The Game That Killed Its Own Studio - The Tragedy of Haze

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Founded in 1999 by former Rare developers who served as creative forces on GoldenEye 007 and Perfect Dark, developer Free Radical Design built what many consider among the most inventive first-person shooters of the 2000s. The TimeSplitters series especially set the world on fire with exciting time travel elements. Free Radical’s subsequent project, Second Sight, brought its own unique brand of thrilling gameplay to the table as well, courtesy of various psychic mechanics. The Nottingham-based group tried pushing the envelope further when designing Haze, a PlayStation 3 exclusive primarily remembered for playing a role in the studio’s collapse.
Haze didn’t bear the look of an ill-fated project in the years leading up to its May 2008 release. On the contrary, Free Radical and publisher Ubisoft never seemed anything less than proud of the first-person shooter’s progress. And apart from minor technical concerns months before launch, previews and other public showings were met with predominantly positive reception.
Free Radical possessed the right ingredients-a world-renowned development team known for producing seminal experiences, the backing of a major publisher, and a gameplay hook that married well with an intriguing futuristic plot. Unfortunately, technical shortcomings and other circumstances beyond the developers’s control greatly hindered their ability to deliver the final product as promised. Players instead found themselves navigating a stale experience that failed to uphold the standards established across Free Radical’s otherwise stellar pedigree. At its core, then, Haze constituted the result of a talented team doing its best with the inferior hand it was dealt.
This is the tragedy of Haze.
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0:00 Intro
01:59 Sponsorship
03:08 Shifting Tides
05:25 Growing Pains
07:36 A Game About War
10:58 Halo Killer
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@GVMERS 2 года назад

Check out Dying Light, the game will be on 70% Sale between the 9th and 21st December! Check it out here wehy.pe/y/2/GVMERS #ad

@TheeCambion 2 года назад

Do Killzone please 🥺

@MischaB1987 2 года назад

"To celebrate the game's 30th anniversary" I didn't knowing Dying Light was THAT old! /s

@woldemunster9244 2 года назад

Dying light is dying apparently, even RAID: Shadow Legends would have been "better" sponsor. :DDD

@user-cg5dy5lk2t 2 года назад

The rise and fall Need For Speed

@markoyamashitach 2 года назад

2:53 I don't get prompted to use the code during the buying process on Steam. Is this something you enter after purchasing the game? I have this game on PS4 but have been waiting for it to go on sale for PC. Best zombie game (single player) out there that delivers a open world, sandbox adventure. And, the developers have continued to update and add content which I find impressive. Now if only I could find where that code goes... 🤔

@PlebNC 2 года назад

"Ubisoft wanted quantity over quality" Some things never change. Unfortunately...

@Gruntvc 2 года назад

Perfectly describes their current batch of games. Hard to believe I used to like them.

@xDrTomx 2 года назад

This was the start of the end for Ubisoft. Back then, they were known for quality always. Ghost Recon series was good af

@kupokinzyt 2 года назад

@@xDrTomx Far Cry 3 was the downfall of it all.

@xDrTomx 2 года назад

@@kupokinzyt was the ass creed series for me. How you gonna make a series called Assassins Creed and the only assassin we get is Altair, for ONE game.

@dani3po 2 года назад

Such as the script of these videos. "A group of genius developers are forced by an evil corporation to create a terrible game".

@Pewpewpew182 2 года назад

This was one of those games that you would see at a GameStop and think to yourself, “This looks interesting, I’ll wait till it’s $10 bucks.” The PS3, Wii and Xbox360 era had so many games like that. Still a great era though.

@cyphaborg6598 2 года назад

This is really bad though

@iceytoa1 2 года назад

I think the fact there were so many games like that, is what made that generation so good. You don't have singularity or vanquish tier games now, it's either 2D indie or AAA micro transaction mess :(

@tiagometallica007 2 года назад

@@iceytoa1 My words exactly. Good AA games that aren't worth 60 bucks just don't exist anymore outside the PC gaming space. Pretty sad really

@UmVtCg 2 года назад

I got all 360 games from Newsgroups, which was pretty awesome. I remember playing Halo 3 and Fifa more than a month before release.

@eddy59ification 2 года назад

Leon, I actually felt the exact same way. As a broke teen I didn't wanna take a chance on a new game when I was already familiar with COD and Battlefield, which were identical to what Haze was offering. Something about the color scheme threw me off as well, the bright yellow with black looks really unappealing.

@jakefoley9539 2 года назад

"Did you ever hear the tragedy of Star Wars Battlefront 3? I thought not. It’s not a story EA would tell you. It’s a Free Radical legend. Battlefront 3 was a game in development, so anticipated and so ambitious that it could reinvent the very foundations of the series… It had such a knowledge of what players wanted that you could even fly from ground to space... without loading. Free Radical's game design was a pathway to many abilities some consider to be... really cool. It became so hyped… the only thing we were afraid of was it getting cancelled, which eventually, of course, it did. Unfortunately, it taught its apprentice Haze everything it knew, then Haze killed it in its sleep. Ironic. Its resources could get other games developed, but not itself." - Palpatine, 19BBY

@rickylovesyou 2 года назад

wat

@tylerdeskins7715 2 года назад

Lol some consider to be “really cool”

@MDPToaster 2 года назад

@@rickylovesyou Free Radical was developing Star Wars Battlefront 3 along with Haze at the same time with split development teams. Star Wars Battlefront 3 while in development had a lot of technical issues and multiplayer was essentially impossible on all devices, leading to Lucas Arts to ask them to pull back on their vision of ground to space combat, the developers insisted they could fix the issues. They ended up over budget and falling way behind on development goals and couldn’t get multiplayer past 10 FPS. It’s speculated that the failure of Haze on a technical level is what gave Lucas Arts cold feet on the game and lead to the cancellation of the project.

@aceofhearts573 2 года назад

@@MDPToaster I didn't know the multiplayer on Battlefront 3 was unplayable. Interesting did a developer say that in an interview? It should have been released on PC only but even back in 2008/2009 I think PC hardware could not have worked

@MDPToaster 2 года назад

@@aceofhearts573 Yeah there was an ex-dev that claimed the game was 98% finished and that Lucas Arts wanted a remake of the OG BF1+2 instead. However this was not true and the developer was treating the game as a passion project. Other devs have come out to contradict the completion percentage and place it around 30-40 and state the game was barely playable on single player. But there was a lot of completed assets for the game and they were put to use for the Battlefront 3 Legacy mod for Battlefront 2.

@strikeforce1500 2 года назад

Who would had thought that Haze was a preview into what most triple A games would turn into. Crappy deals for the studios, stupid deadlines, even stupider deals, and Publisher interfering with development. Just to cause the death of the studio, while the Publisher yeets the IP, so nobody else uses a similar idea

@ketrub 2 года назад

turns out it was ahead of its time all along

@xBINARYGODx 2 года назад

except that crap existed before this game - you are just more aware of it now (for various reasons)

@caidurkan2916 Год назад

@@xBINARYGODx yeah the general work environment of visual effects studios is one of many great examples, let alone cinema in general

@Gruntvc 2 года назад

I still think the concept for Haze could've made for an excellent single player focused FPS. Shame it turned out this way and pretty killed Free Radical and their Timesplitters franchise.

@DantesGrill 2 года назад

Deep Silver is working on a new Timesplitters so it's not completely dead, fortunately.

@Gruntvc 2 года назад

@DantesGrill, Nice, is Dambuster Studio working on it? If I recall correctly, that's the one that was made up from Free Radical once Deep Silver picked them up from Crytek. I thought Homefront The Revolution was decent. But it was pretty cool they included the entire Timesplitters 2 single player as an Easter Egg in it.

@DantesGrill 2 года назад

@@Gruntvc I have no idea actually. One of the devs said they where working on it in a youtube comment. I only made a background check to see if it was legit. But it's supposed to have a lot of the same team behind it. Tried to ask some about how the gameplay would be but he wasn't allowed to say anything yet. This was months ago though.

@rustedknight_ 2 года назад

@@DantesGrill iirc, they've actually reformed FRD, although I think it's still under the control of one of the aforementioned studios

@bounceycake1 2 года назад

The concept was great, but the game Spec Ops: The Line did better with that concept narritively

@ShiftJay08 2 года назад

I remember when the marketing for this game came out with all the trailers and developer diaries. I was just a kid back then and became obsessed with this game. I look back now and cringe lol. Still reminded of this wasted potential every now and then. Multiplayer was fun though.

@quinnmarchese6313 2 года назад

played a lot of the multiplayer with a friend back then. we didnt even take it seriously, our 'house rules' were basically playing hide and seek and then shooting each other in the back to cause an overdose.

@ElSoloNoco 2 года назад

Same. I used to buy OPSM magazine each month religiously & the build up to this game was immense. It's one of the first games I can remember having such a huge build up and just dropping in price massively after it released. Such a shame what happened to Free Radical, all their games had a vibe about them where you could just tell it was made by them, the animation, the UI but the vibe in general. I remember being very dissapointed by this though, I can't remember if I rented it from Blockbuster or I bought it but it didn't feel like FR, it felt kinda just standard, lacking..

@theoroinvictus 2 года назад

I was in high school then, a good friend of mine and I would argue meaninglessly about Haze and Crysis, about which game would be superior in graphics or tech etc. good times

@lucignolo8333 2 года назад

@@theoroinvictus lmao same, here in italy haze was ine of the first titles with triple a marketing and we were all hyped as fuck, we would constantly argue if haze or kz2 would be better

@theoroinvictus 2 года назад

@@lucignolo8333 oh yes, we did a lot of arguing about KZ2 as well. we were so fooled by the infamous pre-rendered trailer, it's funny to look back on the trivial things we pointlessly argued about back then

@PlebNC 2 года назад

Not gonna lie the Dying Light sponsorship was unexpected. Partly because it is probably the first time I've ever seen an in video for a product that is actually relevant to the targeted audience while the product is actually good itself and not a rubbish mobile game. The other part is that it's Dying Light 1 being advertised not Dying Light 2. Guess Techland needed some extra capital to get DL2 over the finish line, lol.

@PlebNC 2 года назад

@@TheKarabanera I have no issue with them marketing it, just feels counterintuitive to market them previous game as we draw closer to the sequel's release day.

@MelAncholynus 2 года назад

It's also nice that they're marketing a 70% off sale.

@chadhardt6136 2 года назад

@@PlebNC the marketing focused on 1 is supposed to build a foothold into new players to later on sell you the second part, which if you enjoyed the first one, now you have the lore context and general feel of the franchise to persuade you to buy it, and since they are also going to give discounts to the first game, it makes it even easier to sell.

@Rexodiak 2 года назад

True, seeing a video sponsored by a AAA game that's a few years old is a first for me, but I wouldn't mind it not being the last. Also, I swear I'm hearing "to celebrate the game's 30th anniversary" and the subtitles seem to agree on that lol

@vojtisekhovor 2 года назад

@@PlebNC not at all actually, it's very well thought-out. once you play 1st one what will you be playing next huh? revenue is revenue and as you can see by Techland supporting their game for so long, it does not have to be all back in first week like with other scummy publishers

@RolfWrenWalsh 2 года назад

I enjoyed the game quite a bit, but my all-time favorite moment was during the marketing. Writer Rob Yescombe was being interviewed at a trade show, and he just goes off on the guy: "Haze is not a war game!! Haze is a game about war!!" Okay dude.... Think you can chill a bit? My friend and I still quote it to this day, and I always like to remind him that if there is one fact of life that he must always remember no matter what, it's that Haze not a war game, it is a game about war. This knowledge must be bestowed upon generation after generation.

@fuzzyballs8726 Год назад

You don’t understand the statement. haze and the storyline was actually very in depth about the reality of war and focused more on the story rather than a typical shoot ‘em up fps that there were hundreds of in 2008

@RolfWrenWalsh 9 месяцев назад

@@fuzzyballs8726Yes I understand that having played through the game several times, but it was just so hilarious how he just blew up on the journalist.

@Casio163 2 года назад

The best promotion this channel does is discussing the stories of video games and their making. After watching your videos on Sleeping Dogs, Dead Rising franchise, Spec Ops The Line, FEAR franchise and Bully, I bought the games and played them for the first time! Thank you for showing me some gems.

@Meekmillan 2 года назад

God I want a remastered FEAR series

@aceofhearts573 2 года назад

Free Radical was actually killed by Lucasarts when they stopped funding of Battlefront 3. It was real bad because Lucasarta took out funding breaking the contract but since Free Radical was going under they knew Free Radical didn't have the money to take them to court so they closed down a few days before Christmas.

@butteredbread100 2 года назад

And then Lucasarts was later killed off over Battlefront as well

@slippytrippy8122 2 года назад

I dont care if it failed, the idea of assymetrical gameplay with addicts vs people who can make you overdose is badass

@AncestorEmpireGaming 2 года назад

They were so obsessed with killing Halo, all they had to do was wait a few years for Guardians to do that.

@Powerhouse1 2 года назад

People keep saying this, but Infinite is doing very well all things considered.

@AncestorEmpireGaming 2 года назад

@@Powerhouse1 very well so far, even with the micro transactions

@freddiejohnson6137 2 года назад

The thing is it was the gaming media that called it a Halo killer much like they did with the first Killzone. They seemed obsessed with something coming along that had to be a better Halo than Halo rather than being its own thing.

@Spartan_Jackal 2 года назад

@@EggEnjoyer yeah but 4's story was way better then 5's. multiplayer, not so much

@afd19850 2 года назад

@@Spartan_Jackal100%

@yttaf 2 года назад

Bro can't believe dying light is 30 years old.

@jormilos 2 года назад

Really though. It aged super well

@ketrub 2 года назад

dying light aged so well it feels like it only released 6 years ago

@coredetta Год назад

How??? That thing came out in 2015 💀

@oof239 2 года назад

2:42 “To celebrate the game’s 30th anniversary…” I think you mean Techland’s 30th anniversary lol

@manuelacosta9463 2 года назад

Bought this one on discount a few years after its release out of curiosity, it was clunky and tiresome but I will say the attempt to subvert gung ho military FPS by intentionally shielding the players via mechanics before showing the grim reality of what's being done by the evil conglomerate and its doped pawns is an interesting take for a game. Good ideas poorly executed.

@MrBubbles0o0o 2 года назад

God Second sight was such a gem.. I miss playing it. I might start it up again soon.

@rookless4121 2 года назад

Dude, I remember playing that game with my gametap subscription lol

@Gruntvc 2 года назад

Second Sight and Psi Ops The Mindgate Conspiracy were both good games that gave the player cool psychic powers.

@ElSoloNoco 2 года назад

I was playing it not too long ago. Got as far as the asylum chapter but you know when you skip a few days, then it turns to weeks etc & it gets to a point where its been so long you'd just rather start again... Anyways great game 👌

@lucascoval828 2 года назад

@@ElSoloNoco I hear that.

@stutheironman 2 года назад

Psi-Ops was also solid from the same time period

@Hank280 2 года назад

Dam dying lights 30 years old already! I bought it day 1, man I'm getting old. Awesome video as always guys I'm supporting you all the way and will continue to. Loving the more regular uploads!.

@BEARJEW427 2 года назад

Ughh what? Pretty sure it came out in 2015

@MelAncholynus 2 года назад

I bought it back in 2015 as well. But it was not until 2021 that I tried the expansion The Following. Had great fun with that one too.

@UmVtCg 2 года назад

Lay off the crack

@Aurongel 2 года назад

@@UmVtCg They were referring to the narrator's ad copy flub(?) at 2:42

@Hank280 2 года назад

Aurongel - Aurongal got it. Good man :D. 2:42

@RG-lh8xb 2 года назад

Deep Silver could reintroduce a new Haze game as something like "Haze Redux" in spirit of their Apocalypse Now inspiration, and be totally within grounds to totally reinvent it while still having brand recognition 🤷

@mylittlepkle1714 2 года назад

"while still having brand recognition" what brand? Haze is not a brand and even if it was why would anyone want to remind potential customers of the garbage that was haze?

@RexcorJ 2 года назад

@@mylittlepkle1714 "One man's trash..."

@tvsavery666 2 года назад

Man this channel is so good. The narrator's voice is amazing and soothing, the content is quality documentary worth videos, just amazing work all around.

@halowillneverbegoodagain1868 2 года назад

Ah, I remember when Dying Light first released in 1991...

@fatmandoobius 2 года назад

lol Not just me that spotted that then

@chooky4626 2 года назад

Ran too fast on my 386 iirc

@iv5539 2 года назад

2:43 Can't believe it's almost 30 years since Dying Light released, it has aged beautifully.

@Chris-hs8zd 2 года назад

I thought I was the only one who caught that lol

@DanteDMCSparda 2 года назад

@@Chris-hs8zd its techland 30 year anniversary actually, dying light is 6 years old

@Chris-hs8zd 2 года назад

@@DanteDMCSparda thank you jack Marston we know that’s why yo pa got taken out by the Pinkertons

@DanteDMCSparda 2 года назад

@@Chris-hs8zd hey ! I already avenged my pa !

@36inc 2 года назад

man Ima cry; free radical was on eof my childhood favorites. time splitters was such a gem and second sight was an underrated experience. when haze killed them I was so sad.

@nightowlseclipse2421 2 года назад

Free Radical are now reformed by Deep Silver to develop a new TimeSplitters game. The original creators David Doak and Steve Ellis are involved

@recon0503 2 года назад

2:40 >Dying Light's 30th Anniversary is this Year Well Damn that games older than I thought

@jacobs4545 2 года назад

You didnt play dying light on the NES?

@fernandoharada508 2 года назад

Rise and Fall of Killzone series, please!

@As_Asa_PhD 2 года назад

I want that too. I'd like to know more about the first Killzone. It's nice we got Horizon now though.

@jamescameron149 2 года назад

I would also very much like to see this. It would be great if it got done. Fond memories...

@Raggyham 2 года назад

Yesss!!!

@Mattznick 2 года назад

I still can't believe in 2022 Free Radical Design is back from the dead and making a new Timesplitters game

@ALegitimateYoutuber 2 года назад

the craziest part about this was hearing golden eye got a score of 4. was it really that poorly reviewed? Because fucking hell I remember everyone loved it back then.

@thecandlemaker1329 2 года назад

It's a shooter for N64, 4 out of 10 is the best rating it can realistically aim for.

@matthewcheatham3322 2 года назад

Maybe someone somewhere gave it that but it was pretty beloved when it came out.

@Razgriz_01 2 года назад

@@EggEnjoyer If the game was made today, do you think they'll rate it higher because everyone loved it and they're afraid of backlash if they said negative things about it?

@porkman302 2 года назад

Nah it was pretty well reviewed. That was just one reviewer. Both EGM and gamepro gave it glowing reviews

@awesomesource12 2 года назад

I played haze on ps3 as a kid and really loved it, I still go back and play it now and always have fun with it, I think it's definetly a hidden gem and deserves a second chance

@lucignolo8333 2 года назад

Yeah it’s definitely a hidden gem with sone very interesting mechanics and wonderful designs for mantel soldiers. I think the marketing hyping it up so much did more damage than anything else, if it wasn’t publicized as a halo killer people would’ve loved it much more

@III1IlIIlIllIl Год назад

@@lucignolo8333 Halo killed itself. Have you seen the mess that is halo infinite? Forced crossplay and cringe skins.

@lucignolo8333 Год назад

@@III1IlIIlIllIl the only way to save halo is get rid of that cancer that is 343 industries and give the ip to a worthy studio

@steelbear2063 9 месяцев назад

@@III1IlIIlIllIl Have you played Halo Infinite lately? It's great

@pete6705 Год назад

I was so hyped for Haze before it came out, the media was talking about it like it was going to be the best FPS ever

@unfa00 2 года назад

Takeaway: if you have limited time and budget, don't develop a custom engine and the game on it at the same time.

@bleedthesecolours 2 года назад

I will defend Haze until the day I die. So many great memories playing co-op with a friend, we must have beat the campaign over a dozen times. Can't forget the competitive modes too, this was actually the first game that I played versus online and realised I was pretty decent.

@botmushin8878 2 года назад

I recall it being an okay game. I ended up buying Fracture instead of Haze.. I had fun but I'd say they're both on the same level (Fracture was definitely more comedic).

@bleedthesecolours 2 года назад

@@botmushin8878 Oh yeah, for sure they were both interesting concepts with that 'janky, bargain bin guilty pleasure' curse 😅

@nathanduncan672 2 года назад

I for whatever reason loved this game, & I cant really pinpoint why I replayed it repeatedly. The concept is unique as fuck & I'm surprised a better game hasn't reused the nectore gimmick. Overdosing in multiplayer made for some fun shoot outs

@maow9240 2 года назад

I never understood the hate for this game. I didn't get a chance to play it untill the multi-player had already died but solo it as just another average FPS that had pretty good visuals for its time.

@bleedthesecolours 2 года назад

@@maow9240 I think you just answered your question. While the few of us loved Haze for whatever reason, it was overhyped and (despite its unique points) turned out to ultimately be an average game which I think hurts more than if it was obviously average from the pre-release promos.

@profanegunman7586 2 года назад

I legitimately enjoyed Haze all the way through when I played it all those years ago, I guess there's something wrong with me. The same way people have nostalgia for Golden Eye, I have nostalgia for Haze, which I'm sure would freak some people out.

@stevenhay7147 2 года назад

It's just crazy how one bad game is enough to send a talented studio under

@unfa00 2 года назад

Game development is a rocky adventure.

@PancakeInu 2 года назад

I think I remember they called this the "Halo killer" back when it was released.

@aceofhearts573 2 года назад

I remember that too. Funny thing the halo killer game ended up being halo 4 and 5

@theactualTVB 2 года назад

The 2000s was a great decade for video games. Gaming slowly went downhill by mid-2010s.

@dimaz3 2 года назад

Nah. Some of the best games are being released nowadays. From indie developers like Supergiant to Remedy getting back into limelight, Arkane, IO etc etc.

@theactualTVB 2 года назад

@@dimaz3 I'm only talking about most third party developers, actually. Also Remedy isn't that much of an indie dev.

@thecandlemaker1329 2 года назад

If it wasn't for Dark Souls and its kids, I think I would've completely abandoned gaming by now.

@-pressxtostart- 2 года назад

Pfft

@thecandlemaker1329 2 года назад

I think the real villain of this story is, for once, not UbiSoft, but the fad for "serious military shooters". As soon as I saw the game's dreary footage composed of 50 shades of brown, I knew the game must have been ass.

@aceofhearts573 2 года назад

Well today we have a fad of fortnite looking games

@canobenitez 2 года назад

Black is the only exception for me, good old ps2 goodness

@dvdbox360 2 года назад

@@canobenitez what about Spec Ops The Line, and yes i do play Black before the graphic is ahead of it time a year before first Crysis

@imembridibuddha 2 года назад

@@aceofhearts573 Serious brown shooters >>>>>>>>>>> cartoony art and over the top weapon skins

@blitzaurora3393 2 года назад

The sad part is, the tech demo for the game was still awesome. When the game came out, the only feature still left from that demo was the ability to scope in on some weapons

@freddiejohnson6137 2 года назад

Well looks like Free Radical is getting a second shot with David Doak and Steve Ellis at the helm under Deep Silver as the publisher for a new Time Splitters game. Not many publishers get a chance to be resurrected like that.

@victoriaevelyn3953 2 года назад

Oh no not deep silver otherwise known as deep shit becuase anything involving them turns to shit I will explode if they fuck up my favourite franchise as much as I want another timesplitters I dont want a shit tinespiltters

@Razgriz_01 2 года назад

Oh shit not Deep Silver. Aren't they the ones under Epic's payroll? I remember being excited for Metro: Exodus, until they announced, near the game's release, that it'll be taken off Steam and be an EGS exclusive. Its like a Monkey Paw wish.

@aceofhearts573 2 года назад

@@Razgriz_01 nah Epic actually paid them a few million for the time exclusive rights. I cant blame any dev that takes the money from epic. Everyone would

@aceofhearts573 2 года назад

I wish they would do a Time Splitters HD for games 1-3

@vojtisekhovor 2 года назад

@@aceofhearts573 oh shit even Epic is involved, that's gonna suck oh god

@decibelfilm 2 года назад

I'm calling it; one of the big videos next year is going to be 'The Rise and Fall of Dying Light'.

@gingerbrummie 2 года назад

Rise and fall of the Red faction series please

@greatestgamer00 2 года назад

I love haze. after finding out who they devs were i could see the elements of their old games.

@TheFreestylevids 2 года назад

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@Ghost_Of_SAS 2 года назад

This is the day Mantel falls.

@-----------g- 2 года назад

Who remembers the KoRn song for this game? Was the hypest thing about it.

@someaccount659 2 года назад

Just discovered your channel. These videos are so interesting and well put together, subscribed

@salaciouscreations4323 2 года назад

One of the biggest crimes in computer games history is the lack of timesplitters. Haze was around the timeshift and pariah when studios appeared a bit more shook up from far cry being so amazing for a console port. We had a few out there games which were ok. Just never got any traction which is a shame as exclusive can have a damaging effect on some classics.

@interlace84 2 года назад

Out of respect for this fallen game and dev as well as my twice-resurrected-yet-still-fallen-ps3; I'm gonna replay this in RPCS3 now you reminded me of its existence :) so thanks!!

@SECONDQUEST 2 года назад

Do timeshift as well.

@VandelayH 2 года назад

No youare’re not.

@kupokinzyt 2 года назад

@@SECONDQUEST TimeShift is so much better.

@ElManuHDD 2 года назад

The good thing about all this is that Free Radical Design is back thanks to Deep Silver and will develop a new game of Timesplitters

@heykeiffers6684 2 года назад

This channel is like watching a world war documentary but for video games. I love it

@Trap7 2 года назад

"Say hello to Moreno!"

@iratepirate3896 2 года назад

I remember this. Such a shame it died because of the grey and brown bloom nonsense of the mid-2000s

@IronThumbs 2 года назад

I guess you should blame Silent Hill 2 and Resident Evil 4 for that

@tomstonemale 2 года назад

@Crispies lol no. Those games can even be compared to influence CoD had on consoles, not even close.

@IronThumbs 2 года назад

@@tomstonemale He is talking about the overly saturated market of games that lack "color" from that time. Call of Duty 4 is one of them, but not the one responsible.

@brandonjones5879 2 года назад

I think the first Gears kind of started that.

@tomstonemale 2 года назад

@@IronThumbs not really.Sure unreal engine 3 games have the same colour pallette but when CoD 4 and MW2 make 70% of the profit from videogame console market alone those years, yeah I blame CoD for making the grey, brown and bloom colour scheme popular.

@Lasagnaisprettycool 2 года назад

Imagine if they released a new Timesplitters for the PS5 and Xbox. Beautiful graphics, vibrant colors, super smooth framerates, splitscreen and online coop and pvp, map editor....

@chooky4626 2 года назад

It'd release as Early Access with a battlepass and/or some other bs :(

@mohamednail1707 2 года назад

Haze is an example of cool idea and plot executed so poorly

@brizzy1237 2 месяца назад

currently rewatching all of your content

@unbearifiedbear1885 2 года назад

Yes! Was just talking with someone yesterday about this *utter* disappointment.. such a cool concept, man Haze and Bodycount changed the way I anticipate things forever

@InceRumul 2 года назад

This voice could be describing the history of manilla envelopes and I'd still be captivated.

@DaTrixie 2 года назад

Great video, had high hopes for Haze. Also your voice reminds me of the "Fallout Storyteller" . Very relaxing 😊

@user-cw9hy1ds6c 2 года назад

This reminds me of cyberpunk too much, building the engine while building the game, higher up’s being responsible for the games fuck up. Being apart of the gaming industry is every kids wet dream when you know nothing about it.

@akjohnny5997 Год назад

well put

@ether92 2 года назад

All I can remember from this game is Nectar.

@BoondockGore 2 года назад

Your work on the socom series had me so nostalgic 😢 😭

@freewheeler8924 2 года назад

I very much enjoyed Haze. I particularly loved the tactical gameplay - it was a game you could play intelligently, and not just another stupid twitch-shooter.

@QuixEnd 2 года назад

Whoever you hire for voice acting is too professionally gifted for gaming. I mean, he sounds like the dude history channel hires for every wwii conspiracy series.

@Beanibirb 2 года назад

Free Radical is back btw, making a TimeSplitters remake

@Onepieceistheworstfuckinganime 2 года назад

Hey congratulations on 100 videos on your channel and I subscribed.

@Layaway_Virgin 2 года назад

Damn an add for Dying Light like 7 years late! This made my day.

@Majjoo06 2 года назад

“Brought to you by Dying Light !” Man techland is reaching places, if they’re sponsoring channels now.

@busgussab881 2 года назад

Love the dying light ad around 7 years from the games release

@mikeyder344 2 года назад

The games 30th anniversary? I love y'all lol

@IntoxiKaded 2 года назад

I've been waiting for this video for a long time!!! Haze had many problems but I always felt like the story had great potential. I hope it gets rebooted one day.

@darkowl9 Год назад

"So we decided to write a game engine from the ground-up as the same time as developing the game" is just such a common reason for studio collapses, it boggles the mind how frequently it's heard.

@dmer-zy3rb Год назад

doing your own engine was normal in the 90s and still relatively common in the ps2 era - some devs kept that mentality in the ps3 generation.

@victoriaevelyn3953 2 года назад

I love timesplitters and still own all my three copies of the three games they will never leave me haze killed timesplitters 4 in my eyes

@Ghost_Of_SAS 2 года назад

_"Remember your promise to Merino!"_

@DcCock 2 года назад

I remember the hype train around this. Console wars and fanboyism were strong back then so PS3 players were hyping this up as a Halo-killer and a Crysis-killer. The pre-release screenshots made the visual fidelity look amazing too.

@Razgriz_01 2 года назад

I remember that, the "game-killer" trend for advertising games. I think after Haze, they stopped doing that. Not sure if game publishers and reviewers would use that again lol

@TevyaSmolka 2 года назад

It’s sad haze killed it’s own studio because the game could’ve been great.

@fernan2342 2 года назад

High quality upload as always!

@bartvy 2 года назад

Remember really enjoying playing the coop splitscreen campaign with my friends back in the day.

@zeldris9993 2 года назад

Always love these vids always entertaining to watch☺

@lordgrimble2144 2 года назад

you guys should do a video about the Army Of Two series!

@keshxiv 2 года назад

HAZE BROS ITS OUR TIME...

@JoelElRican 2 года назад

Timesplitters is a classic for me and my little brother, during our childhood. Kinda wish it would get rebooted.

@TheRoger46 2 года назад

Well you might be happy to hear that Free Radical is back with a lot of the original team and they are currently working on a new Timesplitters project!

@adamfrazer5150 2 года назад

It's stories like these that I always think of whenever the latest game is out and underperforming (I know, practically all the titles coming out of the wealthiest publishers 😒) and I'm tempted to start firing broadsides at the studio ! No one sets out to make a sub-par game, but often it's the people with the creativity that are the more exploitable. You went public and made tons on shares but now you're at the beck and call of the investors, and they couldn't give a rat's backside whether the game has a good story or is faithful etc nope, they're waiting to hear words like : Multiplayer Seasons Season Pass Cosmetics Licensed tie-ins Live Service Predicted revenue Revenue Where's our money ? Thanks for putting this together man, really appreciate your production values 👌

@GoldBearanimationsYT 2 года назад

Why was there an ad for dying light

@WahyuSetiawan-sz4lc 2 года назад

Wow, dying light as sponsor? That was Amazing

@CHMgamemedic777 2 года назад

Would love to see a video on how BF2042 has killed it's own franchise!

@Gary_M 2 года назад

I bet it's a tragedy!

@steelbear2063 9 месяцев назад

It didn't, lol. That's like saying Vanguard killed Call of Duty.

@oxeexo6540 2 года назад

Its so awesome TechLand sponsored this vid. If you haven't played dying light i HIGHLY recommend it and the amazing DLCs it has.

@MontaguStudios 2 года назад

Terrific video as always. However, you forgot to mention about Korn. They made a song for the game.

@richardhowells5804 2 года назад

I remember being hyped for this back in the day, when I was daft enough to get hyped about a game from it's trailers.

@xBINARYGODx 2 года назад

Dying Light ad is unreal - beyond what someone else already said, the sequel is close (but of course, the DLC for the first is a long list).

@AlzdemX 2 года назад

I remember the demo had more players than the full release and i loved playing the multiplayer.

@DreamwalkerFilms 2 года назад

It took me 10 minutes into this video to realize that I actually played this game and completely forgotten doing so

@CM-hz2wr 2 года назад

Haze was marketed as a " Halo killer " it turned into a Free Radical killer

@CreativeWM_Personal 2 года назад

Devon: Shane? Please don't tell my mommy what I did, Okay? Shane: Okay pal

@KaptainArabia 2 года назад

You guys are the best keep the good work 👍

@AdamBibilo 2 года назад

“Sadly the same fate befell Free Radical itself, though not solely at the fault of Haze as many have grown to believe” C’mon guys, you literally called this video “The Game That Killed Its Own Studio”

@ottodob 2 года назад

What a huge let down. I remember just how big the hype was. It still sits on my shelf, however. RIght next to Fracture and all the other sub par games that promised big things.

@ARIXANDRE 2 года назад

And yet, it's one of the most used default Playstation avatars...

@SourRobo8364 2 года назад

We need an HD remaster/port for Timesplitters now.

@nix98zlcy Год назад

Sees title* ''Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?''

@zakmorgan9320 2 года назад

Also had no idea haze was made by the timesplitters team, used to play that game every year with my cousin's. Amazing split screen experience

@embracerodusk2537 2 года назад

I was really hyped for this game when they first announced it because it looked like they were trying to create a Perfect Dark replacement at the time. Unfortunately, it didn't turn out so hot.