Free Radical's fate to be decided this week

Hell, anyone!
EA, Blizzard/Activision, 2K, SquareEnix...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Radical_Design

Key members of the Goldeneye/Perfect Dark team split off and formed Free Radical. If you're wondering why Perfect Dark Zero was so blah.

nobody was wondering why perfect dark was bad, they already knew it was a steller game with universal praise.

Yep, because Perfect Dark was an amazing game. But not Perfect Dark Zero.

it was still better than Haze...they should reunited again.

Perfect Dark Zero is not all that…Okay you got me there. I blame how they changed Joanna Dark from a 007 sort of agent into a rookie, the brief levels, confusing design and pretty generic multiplayer.

I forgive Rare because Nuts and bolts kicks ass.

Funny but after the argument with longhorn (Okay after I owned him, made him my b*tch etc etc) I decided to play the game thinking it was shit to see if I was missing something. I have this tendency to take other persons points of views (Which also makes me good at my job)

Even with my rage helmet on and dropping F bombs here and there the game managed to put a smile in my face in less than 15 minutes. Is just that funny and with all the games out there trying to be realistic is good to see one that is funny, family friendly and doesn’t insult your intelligence but instead rewards it. I like the challenges you can resolve thinking outside of the box.

I really tried to hate it and think it was sh*t but I just couldn’t but thank you longhorn I promise to myself I would never play this again after getting 100% but the game is still a lot of fun and way better than completing GTA IV.I really don’t get why people don’t like it and pwning n00bs online with the Star Trek Enterprise is really fun.

(The only critic I could think off is that Aerial soccer is incredibly hard and some of my team members were really uncooperative.)

*of.

Exactly, and I think Timesplitters exclusive could be great for them

yea, not to mention Haze had SO much potential that if it get some funding Haze 2 could be rather promising. that is if they got better writers

Well Guerilla proved that making a comeback is possible if given time, right assistance, funding and advice

haze does NOT need a sequel.

*funding

That's the key word.

Hey look at Bungie they passed from games that used the Doom engine to games that sell millions.

(Now that the problem is that if those devs ever decide to separate without having the rights of the games that made them famous they pass from selling millions to barely selling games.)

I paid $15 like 5 months ago for mine. I mean I thought it was ok but the writers did a shitty job. gameplay was fairly well with a few exceptions.

I only played the demo, but I really didn't find it fun at all and I was hyped up for this game. I can't put my finger on it, but the game play simply felt off. It felt like the enemies were too hard to spot, sniping felt useless, it just wasn't polished at all. I like to feel like I have control over the outcome. Playing that demo I felt like I was stumbling upon enemies and then dispatching them with no difficulty, and it wasn't fun killing them either. And I couldn't overlook how crappy the writing was, it was THAT bad, and I had just come off my second run through of Crysis that's saying something.

7-10 games are considered great.
1-6 games are utter shit you wouldn't touch with a 40ft pole.

As much as I like to rag on Haze to get some cheap laughs, 70/100 on Metacritic wouldn't make both this and Too Human crap if the industry wasn't such a broken piece of shit.

It seems like the infamous H4.5E from IGN combined with fanboys hyping it as the 'next killer system selling app' are main causes of it's downfall.

Glad not everyone is sheep who just shit all over a game because that's the cool thing to do.

I loved the premise of Haze, the drugs were a really good plot device. The writing didn't pull it off to the extent that it should have... but what game does? The gameplay was a bit lackluster in parts. I mean the guns were fine, but there were some slow parts where you're basically just traveling. Those may have worked well in a game like Half-life, but without atmosphere, they're just boring.

All in all, it was not great, but certainly not as bad as people make it sound.

@Juthan

Sorry, but I picked up Haze for $9.99 and just finished it minutes ago. I can't call this a worthwhile game to play. Even the last level (not spoiling anything) there's enemies ducked behind all the corners, but you can see them. And shoot them. Why would you make it like that? Mind-boggling design choices throughout the entire thing, and I really didn't have any fun, I just felt obligated to play through it since I freaking love their other games. Try this: shoot at someone, even if they're 8 feet away, then step behind something. Every time I did this, they just stood there and waited for me to return. With 85,000 FPS games to choose from on the PS3 and 360 (I counted, honest!) this one doesn't exactly stand out. This is coming from someone who bothered to visit their website, download all the music and print out the album covers on their site for it. I likes mah FRD.

F that, Timesplitters will become Timeshitters.

I don't know Dead Space was really good but the story was “awfully inspired” by Aliens, Silent Hill, Scientology and that movie where some astronauts found hell in space and if you want the X-Files.

EA can still manage to do good games but they force into most of their games DLC.

That...would be quite random...

Timesplitters is a great franchise though, I really hope they pull through. Whoever buys them.

Decent? No, Timesplitters 1 and 3 were decent, 2 is still the best FPS I have ever played.

How dare you sir. Timesplitters 2 was one of the greatest video games ever created by man.

I'm a big Future Perfect fan, myself. 2 was amazing, though.

"I want to punch the economy in the face!" :(

Bah, broken comment system. This was supposed to be a reply to Max "Tails" Power up there.

Happened to me too. I think you cant reply to people with lower than 1 star or something.

Someone run some experiments

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