Only the most positive Haze reviews here

Posted May 21st 2008 2:30PM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: Rants

Our comments section exploded yesterday, when we ran a piece about Haze's initial reviews. The first reviews were rather scathing towards the PS3 "exclusive" FPS, and many accused us of anti-PS3 sentiment (in spite of us not having written any of those reviews). To make you feel better, we've chosen only the best reviews from Haze's Metacritic page. ~~We won't tell you that Haze's average Metacritic score is 54.~~

PSM3 Magazine UK (70/100) - "There is a certain charm to it ... almost on par with the perfect Call of Duty 4 mechanics.
GameDaily (70/100) - "Yes, it's true, the game runs at a dwindled 576p resolution instead of 720p, but we still find it attractive ... Haze is a good first person shooter."
Game Informer (63/100) - "Haze's saving grace is its co-op gameplay, which can be fun when you shoot a friend's Nectar tank from behind to watch him freak out."

As a few readers pointed out, apparently the Japanese magazine Famitsu awarded its lucrative Gold rating to the game. Considering how much the Japanese love FPS games, this is a rather stellar accomplishment. With the game on store shelves today, we'd love to hear more about your Haze experiences in our comments section.

Tags: haze, metareview

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)

5-21-2008 @ 2:39PM

Roto13 said...

"The first reviews were rather scathing towards the PS3 "exclusive" FPS, and many accused us of anti-PS3 sentiment (in spite of us not having written any of those reviews)."

Are you serious? People are that fanboyish that they would actually blame you guys for other people's opinions?

This is pretty pathetic.

5-21-2008 @ 2:52PM

Robert said...

I was one who said something like "They show only the reviews with bad scores", not as a fanboy, but because I think they should have waited for a few more reviews, showing only the first three with below average score was a little harsh.

Everything apart from that, that image is really funny

5-21-2008 @ 3:23PM

Popfrogs said...

This is spin. People have been noticing the negative tone of lots of ps3fanboy articles, the Haze scores article was just the tip of the iceberg.

Regardless, when you have to dig this far down to get a positive review, chances are the game sucks.

5-21-2008 @ 3:33PM

john paul said...

so people said the people who run ps3fanboy are anti-ps3.
:/

5-21-2008 @ 5:00PM

deaftly said...

Yea, the majority of comments on this site just make my head hurt most of the time. When 1 little piece of negative news comes out for the ps3 half the comments are about how bias this site is or MS paid them off or some other ridiculous bullshit. People are idiots.

5-21-2008 @ 4:58PM

deaftly said...

5-21-2008 @ 4:37PM

Chris said...

Yeah, it's because Robert is a little baby who obviously made the mistake of preordering Haze and took it out on Andrew Yoon. Robert wrote in the "Haze initial reviews are not promising" blog:

5-20-2008 @ 11:00AM
Robert said...

forget about that JimmyD, ps3fanboy editors will show only the worst reviews they can find

5-21-2008 @ 7:48PM

never$$hort said...

shut up deaftly... your comments never add anything worthwhile or positive to this blog EVER...

5-21-2008 @ 2:47PM

Eric E said...

From what i've seen that Graphic is probably better than the game. (though the GIF is pretty tough competition. Hilarious)

5-21-2008 @ 2:51PM

Livi70590 said...

OPM Italia 9/10

Famitsu 34/40

Quite strange that these have not showed up on Metacritic eh?

5-21-2008 @ 2:56PM

Andrew Yoon said...

Famitsu is never on Metacritic.

5-21-2008 @ 3:05PM

Fullmetal Salchemist said...

No, that's not strange. Foreign reviewers (with the exception of a few UK sites) rarely appear on Metacritic or Gamerankings.

5-21-2008 @ 3:34PM

xeleion said...

I think that Famitsu's ratings of FPSs are a little skewed anyway, since FPSs haven't oversaturated their game market yet. Here in America, where there are eight FPSs per console per month, the standards are a bit tougher.

5-21-2008 @ 2:54PM

marauder800 said...

Good co-op can save an otherwise medicore game. This might be worth a look when the used copies start hitting the shelves.

5-21-2008 @ 3:29PM

Solace said...

totally.
Army of Two co-op > Ao2 solo
heck, even co-op in Dark Kingdom made the game kinda fun...

5-21-2008 @ 2:59PM

Maeztro said...

I'm waiting for Zero Punctuation's review.

5-21-2008 @ 3:13PM

Lars said...

Calling zero punctuation's rants a "review" seems quite odd to me.

5-21-2008 @ 3:23PM

reson8er said...

Agreed. Zero Punctuation is more like and entertainment site than a review site.

Its sorta like getting your news from Fox News, instead of ya know a credible source.

5-21-2008 @ 5:17PM

Maeztro said...

Errr...Turn your sarcasm detector back on. Or turn off the fanboy glasses.

5-21-2008 @ 3:59PM

eugene said...

which is hilarious because I think entertainment shows like the Daily Show and the Colbert report are still both more informative and fair than Faux News.

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