Patrick McMahon's B-Log

Just to make a one player review of this game called Haze.

Haze is a Co-Op PlayStation 3 game (could be on other console, don't know, don't care!) Haze is about a group of soldiers that are in yellow suits and basically get power ups to make them faster and see better (enemies glow) this is called Nectar, and you have a limited amount.

I started playing this game on a Friday night, it was an easy couple of hours over the weekend that was not as fun as I had hoped. way to short, even though we died every 2 secs and the loading times are crazy. This game still only took probably max 4-8 hours, Half of this was loading times. the screen size was crazy, it was vertical split! the game was not anything special, in fact Half-Life 2 type graphics in my opinion. well maybe better, but come on only just, and how old is Half-Life 2! Also the Demo had Horizontal Split screen, Real Game has Vertical? come on that is false advertising in my opinion!

Setting, of which there was none!!! OK you can definitely switch your demo was one way, your real game the other. If someone says you can. well to bad, it was not easy, I even googled it with no results. Other settings, I know they didn't want to put sensitivity in but to bad, its a must! Way to hard to play with out setting how fast you like to turn. For new Players like me its to hard to get used to the way this game plays. So you just get killed every corner. I mean your trying to learn maps, your trying to learn weapon impact and reload rate, your trying to learn run speeds and ALSO you have to learn how to turn and shoot! its crazy and makes this game almost a trade in game!

Story line was really good I liked it, I wont ruin it for others but it was generally interesting. More Half-Life 2 type of game story, there was a bit, but needs more. What i mean by this is have scenes while your playing. lock people in rooms and then make them listen to the people talking, explaining stuff. I love this sort of thing. make sure its obvious. maybe have you talk to people, move to movie displays of things then come back discuss, etc, etc.

Not for me though, I wont be trading this game in. I loved the boost stuff, minus the sensitivity of the mouse, which should be excluded, or maybe just boost it at what level we set it. something like that! I'm not a game designer but this was why I'm not playing the game any more. I'm keeping because I think Haze 2, could be excellent! Spend money on graphics make it beautiful. Keep the story line interesting, its paramount to a good game! make it probably about 2 times the length. NOT to long, but definitely longer than this one was! If its interesting it wont matter! I'll want to come back and play if you keep me interested or wanting more.

last of all and just to stay on my soap box. Fix the settings problems as i said above.

In wrap up. Buy this game, you might enjoy it and to tell you the truth for $40AUD it was probably a cheap weekend of entertainment. Just a little frustrating.

Cheers,