Haze

Haze should have had it all. It was developed by the team behind TimeSplitters, backed by a large publisher in Ubisoft and one of the key exclusives for the PlayStation 3. Lo and behold, this epic single-player shooter was simply a mess of glitches, bland visuals, terrible writing, boring gameplay, dumb AI, and so on. It’s a shame too because the premise was genuinely interesting.

This looks mind blowing, but trust me it is not.

Let’s talk about the game’s story first. The game begins with a future flash back with the main protagonist Syd and his ultra acrobatic female fatale Filena are fighting off in a mysterious living tower. Filena loses in between (I won’t say the reason, since that will spoil for the players who are going to play this game) and Syd moves on and he latches on one of the deformable environments. The plot then diverts back to the present with Syd and a whole lot of fat looking soldiers fighting against the main enemies of the game, the Diablosis. Throughout the game your mission is that you have to take out that “living tower” since its taking too many lives and converting human beings in to Diablosis. No logical explanation is given as to how the hell that tower came in to existence, the player is simply thrown in to game and expected to shoot around things. In all, the story absolutely goes nowhere.

The game play just like the story, does not innovates at all. It’s a well known fact that Quantum Theory borrows various game play mechanics with Gears of War and one of them is the cover mechanics. The cover system in Gears of War was revolutionary but the same system in Quantum Theory is laughable. You can slide in to cover just like Gears, but you can’t change from cover to cover, which I think was a brilliant feature. Sometimes the cover system would go for a toss and Syd would not go in to cover fast enough. Next up is the shooting. There is actually nothing to speak about it since it’s basically the same thing that we have seen for the last two years or so. Pop and shoot seems to be the mantra here as well, however having said that some shooting sections are highly enjoyable, specially one area in the game where you are inside a dark area and the Diablosis would attack you from anywhere. Unfortunately enjoyable sections like these are few and far away which meant that the game was extremely repetitive and unevenly paced.

The Diablosis are more interesting than the really bland hero

One of the few good points about Quantum Theory is the bad guys. It’s actually a bit surprising that I found Syd to be lame as compared to the Diablosis. You will fight off various types of Diablosis, some take less shots to take them out, some a few more. Again their resemblance with the Locusts can’t be ignored, but at least they were much more interesting then the boring protagonist. There are tons of weapons to be found in the game and they are huge and massive. But it’s really sad to say that none of them are satisfying. Whenever I used to pick up a gun in the game, I felt like “wow, this is gonna be crazy.” In the end it was a mess! One of the brighter points and the only thing that sets it apart from Gears of War is the double character approach. Syd can use Filena as a projectile and throw her towards the Diablosis for maximum damage. The two can also perform combo attacks when Syd initiates a melee attack which is followed by Filena doing double damage to your foes. Syd can also jump and cling onto deformable and moving environments. At first these elements are exciting but later on it just loses its importance as a major game play element.

The visuals are uninspiring and the artwork is discouraging. Some of the environments are good looking but most of the time you will be living your life inside that bland tower. Story elements are told via a number of impressive looking cut scenes. Voice acting is horrible; the music does not increase the adrenaline. All in all the three major elements of the game have been poorly developed.

Quantum Theory is great example of how Japanese games are trying to impress the Western audience. But simply borrowing ideas from a western game and implementing them in an under average fashion won’t work. Quantum Theory is not the game I was expecting it to be when I saw it all those months ago, the game is a disappointment.

This game was reviewed on the PlayStation 3.

A demo for Tecmo Koei’s upcoming Third Person Shooter, Quantum Theory, was recently released for the PlayStation Network for all PS3 players to try out. For those who are wondering whe the Gears of War-esque shooter’s demo will be avilable on Xbox LIVE, we’ve got bad news.

The publisher has recently announced that the demo for Quantum Theory won’t be out on Xbox LIVE till the end of this month. That will be pretty useless, since the full game releases around the same time.

Quantum Theory is a game that uses the Unreal Engine, and uses mechanics very similar to Gears of War, and thus, it is often called a rip-off of the latter. We’ll see for ourselves what it is when it is released on September the 28th.

Perhaps one of the most bashed games that have yet to be released (for a reason we all know about), Quantum Theory, now has a demo on the Playstation Network which you can download right now.

In the demo you will play as the main character, Syd, and fight your way from cover to cover against a variety of enemies with a variety of weapons, and of course with your mysterious ally Filena.

Surprisingly, the demo is only available on the PSN right now, though an Xbox Live version of the demo will be released later this month.

Quantum Theory is set to be released for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 on September 24.

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As far as the trailer goes, the game being called a Gears of War clone is no lie, you can tell the team was highly inspired by Gears of War, yet at the same time it has stuff that do make them a bit different, but I’ll let you guys decide, watch the gameplay trailer below and tell us what you think!

Quantum Theory is set to be released on the PS3, and 360 later this year.

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Check it out below:

Quantum Theory will be released thus summer for the 360 and the PS3

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We also have game play footage which we had recorded during London MCM expo 2010. Not the best quality since its a cam.Check them out below:

“While the style may share similar traits of a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by hardened warriors it’s the co-operation between our two characters that makes Quantum Theory so unique, The fact you have to physically manipulate this spectacularly acrobatic partner while launching your own assaults makes for an interesting new dynamic – and of course the battle ground is always changing and shifting. There’s a living tower at the heart of this story, a fantastical construction that is never as it seems.”

Stay tuned with GB for more news and updates as we approach the game’s planned release this summer.

KT Europe say that the game was always planned for a summer release since it’s delay in February.
“Quantum Theory is slated for a summer release,” said a Rep. ”It always has been since the initial push-back a couple of months ago.”

Back in February, the company confirmed that the game will be releasing sometime “later in 2010”.