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What do you get when you cross First-Person Shooter gameplay with a storyline that's totally not about The War on Terror? What do you get when you send a bunch of drugged-up macho frat boys with assault rifles and glowing neon armor into the jungle to hunt stereotypical South American guerilla types? What do you get when Ubisoft messes around with it? Oh, and one more thing... BOOSH!!!

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  • What do you get when you cross First-Person Shooter gameplay with a storyline that's totally not about The War on Terror? What do you get when you send a bunch of drugged-up macho frat boys with assault rifles and glowing neon armor into the jungle to hunt stereotypical South American guerilla types? What do you get when Ubisoft messes around with it? Oh, and one more thing... BOOSH!!!
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  • What do you get when you cross First-Person Shooter gameplay with a storyline that's totally not about The War on Terror? What do you get when you send a bunch of drugged-up macho frat boys with assault rifles and glowing neon armor into the jungle to hunt stereotypical South American guerilla types? What do you get when Ubisoft messes around with it? You get Haze, that's what. Initially planned to be a key multi-platform title for the 360, PlayStation 3, and PC, Haze suddenly narrowed to the PlayStation 3 alone and was briefly built up as the PlayStation 3's Halo-killer. Marketed as a hard-hitting Deconstruction of modern shooters, the game was initially quite hyped. Upon release, critics quickly declared it to be an average shooter with mediocre gameplay and graphics, combined with over-the-top voice acting and dialogue and an Anvilicious Aesop about war (it's bad). The critical pummeling it got on release and its devastatingly low sales made it a disaster for its creators. Free Radical went into financial administration within months of the game's release and was later acquired by Crytek, thus becoming Crytek UK. Haze focuses around the soldiers of Private Military Contractor / Megacorporation Mantel Industies, and their battle to "liberate" an unnamed South American country from the guerilla forces of the Promise Hand, led by Gabriel "Skincoat" Merino. Mantel doses its soldiers with the performance-enhancing drug "Nectar". Of course, it quickly becomes apparent that Mantel's troops are immature, testosterone-driven man-children to whom war is a big video game, and Mantel itself is an evil corporation whose supposed humanitarian reasons for intervening in the country are merely propaganda to cover up their real motives for storming in and killing the indigenous folks. And Merino turns out to be saintly old man who, despite what Mantel propaganda claims, does not, in fact, eat people or wear their skins. The player character, Mantel trooper Shane Carpenter, eventually defects from Mantel to the Promise Hand, trading his Nectar-enhanced Power Armor for guerilla-style tactics such as playing dead, disarming enemies with melee attacks, and using Nectar knives and Nectar grenades to overdose enemy soldiers and cause them to go berserk. Oh, and one more thing... BOOSH!!!
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