Developer Free Radical Design leapt to the defense of its game, telling PSU, "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 [34/40, fyi], we're looking forward to people playing Haze and making a judgment for themselves."
We're currently compiling such judgments from across the netweb for a metareview. We'll let you know when there's something approximating a consensus.
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Answer: Both sucks... oh, and the helmet.
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"Smear a thin layer of vasoline on your TV, and play Halo 3 with your controller held upside down"
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/03/17/ubisoft-rep-haze-is-staying-on-ps3/#comments
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Fidlious Wong is 'hyped' for this game.
Vidikron writes a good post saying it has a 'good chance of being good.' Good!
Matt B is 'looking forward' to the game!
Elsewhere in this thread I posted that all three of these guys were talking up the game well in advance of release. That was before Fernando linked this post.
How did I know these clowns were putting lipstick on this pig? You'll need a mirror to find the answer!
I'm still looking forward to it I wasn't totally turned off by the demo but I was annoyed at the area they chose.
Lair received a 33 from Famitsu too.
http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=21437
Have you played WiiFit? You called it a POS on MSN...
"I haven't played the game, but the reviewers who have are all wrong. If you played the demo and didn't like it, it's because I they chose the only level that wasn't fun for the demo. And not one of the other levels, that are fun. That I haven't played."
You nailed it!
Paid commenters are the most entertaining part of Joystiq.
Can you think of anything less creative to be developed?
I mean - we got TONS and TONS of perfected FPS'ers these days. It's like hearing the same old joke for the fifth time. Make something new FFS!
sorry - I just needed to rant about this, just fed up.
They do have a Lair demo, and also a Motorstorm demo. I swear I have played it.
All of the shovelware that statistically makes up around 85% of the wii's entire lineup.
Oh noez, save teh Haze...
To be honest I didn't see this one coming,I mean a 6.0 yes but c'mon 4.5.Free Radical aren't what they used to be.
Also a 34 from Famitsu doesn't mean much I remind you some games far from perfect such as Blue Dragon got above 34.
(BTW I liked Timeshift,I thought it was cool.Maybe with some patches it could be playable)
http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2007/05/31/crysis-vs-haze-unnecessary-comparison-or-closer-than-you-th/
And Sir Fid is right about a legion of avid Lair fans.
Maybe, just maybe this is the start of a brave new world wherein the entire 10 scale is used, and not just the last 3 numbers on it? I doubt it, but we can hope.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaa!!!!!
Holy Shnikeys Fernando...PURE WINNNN!!! I think we should have a little FIESTA to celebrate buddy. Dos XX Equis all around!
I'm just amazed that they even put that crap up in PS3fanboy.com Wheres the peopl esaying there was no hype for Haze at now?
IGN rates games with consideration of other games in the category. So without COD4, Haze may have gotten a better score, but with COD4 setting the bar so high, Haze just falls way below. AIRBALL!!!
Where was I hyping up the game? All I've said all along is I hope it would be good based on the developer. Everyone here does the exactl same thing for various other games. Everyone. What's really funny is people like Fernando have been claiming the the "SDF" has been claiming this game as some sort of "next big thing" when I've hardly seen anyone doing that. The game has been bashed endlessly everytime any news about it came out.
But now that it is getting very mixed reviews the anti Sony crowd is acting like this is some huge failure when, at best, most us hoped it would be good. No one was really holding it up the same way MGS4 or other games in that category have been held up. It's like the anti-Sony crowd force dit on a pedestal just so they could laugh when it didn't meet expectations that the SDF never created. The people here are such fucktards... seriously.
Well said, but you should try it. It's fun and everybody is doing it! :O
"Lets move on to the next flop being hyped."
Lol, Any candidates yet?
So whether or not it was the SDF, or Sony Fanboys in general, the expectations for haze were set so high that the only end result (unless the game was incredible) was disappointment.
Please, don't become the fall into the same fucktard category as the rest of these ass clowns. When has the game received anything but negative hype? Some of us were hopeful it would be good because of Free Radical, but these guys are acting like it's MGS4 that fell flat here. Haze has never been regarded that way... at least not by the majority of PS3 owners. But we have all the NDF guys saying, "Haha... we told you so!". Yet, most of us weren't saying it would be? Retarded.
Ps3fanboy had an article where they actually compared screen shots of Haze to Crysis, and stated, in some cases, it looks better. I think that's the kind of SDF crap Copa is referring too.
-ps3fanboy.com
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"Dos XX Equis"
Two Two Xs Xs?!
Please dude... Haze was in the "just wait until..." lists.
You can check the comments sinc last year... this game was very hyped here in Joystiq comments.
If that article really happened (links, FTW), then PS3fanboy has some massive explaining to do (or atleast the guy that posted the comparison does)
I know man, its just all in good fun. Look, I had so many arguments with Noshino and others about Haze being lame while they wre defending it for whatever reason that this is kinda in a way satisfying.
BTW,
Where is Noshino? Crying in a corner? Getting a refund on Haze? :P
Am I right? Yeah!
So what if people did list it as a game they were looking forward to? It was developed by Free Radical, some of us were hopeful for it. But it is getting mixed reviews. I don't really see the big deal here. It was never in the same category as HGS4, FF, or anything like that.
The game always looked mediocre. Most of us PS3 fans who saw that early on were wise enough to keep our mouths shut. The rest are looking somewhat foolish right now, but given Free Radical's history, their expectations were not entirely unrealistic. (Though some may say that they should've learned their lesson with Factor 5's Lair.)
On the other end of the spectrum, we have a guy like Fernando, who, as with his Mario Kart sales victory, has proven himself to be the gloating, egocentric, self-righteous, own-back-patting, Terrell Owens of the Joystiq boards. Good on ya, rock star.
He doesn't care since its PS3 bashing...CONFIRMED!!!