Haze release date gets fuzzy

By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpotPosted Jan 23, 2007 12:12 pm PT

Ubisoft confirms that Free Radical's next first-person shooter has been pushed back past March.

While one might think a new first-person shooter from a development team with TimeSplitters and the Nintendo 64 GoldenEye 007 would have high visibility, there's an appropriately impenetrable fog surrounding the development of Free Radical's Haze. Little has been heard of the Ubisoft-published shooter after it was introduced at last year's Electronic Entertainment Expo with an early 2007 expected release date.

Ubisoft today gave an update on the game in its quarterly financial filing, but the news won't be welcome to those who had been eagerly anticipating Haze. The publisher announced that the shooter has slipped out of the original release window and into its next fiscal year (April 1, 2007-March 31, 2008).

Set in the not-too-distant future, the game puts players in the boots of a soldier in a well-funded privatized army run by the Mantel Corporation. Haze opens with players sent to put down a rebel faction in a South American country, but Ubisoft says "things quickly begin to look a little strange."

89 Comments

  • Richo_13_

    Posted May 7, 2008 4:30 am PT

    halos gona get SMASHED

  • seanbrandowen

    Posted Apr 1, 2008 5:48 am PT

    Halo eat your heart out, haze is almost here

  • bobthegoat2001

    Posted Feb 18, 2008 3:57 pm PT

    The're probably having trouble getting it to work on the PS3 correctly. Or maybe they're hesitating on even releasing it on the PS3 exclusively, since they won't get any money out of it. I don't blame them, why put a game out on the system with about half the global sales of the 360.

  • Kobe720

    Posted Feb 16, 2008 9:05 pm PT

    hopefully its a damn near great game with all this time they've been given

  • 21121

    Posted Feb 16, 2008 12:37 pm PT

    only just spotted this game, and its looking awesome ^^ shame we're gonna have to wait a while though i guess

  • donlphi

    Posted Jan 23, 2008 8:57 am PT

    I imagine they are pushing it back because it sucks compared to the current first person shooters and they are redoing some things. It's going to be tough for them to even come close to COD4 as far as playability and intuitive controls. If it were just "bugs" they were concerned about they would have released it last year. Whenever you get a release date pushed back it means there is some quality control happening.

  • god_killer65

    Posted Jan 18, 2008 11:15 pm PT

    y dont they just release now!!! everyone's beggin for it!

  • ss3zolo

    Posted Jan 13, 2008 8:47 pm PT

    NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • PS_sony-4-life

    Posted Jan 12, 2008 1:11 pm PT

    ShaoFly is ****** RIGHT! I need HAZE To! Ubisoft,no offense, Gimme My CRACK B1TCHES!!!!

  • usmannaseer

    Posted Jan 11, 2008 9:38 pm PT

    another game delayed......i hav no new games to play on both Ps3 or 360...this sucks..........

  • ShaoFly

    Posted Jan 8, 2008 7:03 am PT

    i hope turok is good

  • ShaoFly

    Posted Jan 8, 2008 7:02 am PT

    **** A......................such **** **** **** delete my acount if you want for swearing but i dont care, this is ****......i need haze. **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** ****

  • mad_tyger

    Posted Jan 6, 2008 3:39 pm PT

    This was posted Jan 23, 2007, a full year ago . . .

  • viperhellfire

    Posted Jan 5, 2008 11:44 am PT

    D*** now i don't have anything to play till SSBB comes out.

  • jrco666

    Posted Jan 4, 2008 9:59 pm PT

    Man every time the release date gets near they push the game back!! Sick and tired of the delay. Though honestly if its being delayed to remove the bug that causes the unexplained freezing in recent Ubisoft games then I can understand. Assassin's Creed wasn't the only game of Ubisoft's to freeze for no reason this year.

  • LatusItani

    Posted Jan 4, 2008 7:10 pm PT

    Grr, Im only a little pissed at this, I want my Haze! I suppose they pushed it back for a good reason, yeah, but everyone who had this on thieir wish list is gonna be downtrodden.

  • TheGecKOo

    Posted Jan 4, 2008 2:45 pm PT

    Muther F#$! MGS4 will be out before we get to even see this game hell maybe even HoMe You just gotta love videogames!!!!

  • grandterra

    Posted Dec 18, 2007 8:20 am PT

    ahh at least it not as bad as square-enix have been in the past. only 1 year delay FF12 was delayed for god knows how long i can wait for what looks to be an brilliant game.

  • Zoomer30

    Posted Dec 16, 2007 10:25 pm PT

    So this will push GT5 back to the 2011-2012 timeframe

    If it were not for the delays we would have no GAME news to talk about.

    After a few more delays the storyline will go from being "set in the not too distant furture" to being set in the "present"

  • learyan21

    Posted Dec 10, 2007 6:38 pm PT

    hahah that sucks! delayed!!! im not getting the game anymore T_T
    might just release it to 360 and PC because killzone will be on 2008 too ! i cant play both games online bhee!!!!! 60$................................

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