Play.com LIVE - HAZE impressions continuted.

March 16, 2008 at 6:41 pm | In Gaming |

Due to high demand here’s my second go on HAZE.

I decided to take more time on the second demo today and really concentrate on the gameplay elements. I also changed the difficulty settings to hard to get a true idea of what the AI is capable of, and also can now confirm that you can customise the controls to however you like and the sensitivity, so the control problems i found yesterday are a thing of the past.

At the start of the demo you start in area, getting attacked from various directions were you have to take out several of your enemy’s, now the Ai is impressive here they were flanking, and when you shoot at them or go towards them they will dive out of the way and into cover. Once you have taken care of them you and your 3 friendly’s jump into a car and you have to reach the other base camp. On your journey you will encounter your enemy who are throwing bombs at you as you drive past, and they have also placed explosives in the mountain side which if you go to close they explode. Once you get past that you get to a gate and you need to get out and find the lever to open it. (which if your interested is in the shed next to it), once through the gate you get into there base camp. Now if you make the mistake i made and get off the car, just before the enemy from a shed come full pelt in a car and try to ram you down while shooting at you. This is where the Ai really did shine, as i was trying to run away and shoot the car at the same time, it trys to cicrle you while others on the car are shooting at the same time. I did manage to get past it by taking out one at a time and having a bit of luck. I will say one thing for the visuals on this one, while the cars etc where well textured the landscape was a bit bland but saying that you are in a sort of desert environment so its not to surprising. Once you get past that you drive ahead and get to large shed where you find more enemy’s shooting at you, the best thing to do i found was to simply try and run them over, which is alot harder than it seems. In the end getting out and shooting worked well enough, however it came at the cost of 2 of my men and that about sums up the second demo. The 2nd time i played it today i focused on seeing how the necture add’s to the gameplay. The first thing i noticed was that the drug makes you move a bit faster and the enemy’s stand out more, this is very useful and i suspect will be vital for completing the first half of the game where you are a mantel trooper. There is a downside to using necter however. Firstly if you take to much at once, (which is known as an overdose) the screen will begin to blur making it harder to see your enemy’s, but not only that but it does it a little harder to notice who your own men our and i one point i ended up shooting my own allies by accident, so you need to make sure you don’t overdose. The other thing i noticed is that the play dead feature comes into place. Your enemys will click that you using necter and will play dead, now this is annoying as a side effect of necter is that you can’t see any dead bodies and while using necter you can walk through what you think is a safe area then all of a sudden people will appear and start shooting you. So thats another thing you need to be careful of.

Just one more thing i was asked by someone if HAZE would support mod’s and the answer i got today was its unlikey however they wouldn’t rule it out completey let.

Update - i have had alot of requests to mention the current framerate. I’m unaware of the actual framerate (however i believe its 30FPS), however whatever it wasit doesn’t matter as the demo’s i played where smooth and solid and did not notice any dips during gameplay at all. In my personal opinion its only when a framerate drops during gameplay that we have a problem

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  1. What a waste, that game loks like crap, plays like crap adn it’s developed in a crep console.

    realy sony droids have no life at all and this “game” is the proof

    Comment by POG — March 16, 2008 #

  2. lol what a joke, some one throw a bone to the sony tards to make them happy, oh well, I’m going to play Gears of Wars 2 in a console for true mans.

    Comment by TheMART at Xboxkings — March 16, 2008 #

  3. I’ve waited too long. Now there are better shooters coming out.

    Comment by Lolman — March 16, 2008 #

  4. Bring on the May launch date, as I can’t wait for this game!

    Comment by Fuchal — March 16, 2008 #

  5. Leave it to xbots to have something to say on a sony exclusive

    Xbots didn’t have anything negative to say about this game UNTIL it became sony exclusive.

    Comment by lodossrage — March 16, 2008 #

  6. “I’m going to play Gears of Wars 2 in a console for true mans.”

    true mans? LOL

    Comment by Comm — March 16, 2008 #

  7. Excellent article, thanks for posting it.
    I’m amazed that POG and TheMart were able to read it all without using a dictionary.

    Comment by Mr.Bronze — March 16, 2008 #

  8. A true man would know how to spell the plural of man. MEN

    Comment by Yo — March 16, 2008 #

  9. Looks like a great game this one - never mind the two homesexuals comments above, let them stroke each other off over their consoles LMAO

    Comment by dabizo — March 16, 2008 #

  10. To POG and TheMART,
    I read N4G news a lot and see your guys’ names a lot in the comments. You two seriously need to get a life. Do you have nothing better to do than to go around PS3 news and talk trash about the games?

    Comment by POG and THE MART — March 16, 2008 #

  11. GUYS mart and POG are the same person

    http://www.n4g.com/ViewComImages.aspx?CID=910889&BackUrl=%2fps3%2fNewsCom-123936.aspx

    Comment by mohib — March 16, 2008 #

  12. Mart, you are a sad 30 year old man….grow up.

    yes people hes over 30.

    Comment by Fopums from n4g — March 17, 2008 #

  13. POG and THE MART are the same person confirmed on n4g comment with link POG and THE MART got same ip address

    Comment by mightydog01 — March 17, 2008 #

  14. they think they can influence the gaming market with their posts haha

    Comment by Dacapn — March 17, 2008 #

  15. This game looks amazing, I’ve had it on preorder for months now and look forward to its release.

    I respect what the developers have accomplished in the past with other games.

    Comment by Jesse — March 17, 2008 #

  16. The Pog and TheMart are trying to bash people for reading into a console so much superior that they are checking the news for the playstation 3 and noticing that actual gamers bought a smarter and much more advance system than them. Keep bashing 360 losers. Your console is failing and dropping prices cause they have to. HA HA HA.

    Comment by chaoz — March 17, 2008 #

  17. POG a.k.a Power Of Green.

    He’s a troll. Ignore him.

    On topic, thanks for the info. I’m beginning to get interested in this one.

    Comment by Aaron — March 17, 2008 #

  18. [...] out just to say there console is far better than overs. A recent example of this was in my recent Haze impressions. Two users created accounts which they targeted one console and tried to make it worse, which lead [...]

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  19. Nice preview man !!

    Comment by RushBD — March 17, 2008 #

  20. The game to me seems like perfect dark from the n64 for the features of multiplayer and stuff, not to mention the graphics too, since they did work on a n64 game.

    The nectar feature seems like a gimmick to me, it’s going to be no better than timeshift. Honestly the game should be called delayze, I hope it’s good, another AA game for the ps3.

    Comment by HitmanAgent47 — March 17, 2008 #

  21. [...] Resistance 100 gives his impressions of a hands on with Haze. Mmmm, nectar [...]

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  22. I am getting hyped about this game,,man I can’t wait.

    the user for Pog and the mart accounts should feel pretty dumb after being busted in that picture with both username’s having the same IP address,,,loooool

    Comment by Ashton — March 17, 2008 #

  23. Hahahaha!! Reading what XBots write cracks me up, if this was on the 360, you’d be raving about it!

    Stupid dumb asses!

    This game looks great and runs nice and smoothly on the console, so why do they need to throw it on the 360 for it to run the blooy same. Idiots!

    Comment by niniban — March 17, 2008 #

  24. I still dont see how people think that a game console makes u a man because its a game console. People got to get a life arguing over a game if u dont lik eit dont buy it and bitch about it like fags. lol

    Comment by jimbob — March 17, 2008 #

  25. i hear it sucks from two of my xbox 360 friends, they went to play it at Play.coms convention but the majority of what i’ve heard are impressed with the game.

    i think maybe this game is ‘for’ some people, but there will be the odd few who wont enjoy it..

    either way im happy i have a PS3 ’cause Haze aint the only great exclusive hittin’ my market.. infact some of them are free e.g Home, The Agency

    Comment by MatraDude — April 6, 2008 #

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