Haze (video game)

Haze
Developer(s)Free Radical Design
Publisher(s)
Director(s)David Doak
Producer(s)
Designer(s)
  • Sandro Sammarco
  • Adam Cook
  • Tim Spencer
Writer(s)Rob Yescombe
Composer(s)
Platform(s)PlayStation 3
Release
Genre(s)First-person shooter[3]
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Haze is a first-person shooter video game developed by Free Radical Design and published by Ubisoft worldwide and Spike in Japan for the PlayStation 3.[4] It was released worldwide in May 2008. Releases for Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows were cancelled.

The game takes place in a dystopian future, where the Mantel Corporation rules the world with a drug called Nova-Keto-Thyrazine - also called Nectar,[5] a "nutritional supplement" that enables soldiers to fight harder and smarter, but also induces a hallucinogenic effect, where soldiers are no longer cognizant of the real battlefield around them, instead viewing an idyllic, painless environment.

The game takes place over a three-day period as Mantel battles a group of rebels known as "The Promise Hand" which is led by Gabriel "Skin Coat" Merino, with the player assuming the role of Shane Carpenter, a 25-year-old Mantel soldier. After Carpenter witnesses the effect Nectar is having on his fellow soldiers, he turns rogue and teams up with The Promise Hand to take on Mantel.

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  2. ^ Purchese, Robert (April 9, 2008). "Haze finally gets firm May date, again". Eurogamer. Gamer Network. Archived from the original on November 6, 2016. Retrieved November 5, 2016.
  3. ^ "Haze". GamePro. IDG Entertainment. Archived from the original on June 16, 2007. Retrieved May 12, 2008.
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  5. ^ "A zoom on Mantel's best: the Nectar". Mantel Global Industries. Archived from the original on March 11, 2016. Retrieved September 15, 2016.