Blockbuster's Top Ten Selling New Video Games Includes... Haze?

Raoh - 173 days 6 hours ago

haze wasnt terrible. it played well. looked good. etc.. what was wrong with haze was that it was late. so late that by the time it came out it felt outdated.

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IrishRepublicanArmy - 173 days 6 hours ago

and sold it before the online worked properly!!
also releasing after cod4 uncharted halo and ratched tools of destruction help make it feel outdated. my opinion.
btw its sold over 750,000 and still counting. a sucess for a lackluster game!

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LittleBigSackBoy - 173 days 6 hours ago

terribly amazing...?

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stewgart - 173 days 6 hours ago

If haze was on the ps2 it would have been loved by many but it just didn't cut it by todays standards. If it's one thing Free Radical always did right however, it was the shooting mechanics. I love the way the guns shoot in haze, similar in style to the timesplitters games which were underrated last gen.

I was seriously looking forward to Timesplitters4. One can dream...

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rockleex - 173 days 5 hours ago

They should have taken the much safer and guaranteed route with Timesplitters.

I loved Timesplitters on the PS2. Imagine 4 player splitscreen online/LAN with Timesplitters on the PS3!! O_O

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STK026 - 173 days 5 hours ago

Haze is not a great game, however, these days you can get it for like 5 to 15$, easily worth it in my opinion.

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EpicGamerSwordsman - 173 days 5 hours ago

Haze Wasn't that bad, Gameplay was good, Graphics are decent & Multiplayer was fun. I mean a 4 out of 10, I thought it deserved a 6/7 at least!

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FamilyGuy - 173 days 5 hours ago

A lot of you seem to be having memory issues.
Haze sold so well because it was hyped to he11 and back, it was one of the most advertised and talked about games on the PS3 before it was released. It sold well because it was marketed well and it's as simple as that.

I was considering purchase of this game before it came out (and im not even a fan of the genre) but once the demo was released and i played it i knew it wasn't for me. I actually liked the demo too, i just sucked at the game so i figured, "why buy a game that's gonna frustrate me?"

ABOUT THE ACTUAL ARTICLE

Before, I was just saying why Haze sold well for something ill received by reviewers. On the topic of the list itself, I'd say it was an accident, Those are all "new" games, Haze isn't new so someone made a mistaking in placing it there unless it was just recently released in some other country where this article was posted.

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IdleLeeSiuLung - 173 days 5 hours ago

This game hit the bargain bin so fast.

I ended up buying two copies of Haze for $10 each to play co-op with my brother. Frankly it was worth less than $10 in my book.

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ThanatosDMC - 173 days 2 hours ago

Haze was ok... but when it came out we've seen a lot of games that have done better... not to mention the textures sucked, the guns look like toys, etc.

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mrnintendo96 - 173 days 1 hour ago

it was bad, all of you should read my review.

wait, i rented that game twice for my review........

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butterfinger - 173 days 1 hour ago

You are completely wrong about Haze. Sony hasn't marketed ANY games well this gen, and Haze is definitely no exception. Even if the game was marketed well, it only sold a little over 100k it's first month, so it's clear that the bargain bin prices are what is driving it's sales. It was marked down so incredibly fast, it is no surprise that it's moved a lot of copies in a popular genre. Also, when they are referring to "new video games" at Blockbuster, they are just referring to games that aren't pre-owned, so Haze is perfectly fine on this list.

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BWS1982 - 172 days 23 hours ago

but not unplayable. It wasn't broken, and it wasn't so absurdly bad you couldn't finish it (unless you have unusually high standards or dislike shooters). At least that's my opinion. It was a bit too linear, it had horrid voice acting, awful AI, and it had an average story at best. Guess what, it would have fit in better 5-8 years ago. The problem is it was an exclusive in 2008, so expectations are going to be higher, not to mention it was a Free Radical game....The potential was there, the concept was actually sound, it was simply not well executed in the finished product. I'd give it a 6.5 to 7 total....I'd even go so far as to say that if Free Radical (now with Crytek) took the game and revamped it and re-released it with revamped open levels, remarkable graphics (which FR should be capable of, especially with CryEngine 3), got better actors, redid the story, and did polishing here and there (more weapons, better AI, more replayability, more MP options/maps)....then it'd have a nice shot at being a "good" game instead of passable or "meh"....

I thought I read an article that had some of the FR devs venting about being pushed to finish the game before they thought it was ready, or letting it go in a direction they didn't want it to go. Ubisoft was there Pub. so I don't know the truth, but last summer I could have sworn I read an article along those lines...

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BWS1982 - 172 days 22 hours ago

but I want to clarify Haze was an alright game, it just had more potential and personally, I'd be excited to hear about a "remake" of sorts, sort of how they did with Alone in the Dark: Inferno or The Witcher: Enhanced Edition....they took the original, tinkered and polished it up. I paid $30 for Haze actually, at Walmart last fall, and don't regret it. I just know how good FR is and what they are capable of, I still would like to know how many of the dev's wanted more time on it, and what kind of pressure Ubi was putting on them, if any, because the game was decent, but it wasn't Timesplitters caliber, which makes me curious.

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FamilyGuy - 172 days 17 hours ago

Thanks for explaining he "new" status of this game at blockbuster, that clears that problem.

Whether you remember it or were subject to it or not is not my concern, I, PERSONALLY, saw a TON of commercials for this game, He was always drinking "juice" and i saw it multiple times daily on whatever channel i was watching.

BUT, the mark-down effect absolutely was the reason for it's sales. Just look at what happened when Valkeria chronicles price went down.

Yeah, so marketing wasn't the cause for its sales but there WAS a lot of marketing, from the commercials to seeing that yellow helmet on city buses and bus stop benches.

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da720izcumin - 172 days 12 hours ago

people are still trying to justify haze's existence...
i remember back then, N4G was full of articles titled as such "will haze be the new halo killer?" or my favorite "haze, surely GOTY!"

lol, good times...

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mrnintendo96 - 166 days 11 hours ago

Who disagreed with my comment??

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IrishRepublicanArmy - 173 days 6 hours ago

and most xbox owners wudnt know it was region free.

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Ziriux - 173 days 6 hours ago

The only time I liked Haze was, when I played the demo, because I never had a chance to play the full game, I might like.

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ButterToast - 172 days 19 hours ago

agree its a good 7-7.5 game. it wasn't bad it just wasn't as good as the other high profile FPS games that came out before it. It was a fun rent especially playing the campaign with split screen.

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Ceekay - 172 days 23 hours ago

Damn, every time I see your avatar I'm angry at the complainers who prevented this controller from ever seeing the light of day. LOL

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The Dude - 172 days 8 hours ago

True

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TheDarkCynic - 173 days 6 hours ago

Triple A's tend to be multi-million, sequel inducing franchises. None of those apply to Haze. If a games quality is lacking, people will dislike it, regardless of platform. As is the case here.

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KnaveX - 173 days 6 hours ago

God kills a kitten every time u try to be clever.

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TheBand1t - 173 days 5 hours ago

DarkCynic, if you aren't aware, Happyface is a troll. Just Ignore him.

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TheDarkCynic - 173 days 5 hours ago

Ah, I see. I appreciate the heads up ;)

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GameOn - 173 days 5 hours ago

I hate to say it mate but you're only half right. 6.8 on metacritic says it's mediocre but if you like it, good for you.

Think I was a bit slow there.

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Parapraxis - 173 days 5 hours ago

I never thought an xbox fanboy would ever appear to be jealous of Haze, but there you have it folks.
happyface honestly sounds mad that Haze is only on PS3!
brilliant.

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celldomceen1 - 173 days 6 hours ago

lmao.......you're joking right?

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IrishRepublicanArmy - 173 days 6 hours ago

would be proud!! :)

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TheDarkCynic - 173 days 5 hours ago

Though I much prefer the 360, I have to disagree with you. PS3 is doing plenty well with games now, and in the future.

inFAMOUS
Uncharted 2
Brutal Legend
Read Dead Redemption
Killzone 2
Valkyria Chronicles
MLB 09: The Show
LittleBigPlanet
The Last Guardian
Rachet and Clank Future

To name a few, that's quite a bit of money that I'd spend in a heartbeat, and on quality. Definitely by no means is it lacking in quality games.

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Parapraxis - 173 days 5 hours ago

You can't even count Mr_iClu7ch, I bet you think your opinion has lots of value!

OPEN ZONE ---> thatta way

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kissmeimgreek - 173 days 5 hours ago

brutal legend and red dead redemptionare also on 360

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EpicGamerSwordsman - 173 days ago

I didn't know it was 2007 still. Saying the fact ps3 has no games, that argument ended long ago, looks like you're in the wrong time period :)

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Ziriux - 172 days 14 hours ago

Only people that aren't gamers and will play whatever is given to them. Ubisoft probably told blockbuster to start pitching Haze to PS3 owners hehe.

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The Dude - 172 days 8 hours ago

Haze is the best shooter on the ps3 it will probably outsell killzone 2 :)

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TheBand1t - 173 days 5 hours ago

I just plain didn't like it. At all. The allies died in one hit, it took a whole clip to take down one enemy, all the guns in the game were made of ass and recoil, the voice acting was a lollercoaster of fail, the graphics were subpar, the gameplay borderline broken.

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IrishRepublicanArmy - 173 days 6 hours ago

i cudnt get into any games when i got it so i sold it and played cod4 resistance gta4 and mgs4 online

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Ziriux - 173 days 6 hours ago

Yea that's probably the most appealing feature of the whole game.

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