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Dave Doak: Haze is going toe-to-toe against Halo 3 |
Listed in: PS3 Tags: Free Radical, Halo 2, Paris, WWII
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Haze is shaping up to be a pretty promising title, with a solid selection of weapons and even a four-player co-op mode. Free Radical's Dave Doak sat for an interview during a press event in Paris to tease all the trigger-happy fans itching for the game.
Doak discussed about the game's war setting with some real characters and a world commentary. The enemies here aren't locusts or chimeras, but other humans. Sounds like something that only works in WWII shooters, but Doak stated that Haze's narrative is good enough to make you play more.
He believes that even if many people pick up FPS titles to do some shooting, an involving storyline is required to keep the player's attention. With that said, Haze is supposed to have an interesting story right up to the very end.
The company is focusing on the PS3 for now, but the game will get a PC and Xbox 360 release too. While fellow FPS Halo 3 may be the biggest 360 title, Doak thinks that Halo's already won the battle but they're not afraid to join the fray. He also commented on Halo having problems during beta, and that fans from both the first Halo and Halo 2 may have different interests that will be difficult to cater to.
Just like fanboys most gamers, Doak is also surprised about how the console wars turned out. The underdog Nintendo came up on top that even his mom wants to play it. Seems like Doak is leaning towards the PS3 though, saying that the console has a lot of processing power that is locked away. Will Haze be able to unlock the PS3's true potential? We'll have to wait to find out.
Via CVG
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Halo 3 has some streangths too, like a huge arsenal of weapons and vehicles, its primarly made as an online game which xbox live is good at...
Remember that its not only sales that defines a great game...
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Firstly, I'm not going to judge Halo's graphics simply on a multiplayer beta which (being multiplayer) is stripped down to the mininum, since gameplay is the key here, not graphics.
Haze looks nice, but then, it's a completely different environment (so far all set in a jungle).
But as for story. How can you say the story is superior when the game hasn't even been released yet? Sure you can say you prefer the idea behind the story and that it appeals to you more, but you can't say it has a better story. That's like saying the last Harry Potter book is the best yet when no-one has read it yet!
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But there isn't a game, movie, book, album etc in existence that somebody doesn't hate! ;)
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Killzone 2 is being made by Guerrilla which is a subsidiary of Sony; it has 130 employees (programmers and graphics designers). The total budget for KZ2 is $60 million (just for your reference, Epic spent $9 M to make Gears of War with 80 devs). Also KZ2 is in the Guinness Book 2007 as the most expensive game in the entire gaming history. In 2005, Guerrilla hired 50 programmers and designers ONLY from AAA-level companies around the world; these new developers are the CORE-brains behind KZ2.
So, what will be the best game in 2007 (and early 2008)? It’s Team Fortress 2!
Halo 3’s beta footages look mediocre. There're beta footages of Gears of War and Resistance available online, unless you are blind and illiterate, you must announce the fact that beta builds look 95% same as the final (retail) versions.
Killzone 1 is and unproven intellectual property. KZ1 got the average review score of 78 from 152 different game related publications. Even if KZ1 was not a bad game, many people bash KZ1 because it failed to become the Halo 2 killer as advertised (Halo 2’s average score: 94 from 185 publications).
Moreover, Halo 2 (Win Vista PC) got the average review score of 71 from 34 publications. LOL, the score 71 is below ‘decent’ category; therefore, let’s forget about Halo 3 and KZ2 because of the above reasons.
IGN and GameSpot are world’s 1st and 2nd biggest game related publications in the whole world based on the number of visitors and the size of database. 1Up is the biggest game magazine company in the world (1Up publishes not just 1 but 3 different magazines).
I spent quite some time to read hands-on previews and impression reports at the above 3 websites on Team Fortress 2. The journalists from all 3 publications were actually invited to Valve Corp. recently (just in this month); they actually played the games for a few hours. Now, this is the surprising thing I found out. 1Up’s article says they are extremely impressed by TF2. GameSpot’s article says TF2 is the best looking game (in 2007) they have seen so far. IGN’s article says they are sure that TF2 will be the best game in 2007 and will beat Halo 3 or any other famous games. Go and read the previews and impressions by yourself unless you are blind and illiterate.
TF2 has 9 extremely different (distinct) classes. In other class-based shooters, most gamers only play as certain classes due to so many issues (some classes are not fun to play with, unbalanced classes, et cetera); however, in TF2, all 9 classes are equally strong, fun, and balanced. Also, the graphics is as good as the gameplay. The sound, music, and replay value are superb, too.
- Demoman: the only class with explosives
- Engineer: teleport; powerful & upgradeable turret; supply dispenser; requires tactical thinking & planning (+ camping); only good for defensive roles
- Heavy: most health; mini-gun is the most powerful weapon; slowest moving unit
- Medic: loved by your entire team; it’s foolish to attack or defend alone (lone wolf)
- Pyro: most powerful unit in small areas; short-ranged attack
- Scout: fastest-moving unit; double-jumping (mid-air directional change) can reach special routes (also good for dodging bullets); weakest health
- Sniper: charge shots; weak at closed-combat
- Soldier: rocket launcher; with rocket-jumps, you can fly and land on top of the enemy’s base
- Spy: invisibility; total disguise; he excels at the black arts of infiltration and assassination; useless in direct combat (has a butterfly-knife)
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I've played halo and halo 2 to death and it's the same as any other shooter, it gets old.
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Yeah, it is SO overated that you played BOTH versions to death.
What next? "Man, Star Wars was so overated, I watched it 137 times and it got old fast".
*rolleyes*
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If free radical is making this game it will be better than halo, much like all the timesplitters.
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Anyway, I found Time Splitters to be a let down when I play it, I just didn't enjoy it, but no doubt some gamers did.
Better than Halo. I doubt it, but again, that will probably just me my opinion and the opinion of millions of other gamers. ;)
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http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/780/780666p1.html
http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId+3158957+sec+PREVIEWS
(change plus signs to equal signs in the 1up link).
I fail to see where they say TF2 will be the best game in 2007, or where they say it will be better than over games.
And where do Gamespot say TF2 with it's cartoon cell-shaded graphics is the best looking game they've seen so far in 2007?
Post the links here (in otherwords, put up or shut up :P).
Sorry, but your whole post is nothing but BS and lies.
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