Shut the hell up. The game sucked because you hyped it to kingdom come. Don't blame the PS3 hardware.

I'll say my piece and leave.

For those who bought the game (I did for $20), the story SUCKED! It was bland and uninspired. Yes, the graphics wasn't so hot, but it wasn't as bad as everyone (especially those who didn't play it) made it out to be. It was just a functional FPS with an interesting concept (nectar) and a very bland (and bad) story line.

Now as for Free Radicals, I'm sure they had trouble with the hardware. It's a new piece of hardware that's very complex and I'm sure if they had time, the game would look more polished. But even I can forgive not so hot graphics if the story was interesting. Not every game is going to look like KZ2.

I'm sure FR will redeem themselves when they make another game (new Timesplitters...love the series). Not every game every company pumps out will be AAA. You have duds, you evaluate your dud and you make your next game a stud. Simple as that.

no excuses, the game just flat out sucked. probably the worst story i've ever seen for a FPS. FR should just go back to the timesplitters series because those games were excellent. funny single player and an assload of replayability. i'm dying for a new timesplitters game right now.

I'm curious to see how Free Radical will evolve now that they belong to Crytek. Maybe will they erase their past mistakes with Haze and bring back the high quality TimeSplitters 2 & 3 had.

It was a horrible game. They lied about the game, in the end of the demo they said this is not the final version yet so it may differ , and when the game came out it was the same as the DEMO.

You guys remember the grenade throw animation LOL priceless. Anywho, now that they've got the cryengine to work with maybe they could make a Haze sequel (fingers crossed). I mean i liked the concept of nectar. The mantel troopers do have cool uniforms. The new engine should take care of the graphics problem. The only thing they really have to do is make a better story with more/better weapons.

Explain to me then why the Xbox game Bullet Witch sucked?

Patch in trophies.. make a few more dollars... hire a decent writer.. try again with HAZE2. you're under the umbrella of a world renown dev...

i am sorry, but isn't it a bit late for excuses now.

they made the choice to go exclusive anyway.

maybe it would have helped if they left the smack talk till after the game had released. Saying it was a halo killer and a more mature ( because they added the F word )...... well that was just the beginning as far as digging their own grave goes.

old game
old story
old news

and there alot of others worked with the ps3 hardware
and made a very good games
Media Molecule made LittleBigPlanet haven't heard anything bad about the ps3 hardware from them ( only good things )
and with only 30 employees in there company
and LBP is there first game
and look what happened
a masterpiece

I just had a thought, since Haze's graphics (and other things) sucked so bad and FR work under Crytek now; they could do a quick overhall using the Cry Engine 3 and release Haze: Rebound on PSN for ten bucks.

I have nothing to say. If PS3 did Killzone 2 with 60% of its usage. Then i can imagine it could do something thats is breathtaking even more like Killzone 2. I've seen what the PS3 can do with Killzone 2.

wow,cry3 engine will look way better on ps3 than on xbox. now that kinks are being workt out,i look forward to future games 2 years from now and how well they will have evovled. to bad xbox is tapped out lol

so thats a great excuse to make a half arse game

RIIIIGGGHT!!!!

F off wan ker

if this game had have been a xbox 360 exclusive it would have been the best thing ever

the game is as good if not better than halo3

ps3 gamers have their standards too high

Still gutted about what happened to Free Radical. Haze came too early in the generation and why they didn't make a multiplatform Timesplitters first is really beyond me. Things could have gone so differently.
In the end you have to say that if they weren't able to get the most out of the PS3 then they should have waited or just made Haze multiplatform.

Hope they are still knocking about because there was a lot of talent in Free Radical.

The POS3 is just one big technical issue.

this is amazing...
some developers are producing the best looking games of this Gen on the PS3.
others are just not up on the learning curve or just to stupid or just wont invest the time and $$ to produce a great game..so sure blame it on the hardware.
amazing

....do not release a game if it isn't up to your standards. take more dev time if needed and F the impatient gamers who want it quickly. I put in Killzone 2 in my PS3 a few days ago after a long break, and Christ, there is STILL no FPS on a console that looks anywhere near as good....even the upcoming Modern Warfare 2, which I think is just riding the humongous hype train as I don't see it doing anything spectacularly amazing to the FPS genre.

Here's a tip: Get help from Insomniac and Guerilla Games for your next game!

they domed them selves releasing pure dung and hypeing it to unreal levels, in every way it was a bad game, nothing could save it, a lot of bad decisions

Excuses, excuses, excuses. This game sucked period. If would have sucked on the 360. It would have sucked on the Wii. This game was hyped up by the fanboys.

Of course ps3tards will say that REAL devs are sonys 1st party midgets!

Its a shame to programm 3 years on a console to bring out a great game.. just look on KZ2. droids of course disagree!

YES the PS3 is a strong horse, everybody knows it.. BUT devs really dont want to programm 3 years to make a game that sells 1 million copies at the end on the PS3, lol. Thats why capcom, Square moved to MSFTs console.. every dev out there know that the architecture of the ps3 is damn bad designed.

The 360 console got mabye some issues in the past like the RROD.. but MSFT gives DEVS the best tools and support available to make GAMES!

EDIT: The PS3s blu Ray drive is a big issue
http://www.gamefreax.de/ps3...

every shop in german yoffers the blu ray laser for 80 euro. I had to pay 230 euro to Sony for my 60 GB PS3 when my BR DRive got broken after 2 years.

The devs are just blaming themselves for not using the hardware properly and that with the CryEngine 3 the developers of Haze can now make use of the PS3 and they want to see the full potential of the PS3.

The title is very very misleading and the dumbass bot who posted this didn't read the article him/herself.

READ THE ARTICLE BEFORE POSTING A COMMENT! the devs aren't bashing the PS3 you bunch of idiots. The Haze dves couldn't do it the hard way so now with the CryEngine 3 it's easier for them to make the most out of the PS3.

Excuses, excuses. Uncharted was released in 2007 and it's still one of the best looking games around. Haze sucked in all fronts except maybe co-op. Seriously these developers looks bad. I don't see Guerrilla, Naughty Dog, or Santa Monica complaining.

I like HAZE because its not on the 360.

Mart they Just fix the PS3 you sent in and send it back but if it's in a critical condition (which it probably never is) then they just make a new one for you, and why would Sony send you a used PS3 when the PS3 you sent in is perfectly fine but with jut a BD error? They would just replace the BD Drive and send it back and stop confusing Sony for what MS does.

Another thing the YLOD can be fixed within an hour or 2 at home and it'll never break again after that one fix but you can't do that on the 360 now can you? No! I don't think so.

Oh and Mart with every replaced PS3 a customer gets his/her warranty extended for another 1 year and the reason why it's only 1 year is because I can guarantee you that it won't ever break down after the first fix for like another 8-9 years especially if you sent it in to get your BD Drive fixed so YOU FAIL!

You can even extend your warranty from the shop you purchased the PS3 from so if the PS3 does break then not only do you get a new warranty from Sony but you also still have the shops warranty still on your PS3.

picked this up, and i guess if you play it alone it probably is worst game ths gen, but play it with a friend, and it becomes instant classic. the writing is so terribly bad, you cant help but laugh. its part of the game's charm. BOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSHHHHHHH!!!

Uncharted and Heavenly both looked great and had a great story and gameplay and both came out in 2007. There's just no excuse.

So Mart you just 'Assumed' that it wasn't a new one.

You FAIL! FAIL! FAIL! and once again FAIL!!

and people have already done the X-Clamp fix and it still breaks on them and the PS3 isn't so hard to open because I have opened it before just to see how it looks on the inside. Once the tops off the rest is just smooth sailing and it's so easy a 6yr old could do it.

and could you please stop bringing up your Broken down PS3 and what! your BD Dive failed phh the fix is so easy I could do it with my eyes closed. Yes there are PS3's that break within the first 4 weeks but that's in the minority and as Saaking said it's in the acceptable failure range of 3% but the 360 is not in the acceptable range because it has a 33% failure rate and that's just too high.

I don't know if you've realised but I don't bring up the RROD arguments anymore in any of my comments and I try my best to keep away from '360's breaking down articles' for a reason...Why? because Humans make mistakes.

So now they come out and tell the truth to what happened. Well Naughty Dog and Insomnia seem to say something different. Even BioWare say they love what they can do with their new toy. But to be fair these men are extremely talented. Besides the fact that these are the same men who put Goldeneye and Perfect Dark, they also put together the Timesplitters series, which despite not becoming financial blockbusters, the series has a die hard fan base, and is a critic darling.

To call these men anything less than extremely talented and creative is a slap in the face to the industry as a whole.

While I agree Haze was lackluster, it clearly suffered from technical issues above all. They were a small developer, and chose to create their own engine rather than use the extremely generic yet reliable Unreal Engine 3. You cannot blame a small studio when they cant afford to hire extra staff to code for a tricky system. People wonder why small studios are disappearing so quickly.

Also, people wonder why Valve, the foremost FPS developer on this planet; some of the most talented men in all of gaming, refuses to develop for the PS3. Developers arent fanboys, and they're not idiots. At least Valve understands that sometimes making a stand in the face of an arrogant electronics giant that decided the create an amazing system which was too hard to develop for for smaller studios with less cash.

When your game sucks, just blame the console. Yeah, that's it. It is not like there are any other quality PS3 exclusives that prove just maybe the problem was with the developer and their game. Nah....that could never be it, lol.

Haze just felt like a rushed game when it was all said and done. Not one aspect of it felt finished.

Its too bad too. After finishing it I couldn't help but say to myself ... "This game COULD have been amazing...but man did it turn out to be an abortion of a game".

was how the guns shot... thats it! and maybe the shaky screen while u ran was pretty cool too...

but the fact that there were only the standard guns was really disappointing, i feel that shooters today should have at LEAST 20 different guns and more is always welcome

they could have said this a long time ago like when it launched so people werent pissed off. still they shlould have waited to release the game. they game look like it could be good they should have just waited it could have came right now and been great istead its the worst exclusive on the ps3

I feel sorry for free radical. I mean they made TS3 so theyre great devs.

And seeing the trailers for Haze, the story looked like it was to be really good, ans you could just tell it was going to be a brilliant game off and online...

But my guess is money issues and time constraints ruined this game. There are flashes of greatness in there, but its just not a finished game.

Id love for them to remake haze, but I doubt it will ever happen now that the word haze would hurt sales.

No surprise there.

"Oh no...Our game SUCKS!!! Quick, how do we spin this for damage control..........Yeah, the PS3 is hard to develop for so naturally our game sucked!!! Yeah that will work!"

Naughty Dog or Insomniac should call these guys up and tell them how to stop being cry babies!

This game would be garbage no matter what happened. Awful story, awful gameplay, awful everything. Why are the xbots here anyways?

Every developer go throw the same process in order to create a PS3 exclusive, so why do they managed to create such masterpieces and why was HAZE a let down, because the developers were lazy.

Still giving excuses, does anyone cared about HAZE back then and now.

What does the PS3 have to do with piss poor gameplay and a bad story? The game was a piece of sh!t! Free Radical are just trying to take there anger out on Sony. Just because they have sh!t programmers doesn't mean they have to cry! Look at Naughty dog or Guerilla. They have made the best graphical games this generation. All of those games have been on the PS3. Oh well, enough of this ranting. This is from develop-online.net anyways. Never heard of develop-online.net? oh yeah me either.

i don't think HAZE was uninspired. in fact, i think the story, as a concept, was rather interesting. a soldier learning that the ideals he was fighting for weren't what he thought they were, and the horrible truth drove him to rebel against the stronger power, that's good drama.

unfortunately, HAZE failed to wrap that excellent concept into a solid narrative. the characters and dialogue were uninspired, not the story concept.

gameplay wise, Nectar was a fun mechanic, but unfortunately, they don't let you enjoy it for long, and you still have to put up with rather bland game design.

i forgive the visuals, as the game was delayed for AGES, and it would have looked impressive had it released in 2006 like it should have.

the controls were smooth as butter, but that's a Free Radical trademark, so i expected no less.

considering their pedigree, i allow them this one bomb that is HAZE. they brought us Goldeneye 64, Perfect Dark 64, Timesplitters, and Second Sight. some of the best games of the past two generations.

not every game can be a winner.

Silicon Knights faltered with Too Human, despite some excellent work on Eternal Darkness and Twin Snakes. i'm looking forward to their next project as well, as long as they learn from their mistakes.

on another note, not a single person, gaming media or gamer alike gave a rats ass about HAZE when it was multi-platform. when it went PS3 exclusive, at a time when it was hip to sh*t on the PS3, suddenly HAZE had to become something that it never would have become otherwise: the "savior" of the PS3.

the gaming media ignored genuinely great games like Resistance 1, Warhawk, Motorstorm, Heavenly Sword, Folklore, Ratchet and Clank Future, Uncharted, and focused on this ONE formerly multi-platform title called HAZE to justify their hatred towards the PS3.

whether or not Free Radical made a poor game in HAZE is irrelevant, when the gaming media propped it up to be a failure. they actually PLAYED the game prior to release. they were the ones that wrote glowing preview after glowing preview of the game, while also touting it as Sony's big premiere FPS (nevermind Resistance: Fall of Man, which was a spectacular launch game shooter, with a good single player campaign, and excellent, addicting MP).

what else were battered Playstation 3 fans to do but grab hold of HAZE and hope for the best, when the BEST of the PS3 (Resistance, Uncharted, Ratchet, Heavenly Sword, etc) was already discounted by the bloodthirsty media and hater fanboys?

in hindsight, HAZE was a slightly above average FPS (for a truly bad FPS experience, play Legendary, Frontlines, Blacksite: Area 51, Conflict: Denied Ops; those are TRULY horrendously designed FPS games. compared to them, HAZE is practically HALO), which was unfairly put on a pedestal because of it's PS3 exclusivity. tell me, how many previews and stories were there of HAZE BEFORE, when it was a multi-platform title? exactly.

Free Radical has talented developers, and i can't blame them for being bitter at the way they were thrown to the dogs by the gaming media because of a wave of nauseating PS3 hate.

and at the time that HAZE came out, the PS3 was quite a b*tch to develop for, so i'm sure, at the time, technical issues WERE to blame.

this story was written just to rile up the fanboys again over an issue that is damn near 2 years old now. let it go already. HAZE was a bomb, and Free Radical was bought by Crytec. all is right with the world again, and the PS3 has already proven itself.

Lair and HAZE are a distant memory in the minds of the Playstation 3 fanbase at this point in the game, with so many awesome software choices available on the system right now, so why won't you haters just let them go?

"PS3 'technical issues' hampered Haze development"

HA! My ass! IMO, Haze looked sh!t even from the beginning.

"Free Radical's technical incompetence hampered quality PS3 Development"

Why are people making such a fuss over this old game anyway?

LoL

The only technical issue was free radical themselves. Insomniac, Naughty Dog, Gorilla and Santa monica say it's your fault.

Man up!!! I had HAZE and it was good until Resistance 2 and KZ2 came around and then it got lost in the shuffle. They just should have canceled HAZE and made Timesplitters 4 on Wii.

To those who said it sucked, it was at least better than the Darkness, FEAR, Turok, Condemned and alot of other supbar FPS PS3/360 games.

This statement= We fail as developers and Haze closed down our company because we made such a bad game. I'm pretty sure plenty of developers have had no major problems getting PS3 exclusives to run smoothly. These guys are just crappy Devs, period. No one hears Insomniac or Guerilla Games whining and they made some of the best FPS games ever conceived.

sony works with you if you have aproblem after you get your system fixed so your wrong although it says 90 its really to their discretion they say 90 days so they don thave to pay for a system that was fixed 3 yrs ago.

this is a great thing for sony and gamers. we are tired of 3rd parties screwing us and if they start on ps3 first and then port it will make a difference. ps3 is growing fast and it will be sweet once they are in full swing. the games i have on the ps3 will be classics for a long time.

I think they are in need of some dev. lessons on the PS3 =P others didn't happen to run into these roadblocks...

lmao this site and its members are literally stupid. LITERALLY! Still arguing over console war? Get a life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

here guys check this out

1) This guy is just upset because HAZE was supposed to be a "can't miss hit", and it turned out to be a complete dud of a game.

2) The problems with HAZE were not technical. The game played and looked great. It was the rubbish story, drivel dialogue, and generic overall design that kept people from liking the title.

3) Many games before and after have been developed just fine on the PS3, and had this game actually sold a few copies and been the hit game they promoted, this guy wouldn't be bringing this stuff up.

haze + funny shrimp aliens + color green + kick ass music = halo

hmmm

devs always complain about releasing games on PS3, Haze was the worst FPS ive played this gen. The game was overhyped simply because of the discontinued 360 version. That's the only reason anyone even heard of it, because it became a PS3 exclusive.

i don't like games filled to the brim with mediocrity. FR should have taken more time to release the game. no doubt the ps3 is difficult to program games for, but don't blame the hands, blame the mental frame.
only a fool takes a test they don't study for..

And to think some people thought Haze was a Halo killer. LMAO!

So basically what they are saying is that they can't cut it as developers. If you don't have the skills then you don't have them. They shouldn't try and spin this against Sony. Especially after games lin Killzone, inFamous, Unchartted. The list could go on and on.

even if it was on the 360 which is supposedly easier to programme for the game would have sucked ,really you guy made a sh1t game you have no one to blame but yourself and it really hurts me to say this because i really loved you're previous games were timesplitters 1,2,3 and i spent more time time playing those games than any other FPS. you guys just failed to meet expectations and let down the fans of you're previous franchises deal with it.

Well, Free Radical is still alive, just with a different name. I am eager to see how they will harness the PS3 in the future.

Working with the 360 is like being given 100 dollars up front.

Working with the PS3 is like being paid 20 dollars a day for 6 days. Ultimately, you can get more out of the PS3 if you are patient and wise with how you spend the resources.

A lot of developers who work with the 360 have all of the power at their disposal so they usually don't spend it very wisely. That's why games on the 360 run on inefficient engines and always end up maxing out the hardware.

The guys who develop on the PS3 work for every ounce of power they get, so that's why games like Uncharted 2 and Killzone 2 look as good as they do but only use at most 60 or 70 percent of the PS3's power.

i knew it was cause of the pos3 that radical had to close down..

The PlayStation 3 has always had problems just like the Xbox 360 and teh Wii. It's not like the PlayStation 3 is a gift given from the heavens and is without flaws because all consoles have problems which they need to overcome.

In theory, everyone should realise that we should stop all this fighting and get along with each other because consoles at the end of the day, are consoles, their main focus is to bring gamers like ourselves together. Unfortunately, It will never, ever, happen.

lets mention all the blowhole games that the xbot has brought out the last 5 years . I bought haze it sucks now lets move on . I knew i see mart here ....he loves ps3 news .

The game just sucks period. And graphics looks terrible.

it sucked anyway.

I do it. I try not to but when all hell breaks loose at my job and I have high end competition all around me, I too can muck up a project then blame something.

I look more for track record. They have put out some good games. As long as it's not habitual, I can give them a mulligan. Plus, it is (was) a new system and I hear it is pretty complicated to code for.

Oh well, lessons learned and we have 6 months of sheer PS3 goodness starting in a couple weeks with Batman and ending with GoW3.

They better get health care fixed cause I am going to need new thumbs.

Lair has the best soundtrack of a major game flop that I can remember. I still listen to it from time to time on Youtube.

I love the fact that at least someone remembers,
during the PS3 era how many bad games, and studios were shuttered during that era. you get nothing but rose-colored/ perfect hindsight about that now...

Haze broke me. I was such a massive fan of Timesplitters that I didn't believe for one second they could make such a generic, sub-par game. It even had a couple of neat ideas, but nothing that could save it from utter failure.

I learnt a harsh lesson from that game.

where's naughty dog's Way of the Warrior ?