makingmusic476 said:
That's BS. A few people were hyping the game simply because it was made by Free Radical, but by and large ps3 fans and journalists alike dubbed the game "meh" long ago. Ever since it first debuted in playable form, it looked and played like crap. For example, read through this thread from weeks before the demo even hit. For the most part, people were unimpressed with the game, even the more ps3-centric guys like PDF and Dallinor. On NeoGAF, they had issues with people coming into EVERY thread concerning Haze and saying nothing but "meh" and "looks boring". These sky high levels of hype are nothing but BS made up by the usual anti-ps3 guys in a juvenile attempt to make Sony fans look bad, and the sweeping generalization that ps3 fans are idiots pisses me off. |
I agree with the bolded part. When it comes to myself, I've stood by the stance that this game would probably only be worthy of a rental, but was still rather 'meh'. Probably the most extreme people would be proclaiming 'AAA' status, but it's not everybody.
Fun fact, when I used to get EGM (a long time ago), they had a small preview of the game back when the Mantel soldiers looked more like modern soldiers (the first trailer of the game) and they said it was a rather 'meh' game. Funny that the perception has never changed since then.
*edit* Ah-hah! EGM 205 featuring Call of Duty 3, page 59
"Haze - PS3/360 * Ubisoft * March 2007 * Impressio- Terrible
Futuristic first-person shooters set in jungles may sound like a fab idea, but it was hard to get wild for Haze's wilderness, mainly because of the game's mediocre squad-based play (your extra soldiers seemed more like extra baggage). The developers teased something supposedly cool called "combat stimulants," but they refused to show 'em. What a gyp!"
It looks like they were really banking on the performance enhancing nectar, which I guess is looked at as cool, but too bad everything else isn't that great about the game.
