The disappointing Haze had a lot of problems. There was the underwhelming graphics, the wasted storyline, the useless voice acting, the failure to live up to Free Radical’s lineage and the failure to live up to the mound of hype it had received. However, chief amongst these problems was that the biggest feature, the one [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 12, 2008
At the foot of the First Birthday post on the Official Blog is the comment “we’re speaking with our counterparts in Europe to bring more PlayStation news to you from that part of the world.” Rumours have surfaced this morning that this could mean that the US Blog will now be covering European news in absence [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 12, 2008
Not so much on today’s European update, but you can’t expect too much given today is officially Metal Solid 4 day. Quake Wars is well worth a look if team-based shooting is your thing (we’ll have the full review soon), and of course the demos are bolstered with the usual goodies including another GHIII [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 12, 2008
We might be a day or so late here, but we’ve just realised that the European PlayStation Store now features video previews of key games just like the US Store does. The videos stream within the Store itself, and are actually pretty cool and give a decent idea of what the game is like [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 23, 2008
Our collective heart goes out to the developers behind Haze. Not the big-mouthed PR execs and the decision makers at Ubisoft, but to those guys that sweat blood and tears for the last two years to get the most out of their game with the restrictions they seemingly had in place. There isn’t [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 22, 2008
So, as Ubi’s week of fun goes from bad to worse, anyone with a copy today has found that co-op mode isn’t working - the game is asking for a patch that isn’t actually there yet. There’s a smashing, ironic joke in there somewhere, but we simply can’t bring ourselves to say it. Here’s hoping [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 22, 2008
We’re saying nothing, we can’t actually be arsed with this anymore as the drama is as scripted as Mantel battle tactics, but here’s The Guardian’s ‘take’ on Haze: PS3 owners have been licking their lips in anticipation of Haze, the first next-gen effort (and a rare PS3 exclusive first-person shooter) from Free Radical, the developer behind [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 21, 2008
More Haze reviews, just in time for the US release today, the UK release is still Friday. Gamespy - 4/10It’s clear from the bare-bones multiplayer, glitchy graphics and incredibly short storyline that Haze is a game interrupted. Discussion of whether Free Radical did not anticipate the difficulty of building a next-gen engine or whether it ran [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 20, 2008
The guys over at ElHabib have posted the first 9 minutes of Haze onto Youtube for your delight. The movie cuts right when the action starts, so you’re only getting the intro, but we should probably consider this a spoiler if you want to experience the game for yourself come Friday.
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 20, 2008
PSU have contact Free Radical to find out what they think of IGN’s 4.5 review of their game, Haze, this morning. ‘My thoughts are “Owch”. No, wait - MEGAowch,‘ wrote Rob Yescombe of FRD. Haze has had mixed reviews, but even GoldenEye got a 4/10 when it first came out. With a 9/10 in [...]
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