Haze: The PS3 "Halo Killer"?

[Shiendar]

http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2007/...ive_hands-on/1

This is the best, most in-depth article I have so far, but what Haze is, is a FPS with a hope of taking on Halo. (The guy doing it seems to rather like Monkey Island)

Haze is a game where you work for a company that "exports democracy" and takes the place of UN Peacekeepers. You play Shane Carpenter, who works for them as a soldier working on a team who takes their drug 'Nectar' as a performance enhancer. It does a number of things for you and the dev team (who did Time Splitters BTW) stayed far away from the now overdone bullet time and invincibility abilities, instead going for gaining sharper vision, faster reflexes, foresight and a melee boost, which may or may not matter. However, there is a serious disadvantage to Nectar: When your flow of it is too much or disrupted, things start turning crazy. Not quite Silent Hill crazy, but still.

On an overdose, everybody around you turns to silhouettes and you can't tell which is ally or enemy. Your vision turns wavy and you start shooting. Your team can also OD and they can and will at times kill themselves either on accident or on purpose. They will also shoot at random things and act rather insane.

....on a disruption, you see the grim reality. Where dead soldiers fell and disappeared silently, screams, sadistic comments from your teammates and blood appear. Your vision recedes to black and white for the duration of the disruption. It would appear that Nectar censors your perception.

The dev team makes it no secret that the guy you play switches sides. It's the plot points that they haven't revealed yet that they are grinning and blowing raspberries about. It's going to have a multiplayer and it's only going to be on the PS3 and PC, though they are saying they will be different. Read the link for more info.

I personally really want to play this game. The AI still needs some touch ups, but they aren't slack-jawed morons by ANY means. They will take cover. They will play dead. They have decent marksmanship and will take advantage of Nectar.

What does everybody else think.

[Sir Kenneth]

Sounds promising enough, but it probably isn't going to win a whole lot of FPS fans over from Microsoft's console. Come to think of it, I can't really think of any game or series of games that has been properly usurped at the height of it's popularity, and I don't think Haze is going to change that.