Haze: Poor guys :(
Well the reviews are in for Haze, the PS3 exclusive shooter that releases this week. This is not a review at all but a comment on the reviews the developers and free radical have received. On Metacritic Haze is currently sitting at a 54. Yikes indeed. So what happend? What went wrong in the development?
I see this happen so many times, where a great developer puts out a sub-par game. Did they loose some members on staff that made everything click in previous games? Or did they simply not have enough time?
A few reviewers mention the fact that Haze came out AFTER Call of Duty 4. So is that it? in order to be a good game you have to one up the other guy? The industry is pretty saturated with shooters right now, maybe we’re all sufering from gun fatigue. Wait wait wait, what am I doing? Why am I defending a game I haven’t played? If the media says it’s bad, then it must be bad right? I do ask a lot of questions.
So maybe the moral of the story here is don’t make an FPS game, unless you’re Bungie or Valve or Infinityward. Hear that developers? you can stop now. There’s no need to bother…except you Killzone 2 team…you keep trucking.
Anyway I’ll probably give Haze a rent when it comes out, and I’ll let you know what I think.
Until then keep on fighting the good fight.