Throughout the history of videogames, there have been some "partner games" if you will; games where you practically couldn't own one without the other. Double Dragon and Battletoads for the NES. Pokemon Red and Blue for the gameboy. Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon for the XBox 360. This brings me to my latest meditation on the state of videogames (sorry, I've been reading Descartes).
Right now, Ubisoft is holding 60-70 dollars over the head of Sierra Entertainment and Saber Interactive. $60-70 that could be theirs as well... if they would do me just one thing... stop messing around and give me Haze! Allow me to explain how Sierra fits into this. Around the same time I started watching Haze, I became aware of another videogame, TimeShift. (Haze is made by the company that made TimeSplitters. TimeShift has a similar name. Now you understand the connection.) This special link being made in my mind, I now think it would be unfit to buy one and not the other. My collection would feel incomplete if I didn't have both Haze and TimeShift, and thusly, I'd rather have neither, than just have one. Makes little sense, right? I agree.
Oh but wait, there's more! Midway, the third wheel of this equation, needs to get on Ubisoft's case if they want my $60 too! Because, frankly, BlackSite: Area 51 so grossly resembles Haze and TimeShift, to me, that I just wouldn't buy it unless I already owned the first two (namely because BlackSite seems to lack a little in the department of novum).
Now please, don't mistake me for believing that my meager $65 is going to mean squat to these companies; I just found it to be a rather curious observation that I felt like writing down, because I can't help but wonder if there are others that feel the same way.
Is Haze really to TimeShift what Freddy was to Jason? (The movie sucked, but you get the idea.) Does anyone else see BlackSite as being the saddly excluded Michael Myers of the group? (Not the comedian.) Or is it just me having gotten too accustomed to shooters where taking cover is essential?
In any case, for the time being, revel in it, PS3 owners. You have two up on me (Resistance: Fall of Man and Haze)... for now.