- Publisher: Ubisoft
- Release Date: May 20, 2008
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To be blunt, the actual gameplay of Haze is mediocre mixed with a side order of boring and I have to say this is really disappointing because we know the developers, Free Radical of Time Splitters fame have done much better games with far superior gameplay.
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Haze does not live up to the company's reputation thanks to a horrible plot, weak gameplay mechanics and visuals that are truly underwhelming. While playing with friends is enjoyable, not even those are enough to bring this lackluster title around.
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Haze is a huge mistake, an unfinished game with a variety of flaws, both from technical and design standpoint.
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The sound and music constantly find the most irritating corners of your ear to hammer away. The slightly cheesy music hides behind six annoying voiceover samples, which play over and over every five seconds. Literally.
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It's clear from the bare-bones multiplayer, glitchy graphics and incredibly short storyline that Haze is a game interrupted.
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Though it was announced just over two years ago, the end result plays like something that was slapped together and shipped after a year or so, rather than something that was painstakingly developed and refined.
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There's nothing remotely compelling enough in the online modes good enough to take the focus away from the disappointing single-player mode.
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The combat's weak, the storyline's excruciating, it's technically deficient - Haze really is this year's most significant gaming disappointment.
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Regardless of its name, it's still clear to see Haze is a disappointing game based on a weak premise that has been half-heartedly realised.
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Free Radical and Ubisoft missed quite a few things in the quality assurance department with this one and it would seem that the project was rushed somewhere along the line.
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On the whole, Haze isn't outright terrible or broken -- it's just unsatisfying and misguided and would have been merely average on the Xbox and PS2.
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It's all very ho-hum, even down to the visuals which are neither pleasing nor revolting. This is a game which when you play it, you'll wish you were playing a different game that it reminds you of which is more fun, and then you end up just wanting to play that other game.
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Every developer is allowed to lay an egg, and this is definitely Free Radical’s turn to drop one.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 164 out of 333
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Mixed: 66 out of 333
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Negative: 103 out of 333
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Oct 16, 2011
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AlexADec 4, 2008
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Jul 21, 2023I liked the story of the game. Furthermore I love Free Radical for TimeSplitters so I'm gonna support them forever.