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Rating: 6

Set in the year 2048 in a world where Governments have outsourced military operations to Private Military Corporations (PMC), you play a newly enlisted soldier seeking fulfillment and thrills by fighting for a good cause. As the leading PMC, Mantel Global Industries offers a high-tech arsenal of vehicles, deadly weaponry, and on top of that a performance enhancing bio-medical support known as Nectar. As a result, Mantel troopers are the most feared by terrorists, dictators, and the corporation?s political enemies. Your conflict begins in a war-torn country where you have been sent to fight a vicious rebel faction, the Promise Hand. At first glance, all is well, but things quickly begin to look a little strange?

bit-tech Review

"Taken as a run-of-the-mill FPS, Haze certainly isn't dire, but on the other hand it never really reaches the heights to which it aspires. At around six or seven hours to complete, there's not really enough in the single player game to keep you coming back after the first play through. You might play it again in co-op mode, but even the multiplayer games aren't enough to get you hooked.

Haze could have been so much more, but it falls short on so many levels. The game feels unfinished, as though it has been pushed out of the door six months early. Depressingly, it might be that another few months of spit and polish could have produced the game that the hype promised.

Then again, perhaps not. Maybe every game studio is destined to produce a game that they're embarrassed about. If that's true, then Haze will be hiding at the back of Free Radical's closet for a long time to come." - 22nd May 2008

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