
    • 0 thumbs!
      Vito Raliffe | May 21, 2008
      They just have differing opinions. There is no such thing as an objective game review.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Silver Mirror | May 21, 2008
    Yeah but usually you can gauge the general quality of a game since most reviews will be around the same level. This however has gotten scores ranging from 4 to 9, I have absolutely no idea what level of quality there is with all these conflicting reports
    • 0 thumbs!
      Final Blade | May 22, 2008
      Not really, I mean GTA4 got 10s across the board and user reviewers are giving it a 8, 8.5/10.

      Like Vito said its just different opinions. Most didn't like K&L but i did.
      And i have no doubt i'll probably like this game too.
      At the end of the day the reviewers are shit.

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