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BMaker11 on 05 February 2014
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J_Allard said:
BMaker11 said:

You know, initially, this was a bullet point for why I thought this game would be alright. Then I remembered that that same bullet point was used for HAZE: "HAZE is gonna be great! It's being made by Free Radical which is the team of people that made Goldeneye 64, Perfect Dark and Time Splitters!"

Goldeneye 64, Perfect Dark, and Time Splitters were classics, yet HAZE ended up a turd, despite hype and praise before it was released. 

Now I don't wanna use "these are the guys that made CoD4" as a talking point for TF anymore, because the symptoms are the same

Yeah except gamers have had a chance to play Titanfall now and the people who did are echoing those same claims made by the press. Also, you can find a few articles hyping up any turd, Haze included. But did Haze win 60 or whatever E3 awards? Not even close to the same mount of praise or hype.

You're right, it didn't get a bunch of E3 awards (I don't think), but TF is also the first "big" Xbone game and an "intro to next gen" as some would say. That would warrant it as one of the best games at E3 considering not much else was shown at E3 for the PS4 or XBone. Whereas an E3 where Haze was shown (2007) was the year of Halo 3, Uncharted, CoD4, The Orange Box, Crysis, Rock Band, Mass Effect, and more. That's some stiff competition.

Not to take away from TFs success at E3, but keep things in perspective. When the only competition at E3 for TF was launch games, Second Son, and Destiny and TF at least looks good, since they had gameplay footage....of course it's gonna get "Best of the Show", "Best Gameplay", etc. awards.

But there's still examples of people who did a hands on preview, praising the game (from the same multiplayer demo that was available to everyone else, not some press only early review copy).

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/haze-multiplayer-hands-on/1100-6189666/

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2008/05/clearing-the-haze-hands-on-with-free-radicals-ps3-debut/

http://www.videogamer.com/ps3/haze/preview-840-2.html