Haze clears in May
Ubisoft nails down release month for oft-delayed PS3-exclusive shooter.
Ubisoft has today announced that Free Radical's Haze will arrive exclusively for the PlayStation 3 this May. However, since Haze first descended on the 2006 Electronic Entertainment Expo, nailing down its release date and platforms has been an exercise in futility.
Initially slated to arrive on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC in the first part of 2007, Ubisoft bumped the shooter back in January 2007 and said it would arrive in the company's fiscal year ending March 31, 2008. In May, Ubisoft once again amended that date, this time saying the game would arrive for the PlayStation 3 in the fall. At that time, no mention was made of the Xbox 360 and PC versions of the game, primarily because the publisher had intentions to can those editions, perhaps because work on those editions had officially ceased by August.
Ubisoft then delayed the PS3 version of Haze for its January-March quarter of 2008 during its second quarter earnings report in November, and then bumped the game out of its fiscal year 2008 entirely during its third-quarter fiscal statement this January, which meant that the game could potentially have arrived as late as March 31, 2009.
Set in the not-too-distant future, Haze drops players into a strife-ridden world lorded over by all-powerful megacorporations. Check out GameSpot's coverage of the long-in-development shooter for more information.
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Developer: Free Radical Design
Genre: Modern First-Person Shooter
Platform: PS3
Release Date: May 20, 2008
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This game will be better than Halo 3 and Timeshift XDDD
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getting this along with SW: Force Unleashed and GTA 4 baby! Hope it leaves up to it's hype
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As long as theres no more delays for the PS3 (looking at you MGS4), 2008 should be a good year for me and my PS3 indeed..
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This better not be anything like Timesplitter that game suks so much.
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im getting this game and gta 4 as soon ill get my ps3 in august, it MIGHT not be as good as killzone 2 and resistance 2 but i hope it wil be close to them and wil be worth it but im pretty sure it wil, or atleast after so many delays i should be worth it...
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the setting will be the past by the time it comes out
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Looks awesome
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I'm torn on this game. My first impressions were "this will be awesome!". I've watched developer interviews and they look like they put a lot of time into and poured their hearts into making this a great game.
On the other hand, it's been delayed a few times now, and I'm hoping it was to improve it, not to move it into a date w/ no competition to sell it better. The last hands-on previews said certain levels looked great while others looked bad. I hope the delays were to improve on this and turn out a great game.
I will wait for a few reviews on this one but I really want this game to be good as it sounds really cool.
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@xsqmko
You are by far the most immature, mentally impaired, internet personality I've ever met....
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So excited about this game

Can't wait till may
And yeah the nasty X360 fanboys got dead after they's HD-DVD old crap was kick by B-ray so.....shut it..........OBEY SONY!!!!!!
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im so sick of these un witty article titles. they are total crap.
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must b a good one....
after so many delays..
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PS3 haters make me sick. This will be sweet. Why can't you just get over yourselves and let us enjoy a game once and a while?
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Xbox 360 versus Playstation 3, LAWL.
zzz. I think that haze is looking pretty cool, different from Resistance and Halo, but still pretty neat looking. All of you waring factions are morons. "My game console is better than your game console because blahblahblah". Get a grip, or i'll smote you with a pointy kite.
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Haze will be teh Halo killer for cows just like Killzone was...
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Haha 360 owners must be mad, u know that ps3 is the best!!!!!
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Yeah ... whatever ... UBISOFT missed the boat on this one ... who cares... only thing that matters now is MGS4!
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probably. why dont they just give up on fps games for PS3 and give us more action adventure games, RPGs or unique games like PS2
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awsome i hope they it doesnt get delaued.................. again *cough
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lovely, its looking good
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guys guys guys, look at it my way, being a VALVe guy myself i always know the launch date is moved, but i also know it yields a better product, so in sum be patient because you will benefit from it.
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THE BLASTMASTER, would you go a check out resistance reviews before opening your mouth? How dare you compare resistance to perfect dark, worst, you said perfect dark is better. You're nothing but a 360 fanboy that want a ps3 but can't afford one. I'LL CHOOSE RESISTANCE ANYTIME OVER HALO boy.
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and then... I was reborn.
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YES, I love Free Radical!!!
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lol thats nothing we have been waiting since october? and are still waiting a few months from now for GTA !!!!
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i can't believe this, i've been so waiting for this game since **** NOVEMBER COME ON ALREADY
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oh and btw for people who might give up on the game, i was looking into army of two a while ago but it kinda looked poor they kept holding it back and it looks really good now, so be patient!

i think its out next month
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@waraga no not all of us i wouldnt mind having killzone 2 that was good and wouldnt mind haze im not into MGS4 or final fantasy though

since evrything is pretty much multiplat who needs to worry on either side?
im looking forward too:
army of two
Alone in the dark
battlefield bad company
brothers in arms hell's highway
Dead space
fable 2
fallout 3 farcry 2
Gears of war 2 GTA
Mercinaries
prototype
Rainbow six vegas 2
resident evil 5
star wars the force unleashed
some 360 boys might be feeling sick but im not most of these games bar GOW2, fable 2 and i think dead space are all multiplat so you will get too play them too!
i wonder if i can actually afford all of them
i think this will be the best year ever for both consoles!!!!!
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Finally!!! better start saving up the money
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I think Ninja Gaiden 2 and Fable 2 will make a challenge also...
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360 fanboys must be felling sick we have killzone2,haze,msg4,fainal fantasy,man i think its the year of the ps3 .may be gears of war 2 will make a challenge.
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I dont really think Haze will make a huge impact ! it doesn't look that great =|
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They'll eventually make the 360 version, too bad it's not now
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We've heard all this before...I've been waiting for this game for so long, I'm beginning to doubt it existance!
I'll believe it when I see it.
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Well, at least we have an official date. Let's hope that they don't push it back some more.
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Lets hope it sticks this time shall we and hope it remains exclusive to PS3.
Im asuming this will be better than Killzone 2 but not Resistance 2
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i just wish they would hurry up and release it, its taking the michael now!
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can`t wait till this game commes out
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Cool, I want this game for the co-op play, looks like it will be good, but it will face heavy competition from MGS4. It will be great, this is ubisoft, maker of the best shoters on any console. Some of you say COD4 is the FPS king, but R6V still beats it by a long shot.
Also someone I know said that this game was also coming out for the 360, which is good as it means more people could play it and I would be able to choose what to get it on, but is he right??!!?
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I bet this game turns out like Timeshift... kinda ok, but not amazing. That's normal for all Ubisoft games to date.
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Yay?
Sure but this game is taking forever to come out
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resistance was a fun release title. it did nothing revolutionary or even terribly exciting but it was fun to play. perfect dark zero though i found frankly awful so dont even mention it in the same paragraph.
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perfect dark zero boring yawn. reistance was more fun than it, I dont know what you were playing. Resistance has a better story line than most games out right now. Cannot wait for numbeer two and haze as well
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It makes me laugh when i hear mention of Resistance 2! The first one was merely OK. Perfect Dark Zero was better, however it did have a good premise/story. I'm tired of people acting like it was so great.
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Frankly, i dont care anymore. What a joke. Lost interest months ago. You can keep it, Ubisoft.
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Sony is going to have a solid 2008....
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at last may i wanted this game so bad ,it looks ace . but i will wait till the reviews i hope its worth buying
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