haze bad?

well the haze demo has finally arrived and it seems most people knock the game for reasons that shouldn't be that big a deal. The biggest culprit is the graphics. So what if the graphics are dated a little, I mean we have all these others game with good graphics like white knight story, Killzone 2, resistance 2, Motorstorm 2, Soul Calibur 4, and so on. I don't see why every game needs to have top notch presentation all of the time.

the second thing that has been said is the voice acting is bad. Well let us take a look at the last timesplitters game shall we, Harry Tipper always said some of the most stupidest things during the levels with him as a partner and he always called cortez spaceman and that got annoying. R110 ten in the future levels some how went all gung ho and trashed talked all the bad guys because he installed the data for the doors and it changed him. Most of the dialogue in that game was rather "corny" so why is haze being busted on something that is a staple of free radical. Who did not know that there was going to be stupid dialogue in the game.

As far as the level being linear. Aren't all FPS's linear in a way. You start from one part of the level and you finish at another spot. Resistance, each level you started at one point and you just went through it. I bet when killzone 2 comes out it, your guy will start at one point and you will finish at another point in a A to B fashion.

You also have to remember that Free Radical main thing has always been multiplayer which no has played so why doesn't anybody wait until then to judge what the game really is. We still haven't used nectar bombs, knives or have played dead or anything yet.

Why does everyone still compare this game to far cry and turok when the jungle is only one level in the game.

The A. I. was never dumb and is always shooting back and dodging unlike dark sector. Even though it is bad for you, it is a little fun to overdose on nectar and watch yourself go crazy.

The online works very well. The only time I have been disconnected is when the host quit.

I think some poeple have this image of Halo in their heads or some other shooter that is similar and haze isn't really any of those games and now people are disappointed.

I think that demo was from an earlier part of the development. I dont think Free Radical would release the game looking like that. Judging from the demo, I'm sure that was around 480i or 480p. Hopefully the real game will run at a full 720p.

Edit: I mean come on, just look at the gentleman's Haze picture in his sig below. That's how the game is going to look.

I wasn't really trying to complain it is just everyone is just like the graphics and dialogue are bad and none of the characters in that level are main character except your guy and the point I was trying to make in the post about the dialogue being bad was that these guys that are with mantel have been there a while so they have been exposed to nectars drug chemicals awhile and that is why they act the way they do. Also if you listen to the characters comments it is apperant that the kind of jobs these people used to have before they joined mantel were blue collar so it makes sense really. I forget the job one of the players said he had though.

To each his own I guess I was hoping for a bit more maturity then "this game is crap because the graphics aren't up to par with X game" or "The dialogue is lame because they said X and X" A demo isn't going to give you all the juicy details and cool parts because if it did you would not need to buy the game.

I think that demo was from an earlier part of the development. I dont think Free Radical would release the game looking like that. Judging from the demo, I'm sure that was around 480i or 480p. Hopefully the real game will run at a full 720p.

Edit: I mean come on, just look at the gentleman's Haze picture in his sig below. That's how the game is going to look.

Elann2008

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I think that demo was from an earlier part of the development. I dont think Free Radical would release the game looking like that. Judging from the demo, I'm sure that was around 480i or 480p. Hopefully the real game will run at a full 720p.

Edit: I mean come on, just look at the gentleman's Haze picture in his sig below. That's how the game is going to look.

moshakirby

Uh.. wanna bet on what? Could you be anymore specific? Thanks...heh

To each his own I guess I was hoping for a bit more maturity then "this game is crap because the graphics aren't up to par with X game"gamenerd15

Gameplay isnt important for new generation gamers.

am gonna get the game once released later this month... i liked the demo though really short :(

graphics look ok, and am sure there will be better looking environments thoughout the whole finished game... gameplay seems fast and shooting is good... good online options will be a huge plus...

haze feels like a solid FPS...

Overall I was impressed. If not the gameplay / Graphics which were as good as other SciFi Shooters out there then the whole Drug Abuse and Repricution theme its got goin on...
And sorry to be offensive but the dialogue really does effectivly portray the typical US Gung Ho spacemarine image pretty well and thats what it was aiming for! I mean its no worse than the stuff Halo gave us or the stereotypes in GTA?

Its really on Par with Halo 3s single player from what Ive seen and with a final Lick of the Polsih Stick and Upping the res a tad it will really be good!

I created a thread some time ago about getting games no matter what critics say about them in reviews. Haze was one of those games on my list as purchasing no matter what.

As much as I favor Haze and want this game, I am honest and will say that the demo was disappointing. The demo was too short. I breezed through it in like four minutes and with co-op, three or less. The voice acting was very bad. In fact, it was horrible. It was pretty obvious that some of them, if not all of them, was going to turn on Carpenter. And the pilot that crashed, that was the worse dialogue I have ever heard. Why isn't there a sprint feature? All FPS games should have that.

The strong parts to the demo was that the co-op was very smooth. I didn't experience any drop in framerate or lag. The visuals were nice. There was nothing wrong with the graphics, in my opinion. I also like the fact that there is access to the XMB similar to Resistance. The difference is that the demo's access to XMB was the smoothest than any game out now.

I really hope that the full game is 1000x the improvement to the demo.