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Haze
- PlayStation 3
- Price: $59.99
- Genre: First Person Shooter
Common Sense Media says
Weak shooter with performance-enhancing drug theme
Parents say
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that this is a very violent first-person shooter. Players kill enemies using guns, grenades, and other weaponry. The action is also quite bloody. The single-player plot is filled with crude language. Drug use is a core element to the game, although players cannot view characters "using" the drugs via injection or other form of intake into their body.
What's it about?
After multiple delays, Ubisoft finally unleashes first-person shooter HAZE, a drab, run-of-the-mill shooter that disappoints in almost every facet.
You play as a private military contractor for Mantel Global Industries. Besides utilizing the most sophisticated weapons and equipment, Mantel troopers use a performance enhancing drug called Nectar to gain an advantage. During a battle with a rebel faction, you learn of the dangerous side effects to Nectar and switch sides to stop Mantel. Early on, you'll play as a Mantel soldier, using the Nectar and learning of its severe effects. You'll experience healthy boosts in strength, speed, and accuracy. However, enemies turn into faceless figures. Occasionally, you break out into a blind rage and shoot everything in sight. Once you turn rebel and rid your body of Nectar, you'll defeat troopers with a weaponized form of Nectar.
Is it any good?
When stacked up against fellow first-person shooters, Haze is incredibly weak. Graphics are shoddy. The weapon selection is sparse. The only intriguing weapon is a Nectar grenade. When you toss one at troopers, a yellow cloud of smoke shoots out. This causes the troopers to overdose and either attack teammates or turn insane. Strategically, you can go without Nectar grenades since the troopers are complete dolts. You can break down a metal door and troops remain oblivious. Computer-controlled teammates are equally useless. Either they step into your line of fire or don't bother helping until you've cleared an area. Targeting, crucial to any first-person shooter -- feels consistently off. Haze also offers online multiplayer and four-player co-op, but there's no incentive to play when you consider the game's core issues. Maybe developers would've been better off delaying this title much, much longer.
What families can talk about
Families can talk about the controversy surrounding performance enhancing drugs. Why do you think Major League Baseball players and other athletes have used performance enhancing drugs in sports? On a gaming level, what makes a first-person shooter entertaining?
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Haze: Not as bad as they say!
First off I just want to say to common sense. You guys always say wrong things about a lot of things. EVERYTHING SHOULD SAY KNOW YOUR KIDS. Because how do you know a child will grow up to do the things in gta 4 ? It could just be 1 child when 1 person does something wrong everyone blames it on media like when my chemical romance makes a new cd and someone commits suicide you blam it on them! Anyway Haze is a great game just know your kid. You don't want your kids to grow up and be a killer like common sense thinks. NOT EVERY KID IS LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE!!! GOD!!!
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This is definatley not as good as Call of Duty 4 or Resistance: Fall of Man
It's a decent game but probably not worth buying.
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this game is stupid
no sense retarded storyline and makes no sense it sucks
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WEAK..
This game sucks.Its pretty much just bad for blood,cursing,and Drug use(I guess good drug that enances Gun? skills). After playing this your propbobly hopeing to get a Xbox this holiday season,for Halo and Fallout and etc. Gamertag=GMan22JR
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THis is game is kind of fun but I still hate it
It is a pretty bad game there is lots of bad words. Ive seen the commericial there is so much drugs in this game. THhis is game is a little scary and this has tons of bad words and did I memntion taht this has tons of bad words
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Suitable For 11 Upwards
I let my children play this and i have 4, there is bad language but your child will hear it, that you can not prevent. This game is ok for some but know how your chid is, if he or she acts out things do not buy this game. If you are of sound mind let your children play this game
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Human Tiger Shooting
This is a random shooter. Story is almost non existent. Basically says: Killing is routine.
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Absolute Junk, Worst game ever played
There are 45 mins of cut scenes, when you get into action. If you slightly overcharge your drug thing you go wild and start wiping out your men. The visuals are terrible. Worst on ps3. I've seen 1998 PC games look better. Actually comparing it to that is an insult to PC games. Blood looks like Strawberry Jam, It looks Caligulated :P Kill one person. Oh wow another cut scene, then you go crazy again and kill your men. The graphics and gameplay are buggy. I came across About 50 errors in a period of 10 minutes. Even the cut scenes had errors. It then froze, a crappy game like that freezing my ps3? it probably didn't want to play an embarrasment any more. So bad I didn't even care about the trophies. Just sent it back. And you get these puffs in yellow costumes that look like they have come back from Pluto. I've heard of a bad game but this pees on bad games.
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| Platforms: | PlayStation 3 |
| Available online? | Available online |
| Genre: | First Person Shooter |
| Developer: | UbiSoft |
| Release date: | May 20, 2008 |
| Price: | $59.99 |
| ESRB rating: | M for Blood, Intense Violence, Strong Language, Use of Drugs |
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