Dev responds to IGN's Haze review - "MEGAowch"
- Posted May 20th, 2008 at 07:18 EDT by
- 90 Comments
With early reviews for Haze looking good (Famitsu 34/40 and Italian PSM 9/10), it came as a bit of a shock when IGN bestowed a dreaded 4.5/10 on the game in their review this morning. In curiosity, PSU.com contacted Rob Yescombe of Free Radical to hear what he had to say.
"My thoughts are 'Owch.' No, wait - MEGAowch." wrote Yescombe.
"Haze has had mixed reviews, but even GoldenEye got a 4/10 when it first came out. With a 9/10 in the Italian PSM, and an extremely positive review in Famitsu, we're looking forward to people playing Haze and making a judgment for themselves."
According to IGN, Haze suffered from "a bland story with weak characters... [and] tons of visual issues, from texture tears and non-descript environments to pop-in and odd animation problems."
This comes as a surprise to us because back in March, PSU was given hands on with a near final build of the game and we thought the title looked fairly good. The graphics in particular looked crisp and the framerate was smooth.
With Haze releasing today in the US, and Friday in Europe, we'll see how well gamers will jump on board with the new PS3 exclusive.
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electricmine
- 4:25am EDT - May 20th, 2008
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That's absolutely ridiculous.
On second thought, I think I'll give it a rent or wait to see what other people say about the whole game.
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tadpole3159
- 4:33am EDT - May 20th, 2008
- 24
the review did sound like the guy reviewing it was just pissed off and needed somewhere to vent. maybe he should have vented at wii board. no one cares about the wii board
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Staticneuron
- 5:24am EDT - May 20th, 2008
- 29
I really thought the whole point of them chosing a lower resolution was so that they didn't have all these visual issues. Something does sound suspect but ign has rarely failed me....e xcept for that 'one' time.......
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Fiddlesworth
- 5:26am EDT - May 20th, 2008
- 30
Lower score than Blacksite Area 51? How can IGN be so far off the mark?
Don't be a wuss, jack the demo up to hard and tell me this game isn't great fun.
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PS34ever07
- 5:40am EDT - May 20th, 2008
- 36
Sorry, I may be a big Sony/Playstation fan....BUT any game that looks like this...is very much likely to be horrible in other departments. The game looks great in small screens and some shots...but in HD...it looks just like the screens they put up. ::awful::
Haze in HD screenshot <-click here
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kidkotic2001
- 5:57am EDT - May 20th, 2008
- 37
man I didint think this was ever going to be released today im not going to get it at first I was but they delayed it to long lost interest in it.
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woodcock_ps3
- 6:28am EDT - May 20th, 2008
- 38
you guys are acting like complete sony fanboys. This game was truily horible the demo was the worst thing i've seen and the controlling was crappy i had to switch it to the cod4 settings and still it was bad.
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