Right now I would agree but in 2008 I feel like there was still hope for Ubisoft. AC in it's infancy, FarCry 2 just coming out and Just Dance just around the corner. They felt like a studio with some promising IPs back then. Then the 2010s happened to Ubi and that was a big yikes!
Haze was the very first fps game I've ever played (in its entirety) and I loved it as an 8 year old. I played it and beat it at least 10 times. And then I got MW2 the next year and then realized just how bad Haze actually was
The idea of playing as more advanced soldiers at the beginning and then switching sides and having to fight against all the abilities you used before is very cool
@@NeroKnight666 hate to be that guy but your concept is awful, from a consumers viewpoint and from a developers viewpoint that concept would go no where
@@Honourryea so true cause destiny, a game that had a similar story, was a total flop and its demise was all due to the gameplay/story and not something else
Unironically this game had a really really good and unique multiplayer, both factions had totally different skills and some of the maps had neat ideas i.e rebel faction starting as a prisoner, needing to escape to respawn armed and then assist teammates in escaping and so on. I'll remember this game fondly for that reason, even if its campaign was shit.
I’ve seen this game everywhere especially the avatars but I have never seen a single bit of gameplay of it and to learn it’s the “Halo Killer” is so funny to me 😂
I was an in house tester at Sony for this game. You have no idea how hard Sony was pushing for this to be huge. We as testers knew this game was going to be bad. Also some of the most fun we had testing a game.
@@DaDualityofMan The game was broken in a lot of areas. Think of it like watching a bad movie with friends. One of the versions of the game, every time you melee killed someone they would just t pose, things like that. Many issues were brought up and just never fixed.
the best part about Haze will always be that crazy interview for russian magazine called Igromania, sadly cant find it on youtube, but it was on dvd disk that comes with the magazine there was one of the devs who was drunk or just high, idk what exactly it was but he was so so extremely emotional and crazy about this game, something like Dicaprio from Wolf of wall street inspirational speech level he even throw his cocktail at some poor people behind him just because he was making too many motions with his hands trying to explain how great this game will be and how it completely destroys halo, he even didnt noticed himself that he just throw away what was in his hands and continued like nothing happend it was just one of the most hillarious moments in videogames industry
Remade with current graphics emotional well written story top notch gunplay same concept brainwashed soldiers tryna help the helpless only to learn you are the monsters all hoped up on drugs.
Does anyone remember the part when this blue figure keeps appearing and talks I was playing it at day time and it felt really surreal like is this ment to be happening but didn't think to much of it but one time my friend was sleeping over my place late at night I was sleeping and my friend played thru that moment he was waking me up real urgently and told me something happened on the game and he was convinced there was a ghost in the room and told him it's part of the game🤣
Ah, yeah. 2015. Halo 5: Guardians. Still to this day, the franchise hasn't recovered from that debacle and is now more "moderately popular" rather than "mega popular". Sucks too, because after they got their act together in terms of managing the game, Infinite is actually good. Not perfect, but certainly better than Haze!
I loved playing HaZe, I didn't even know people were calling it the halo killer. It was very different especially with the adrenaline boost I was just playing multiplayer against other players going crazy fast 💀
I enjoyed it too… it wasnt the worst game ever tho, overhyped? Yeah i guess, if it had a more humble approach in the marketing, might had gotten more respect. The reason people are hard on this game is because of the labeled “halo killer” making the game seem arrogant and causing people to have a high expectation. In reality, this game is not anywhere near to be being a “bad game”
Seen the game cover for so long in stores, online and especially people using it as a profile pic on PSN lol , never got to playing it as well. This was hilarious 😂 hoping we get more type of playthroughs like this down the line with your backlog. Also love the trophy notification as the swear censor lol
This was a fun game back then mainly for the fact that it had cooperative throughout the entire normal campaign which I played with my brother- same with the multiplayer. If I remember correctly, it was one of a few games I remember where you could even play multiplayer online with local splitscreen. Fun memories.
The moment where your suit takes control and you enter a 'haze' is a very interesting gameplay sequence, and also how it hides the bodies to make you a more remorseless, thoughtless killer is interesting meta commentary too. Shane these concepts and themes are wasted with the mostly generic dialogue and writing. Funny, mgs 4 actually has some of the same ideas and came out the same year too I think
@@KrikZ32 that, and i think people in general also tend to just follow whatever the popular thing is. being anti-war was trendy back then, not so much now.
Quite a good review. The only mistake I found that lot of game reviewers doing, is selecting difficulty which is quite easy for them, so they feel boring. "Pretending to be dead" works much better on hard difficulty, when you have split second to decide if you wanna to pretend and hope that your squad move enemy from you, or take your chances. Also fight with elite soldiers doesn't seems so hard, and spike difficulty not so steep at the end, because previous fights wasn't so easy. Server room fight is definitely the hardert. Also game glitched on me there and I didn't get checkpoint after I finally survived at the server room, so next few corridors I fought like an animal to not die and go back to server room fight again. I think at this moment Haze became the best console shooter I played for years. Anyway, thanks for review, I always like to compare my experience with someone else.
I wasn't expecting to have my heartbroken in a review of a game I never played. But then I learned Battlefront 3 was all but completed, ready for launch, and just never saw the light of day. I weep. Edit: The corpse despawn being diegetic is actually pretty near, and the way the story just ends so abruptly screams to me that they were rushed to release. I wonder what more they'd have done with it, though think it probably would have just been a simple both sides bad narrative. Would have liked to see it become more than it did.
@Postpunk I came in very recently and was like wow, how'd he get big without going the big YT route? I love this channel, just classic youtube gaming instead of over the top click bait BS.
10:40 it's probably the best part of the entire game. It felt genuine... Emotional and deep. And you looked super invested into it. The actors did an amazing job there.
I was hoping someone would bring attention to that scene because you're right, it's great. It really is one of the best parts about the game and my favorite scene because for a moment it actually feels like it was well written and well acted (in a game with HORRENDUS dialogue and questionable voice acting). Not to mention the theme behind that whole scene was fantastic too. Its a shame the rest of the game couldn't be up to the same quality.
A family friend gave me his copy of haze when i was a kid. Me and my cousin played the hell out of it untill my dog ate the disc. We both still love this game because of the nostalgia and esthetic of the mantel guys. Unlike the whole population i love this game and im planning on buying the game again someday
I actually liked Haze back in the day. It's funny, one of my buds brought up the game a couple weeks ago and I just gushed over it. Talking about the darker sides of the game and how this drug really did more harm then good.
Haze still bums me out. As a huge Halo fan I just wanted more games of that level of quality. Suffice to say I was INCREDIBLY dissatisfied when I finally got to play the game.
The most interesting part about Haze to me is how it’s development somehow relates to the OG StarWars Battlefront 3. FreeRadical is such an interesting and fun company to do research on. Such a great video man, hope we get more chill content like this in the future!
@@DubberRucks Well it's certainly interesting. Unfortunately there is a lot of misinformation about Bf3 out there on the internet. If you wanna know more about the games development I highly recommend checking out the Free Radical Vault. It's got design documents for 2004 Battlefront and also info on Battlefront 4 and 3.
@@SaintVigil well actually, PSX stands for playstation 1 and Foxhound comes from the group from metal gear solid 1, which is one of my favorite ps1 games.
I’ll never forget playing this game on my dads ps3 and getting permanently stuck once I was lit on fire. My dad didn’t have an official ps3 controller and with out the six axis I couldn’t put myself out.
Oh my, fair play to you for giving it a shot. Nicely done providing context for the time in between the playthrough. Edit: Jeez, that banter from the squad is dire.
oh man this brings me back! i used to work at Walmart at the time as a stockboy and we were rarely allowed to stock up the electronic section since someone did it during the day but we still had access to the backstore. Haze boxes were literally everywhere, cluttering a good section of the backstore, open boxes and broken cd's. this and the viva pinata trouble in something on xbox were treated like literal garbage by everyone
Really diggin the retrospective, I'd 100% welcome more Tues videos like this! I was still in school during the PS3 era and an avid EGM reader so I remember a lot of the hyped up games from that generation but got to play very few of them. It's a lot of fun taking that trip down memory lane and seeing how these games turned out with the benefit of 15 years of hindsight
This era of gaming was amazing. 2007 had Bioshock, Halo 3, Assassin's Creed, Metroid Prime 3, Crysis, CoD 4 and Mass Effect. 2008 had Metal Gear Solid 4, Dead Space, Burnout Paradise, Left 4 Dead, ect. Now if we get one game a year as influential as those, we would be lucky.
@@DannysHauntedJourney I never forgot Folklore. I just haven't gotten to play it yet since I bought it because my 60GB is currently getting fixed. One game Ryan should look at is Legendary. I haven't played that, but one of my friends have.
Frank Sinatra's "Balls in Yo Jaws" used to play at my uncle's house all the time when I was young! I remember him picking me up in his van after t-ball practice, it was cool because it always had candy! He always had a warm popsicle in his pants too, cream-filled I think? He used to compliment me on how good I could keep secrets. The song really takes me back to a better time!
I remember the hype for Haze and really did look forward to it back in the day - it was a massive let down and remember after I completed it I sold it as I thought I'll not be playing that again...
Woah, I haven't seen this game for year's man! Definitely saving this video to my "Watch Later". As I'm currently playing GTA IV, an actual good game lol.
Playing GTA4 with a Mclassic and a decent 1TB SSD today is the way to go when playing it on PS3. Fixes issues the game had when it comes to image quality and hitching from loading in assets off the HDD. It's cool you can do this stuff to your old games today.
@@WllKiedSnake oh Dude I so wish I had of bought an Mclassic a few years ago when they were only around $90, now they're $180 AUD! That sounds awesome, I've been playing the 360 build again on my Series S because all my PS3's decided they would no longer take/read discs...
Fun story time: When I played this game, I never used the Nectar mechanic--I found the game just too easy, I didn't *need* to be juiced up to kick ass, I was doing just fine. But there's a bit in the game where your character is *supposed* to be feeling negative withdrawal effects of the drug, and it's played as a revation for you about how much you relied on it, but since I didn't, I was genuinely confused what was happening and I remember being disappointed they dint have an alternate event for players that didn't use the drug.
The only reason why Haze exists is because TimeSplitters 4 became impossible to pitch to developers after it underperformed in sales. EA spent the money and resources they had marketing their new Goldeneye game instead of Future Perfect, and were candid to Free Radical about how their Goldeneye game was better than TimeSplitters. EA probably never realized the irony of that situation
Well at least a new timesplitters game is coming now. I just hope they can keep the spirit of the first 3 games, and keep soulless "woke" ideology out of it.
I was hardcore on PS3 and never once heard anyone utter Haze as a "Halo killer". I think someone was reading into troll forums too much for this to become a narrative at all.
This would would make a great new series on your channel. Replaying these old games that had so much hype but died within weeks of release and very few of us even bothered to play lol.
Never touched campaign, but my brother, cousin and I had a blast playing multiplayer. I think we viewed it as a break from playing Halo all the time, but it definitely wasn’t even close to being a Halo killer lol
Technically the devolpers never titled it a halo-killer; it was just what the news coverage said, and then that was substantiated by it being a console exclusive fps on the rival console.
The developers were never fond with the Halo Killer title. It’s what the marketing chose to take advantage of when it became a ps3 exclusive. It’s honestly kind of sad, so much was out of Free Radicals control with Haze’s development
Ahh yes Haze. My favorite game that is objectively bad. If only things could have been different with the IP and Free Radical having other issues. Glad you took the time to play through it at least.
While i never experienced this game at the time and never played it but only watched a few gameplays online, i actually wanted to try the demo last year. And yeah, i was only less than 5 minutes in and it bored me so quick that i deleted the demo lol.
@Nero The Chosen you are a spesh, so is your upvoter. Haze killed free radical, the death of FreeRad meant no more timesplitters, short form: Haze killed timesplitters. Also read my username, it’s clear I like the series.
A buddy and I played the multiplayer alllll the time. I still play it once in a while for the nostalgia Edit: just remembered that the randomly generated names can eventually spit out "hank hill" lol
I remember being in a store and hesitating between this game and uncharted 2 (back when I was still buying game on the box alone) I realize now that I made one of the best decision of my life
Something to note the nectar and playdead mechanics worked in multi-player. Shooting somebody's nectar tank and watching them shotgun their teammate was very satisfying.
Man I met so many of people on my friends list through HaZe. A lot of them havent signed on in years... but thanks for the memories! I still think about them where they are now and what they're doing lol
I remember beating the whole game on hardest difficulty a couple years ago. Wasn't a fan either, but the story had potential I guess. Was a little bit challenging from what I remember, especially the last level or 2.
I enjoyed Haze back in the day. I had played Halo 1 & 2 before it, so I knew Haze wasn't as good, but I really appreciated the new and clever ideas it brought. Well done for highlighting that. I pretty much enjoyed it, right up until that difficulty spike... hated that... but then the final level was good fun and rounded off the experience nicely. It’s actually quite a memorable game for me. I just wish they had time to polish off those hard edges.
Tbh, it wasn't a game for the campaign. The multiplayer was where it was at. Of course I could be nostalgia blinded as it was my very first multiplayer FPS, but every single map had a unique objective. Definitely not a cookie cutter experience.
If you haven't you should review the Tribes series or Tribes Aerial Assault. Speaking of halo killers, when this was an active game it was incredibly fun and had a cult following. Lots of teamwork and clans and competition etc. You can play against bots and do split screen.
Happy to see a video on this game actually. I remember when I got it I actually really liked it and it got me into fps games. And the story at the time was really cool to me. Obviously it didn't. Age well but was fun still all in all. Thanks for doing a video on it
When that Trophy sound was going off I thought HAZE doesn't have Trophies then realised it wasn't the game doing that :D + TimeSplitters1/2/3FP by FRD was AMAZING on the PS2 & this game was nothing like their normal games(& now I know why) :-/ Hopefully one day we will get a TimeSplitters Trilogy update on PlayStation :P (+ it's GOT TO HAVE the 4 player split-screen mode to because that was BRILLIANT especially in TS2) :P
Agreed. The team is back together and working on a new Timesplitters game right now :) Also really hoping for 4-player split-screen as that's what TS was all about for me
This was never a "halo killer" only halo could do that. But it seemed like anything that wasn't halo or on Xbox got labeled as "halo killer" by IGN or GameSpot, that crap drove me nuts.
It's one of those games with some really great ideas, but unfortunately executed poorly. They spoiled the story in the trailers before it even came out, that was a big screw-up. The game had so much promise, probably why there was a decent amount of hype for it. I thought the first bit was decent, but too much was forgettable.
I remember I actually enjoyed this game. The story was very good for me. And well, normal in 2007 was actually normal difficulty, not easy like now in 2023.
We live in an era where "mid" now means terrible. This is partially IGN's fault, since they flat out refuse to score mediocre games below a 6 or even a 7. So when someone hears a game is just okay or mediocre, that registers as forgettable, unambitious, and sometimes bad. If you want some recent examples, look at games like Forspoken or Dead Island 2.
@@ToastyCubes true…it would be interesting to see another go at it. In this climate with better writing it might be a good spec ops mindFvck type of game.
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Ubisoft are the world leaders in sucking the fun out of a promising concept. Imagine trying to be creative with them around.
Right now I would agree but in 2008 I feel like there was still hope for Ubisoft. AC in it's infancy, FarCry 2 just coming out and Just Dance just around the corner. They felt like a studio with some promising IPs back then. Then the 2010s happened to Ubi and that was a big yikes!
I really wish gamers would stop blaming publishers alone for bad games and start holding lead developers accountable.
Holy I didn't think you'd be here 😅
Just use a little cream and the Ubisoft will go away
That's probably why we're never getting that new Beyond Good and Evil game from Ubisoft.
Haze was the very first fps game I've ever played (in its entirety) and I loved it as an 8 year old. I played it and beat it at least 10 times. And then I got MW2 the next year and then realized just how bad Haze actually was
Haha I was the opposite I grew up playing amazing games then got into really bad games. Duke nukem forever as an example even though I enjoyed it.
@minutemaid6768lmao Duke nukem is just something to laugh at and not take seriously
@epsiscell917, you probably couldn't even name a good game...
@@CourageTheCowardlyHog0 you guys need to reread his statement.
@@cheerlessnessofthegrove6710 meant to tag the other guy "minute maid"
The idea of playing as more advanced soldiers at the beginning and then switching sides and having to fight against all the abilities you used before is very cool
@@NeroKnight666 hate to be that guy but your concept is awful, from a consumers viewpoint and from a developers viewpoint that concept would go no where
@@Honourryea so true cause destiny, a game that had a similar story, was a total flop and its demise was all due to the gameplay/story and not something else
@@NeroKnight666isn't that like..I....
Every game
Ever?
@@NeroKnight666 I'll play spades plus on my phone before I play majority of the trash they put out today
Nooo.. its was really dumb
Unironically this game had a really really good and unique multiplayer, both factions had totally different skills and some of the maps had neat ideas i.e rebel faction starting as a prisoner, needing to escape to respawn armed and then assist teammates in escaping and so on. I'll remember this game fondly for that reason, even if its campaign was shit.
the multiplayer on this game was definitely what made it a hidden gem. but as a launch title it was definitely not up to par
I’ve seen this game everywhere especially the avatars but I have never seen a single bit of gameplay of it and to learn it’s the “Halo Killer” is so funny to me 😂
Same😂
It was never meant to be a Halo Killer. That's pure BS from one news source.
Halo killed itself lol
@@Fanboynightmare and playstation killed killzone 😢
@@orion4829 I'm sure if they made another killzone it would be top notch
I was an in house tester at Sony for this game. You have no idea how hard Sony was pushing for this to be huge. We as testers knew this game was going to be bad. Also some of the most fun we had testing a game.
How'd you know it was going to be bad if you were having fun though?
@@DaDualityofMan The game was broken in a lot of areas. Think of it like watching a bad movie with friends. One of the versions of the game, every time you melee killed someone they would just t pose, things like that. Many issues were brought up and just never fixed.
@@jakedustin5177 Oh ok I get it
I didn't think Haze had trophies, but I kept hearing them pop over and over while he was playing. I realized it was censorship from cursing, lol.
🤣 I already noticed that but was thinking how funny it would be if there was a platinum he could try to achieve
@@J_Nephilim Either that or you would just get trophies for playing the game? More of them for the longer time you played, perhaps, LOL?
Haze cover art is iconic. I remember walking past it 100x. But i never felt the need to pick it up
Most iconic PSN avatar lol
Same man I had the cover art buried in my brain somewhere as I saw it 8287 times as a kid but never seen any gameplay until today
That early PS3 bloom effect.
the best part about Haze will always be that crazy interview for russian magazine called Igromania, sadly cant find it on youtube, but it was on dvd disk that comes with the magazine
there was one of the devs who was drunk or just high, idk what exactly it was
but he was so so extremely emotional and crazy about this game, something like Dicaprio from Wolf of wall street inspirational speech level
he even throw his cocktail at some poor people behind him just because he was making too many motions with his hands trying to explain how great this game will be and how it completely destroys halo, he even didnt noticed himself that he just throw away what was in his hands and continued like nothing happend
it was just one of the most hillarious moments in videogames industry
Lol I love it.
There are multiple reuploads though. For example “Легендарное интервью HAZE (архив Видеомании)”. The cup shot is at 04:09 😂
@@Solegor thanks, tried to find, but couldn't
Honestly the story had some interesting pieces, it would be cool to see it remade with a stronger emphasis on horror
My favorite parts are when mystic has nothing to say because the plot is actually winning him over XD
Yeah the story was pretty good honestly 💯💯
Remade with current graphics emotional well written story top notch gunplay same concept brainwashed soldiers tryna help the helpless only to learn you are the monsters all hoped up on drugs.
@@ChinoGa Would be way cooler than a lot of the other games out these recent years
Does anyone remember the part when this blue figure keeps appearing and talks I was playing it at day time and it felt really surreal like is this ment to be happening but didn't think to much of it but one time my friend was sleeping over my place late at night I was sleeping and my friend played thru that moment he was waking me up real urgently and told me something happened on the game and he was convinced there was a ghost in the room and told him it's part of the game🤣
It turned out Halo was the Halo killer all along...
343 was the Halo killer.
@@ballinn0430 the guys who made the latest Halo games? Yep... that's the joke I made 8 months ago 👍
Ah, yeah. 2015. Halo 5: Guardians. Still to this day, the franchise hasn't recovered from that debacle and is now more "moderately popular" rather than "mega popular". Sucks too, because after they got their act together in terms of managing the game, Infinite is actually good. Not perfect, but certainly better than Haze!
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@@terribletimes902 beep boop I guess, lol
Can this be a new series for this channel? there are plenty more bad games you can play next too!
Even better: I platinum these bad gsmes
@@Virang807I salute you soldier
The Angry Playstation Mystic
Inversion and Left Alive would be perfect
This is an excellent ideia for a new series! Turns out watching Mystic not having fun is really fun!
I loved playing HaZe, I didn't even know people were calling it the halo killer. It was very different especially with the adrenaline boost I was just playing multiplayer against other players going crazy fast 💀
I enjoyed it too… it wasnt the worst game ever tho, overhyped? Yeah i guess, if it had a more humble approach in the marketing, might had gotten more respect. The reason people are hard on this game is because of the labeled “halo killer” making the game seem arrogant and causing people to have a high expectation. In reality, this game is not anywhere near to be being a “bad game”
Same here. I don't think people actually played it.
It was short, but fun
Esports would've gone crazy with that movement back in the day
@@JesusIsSuperior I don't get it...........
Nobody ever called it the "Halo killer" just some clickbait
Ryan is a really positive guy. It's really funny to see him not be able to defend how bad a game is
Not just that but bleeping out the cuss words. He's probably just saying crap or dag namit lol
Seen the game cover for so long in stores, online and especially people using it as a profile pic on PSN lol , never got to playing it as well. This was hilarious 😂 hoping we get more type of playthroughs like this down the line with your backlog. Also love the trophy notification as the swear censor lol
It was a breath of fresh air to watch you review a throwback game hope to see more of these game reviews making it to the channel
This was a fun game back then mainly for the fact that it had cooperative throughout the entire normal campaign which I played with my brother- same with the multiplayer. If I remember correctly, it was one of a few games I remember where you could even play multiplayer online with local splitscreen. Fun memories.
Saints Row 2 had campaign coop so did the first halo from the previous generation.
Same, havig an entire FPS campaign to co-op with your bro is such a huge plus, made me love this game!
The moment where your suit takes control and you enter a 'haze' is a very interesting gameplay sequence, and also how it hides the bodies to make you a more remorseless, thoughtless killer is interesting meta commentary too. Shane these concepts and themes are wasted with the mostly generic dialogue and writing. Funny, mgs 4 actually has some of the same ideas and came out the same year too I think
MGS 4 was June 2008, this game was May 2008.
Everyone was putting out anti-war stuff back then. Seems like these days that sentiment wouldn't be as popular unfortunately.
MGS4 is a damn masterpiece and no one can change my mind on that.
@@KrikZ32 that, and i think people in general also tend to just follow whatever the popular thing is. being anti-war was trendy back then, not so much now.
@beardalaxy yep. Early 2000s were pro war, late 2000s to late 2010s were anti war, now early 2020s to now is pro war
Quite a good review. The only mistake I found that lot of game reviewers doing, is selecting difficulty which is quite easy for them, so they feel boring. "Pretending to be dead" works much better on hard difficulty, when you have split second to decide if you wanna to pretend and hope that your squad move enemy from you, or take your chances. Also fight with elite soldiers doesn't seems so hard, and spike difficulty not so steep at the end, because previous fights wasn't so easy. Server room fight is definitely the hardert. Also game glitched on me there and I didn't get checkpoint after I finally survived at the server room, so next few corridors I fought like an animal to not die and go back to server room fight again. I think at this moment Haze became the best console shooter I played for years. Anyway, thanks for review, I always like to compare my experience with someone else.
I remember buying this at GameStop for $0.99 and I still felt ripped off
I wasn't expecting to have my heartbroken in a review of a game I never played.
But then I learned Battlefront 3 was all but completed, ready for launch, and just never saw the light of day.
I weep.
Edit:
The corpse despawn being diegetic is actually pretty near, and the way the story just ends so abruptly screams to me that they were rushed to release.
I wonder what more they'd have done with it, though think it probably would have just been a simple both sides bad narrative.
Would have liked to see it become more than it did.
It's crazy how big this channel got without going the sellout route. Still so chill and down to earth. I love it, great video!
I’ve been watching since 2013, can confirm.
@Postpunk I came in very recently and was like wow, how'd he get big without going the big YT route? I love this channel, just classic youtube gaming instead of over the top click bait BS.
"What happened, that was almost an exciting moment" Is the best piece of a review I have ever heard!!
10:40 it's probably the best part of the entire game. It felt genuine... Emotional and deep. And you looked super invested into it. The actors did an amazing job there.
I was hoping someone would bring attention to that scene because you're right, it's great. It really is one of the best parts about the game and my favorite scene because for a moment it actually feels like it was well written and well acted (in a game with HORRENDUS dialogue and questionable voice acting). Not to mention the theme behind that whole scene was fantastic too. Its a shame the rest of the game couldn't be up to the same quality.
Yeah, great dialogue:
"I thought I was doing good, they told me I was doing good if I did what I was told, but I was actually doing bad"
@@JohnSSSSS Because the video game industry is known for it's Hollywood-rivaling voice acting & script writing, right? C'mon...
@@RyTrapp0 it definitely can be for certain games. God of war 4/ragnarok, and the recent cod games have good voice acting
@@RyTrapp0such a weak argument
A family friend gave me his copy of haze when i was a kid. Me and my cousin played the hell out of it untill my dog ate the disc. We both still love this game because of the nostalgia and esthetic of the mantel guys. Unlike the whole population i love this game and im planning on buying the game again someday
I actually liked Haze back in the day. It's funny, one of my buds brought up the game a couple weeks ago and I just gushed over it. Talking about the darker sides of the game and how this drug really did more harm then good.
Online gaming made it fun.
Good, fun ideas, bad controls and needed another 2 years in the oven. Thank you @Mystic for playing this so I don't have to. 😂🙏
Exactly it was a Tripp I liked the game
I really liked it too back then
Kind of crazy me and a friend talked about it like a month or two ago as well.
Haze still bums me out. As a huge Halo fan I just wanted more games of that level of quality. Suffice to say I was INCREDIBLY dissatisfied when I finally got to play the game.
The most interesting part about Haze to me is how it’s development somehow relates to the OG StarWars Battlefront 3. FreeRadical is such an interesting and fun company to do research on. Such a great video man, hope we get more chill content like this in the future!
Yeah that was nutters, imagine where SW: Battlefront would be today if that HAD released
@@DubberRucks Well it's certainly interesting. Unfortunately there is a lot of misinformation about Bf3 out there on the internet. If you wanna know more about the games development I highly recommend checking out the Free Radical Vault. It's got design documents for 2004 Battlefront and also info on Battlefront 4 and 3.
Slyfoxhound x elliott smith is a wild combo lmao
@@SaintVigil well actually, PSX stands for playstation 1 and Foxhound comes from the group from metal gear solid 1, which is one of my favorite ps1 games.
I’ll never forget playing this game on my dads ps3 and getting permanently stuck once I was lit on fire. My dad didn’t have an official ps3 controller and with out the six axis I couldn’t put myself out.
Oh my, fair play to you for giving it a shot. Nicely done providing context for the time in between the playthrough.
Edit: Jeez, that banter from the squad is dire.
oh man this brings me back! i used to work at Walmart at the time as a stockboy and we were rarely allowed to stock up the electronic section since someone did it during the day but we still had access to the backstore. Haze boxes were literally everywhere, cluttering a good section of the backstore, open boxes and broken cd's. this and the viva pinata trouble in something on xbox were treated like literal garbage by everyone
That was a sign then. 🤣
Viva Piñata!? Man I loved those 2 games (well TiP is more just an expansion) but still lol
9:48 where the jank animation produces that soldier model out of thin air just chillin 😂
Really diggin the retrospective, I'd 100% welcome more Tues videos like this! I was still in school during the PS3 era and an avid EGM reader so I remember a lot of the hyped up games from that generation but got to play very few of them. It's a lot of fun taking that trip down memory lane and seeing how these games turned out with the benefit of 15 years of hindsight
This era of gaming was amazing. 2007 had Bioshock, Halo 3, Assassin's Creed, Metroid Prime 3, Crysis, CoD 4 and Mass Effect. 2008 had Metal Gear Solid 4, Dead Space, Burnout Paradise, Left 4 Dead, ect. Now if we get one game a year as influential as those, we would be lucky.
imagine tryin to kill a game from the last generation, when ps3 games are worse than games from the past generation it says a lot.
Thanks for finishing it and letting me see how it ends. My copy stopped working mid way through and never finished it.
More videos like these please, especially of forgotten PS3 games
Lair should be the next one.
@@Dragonfury3000_2 nah, Folklore should be next.
Man, PS3 had so many forgotten games.
@@DannysHauntedJourney I never forgot Folklore. I just haven't gotten to play it yet since I bought it because my 60GB is currently getting fixed. One game Ryan should look at is Legendary. I haven't played that, but one of my friends have.
An ad before the video and an ad 1:30 in awesome bro I really want to keep watching
On release I enjoyed the game, it didn't blow me away or anything but was fun enough to carry me through the very short campaign.
I enjoyed the Multiplayer aswell as the Campaign.
Was great fun splitscreen too.
I would never judge a game by it’s reviews, YOU are it’s review.
I really like the premise of this game, although it sucks that it wasn’t executed well. Here’s hoping it gets a remade into a much better game
6:57 rip aaron :(. Good review. Thanks for the video
Seeing you cover more forgotten PlayStation games like this would be awesome. I was always curious about this game but never got around to playing it.
This game was great. Back in the day as a kid this game was so much fun
I actually liked this game in 2008, didn't know about the marketing or drama behind the scenes, just saw it on a shop and rented it. Some good ideas.
Frank Sinatra's "Balls in Yo Jaws" used to play at my uncle's house all the time when I was young! I remember him picking me up in his van after t-ball practice, it was cool because it always had candy! He always had a warm popsicle in his pants too, cream-filled I think? He used to compliment me on how good I could keep secrets. The song really takes me back to a better time!
I remember the hype for Haze and really did look forward to it back in the day - it was a massive let down and remember after I completed it I sold it as I thought I'll not be playing that again...
Love that this channel is DIDDY FREE
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Woah, I haven't seen this game for year's man! Definitely saving this video to my "Watch Later". As I'm currently playing GTA IV, an actual good game lol.
GTA IV is my favourite of all time. simply incredible. only flaws are the fps and certain graphics issues on the ps3.
@@DRIFTAH1 Good thing is it's on the Xbox backwards compatibility. I played it on PS3, and when I boot it up on my Series X it's amazing lmao.
Playing GTA4 with a Mclassic and a decent 1TB SSD today is the way to go when playing it on PS3. Fixes issues the game had when it comes to image quality and hitching from loading in assets off the HDD. It's cool you can do this stuff to your old games today.
@@WllKiedSnake oh Dude I so wish I had of bought an Mclassic a few years ago when they were only around $90, now they're $180 AUD!
That sounds awesome, I've been playing the 360 build again on my Series S because all my PS3's decided they would no longer take/read discs...
@@WllKiedSnake I also think the 360 build is the best version, better than the PC build. But I played a lot on the PS3 as well growing up.
6:17 looks like you were trying to hold in either laughter or words that would cancel you by biting your lip lol
Fun story time:
When I played this game, I never used the Nectar mechanic--I found the game just too easy, I didn't *need* to be juiced up to kick ass, I was doing just fine.
But there's a bit in the game where your character is *supposed* to be feeling negative withdrawal effects of the drug, and it's played as a revation for you about how much you relied on it, but since I didn't, I was genuinely confused what was happening and I remember being disappointed they dint have an alternate event for players that didn't use the drug.
Didn't they force you to use it at certain points? Like the parts where it malfunctions.
@@leatherhidegaming not that I remember, but I also haven't played it in *quite* some time.
Me and my boys rented it and played it for a weekend. We loved it.
Haze is a bit of a sad story for many of us back then who were hoping for a new TimeSplitters game.
The only reason why Haze exists is because TimeSplitters 4 became impossible to pitch to developers after it underperformed in sales. EA spent the money and resources they had marketing their new Goldeneye game instead of Future Perfect, and were candid to Free Radical about how their Goldeneye game was better than TimeSplitters. EA probably never realized the irony of that situation
Well at least a new timesplitters game is coming now. I just hope they can keep the spirit of the first 3 games, and keep soulless "woke" ideology out of it.
yeah thank goodness!!
@@zackfair6791 Timesplitters was "woke" before guys like you cried about everything being "woke" nowadays.
@@kingwokester7324 No, it wasn't.
KoRn did a song for this game called HaZe. I've never played this game before and it doesn't seem good. But the song is worth checking out.
Killzone 2 is genuinely fantastic
Loved the multi player
I remember playing this and having a pretty good time - liked the way it had stims to wreck everyone and warp reality/storyline
I was hardcore on PS3 and never once heard anyone utter Haze as a "Halo killer". I think someone was reading into troll forums too much for this to become a narrative at all.
I never played it but at least in my country the press hyped it up as a Halo killer.
If you played the multiplayer you would love it even more
This would would make a great new series on your channel. Replaying these old games that had so much hype but died within weeks of release and very few of us even bothered to play lol.
Never touched campaign, but my brother, cousin and I had a blast playing multiplayer. I think we viewed it as a break from playing Halo all the time, but it definitely wasn’t even close to being a Halo killer lol
Technically the devolpers never titled it a halo-killer; it was just what the news coverage said, and then that was substantiated by it being a console exclusive fps on the rival console.
The developers were never fond with the Halo Killer title. It’s what the marketing chose to take advantage of when it became a ps3 exclusive. It’s honestly kind of sad, so much was out of Free Radicals control with Haze’s development
This is really cool, playing the ol PS3 games , I didn't have ps till now (PS5) these videos are great
Damn. Ryan unlocked so many trophies. 😜
You and platinum journey are the best PlayStation channels on RUclips. Just really good to watch.
Loved the story idea of this game and online 4 player coop back in the day was amazing.
Ahh yes Haze. My favorite game that is objectively bad. If only things could have been different with the IP and Free Radical having other issues. Glad you took the time to play through it at least.
I loved this game! It was one of the first games I had when I got a ps3 back in the day. The whole ship in that intro sequence was a multi-player map.
I miss those days when we could play sci-fi FPS single player campaign like twice a year as a matter of course.
Especially without wondering if all the content was on the disc or not lol to be drip fed as DLC
Halo killer was Killzone. And it came out first than Haze in 2004.
Damn...😂😂😂
I remember playing the demo, and I was like this ain't it....😂
While i never experienced this game at the time and never played it but only watched a few gameplays online, i actually wanted to try the demo last year.
And yeah, i was only less than 5 minutes in and it bored me so quick that i deleted the demo lol.
Bro this game was sooo good on ps3. The one shot gun was insane. The multiplayer was amazing
Haze still the best game artwork iv'e ever seen
Only thing it managed to kill was Timesplitters.
@Nero The Chosen you are a spesh, so is your upvoter.
Haze killed free radical, the death of FreeRad meant no more timesplitters, short form: Haze killed timesplitters.
Also read my username, it’s clear I like the series.
A buddy and I played the multiplayer alllll the time. I still play it once in a while for the nostalgia
Edit: just remembered that the randomly generated names can eventually spit out "hank hill" lol
I remember hearing the KORN song and wanting to play the game. After trying the demo I changed my mind..
I remember being in a store and hesitating between this game and uncharted 2 (back when I was still buying game on the box alone) I realize now that I made one of the best decision of my life
You bought haze?
😂 I literally exclaimed “Is that the end?!” And then the credits started rolling, holy crap that was the end
I bought my ps3 and got this in a bundle. I almost returned the whole damn thing.
Yikes! 😁
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Something to note the nectar and playdead mechanics worked in multi-player. Shooting somebody's nectar tank and watching them shotgun their teammate was very satisfying.
Do more of these. Very entertaining.
If Haze had come out on ps2, everyone would worship it.
It's development would of probably been smoother no doubt.
Man I met so many of people on my friends list through HaZe. A lot of them havent signed on in years... but thanks for the memories! I still think about them where they are now and what they're doing lol
I remember beating the whole game on hardest difficulty a couple years ago. Wasn't a fan either, but the story had potential I guess. Was a little bit challenging from what I remember, especially the last level or 2.
I enjoyed Haze back in the day. I had played Halo 1 & 2 before it, so I knew Haze wasn't as good, but I really appreciated the new and clever ideas it brought. Well done for highlighting that.
I pretty much enjoyed it, right up until that difficulty spike... hated that... but then the final level was good fun and rounded off the experience nicely. It’s actually quite a memorable game for me. I just wish they had time to polish off those hard edges.
Tbh, it wasn't a game for the campaign. The multiplayer was where it was at. Of course I could be nostalgia blinded as it was my very first multiplayer FPS, but every single map had a unique objective. Definitely not a cookie cutter experience.
If you haven't you should review the Tribes series or Tribes Aerial Assault. Speaking of halo killers, when this was an active game it was incredibly fun and had a cult following. Lots of teamwork and clans and competition etc. You can play against bots and do split screen.
Happy to see a video on this game actually. I remember when I got it I actually really liked it and it got me into fps games. And the story at the time was really cool to me. Obviously it didn't. Age well but was fun still all in all. Thanks for doing a video on it
When that Trophy sound was going off I thought HAZE doesn't have Trophies then realised it wasn't the game doing that :D + TimeSplitters1/2/3FP by FRD was AMAZING on the PS2 & this game was nothing like their normal games(& now I know why) :-/ Hopefully one day we will get a TimeSplitters Trilogy update on PlayStation :P (+ it's GOT TO HAVE the 4 player split-screen mode to because that was BRILLIANT especially in TS2) :P
Agreed. The team is back together and working on a new Timesplitters game right now :) Also really hoping for 4-player split-screen as that's what TS was all about for me
HAZE didn't have trophies, no. It's an edited sound effect in the video.
This was never a "halo killer" only halo could do that. But it seemed like anything that wasn't halo or on Xbox got labeled as "halo killer" by IGN or GameSpot, that crap drove me nuts.
Loved hearing your thoughts and review on how bad it was
I have so much memories of me me n my bros playing this as a kid. Such a good time for gaming
The only way haze kills halo is when you use it to scratch the disc of halo
You deserve more likes lol
The game was fun back in the day. The split screen coop was great too
It's one of those games with some really great ideas, but unfortunately executed poorly. They spoiled the story in the trailers before it even came out, that was a big screw-up.
The game had so much promise, probably why there was a decent amount of hype for it. I thought the first bit was decent, but too much was forgettable.
Wow! Classic. Another memory unlocked from the vault
I remember I actually enjoyed this game. The story was very good for me. And well, normal in 2007 was actually normal difficulty, not easy like now in 2023.
This story plot is great and the game has some cool mechanics. I think it’s underrated.
Its the actual moment to moment gameplay that looks like it hasn't much going for it
Who would have thought that if we just waited long enough, Halo would kill itself? 🙃
😁👍 this was way funnier to me than it should have been especially as I've played nothing past Reach.
Idk if anyone has mentioned it but the numetal band KoRn even made a song for this game! IMO its actually a good song too!
Haze wasn’t that bad of a shooter. It was mid but I enjoyed it. I feel like it gets a lot of hate for it’s time
We live in an era where "mid" now means terrible. This is partially IGN's fault, since they flat out refuse to score mediocre games below a 6 or even a 7. So when someone hears a game is just okay or mediocre, that registers as forgettable, unambitious, and sometimes bad. If you want some recent examples, look at games like Forspoken or Dead Island 2.
@@ToastyCubes true…it would be interesting to see another go at it. In this climate with better writing it might be a good spec ops mindFvck type of game.
@@ToastyCubes mediocre is naturally forgettable. It IS a bad thing.
well back then we had halo, haze was and still is trash
@@yyyhhh8481 to each his own at least haze died in peace. Halo was smothered with a stiff azz throw pillow
The only Halo Killer is 343 Industries lol
You actually play the games and give honest opinions about it instead of just trashing the game. I like that approach.