Weapons and Multiplayer
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The weapons available in Haze are top notch and are a lot of fun to shoot. The developers of the game made sure that players will want to use the pistol as a weapon of choice rather than a last resort. Grenades are also used quite frequently and, combined with the Nectar collected from your fallen enemies, can cause a group of Mantel troopers to overdose on the drug at simultaneously. This is indeed a sight to see.
Sadly, with all of the interesting choices of weapons in the game, only a few of them exist throughout the majority of the campaign. For instance, assault rifles, high-powered machine guns, and shotguns are all over the place, whereas other desirable choices such as the flamethrower and sniper rifle are only available in the few missions that call for the extra firepower. In fact, the sniper rifle is actually touted verbally early on in the game, but it's not available until well past the halfway point in the campaign. Then when you do have the sniper rifle, you'll most like rid yourself of it as soon as you run out of ammo due to the lack of your ability to carry more than two weapons at a time. In fact, you may not be able to find additional ammunition for the rifle anyway since your chances of finding another along the objective path are slim to none.
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The multiplayer in Haze is as straightforward as the gameplay itself. When the PlayStation Network does not hinder one's ability to join a game without serious lag time or unavailable servers, players can enjoy the standard deathmatch and team deathmatch modes. While solo and team deathmatch are fairly run-of-the-mill, the team assault mode adds the most creativity to the online experience. During team assault matches, two teams totaling a maximum of 16 players are given both areas to defend and objectives to accomplish. This game mode actually compliments the single player experience with its own story elements not seen in the original campaign.
Regardless of the chosen multiplayer mode, bots can be added and customized to even out the teams with too few players. This is also a great way to enjoy the game's split screen mode that can be used to for instant action or to practice for upcoming online games. Even so, with only six maps available out of the box, the multiplayer experience may run dry all too quickly for some gamers.
While multiplayer proves to be much more fun than single player, Haze's co-op mode that can be experienced with up to four players is where the game really shines. There are those who choose to brave the campaign alone, and this still has its benefits, but there's nothing like bringing along a few friends to turn an otherwise mediocre campaign into an extremely enjoyable romp. Cooperative play allows players to complete the single player campaign in its entirety with friends via the PlayStation Network or at home using the game's split-screen option. Cooperative play has become quite popular in recent history and is easily the most enjoyable way to experience Haze.
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aeternitas - Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - link
I agree with this.Many months ago I read a digital camera review here. I could see that they were trying really hard to sound like they knew what they were talking about, but there were so many obvious gaping holes and leaps in logic that any semi-pro digital photographer would just scoff at.
Missleading half truths simply due to not understanding the technology!
Honestly, if this site (or any online) doesn't want to dedicate one reviewer to a category, and have that person well versed, then there is little to no reason to do reviews on technology that you guys need not be. I much rather see updates on the video card section. Or maybe a lil expose on modern CPUs and how they work at the deeper level.
You guys REALLY have plunty of stuff to review, rather than an extremely poor and very ugly version of Halo.
Come on.
malkavianjkames - Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - link
I thought it was more of a commentary than a review. I honestly don't care what anandtech has to say about if this good is worth playing or not. Alot of the comments, however, were informative about the game in an honest manner and I welcome them.Actually, I get a big impression that this game sounds like a more open ended "Red Faction 2" haha.
Baked - Monday, May 26, 2008 - link
What the hell, AT does game reviews now?Ensoph42 - Monday, May 26, 2008 - link
Guys, stick to what you know. There are other sites out there that specialize in game reviews and do a much better job. I don't go to gamespot for thier hardware reviews and I don't come to anandtech for game reviews.poohbear - Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - link
yea true dat! unless the game review incorporates some kind of hardware (eg videocard, quad core support) analysis, please dont do console game reviews.soydeedo - Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - link
Agreed. I didn't really think it was a bad article, but I don't want these things to take the place of hardware articles. I also don't think I'll ever really rely on this site for game reviews. Make a spin-off or something like DailyTech, but incorporating it into AT isn't that smart.JarredWalton - Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - link
Note that the author (Eddie) is not one of our hardware reviewers, so his presence as a game reviewer is not taking time away from other articles. I do have a few game articles I'm working on, but they are PC games and they will certainly discuss the hardware side of things as well. Stay tuned....GoodRevrnd - Monday, May 26, 2008 - link
I have to honestly wonder what the point of this article is. AT isn't a game review website, so is this a test to see how it goes over? Can you even release reviews with the regularity necessary to maintain credibility? Judging from the waning Rock Band DLC reviews, I'm guessing not. So that brings up the other question: Did Sony just pay you all to review an exclusive for the mere purpose of plastering a great big "HEY WE HAVE AN EXCLUSIVE" on the front of the page?JarredWalton - Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - link
We're looking to do more game reviews. And the "Exclusive" was put there by me meaning "this is a PS3 Exclusive" not "this is an exclusive review".anandtech02148 - Monday, May 26, 2008 - link
not too many reviews for this game, and it looks promising for my underuse hardwares. Please review age of conan.