The Unofficial Free Radical Design blog

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Ubisoft and Free Radical Design have come together to create a half game and a half video about HAZE.

Here are some videos showing multiplayer.

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Yes. The UK version of the Paystation magazine has shown a concept image of Jo-Beth in nun form. She is shorn with a chainsaw looking torn and splattered with blood. I’m assuming this character isn’t Jo-Beth but a character based on her. This is supposed to be the first confirmed character.

More importantly Dave Doak has saidFRD are considering implementing HAZE’s asymmetric combat system into Timesplitters 4, in which different sides have different techniques to their advantage. Not sure how this will play into things but it could be interesting.

Apparently FRD are still looking into what makes Timesplitters so good but I’d expect more details in upcoming months.

Ubisoft have announced that a HAZE demo should be out early may. This should give us a little taste before the real thing. We shall be able to have a look at the single player mode as well as having a small look at 4 player co-op.

PSM3 UK has given details on Timesplitters 4. It will use the HAZE engine and the characters will be more realistic although keep a similar style. It also seems that Timesplitters 4 will parody other video games. More news is said to come in the next few months.

A new post on the HAZE blog describes the environments in HAZE:

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Beating a man to death with the butt of your rifle is great family fun. The same goes for shooting a guy’s legs out from under him and watching his nightmarishly gored corpse splat down face-first into the dust. However, just because you’ll be brutalizing thousands of people in Haze, doesn’t mean you don’t want to do it somewhere pretty, right?

Continue reading ‘The HAZE blog re-awakens.’ »

Derek Littlewood said in a recent HAZE event, “We’ll be looking to deliver some DLC that’ll add extra maps; extra modes - and there’s some fantastic stuff in there. The DLC levels: there are a couple of them that are probably my favourite maps in the whole game. It’s not like we’re saying ‘Yeah! Here comes the DLC! Here are some things we just churned out…’ There’s some fantastic stuff in there so I hope that’ll be received really well as a reward to the fans that buy the game and keep playing it for several months after release.”

He also gave word on Timesplitters , “We’re still exploring our options with it and trying things out. We’re deliberately taking our time to make sure that it’s the game we want to make and what the fans want. There are some awesome ideas, even by Timesplitters standards. The sort of environments and characters in it are the most insane things I’ve ever seen - there’s some fantastic stuff. Yeah, it’s all very exciting, but at the moment we’re just focusing on putting the finishing touches to Haze.”