Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #144 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: UBI Soft
• Released on: 2008-05-23
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• ESRB Rating: Mature
• Platform: PLAYSTATION 3

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.

Manufacturer's Description

Play both sides of the same war and experience two unique game systems, exclusively for the PLAYSTATION3 computer entertainment system this holiday season.

Set in the year 2048 in a world where governments have outsourced military operations to private military corporations (PMCs), you play as Shane Carpenter, a newly enlisted soldier seeking fulfillment and thrills by fighting for a good cause. As the leading PMC, Mantel Global Industries offers an array of cutting-edge military equipment, including a high-tech arsenal of vehicles, deadly weaponry, and the performance-enhancing drug Nectar.

Your conflict begins in a war-torn country where you have been sent to fight a vicious rebel faction, the Promise Hand. At first all is well, but things quickly begin to look a little strangeâEuro¦

Uncover the truth, switch sides, and break away from MantelâEuro(TM)s manipulative grip when you join your former enemies, the Promise Hand.

Customer Reviews

Stay Well Clear...
After all the hype surrounding this game, I decided to purchase it.

BAD MISTAKE!

After all the good looking pre-rendered trailers ubisoft released of this title, I was applauded by the PS2 style graphics the average gameplay, boring online features and in general, just way under par.

This game had potential to be great, but, even after all the delays, it is still terrible. This shouldn't be on the shelves.

My son plays it ALOT
I bought the game for my son and he jus cant get ff it he is always on it after school he says thank u for buyin it and pays it so long he also like a game called resistance he said if u like resistance u will like this game he plays them so much and Korn sing on it tht he likes so he is happy with the game

Haze - Average but fun
It seems after months of waiting and delays free radical (the guys behnd timespltters) finally release one of the most hyped games of 2008 Haze.
Haze in my opinion after seeing how much hype was around it suffers from Halo Syndrome in which so much is said about it that you think someone was announcing the 2nd coming on Jesus but then when you get round to playing it the wow factor slowly fades away.

The plot althogh very dim and uninspired does exist despite all the people that say Haze has no plot, Perhaps one of the biggest plot twists would have been the fact that you do change sides and join the rebels good plot twist but we all saw it coming wth all the hype and the fact its on the back of the box.

The story has you assume the role of Shane Carpentor a new recruit for Mantel Corp. who are using narcotic fuled armies to sell around the world and making money off Nectar a performance enhancer, but after a few twists and turns shane finds out Mantle are up to no good and swicthes sides. An interesting thing I noticed is now that your on the rebel side its really not that good its more like they just switched uniform as your rebel people now have the same healing abilities as the mantle soldiers did and the mantle soldiers who supposidly have armor that cant be damaged can be floored within 3 bullets only this time its the rebels turn to constantly repeat the same one liners OVER n OVER.

The dialouge in this game makes Resident Evil 1 sound proffessional lets see we have the Mantel leader who watches far too much (canaian special) south park constantly saying "Buddy" then you have the typical stereotype hill billy type and the mocho cave man Jock type plus all the soldiers sound the same and the rebels sound like somone trying to fake a mexican accent after 1 too many taquelas.

Ok so your going to complete the game within 15 hours or less easily, The gameplay and the graphics arent really PS3 material but youll know from my other reviews that i dont care for graphics. The 4 player co op campaign is fun but gets boring as youll have to sit through the terribly acted non skippable cutscenes over and over again.

The multiplayer is perhaps the best thing Haze has going for it with all kinds of game modes including DM, TDM, CTF and some exclusive to Haze, I found it to be alot of fun and with both sides having their own advantages and disadvantages it really heightned the experience however Mantle soldiers dont really stand a chance so really the rebels are the best to be the features advertised in the hype really dont work that well in the final product.

Gameplay wise this game really suffers the A.I is really bad so 4 player co op is reccomended aswell as playing on Hard to at least get a little bit of a challenge. Mantle and Rebel soldiers have their own abilties including:

Mantle:
Nectar
See enemies easily
no recoil
stronger melee
sheild

However nectar does reduce quickly.

Rebel
Play dead
Bury Grenades
scavange
overdoes a trooper
roll

Overall Haze is probably best avoided unless its really cheap
there isnt really enough in this game to make it a top seller fun with friends once in a while, but.
its one of them games that will probably just be forgotton,
The controls arent really that bad but they arent as good as other FPS games.

Hope this helped please comment if you have any questions