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Haze Official Thread, JCBossman Memorial and Skittles Appreciation. BOOSH!
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N30RYU
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Haze dev responds to IGN review (maxconsoles)
Rob Yescombe of Free Radical has responded to IGN's 4.5/10 review score for Haze. "My thoughts are "Owch". No, wait - MEGAowch. Haze has had mixed reviews, but even GoldenEye got a 4/10 when it first came out. With a 9/10 in the Italian PSM, and an extremely positive review in Famitsu, we're looking forward to people playing Haze and making a judgment for themselves." said Rob
Rob Yescombe of Free Radical has responded to IGN's 4.5/10 review score for Haze. "My thoughts are "Owch". No, wait - MEGAowch. Haze has had mixed reviews, but even GoldenEye got a 4/10 when it first came out. With a 9/10 in the Italian PSM, and an extremely positive review in Famitsu, we're looking forward to people playing Haze and making a judgment for themselves." said Rob
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
TheHeretic
Banned
sprocket said:
Don't hate the player hate the game.
sajj316 said:Here ya go ...
Me personally, GAF should just ban bullshots!
Exactly, now compare that to the Time crisis 4 shots. Like I said, IGN PS3 channel are losing touch. They complained about similar things with Uncharted, where the tinciest bit of screen tear and texture pop in (it occurs in the game rarely) got it a 9/10. Similar reasons for GT5P getting a 9/10 for visuals. Lord knows what would have happened if the IGN PS3 channel had to review Mass Effect.
Doc Evils said:
Free Radical's script writer, Yescombe compared Haze to Halo in terms of maturity, going as far as to call Halo 3 "brilliant," but stating that Haze's story would deal with more serious, adult themes.
Online publications ran with leads like "Free Radical: "Halo 3 Is Child's Play" and "Haze: Like Halo 3, But For Adults."
Doc Evils said:
The Haze marketing campaign has been the epitome of "silly thing to do" pretty much from the beginning. You've got Yescombe hyping his own writing to the heavens and namechecking Halo, Korn, Ubisoft's "when will it release" game, Ubisoft's "is it an exclusive" game, etc.
VibratingDonkey
Member
whaa...wow
My copy has already been shipped.
My copy has already been shipped.
Doc Evils said:
especially considering the collective hard-on that the gaming press has for it.. Anyways... That was the beginning of the end for them... I never thought that Haze would have gotten a fair shake... But doesn't matter too much for me since I never intended to buy it.
probably right on this one. Seems to me like graphics of a ps3 game have super lofty expectations.. which is understandable.... but because of that... reviewers penalize the game in every area... I mean.. seriously.. a 5 for Sound? come on now.. thats really pushing it.. There are plenty other games that have equally crappy voice work, with equally generic sound tracks but have done better in the Audio category...
besada said:
Don't forget these cheesy ads.
Haze - PS3 Rumble Trailer
Haze - PS3 Price Cut Trailer
Not sure if Sony was responsible for those or Ubisoft, but wow.
Spirit of Jazz
Banned
Terrible game from a terrible developer, just like Timesplitters without the Goldeneye nostalgia.
Shake Appeal
Member
Maybe the game's terrible AI is a metacommentary on the stupid nature of war.
Did you guys think of that.
Did you guys think of that.
fistwell_old
Member
Hard to make out much from that video. I can see some texture pop-in, low res textures (no worse than COD4's copy machine), and shitty fast-trees (oblivion-like). It looked like it had a decent amount of geometry in some of these levels, however. Then again, video is so shitty, it's hard to see much. On top of that, it's hard to generalize from a few examples to the overall quality of the game.N30RYU said:
Awesome gun textures?nib95 said:How does IGN give this a 7.5 in graphics....
another review (believe not posted yet)
Gamershell review
http://www.gamershell.com/ps3/haze/review.html
6.5
Gamershell review
http://www.gamershell.com/ps3/haze/review.html
6.5
plagiarize
Banned
not entirely true. the game was an exclusive, Sony helped Epic with the engine, and it was eventually featured in the 'Ladies and Gentlemen' advert along with Burnout Paradise.industrian said:
Sony, who aren't publishing Haze, decided to put their focus on Haze over UT3.
Shake Appeal
Member
But infinite knife!Fistwell said:Awesome gun textures?
dammitmattt
Banned
nib95 said:
Why do you care so much about one tiny metric in their reviews?
Also, this game would go unnoticed and uncared about like Timeshift if it weren't exclusive. Now it's got a comprehensive official thread and a boatload of defenders. Amazing...
Speaking of retarded marketing:
http://kotaku.com/5009874/over-nine-minutes-of-pure-haze-promotional-wtf
Rob Yescombe's voice is like a drill in my ear.
http://kotaku.com/5009874/over-nine-minutes-of-pure-haze-promotional-wtf
Rob Yescombe's voice is like a drill in my ear.
drakesfortune
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To say that this game is worse than blacksite is truly hard for me to believe. I think Blacksite deserved a 2/10, but still. I really do think this game is going to get crazy 4.5's mainly because they hyped it so hard early on. If you're going to hype a game like that, you have to deliver.
dammitmattt
Banned
drakesfortune said:
Based on the demo and my limited experience with Blacksite (2 shitty hours), I would tend to agree, but unless they are the same reviewer, it's not really a fair comparison to make.
Blacksite was incompetently mediocre while Haze at least seems to be competently mediocre with co-op, which is at least worth something.
Foxtastical
Member
It's so ridiculous because it's true.dammitmattt said:
This game looked like a wreck from the start, the demo didn't help at all and now the reviews are starting to confirm it. But wait, it's an exclusive game!
drakesfortune
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dammitmattt said:
That's true too. My sense of the demo was that the mechanics were all solid and that technically it was leaps and bounds beyond the mess that was Blacksite. Regardless they were both boring. I think that Blacksite deserved a worse score simply because it was such a complete mess technically.
kbear
Member
I'm stunned at the score... even my lowest expectation weren't that low, lol.
Absolutely nailed it. This happens all the time, too. Mediocre exclusive games get hyped because they're, well, exclusive. If it was multi-plat, it would've been totally ignored like TimeShift, which by the way is actually a pretty damn good game. The gfx in that game are seriously some of the most technically impressive I've seen in an FPS. Getting too off-topic.dammitmattt said:
tahrikmili
Member
wtf is up with the sudden flood of juniors in this thread?
KZObsessed
Member
4.5??? wow :lol Glad I didn't order a copy, the demo was terrible.
oh and this:
Is genius :lol :lol :lol
oh and this:
Is genius :lol :lol :lol
drakesfortune said:
Yes but Blacksite was in 720p and had better graphics. This game sucks the demo looked like xbox 1 graphics. Hyped because its exclusive to ps3, end of story. Timeshit, Blackshit would have got just as much hype hell even Jericho if they were exclusives. Bye.
I played Blacksite on the PC and actually enjoyed it somewhat. It was a buggy game, but there were still some good segments in there and the shooting felt good.drakesfortune said:
I think TC4 received a better visual score simply due to its framerate. From the quick demo I saw, the game was running at 60 fps (I don't know if there is slowdown, however). It also runs at full 720p.
dammitmattt
Banned
kbear said:
I didn't mean to slam TimeShift. I actually enjoyed the demo despite the "win" button time mechanic. I was just referring to the fact that it was one of a slew of non-elite shooters that came out last fall that were barely noticed. But yeah, it's still somewhere at the bottom of my Gamefly queue to try out when I get through other non-elite shooters like Turok and Dark Sector.
tahrikmil said:
I only saw three junior posts on this page, and you're just as likely to find idiots among juniors as you are with the members.
FFObsessed said:
:lol :lol :lol