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.

Now I have talked about the awful plot of the game. Now let me tell you accompanying an awful plot is a horrible display of gameplay. The main character can just run, shoot aand take cover. THAT’S IT! There is nothing more and unique about the gameplay. You will be fighting your way across the totally destroyed city of Los Angeles with your team mates. You will be facing the same type of silly enemies again and again. The spiders which are pretty tough and take a lot of bullets are the only ones whom i will make them as a standout enemy. The flying machines are just a rip off from Playstation 3’s popular first person shooter franchise: Resistance Fall of Man. Than there are the awful machines you will fight against in the game. These guys look tough but the way to take them down is damn easy. Stand up and Shoot. And those machines will be gone in no time. Other enemies include the flying harvester which I thought was a big joke. How on earth can such a big bird be brought down by two RPG’s! I mean common man put some realism factor in the game. There is no such variety in the enemies. You will be facing the same again and again with no one really posing a huge challenge.

You will have quite a bit of armory at your disposal. The standard machine guns, the shot guns and the rocket launchers, along with standard and fire grenades. I donno in which century the developers live in as the guns sound like really dreadful. Talking about the your team mates. They can only help you in one way. When your clip is out , they will fill you in with ammo. Create something unique. It would have been better than Jack could have gone alone in this mission and still make it through the campiagn. As it is who needs team mates with awful AI. One thing really that standouts and I hope other games will implement is the cover system. I really liked how the cover system is implemented in the game, something very different than what the Gears of War franchise has. But for the cover system alone who will pay $60!

The city of Los Angeles does look very beautiful but its really a huge shame that character animations and model are absolutely garabge. The animations are out of snyc at most times and CG cut scenes are poorly implemented. Though some of the lighting and shadow effects have been pretty well implemented. The voice acting is awful and with Christian Bale himself refusing to lend his voice for the game really does seal the fortune of the game.

Theres absolutey nothing to be found in the game. The game can be completed easily under 4 hours. I mean $60 for 4 hours of game play, that’s really a joke. No replay value, awful story and mediocre graphics make this one of the prime candidates for the worst game of 2009. For those willing to waste their money and time should keep their hopes high on this one. And i know theres no one from you who will fall in this category. Terminator Salvation fails at all scenarios: Gameplay, Visuals , Graphics and other categories. At a time where games like Riddick, X-Men and Wheelman did pretty good, a game like Terminator Salvation reminds us of the unstable condition of movie based video games.

This game was reviewed on the Xbox 360.

Terminator Salvation is based on the next Terminator which is expected to hit the cinemas soon. Terminator Salvation takes place between Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and Terminator Salvation. The game is set in 2016, with players taking the role of John Conner a member of Commons. The game is basically a third person action adventure-shooter game, allowing the player to take constant covers against the machines and pop out and shoot them.

So baically plot wise, John is leading a small resistance team , fighting against the machines who have destroyed the infrastructure and have killed many people of Los Angeles. The game will take you across 9 stages of some modern and urban warfare and occasionally there will be some battles against the machines in lush jungles as well. There will be gunfights on cars and also there is a brief section of fighting on the trains. Overall the action is expected to be up to the standards of the movie. The game also employs the cover system which is indeed very useful while fighting against the Terminators. This time you will be facing the Terminators as well as some new foes. Spiders and Aerosmith makes up a formidable enemy and are tough to take out . This time the terminators have invaved your territority and they are going to give their all. So expect no walkover in the game. Weapons wise you willl be having the standard machine gun , shotguns and also the grenade launcher used in Terminator 2.

You will not be fighting alone in the game. Some members of the resistance will always be with you. So in case you are wondering whether you will be overnumbered by the Terminators , fear not. Your resistance members are pretty smart and will be helping you in various ways. Be it when you are out of bullets or you are on low health , your resistance members will always be able to help you.Talking again about the cover system, there will always be a sort of display indicating the nearest cover. Now this is what makes the cover system unique as compared to games like Gears Of War and RainBow Six series. The battles againt the Aerosmith and Spiders are going to be tough , since they are made of tough steel and will really require some serious and heavy fire. This will give rise to entertaining fights between the Resistance members and the Terminators.

Some of the aspects of Gameplay which did not create a good impression was the lack of team gameplay element. The player cannot command other players while they are along with him in the fights. Though they will help the player by providing him with ammo as i wrote before. Also there will be no co-op gameplay online which is a big minus in our books, since the developers could have added the co-op since we do have a sort team based gameplay in the game. But the developers have promised a “cool” and an innovative offline co-op. We will keep our fingers crossed on this one. Terminator Salvation is going to hit the stores this month. Check out soon for a full review of Terminator Salvation on GamingBolt.com

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