The Faceless Master
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HAZE HAS NECTAR LACED THROWING KNIVES!WrikaWrek said:
oh, and i could see enemies without nectar, nectar just made them blatantly obvious to spot.
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Haze Demo is up on EU store !
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oh, and i could see enemies without nectar, nectar just made them blatantly obvious to spot.
The Faceless Master
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i thought the same thing... so i did it.Y2Kev said:
right after i switched SHOOT to R2!
Steverulez
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besada said:
The demo did but the full game does not start in a cave, the demo section is actually a fair way through the game.
AlphaTwo00
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As expected.besada said:
Extra Hard should be interesting to unlock.
The Faceless Master said:
What IS with this trend of making shoot r1? Its a retarded decision and it angers me when developers do it (I'm looking at you infinity ward!). That needs to stop right now. Of course I also picked up what I believe a controller layout should be from my first FPS (halo3)'s control setup so I could be biased...its just...there are trigger buttons for a reason..f'ng use them!
Scotch said:
Yeah me too. This game really defines the often used term generic.
I can´t find much negative to say, but nothing positive either. It has been done before, thousands of times, and better. Nothing stands out as excellent, feels lazy overall.
I hope FR does Timesplitters next
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Y2Kev said:
yeah. that's the first thing I did. was going to remap it like COD4 since i was accustomed to that but got lazy in the process and used "Trigger Finger" Layout :lol
um... k im a little disappointed. the ts series is one of my fav series and for something so bland to come from free radical surprises me. im sure the story is cool but the gameplay is so lame. environments looked average, character models looked great. nectar was kinda cool but almost irritating that i had to keep doing it. i was going to buy this one but i might have to pass. bring on ts4
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Just completed the demo and..... It plays very well. Not a solid 30fps but good enough. Looks very lush with lots of nice next gen type visuals but none of the scenery reacts to you. Plants and trees do not bend when your near them etc so it's a bit old school from that point of view.
The action is fast and furious and the A.I seem pretty good with the enemies trying to dodge your bullets in a more or less convincing manner.
The addition of Nectar is pretty good and adds a new twist to proceedings.
Overall. Pretty good.
The action is fast and furious and the A.I seem pretty good with the enemies trying to dodge your bullets in a more or less convincing manner.
The addition of Nectar is pretty good and adds a new twist to proceedings.
Overall. Pretty good.
The Faceless Master
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i dunno, devs just need more configurable controls.xcrunner529 said:
resistance, ut3, and now haze have lots of customization, while many other games just totally fuck it up.
30 solid.Seiken said:
some people said it dips a bit during smoke in explosions, but i didn't personally experience it.
The Faceless Master
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pick a different country when signing up, and fill out the info.f3niks said:
MrTroubleMaker
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cool, thanks! going to dl it it soon 
lowrider007
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f3niks said:
Can't be that hard surely, I live in the UK and signed up for an American acc, I just created a new user-name and choose the US as my home country, as for an address Google is your friend ;-).
The Faceless Master
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it's free radical, they always have customisable controls!Y2Kev said:
I liked what i saw, i think graphics look great as a whole, lots of color and nice effects. I'm getting it.
I also tried online coop, joined 2 guys who were already in the middle of the mission, it was really smooth and grapchis looked the same, presentation was also the same in terms of story elements.
I also tried online coop, joined 2 guys who were already in the middle of the mission, it was really smooth and grapchis looked the same, presentation was also the same in terms of story elements.
I'm quite disappointed. The graphics on a whole didn't impress me with lots of blurred textures, a very rectangular jungle and not a very convincing lightning engine. And the gameplay, while it wasn't exactly bad, it didn't really do anything for me. Felt pretty generic...
As a guy who loved Timesplitters, I'm pretty let down by this. It felt like a completely generic FPS in a decent looking environment. There's nothing in this game (except for the Nectar injections) I haven't played a thousand times before.
I was hoping that the earlier videos, which looked pretty run of the mill, would turn out like COD4. I wasn't that impressed with the gameplay in those videos either, but playing the game was a complete revelation. The gunplay and dynamics, and overall polished feel of that game blew me away. Playing Haze is like playing an average FPS from 1998 with improved visuals.
EDIT: And to define generic: Brings nothing new to the table, played a similar game 100 times before.
I was hoping that the earlier videos, which looked pretty run of the mill, would turn out like COD4. I wasn't that impressed with the gameplay in those videos either, but playing the game was a complete revelation. The gunplay and dynamics, and overall polished feel of that game blew me away. Playing Haze is like playing an average FPS from 1998 with improved visuals.
EDIT: And to define generic: Brings nothing new to the table, played a similar game 100 times before.
I didn't even finish the demo. Was pretty boring and the graphics suffered from "everything texture is low-res, basically Xbox1 visuals with more geometery & HDR" that I'm seeing in way too many PS3 games.
Pass.
On generic: I think it's just because there is no level design. Just big open jungle areas one after another with dozens of enemies...which is dull. CoD4 was like that but with more narrow linear levels with stage design and that at least made it a little better.
Pass.
On generic: I think it's just because there is no level design. Just big open jungle areas one after another with dozens of enemies...which is dull. CoD4 was like that but with more narrow linear levels with stage design and that at least made it a little better.
http://blogs.ign.com/xheavenxsentx/2006/12/09/39684/f3niks said:Thank you, sir.
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Pretty sweet demo. Probably will buy the game.
Apparently Haze is 1024x576, no AA.f@luS said:
danwarb said:
Unbelievable :lol I knew something was off. +1
I don't think it's fair to say "excepting the thing that sets this game apart from every other game, it's generic." Well no shit. There's definitely a more accurate way to criticize something problematic than just to remove it wholesale.
BigBlackGamer
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yea IQ in Haze seems a bit....off. Didnt really like the game too much.
Wow this game is even worse than expected.
- The gunplay feels horrible. The weapons have no weight at all to them.
- Character design is shit.
- ALOT of bad texture work.
- The level of detail system is shit. You go five steps away from one of your buffys and you can see the details getting away. I can't understand that with such shitty graphics.
- No AI to speak of.
- The weapons are also generic as shit.
- Nectar doesn't really add alot to the gameplay. It's more a variation on stuff that has already been done in other games.
That's the stuff I noticed on just one playthrough. I have no intention of playing any more of this. Free Radical should have done Timesplitters 4 instead. I really hope Sony didn't fork out alot of money for this.
- The gunplay feels horrible. The weapons have no weight at all to them.
- Character design is shit.
- ALOT of bad texture work.
- The level of detail system is shit. You go five steps away from one of your buffys and you can see the details getting away. I can't understand that with such shitty graphics.
- No AI to speak of.
- The weapons are also generic as shit.
- Nectar doesn't really add alot to the gameplay. It's more a variation on stuff that has already been done in other games.
That's the stuff I noticed on just one playthrough. I have no intention of playing any more of this. Free Radical should have done Timesplitters 4 instead. I really hope Sony didn't fork out alot of money for this.