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| From: Ubisoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: £49.99
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Rating:  71 reviews
Sales Rank: 389
Platform: Playstation 3
Genre: sci-fi-action-games
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Age: 11 - 18 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 3307210266620
ASIN: B000SKEXNW
Release Date: May 23, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Unwanted , Very good condition
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Amazon.co.uk Review
One of the reasons Rare are such a controversial developer nowadays (apart from the whole Nintendo selling them to Microsoft thing) is the fact that a lot of people associated with GoldenEye and Perfect Dark left the company a long time ago. Many of them ended up at Free Radical Design, where they created the love-it-or-loathe-it TimeSpliters series and the underappreciated Second Sight. Haze ditches the stylised look of their older games though, with a game set in a future world dominated by mega global corporation Mantel - where you're cast as one of their soldiers fighting rebels in South America. Like all fictional global corporations Mantel is up to no good and it turns out their drug NECTAR is doing more than just making you a super soldier with increased speed, strength and accuracy. Highlighting enemies under cover from you, as well as grenades and bobby traps is all very good but the downside is it also turns you (and your teammates) psychotic if you use it too much. Worse it seems to sanitise the world around you, making corpses invisible and even obscuring the true nature of the landscape around you… Rebel soldiers are able to take advantage of the reality bending powers of NECTAR, such as playing dead to regain their health or using a special "weapons steal" move to make up for their lack of hardware (both of which moves work great in multiplayer). With arguably the most interesting storyline in any current first person shooter and a custom made graphics engine Haze's future looks crystal clear.
Harrison Dent
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| Customer Reviews: Read 66 more reviews...
 Just like a movie blockbuster over hyped! September 29, 2008
K. D. Squire (Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK)
This game is pants! and not the skimpy things jodie marsh wears! Its just got nothing too it the cut scenes are too long, un-skippable and once youve seen it more boring than a train spotters convention! The game play is ok and the graphics arent bad!
The most fun i had was the multi player with my brother when he found the weakspot on the neck of my man and precedded a battering from the melee attack just to annoy me when ever he got chance! but even that wore thin!
It definatly wasnt nearly as good as the massive amounts of previews made out, the story is predictable and the game play is slow, jumpy and boring!
 Under-rated. August 26, 2008
K. S. Williams
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I don't care what review sites say, this is a solid FPS. It can't compare to Resistance 2 or Killzone 2 but there's nothing wrong with it that I could mark it down on. Though I will say the last cut-scene was a real kick in the face after hours of playing, and because they made it public that you defect from Mantle before release it did spoil the Mantle part of the game, when you know that they're the bad guys.
Blame the media... August 11, 2008
S. James (ENGLAND)
This game is quite broken in places, the delays to "refine" it didn't seem to help, the guns feel very powerful but at the same time aren't very powerful, the levels look dense and rich, but they aren't really, it's as if the games drug NECTAR is working on the player, making them think the game is better than it really is.
Haze was first annouced about a year ago but countless delays meant that spoilers have done exactly that, spoilt the twist, the idea was that you played as a super soldier in a PMC(private military company) and then that same characer swaps to the rebels side, but the game tells you this with many trailers before its final release.
The gameplay is generally mediocre, set pieces can offer a slither of excitement but it soon fades as you shoot more genero-baddies.
Haze wanted to be good, but as it is also over shadowed by the mighty Call Of Duty 4 it had alot to beat, and anybody (like me) who played CoD to death, will feel that this game is that little bit more disappointing.
So to be completely honest...I would steer clear of Haze, even if you were tempted before release (as i was).
 How the mighty have fallen August 1, 2008
N. Tavaris
"Timesplitters 2" is great fun. "Timesplitters Future Perfect" is sublime (anyone who has played it must surely have enjoyed the more comic moments, but the gameplay in my opinion is excellent). And "Haze"?...well, the trailer was brilliant. I expected something that would rival "Halo 2" (or 3) and was sorely disappointed. It isn't appalling, but it has an extremely brief campaign, is too linear, the vehicles are based on some sort of "treacle-physics" engine, and there was a serious risk that I would break my screen every time I heard the shout "Remember your promise to Merino"...arrrgh...STFU!
(I have played through "God of War" again - which, for a PS2 title is awesome - to rinse the memory of "Haze".)
Don't miss the point. July 30, 2008
A. Bennet (Scotland)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Having read a fair few of the other reviews, there seems to be a theme of people being let down by the missions, which to be fair is a reasonable judgement. The graphics aren't amazing, and the story isn't exactly revolutionary. The only time the missions really provide any proper entertainment is when you crank-up the difficulty, which does improve the AI to the point that it is actually a good challenge, with proper tactical play being fairly important.
However, this isn't remotely relevant. The missions are only really there to keep you occupied when you're internet connection is down. This game is designed for multiplayer. Pure and simple.
I've personally never seen a game where two completely different types of forces are used - with totally different fighting styles and tactics - and they come out being so remarkably balanced. With the promised hand, it's all about moving quickly, leaving traps, sharp attacks and quick retreats. Total guirilla warfare. Mantel Soldiers are more like the US Marine Corp, fighting with force and speed, they can take more of a beating, but arn't particularly efficient killers. It's a good match up, and something you don't see very often. Take Counter Strike, Quake Wars, Battlefield - both sides are basically the same, just a different uniform. In Haze, there is a real difference in the way each side has to be played, and yet an equal balance is maintained between the two sides.
In short, if you want to play a FPS with a deep interesting story line, get another game. If you want to have a standard set of troupers on both side's, get another game. If you want to play something with an entirely different level of gameplay, and have a hell of lot of fun doing so, all you have to do is scroll up and click "Add to Shopping Basket".
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