Doak: Haze will do wonders to your self-esteem |
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In-game FPS banter has always been tepid as of late. Sure, you have the death screams, the authoritative figure coolly reminding you of your objectives, your teammates grunting and yelling incomprehensibly when the bullets start flying thick and fast. And it's not a bad thing. It does its job in adding to the immersion factor of the game, it makes it seem all the more real. Haze, the game touted as "Halo for adults", promises to be more than just real, it's going to be absolutely no-holds-barred dirty.
At least, when in-game banter is concerned.
During an open discussion in a recent Ubisoft event, co-founder of Free Radical Dave Doak revealed that in Haze, your teammates will not only be firing bullets but also verbal barbs, and you're the hapless target in their sights. "I don't think you will see in any other game points in the narrative, in cut-scenes or cinematic gameplay moments, where people are calling you a p***y - telling you that you're not with the program, that you're a liability to the team."
Ouch, burned. But Dave reassures us that it's not just mere shock jock tactics - he wants the player to feel as uncomfortable as possible to drive certain story elements home. "Haze puts in this warzone, where other people are perhaps doing things where a line has been crossed. You're going to think, 'These guys have gone too far'. And you'll have to ask yourself, 'Are you part of this now?'"
And the language, coarse as it is, ties in neatly with one of the game's critical themes - that is, the performance-enhancing drug called Nectar and the abuse of it. "The soldiers are fighting with you, using Nectar and talking about it all. And they talk about it in a locker room style. But, sometimes, it gets a bit too far. It makes you uncomfortable."
It's certainly good news that Free Radical's taking Haze very seriously - to the point of daring to use such strong adult-oriented elements to give players a more intense experience. Here's hoping someone doesn't go on another political crusade with this news - it's really getting old. In any case, updates about Haze as we get them!
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can't wate to play it.
I bet that company is going to be corrupt and there are going to be many twists and turns in the game. I can't wait. Free radical are the best.
There’re so many stup+d PS3 fanboys right now who bark that PS3 is superior to X360 console; that’s the reason why I wrote this informal essay.
Let’s compare the most sold X360 game and the most sold PS3 game (HEAD TO HEAD DEATHMATCH); then talk about which console is superior to another at the end. Each category is worth 100 points unless mentioned. If it’s drawn, both get half points.
I spent much time to read about 10 different reviews on both games. Most sentences below are NOT my opinions (remember this). Most sentences below are from the reviews I read online.
[Epic’s Gears of War Vs. Insomniac’s Resistance: Fall of Man]
- Gameplay (300 pts): Resistance is a generic and mindless run & gunner. Epic adopted and improved Resident Evil 4’s point of view; then GoW’s over-the-shoulder revolutionized the gaming industry. Now, Sony’s best future games Uncharted Drake’s Fortune and Ratchet and Clank Future (when using weapons) both totally copied GoW’s point of view. Winner: GoW
- Graphics (300): GoW wins by a land-slide. No need to discuss more. Winner: GoW
- Awards: Many gamers bought GoW because it won so many awards. Winner: GoW
- Main character (200): Epic did a very good job on this. Marcus Fenix is as memorable as Halo’s Master Chief. Resistance’s Nathan is simply too boring to control. Winner: GoW
- Average review score: GoW got 94 from 172 different game related publications; Resistance got 89 from 164 publications; many gamers bought GoW because it got extremely high review scores.
Winner: GoW
- Level of Appealing (Fun Factor) (200): Resistance is all about run and gun like Halo 3 or Unreal Tournament 3. GoW has deep tactical play. Winner: GoW
- Online Modes (Multiplayer) (300): Resistance offers much more game types, but all of them are mindless run and gunner. GoW should have supported at least 8 versus 8 multiplay (4 Vs. 4 is just sub-standard). Winner: Drawn
- Single-player (SP): Resistance’s developers spent so much time, budget, and effort on this (Resistance’s SP is much longer); the thing is that Resistance’s SP is plainly boring and not even fun. Winner: GoW
- Weapons (200): Resistance has technically extremely advanced weapons, but these weapons are not balanced for multiplay. GoW has much less number of weapons; the thing is that lancer (the gun with chainsaw) alone is better (the powerful feeling; sound, lighting, and decal effects) than all weapons in Resistance combined. Torque bow and boomshot are extremely well made, too. Winner: GoW
- Music & Sound Effects (300): Resistance’s sound is on average; GoW’s sound is superb (especially guns and explosion sounds are mind-blowing). Winner: GoW
- Longevity (Replay Value) (300): Resistance’s run and gun gets old extremely quickly. Winner: GoW
- Technical Advancement (200): Resistance’s extremely huge maps + 42-player online + Resistance’s bull’s eye and sapper guns. Winner: Resistance
- General Concept & Originality: Resistance is a copycat of Half Life, Call of Duty, and Unreal Tourney. Winner: GoW
- Character Animation: Both games offer silky smooth movement of units. Winner: Drawn
- (NPC’s) A.I.: GoW’s AI is better made. Epic did a very good job here. If you kill one enemy in GoW, you feel satisfied and rewarded; if you kill one (or ten) enemy in Resistance, you feel bored and lame (LOL). Winner: GoW
- Atmosphere (Presentation) (200): GoW’s sci-fi movie like mood is all over the places. Winner: GoW
- Interface (attention to detail, how polished is the final game?): Winner: Drawn
- Overall Impressiveness (300): In general, GoW even deeply impresses diehard Sony fanboys. Winner: GoW
Finally, GoW won by f+cking huge margin.
- Resistance’s total score: 450 points
- GoW’s total score: 3,050 points
I said at the start that we need to talk about which console is superior to another at the end. Now, let’s talk about that. Which console is superior? If you’re still trying to defend your pathetic PS3 console then you must be illiterate and blind, period.
Wow...you that was an amazing essay. What a royal waste of your time writing it, and my time reading it. I kept hoping for something of substance, but every point you make is so drenched in bias it's pathetic.
What the hell does your post have to do with Haze?
Some people are just sad.
1. You're the one coming off looking like a "stup+d" fanboy.
2. How can you judge the superiority amond two consoles based on the ratings/popularity of a single game on each console?
grits
dude if you have a girlfriend/wife, ( I doubt it) but if you do, take her by the hand and tell her you love her. and after that take her out somewhere.
"In-game FPS banter has always been tepid as of late"
always been tepid as of late? which one?
but didnt rachet and clank come out waaaay before GoW, and that the ps3 version is still using the same view from the ps2 version...
which points that GoW copied from rachet and clank -_-
Do you really have so little of a life you have nothing better to do than post this same crap in every semi-popular article? I bet I pay tax money to support your welfare check. How disgusting. Please die
"There’re so many stup+d PS3 fanboys right now who bark that PS3 is superior to X360 console; that’s the reason why I wrote this informal essay"
w a n k e r !
bull-*****ing-*****. Have you even played Resistance? R+C copy Gears did it *****, R+c have been around much longer than gears and it is keeping the same old, great camera angle. Uncharted? You're such a damn fanboy, uncharted stole the camera angle boohoo. Did gears create 3rd person camera angle? No, it "stole" it.
R:FOM is a run and gunner? what the hell is HALO??? Even when R:FOM is the obvious wnner in some categories you say a draw?! Online Resistance kills Gears but you say draw! Go back to playing online with Lag.
Bull***** fanboy. If you were a true gamer you would be smart enough not to compare 2 games which are a different genre and are using different engines. The reason why Gears looks better is because of the engine and its ability to stream textures, which the next Resistance will be doing. I'd rather have a long SP and no Lag online in a game than a game with pretty graphics.
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Just one monkey with one typewriter could have come up with that.
........and it did!
Real life 0 points Gow 100 Giga-Billion ^10!
the guy that wrote the whole story about 360 vs PS3 is real dumb. Not only has this news post nothing the do with it, but also Resistance VS gears of war is unfair. I think you will be seeing a difference between the platforms when the second gen PS3 games comes out...
I don't think you know what illiterate means, don't go throwing around big words now, you'll hurt yourself.
i could eat alphabets soup and ***** a better comparison than that
Informal or not, there is an unusual overabundance of vehemence and a severe lack of intelligence in that literary catastrophe. Shame on you for not learning the basics of persuasive writing. The piece is riddled with unneeded filler, definitions of simple terms, a horribly bloated grading system and painfully humorous mistakes.
I am glad I read it. Every second spent browsing over this Frankenstein essay was spent reaffirming that I am far more literate than its writer.
Lol I too love how he calls everyone an illiterate stupid fanboy yet he can't write a single sentence without making a mistake. Hilarious
try waiting for killzone, then lets talk