Haze Reviewed!

[PicoDeath]

Originally Posted by Max

Heh. Famitsu is the most respected gaming magazine in Japan. They have a board of four reviewers who each mark the game out of 10. Less than 20 games have achieved a perfect 40/40 and the magazine has been around as long as I can remember. They don't try to "please" anyone.

Haze is only gay because you're blinded by your Xbox fanboyism. I don't know why you've taken such a strong disliking to it, but I'm reckoning it has something to do with your lack of PS3, or at least your unwillingness to blow £300 on one.

I have nearly £10,000 and can get a ps3 for £240... asif I care about the price tag. I'm not prepared to buy something which is just full of ported 360 games right now with the odd exclusive which looks ass(haze). You even admitted haze was pretty shit until co-op.. the worst games in the world are good on co-op so this doesn't prove much.

Everybody throws this fanboy tag around these days, really forgetting what a fanboy is. The second someone doesn't want to chip in or purchase a different platform we get called fanboys. It's a choice, not everyone wants to own all gaming platforms. I stick to the fact that the PS3 right now is still a pretty useless gaming machine however later this year/next year it'll have good games - THAT'S a FACT.

[Max]

Originally Posted by PicoDeath

I have nearly £10,000 and can get a ps3 for £240... asif I care about the price tag. I'm not prepared to buy something which is just full of ported 360 games right now with the odd exclusive which looks ass(haze). You even admitted haze was pretty shit until co-op.. the worst games in the world are good on co-op so this doesn't prove much.

Everybody throws this fanboy tag around these days, really forgetting what a fanboy is. The second someone doesn't want to chip in or purchase a different platform we get called fanboys. It's a choice, not everyone wants to own all gaming platforms. I stick to the fact that the PS3 right now is still a pretty useless gaming machine however later this year/next year it'll have good games - THAT'S a FACT.

I never said it was "shit" or "pretty shit" I said it was "meh" and waved my hand in an unconvinced manner. The demo was nothing special, but it was an old build and I have every confidence that the full game will turn out to be just as good as everything else Free Radical has turned their hand to.

Yeah, everybody does throw the fanboy tag around; I just wanted to be part of that. ;D

I see what you're saying about the PS3, and I honestly wouldn't mind an Xbox, if they made the design a) more reliable and b) more attractive from a feature-set point of view. The console has nothing special, and why that standard ejecting DVD drive didn't set off alarm bells during the design phase I don't know. Also if I was to get an Xbox, every time I switch on my Xbox Controller for use with my PC, it would switch on the Xbox. That would begin to piss me off very quickly. It's also loud as hell, just like the original Xbox.

It's just little things like this that are stopping me. Oh, and of course the massive thing; the failure rate. People are going to argue this one; oh it's only the launch machines, oh it's only those people who aren't keeping it well ventilated, oh it's never happened to me therefore it's a non-issue etc. but I'm not listening. This is a real issue affecting real people, regardless of where they might place their consoles, or how old they might be. There was even a 65nm unit that failed publicly at GDC.

[PicoDeath]

'Meh' sounds like a pretty below average game to me.

I don't care about failure rates for the 360 either, because it hasn't effected me.. I don't care about other peoples electricals. You also have to embrace the fact that electricals do break. 360 is very loud, it's not bad when playing games cause you just get 'into' the game, but watching movies it's pretty terrible.

[Max]

Originally Posted by PicoDeath

'Meh' sounds like a pretty below average game to me.

I don't care about failure rates for the 360 either, because it hasn't effected me.. I don't care about other peoples electricals. You also have to embrace the fact that electricals do break. 360 is very loud, it's not bad when playing games cause you just get 'into' the game, but watching movies it's pretty terrible.

Wish I could use my Wii to watch DVDs... It's probably the quietest of the three new consoles but can also get pretty loud when spinning up discs.

All it would take is a software update from Nintendo... But will they do it? Will they fuck.

[blakey]

i think my pc is loud then i start my 360 up

[Bingo83]

Every peice of electronic hardware is prone to failure, there is an inherant design flaw in the Xbox 360 which they have tackled with varying internal hardware revisions. I have personally owned 4 since the launch date and never had any problems with mine. I do know a few people though who are on their 7th and 8th console.

Sony PS3 is not without problems as well, with numerous reports of firmware flashes bricking the machine and the blu-ray drive refusing to read disks. Admitedly not to the extent of the 360 problems, but problems nonetheless.

I prefer the 360 to the PS3 (And I do own both), due to XBox Live being years ahead of PSN in terms of ease of use and accessibility.

[cooliofoolio]

I hear Haze is awful. Moronic A.I., chunky animation, and repetive dialogue. I suppose I'm not going to buy it after all.

[Max]

IGN says 4.5/10... Not so good. =(

[HotFish]

Its a shame that its getting low scores (prob deserves it!) but Free Radical come on FFS. They probably had a ton of ideas that EA/Ubi wouldn't allow......yet....but for when no 4 arrives.

[Max]

Fuck it, GoldenEye got a 4/10 when it came out, too. Hopefully I can find something to love about it.