Like the band Metallica, when the game abandons the only feature that made it interesting — drugs — it leaves you with a drab experience akin to watching Lars Ulrich complain about his band mates; that is, repetitive, uninteresting, and intolerable.
Main score 6.25, Second Opinion 5.75
It'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 out of resources is academic at this point, because we can all see that Haze is not finished... not graphically and not narratively, either. For a much-hyped, blockbuster PS3 exclusive, Haze does very little to endear itself or the PS3 to anyone.
This isn't really a story. It's a claim on a message board (with several users saying that it looks fake) and if a site changed its review just as it goes up, it's not really a big deal anyways.
I came to check Gamespot's review for Haze and it was a 7.5. Someone knocked my door and I went downstairs to see who it was ( the UPS ). After 10 minutes I came up and accidently I opened another Internet Explorer and went to Gamespot again to check Haze's review. Then it was 6 and I was like WTHHHHHHHHH ?????????? fortunately the old review was there and I didn't refresh it and I took this picture.
I don't have real numbers on Timeshift but I think we can generally agree that it isn't over 20dkp (I just looked through the UK charts and it never was higher than 18th on the PS3, was on the top 25 chart for 8 weeks and many weeks was being outsold by year old games such as Lair and Ridge Racer!....
Haze may benefit from a larger PS3 install base and some better marketing but from my own experience dealing in forums and blogs it seems many people were on the fence as a take it or leave it game and poor reviews will push them to leave it. With many new PS3 owners just having bought GTA...there needs to be a strong reason to layout more cash on this versus buying or continuing to play CoD4 imo. Call of Duty is going to satiate shooter needs until SOCOM comes along for PS3 owners imo.
The simExchange has Timeshit at around 15.62DKP. It cashed out Metacritic wise at 73 DKP, which looks to be higher than what Haze will end at. If Timeshift is used as an indicator, this stock is current overvalued.
Timeshift was the last FPS/Shooter for PS3 that I recall trying to introduce a new play mechanic ... it got a 76 from IGN. We know how Timeshift worked out.
Think this will sell due to the power of marketing?
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