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HAZE Hands on impressions! Yep i got to play it.

March 15, 2008 at 7:00 pm | In Gaming | 30 Comments

Here is my preview which can also be seen here – http://www.pslegion.com/news/playstation-legion-haze-hands-impressions

At Play.com LIVE 2 demos of the upcoming PlayStation 3 exclusive HAZE were in playable form and i spent a while trying out this new FPS for the PS3.

I will Start by saying that the clerk at the event i was speaking to stated that these are playable builds from a few months ago, he also went on to state that Friday 23rd May is the target release date for HAZE in the UK and also that Rumble will be used in HAZE, however i’m unable to comment on that, since the stands used Sixaxis controllers.

Both Demo’s which i played had you placed as a Mantel Trooper. In the first demo had you set in a forest, the environments were lush with sharp visuals in most areas (however the clerk assured me that the not so sharp areas will be touched up by the time is released), which are a large improvement of previous screens of the game we have seen and have no doubt that the new screens recently released are in-game and can be achieved by Free Radical. I will also add that both demo’s i played had a solid framerate throughout which will come as great news to most. Now onto the gameplay, this short 7/8minute demo was more than enough time to leave me feeling that this game will be successful and could easily become a solid franchise for Free Radical and Ubisoft. While the controls do take a few minutes to get the hang of (those who have played a lot of COD4 like i have to find it hard to adjust to begin with) they do work successfully with L2 being used to give yourself a nectar boost and Circle being used to crouch. The Pace of the demo varied throughout at some point you will be just walking, enjoying the views whereas 5 Seconds later you will have bullets being fired at you from left, right and centre. The health system works similar to the likes of Call of Duty 4 and Gears Of War were the screen go’s red as you are getting hurt. The short but sweet cutscenes really help the storyline, but also helps you get pumped up as well, one scene sees you hearing out one of you fellow mantel troopers speaking during his last moments, i won’t say what he said but it really did help me to really get into the demo and was disappointed when it ended.

The second demo had a completely different approach to gameplay with you driving while your friendly Ai take out your rivals. You drive by using R1 & L1 plus the analogue sticks which takes a lot of getting used to, if you are used to the likes of Motorstorm where you use R2 & L2 instead. I did find that the Ai of your targets was impressive during this demo and weren’t that easy to take out. I’m afraid that’s all i had time for for this demo due to time constraints. However the short time i played it left me with a positive feeling about the game.

Overall however i can now safely say that this will be a solid title for the PlayStation 3 and will feel the gap nicely between this and Killzone 2 and could and should be a sleeper hit. There are a few complaints however, i found the analogue sticks to be that little bit too loose and could do with some tweaking. I also found that the friendly Ai really wasn’t that great, but saying that i was unaware on what difficulty i was playing it on which may have had an effect, plus also Free Radical are focusing on Co-op so i’m sure this game will benefit you completing it with mates rather than by yourself. Also take into account that the Ai will be improved before its released.

My final comment will be is that i enjoyed the short time i’ve spent on the game and judging on reactions of others playing around me, they did as well. I for one will be getting this game on day 1 and suggest all FPS fans at least consider it, that is providing something doesn’t go wrong between now and May.

Andrew Jeffery

Here are a couple of pictures from the HAZE displays

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Still looks like a flop to me, or less of a flop than before. Maybe i’ll rent it.

Comment by hitmanagent47 — March 15, 2008 #
I think that game is a lame and poor excuse and a waste of money for the developers, if they wanted to release a game with the true power of the next gen, they should release it in the powerful Xbox360 instead that piece of crap called PS3.

Haze could be a better game, with thousands of elements on screen if it were developed in the 360, but the limited power of the turd of sony console limited that.

I’m sorry if someone get angry but that’s the cold, hard true.

Comment by Power of Green — March 15, 2008 #
Hitmanagent47, you’re here too! You fucking xbot c***, why don’t you just go die in a corner?! I see you brought an Xbot buddy with you. Teh Power of Green! LOL. Or is that you as well typing with one hand while you’re masturbating to your S***box? Fucking loser.

Comment by Hitmanagent47_is_a_c*** — March 15, 2008 #
WOW! “Power of Green” sure is jealous lol Although I guess there is a lot to be jealous about for PS3. So “Power of Green” is your xbox still working? lol if so, thats quite rare.

Comment by Vengeance1138 — March 15, 2008 #
I think that game is a great and brilliant excuse and value for money from the developers, if they wanted to release a game with the true power of the last gen, they could have release it in the less powerful Xbox360 instead of that superior piece of engineering called PS3.

Haze could still be a good game, with 1/1000th of the current elements on screen if it were developed for the 360, but the superior power of the third of sony’s consoles show it’s strength.

I’m sorry if someone get(’s) angry but that’s the cold, hard tru(th).

Comment by Power of Paste — March 15, 2008 #
Lol.

Looks like Power of Green needs a Donate button to help him fund a PS3!

There is no envy as powerful as Green’s!

Comment by Pretty Sue — March 15, 2008 #
LOL 360 is behind look the fan boys are still trying to hang on for dear life ..The PS3 is more technologicaly advanced than the 360 ,the PS3 has lots of room for upgrades and updates but it’s all covered by SONY ,no need to buy a new one every year like the 360 …No room for improvement on 360.. So please look up the facts before you post JUST MAKES YOU LOOK LIKE A GAY @ss FAN BOY…

Comment by LOCO209 — March 15, 2008 #
You are an idiot.

Comment by POG — March 15, 2008 #
@Green.

As having programmed for both, I can assure you they are pretty much equal in power. Don’t post crap like that. It just makes you look like a moron. :/ Perhaps “look like” is an understatement, though.

Comment by Jason — March 15, 2008 #
I’m pretty sure last time I checked, the 360 was being improved with better parts, such as a HDMI port, and more efficient chip sets.
As for PS3, it was announced with 6 usb ports, it now only has 2, it was also announced with 32:9 aspect ratio, and support over two TVs, as well as two HDMI ports, is anything, sony is taking features out of its console, just so people can buy it as a blu-ray player.
As for how the PS3 is superior, well, it has a timid little 256 video ram, while the 360 has 512mb. The only real advantage is the built in hard drive, which is the only useful thing in the PS3.

Comment by marc — March 15, 2008 #
hitmanagent47 said:

“Still looks like a flop to me, or less of a flop than before. Maybe i’ll rent it.”
________________________

Stick to your PC and please sell your PS3 which you claim to have. I mean if you bought it for hating alone as signified with your sig on “GameTrailers.com” it shows how limited, insecure and pathetic you are.

In regards to OP, thanks for letting us know about the impression. I know that FreeRadical has a great group of devs, however, I wonder if they have done enough since the delay to make it a truly fantastic game overall.

I will wait for multiple reviews of game before I make my decision for the purchase.

Comment by Troll_Killer — March 15, 2008 #
^ LOL
We may have a new winner for dumbest post!

Comment by Vengeance1138 — March 16, 2008 #
Marc you are moron that stuff added to the 360 was to try to keep up with the ps3 the new chip sets didn’t add power MS was trying to get the box to stop frying itself and if the ps3 was garbage why are people using it for things like studying black hole collisions. as far as 512 for video ram wrong thats shared for the cpu as well so if you used it all for video you would get a none moving pic the ps3 has 256mb system ram that runs as 3.2ghz so it refreshes as fast as the cpu the 256 video runs at 550mhz faster than the 360. both have 512 total ram but due to the ps3 being faster the ram can do lots more but hey your the idiot that really believes you know hardware.

Comment by marcs_a_fool — March 16, 2008 #
OMG .

those NASTY XBOTS with their DEFECTIVE and LOW POWERED GARBAGE BOX 3 FIX MEs are also here posting crap when GAYERS 2/1 had 0 AI and look like P** vs UNCHARTED. These GARBAGE BOTS are too jealous but jealousy wont save the DEAD BOX 3 FIX ME ( fully dead in both europe and Japan) and also dying in USA

even in march we had 2 great PS3 exclusives –HSG and MLB . Console war comes to an end in europe on March 28th 2008 in europe. COnsole war comes to an end on 12th June worldwide. Haze will be an awesome addition between May (GT5p?GTA4) and June (mgs4).

RIP x360 ( 28th in EU, 12th worldwide)
RIP wii ( june 12th is your doomsday)

Comment by tidus007 — March 16, 2008 #
@POWER OF PASTE

PS3 is atleast 3x as powerful as the X360

The CELL is around 10x as powerful as the XENON . CELL can do full fledged raytracing/raycasting. not even a GPU like 8800 GTX could do that

No games on x360 RUNS at 1080P NATIVE

However NGS/RR7 run at 1080p NATIVE at 60 FPS

GTA4 would have run at 1080P at 60 FPS had it been PS3 exclusive. GTA4 is also better on PS3 graphically.

X360 is finished

Comment by tidus007 — March 16, 2008 #
Why do we have so many Xboxdorkz posting insane stupidity here? Because their favorite, state of the art, video game system has 3 beautiful red rings blingking up front… They are so desperate about it they want to make those who made the reliability choice miserable, instead of blaming the marvelous, user and customer friendly, company, run by a bald monkey who did this crap of metal and plastic.
Funny the online membership is called the Xbox “live” … but “life” is what they lack!

The Xbox1 was a good piece of hardware, reliable and complete! The 360 is a pile of feces.

Comment by Potatoboy — March 16, 2008 #
Loved Free Radical’s past games, so I’m not expecting this to be any different. I wish they’d bump it up to 60 FPS like the Timesplitters series, but it seems they’re going with detail over smoothness this time around.

Anyway, thanks for the impressions. I believe they said something about being able to customize the controls on their website, so perhaps they can be adjusted to your CoD4 ideals.

BTW, why do fanboys randomly show up at blogs to flame exclusives for other consoles. Really, who cares? Isn’t it all about the games?

Comment by Jonny The Pie King — March 16, 2008 #
You guys need to calm down.
Haze is awesome!

Comment by Rokashi — March 16, 2008 #
ok well teh power of green u suck and its more like the power of the red ring bubby;)

Comment by Logan — March 16, 2008 #
Power of green.. if you want cold hard truth, here’s a well known fact you can find online and not just up ur @ss.

PS3 has twice the computing power of the xbox 360. PS3 can produce 2 Teraflops per second, while the xbox produces about 1.
enough said. I hope you enjoy sending ur xbox back to M$ every 2 months and sitting on tech support with people from india who cant speak english.

Comment by leimeisei — March 16, 2008 #
LOL @ the power of green he cant play any games
on his XBLOX BECAUSE OF RROD.
Thats why on every single site/forum on the net he
makes comments about the PS3 get your 360 fixed then get yourself a life and a girlfriend before you die a virgin (well with females anyway LOL)

Comment by Rob — March 16, 2008 #
RE THIS COMMENT MARK MADE!

As for how the PS3 is superior, well, it has a timid little 256 video ram, while the 360 has 512mb. The only real advantage is the built in hard drive, which is the only useful thing in the PS3.(what about ,blu-ray,wi-fi)

Both the PS3 and 360 have 512MB to work WITH PS3 256mb for CPU AT 3.2 ghz & 256mb of VIDEO ram.The 360 CANT REPEAT CANT USE ALL 512mb AS VIDEO ram because what ram would the game have to run in YOU DH !!! Thats what happens when pre pubecent kids get to post on the net!! Also the VIDEO ram on both systems run at 700mhz not 550(THATS THE RSX SPEED) as stated above but that means the memory for the 360 cpu also runs at 700mhz A LOT SLOWER THAN 3.2GHZ for the PS3 CELL’S ram.

Comment by Rob — March 16, 2008 #
Not that anyone is going to read this but please accept something about the ps3/360 as well as free radical.

Free Radical makes games that range from above par to fantastic depending on who you ask. There track record shows that they develop for sony first. time splitters 1-3 and second sight were great, but not optimized stellar for GCN/xbox. this ties into the next point.

Console exclusives are better and cheaper (not more efficient per say) than cross platform development. If you want quality you devote your time to 1 product. I appluad FR for having enough balls to do this and I feel that they should be especially thanked for the longer console dev time. They want quality.

PS3 has trade off when compared to the 360 the most abhorrent one is the split RAM apperature and then (in a less crippling way) the cell processor.
it has some better effects than 360 although it can’t reach as high in the polygon/texturing department without a few frame dips, those weaknesses are also its strengths.
HDD, Cell,Balanced CPU/GPU apperatures, higher storage capacity (blu-ray…also means lower transfer speed…madden needs to run off dvd’s…)

360 can do a shit ton of cool shit, and at times it can approach things that the PS3 can’t do for a few years. When it comes down to it (I refuse to buy a 360…my friends have it and I can just play theirs) the 360 has developers and therefore games. The 360 won’t be going away anytime soon.
Microsoft played it too safe with the hardware on the 360 and its a year older than the PS3.

The PS3 is fancier and more elegant. It has a shit ton of power and a lil bit o’ magic. The 360 has a shit ton of power and a shit ton of confidence.

Both have their place in the industry. Both are worth a purchase. Ima go with a PS3 personally because I like the ideas behind it better and everyone I know has a 360 (I’m gunna get a memory card soon enough…I know I’m such a loser)

The PS3 is a better platform for HAZE because based on what FR has told us through press releases it just fits more in line with the concepts they want to get down (HDR…so much HDR)

Developing on 360 is slick as shit, PS3 requires more effort to learn. So if I was a developer I would do test development on PS3 and then release a cross platform later when I understand the trade off for development on each console…it just makes sense.

Haze won’t be the appitemy of video games but I have no question that it will fall into my library of games.

I might not come back so unless your comments will better other people’s knowledge please hold your (fingers) tongue.

Comment by Iain — March 16, 2008 #
@Power of Green: are you seven years old?

@Haze: oooh I’m getting this! Nothing specificaly changed on this since Haze was announced lol, but I’m hyped more than ever!

@tidus007: do you have Warhawk? I don’t know why but something tells me we’ve met before.

Comment by rasomaso — March 16, 2008 #
Guys, there’s no point. The Power of Green is a deluded, ignorant, inbred prepubescent retard like most sh!tbox fanfucks.

Comment by Power_of_Green_sucks_donkey_rectum — March 16, 2008 #
Looks cool, will it be able to compete with MGS4? Around that time? And im sure Little Big will get a date soon as well. Although Little big and Killzone and God of War and FF and INFAMOUS and RESISTANCE 2 and all those will probably be late 08 or early 09. So MGS4 would be it only worry.

And whos this Hitmanagent47 and his friend, ill have to look into that?

Comment by M82 AKA truenextgen — March 16, 2008 #
haze is cool

Comment by alpercelk — March 16, 2008 #
Eh this game looks alright. But its got a shitty release date, and its definitely gonna flop because of it. May 20th. Just a week later Battlefield Bad Company comes out and a week after that MGS4 comes out. Fucking Ubisoft.

Comment by TheWaqman — March 16, 2008 #
What do you do when you’re poor?

you buy a 360, complain about the ps3 which you can’t afford and stick to SEMI NEXT GEN games.. But then, you pay lots for LIVE, WLAN, Movie feature add-on, shitty and expensive HDD and of course that new Xbox 720 coming in about 2 years, and not to forget a new 360 from time to time since:

1. your old one breaks all the time
2. they keep upgrading their system, so if your hardcore, you need to pay the price.

Man i live in Norway and the PS3 here is twice as expensive as in USA. You pay for quality. The 360 games coming out this year looks so shitty I don’t even know where to start. I hate the 360, slowing down next gen developing.. I’m glad that it exists PS3 exclusives so I can play games that people with NO MONEY and a SHITTY CONSOLE can’t play..

Funny fact: People who buys a 360 is so poor, that they buy one so they can play pirated games… I LOL at every 360 buyer out there, you think you bought something good, but in fa ct you are just sucking MS dick and they will dump you like the dirty whore you are when they release the 720…

Comment by Axel — March 17, 2008 #
LOL HITMANAGENT47 IS HERE TOO! HE’S the BIGGEST PCXboT around. He was the one saying that Crysis was twice the power of Uncharted, until I showed him that one of Uncharted developers said that Uncharted used about 1/3 of the PS3’s power, which makes a full-blown title for the PS3 pwn crysis according to his own words. Then he tried to put up some philosophy from one of their developers, which doesn’t count because that’s an opinion of someone from their company and not Naughty Dog’s statement of fact concerning any game.

Comment by pixelsword — March 17, 2008 #