It’s being said that the game doesn’t deserve hype or to be compared to Halo 3 because no one heard of “Haze”. If this was Stranglehold we were talking about, I would readily agree. The IP is unproven because it’s based on licenced property (viz., Hard Boiled) and it’s aiming to do something very ambitious.

But unlike Tiger Hill, Free Radical has been around for a very long time. A lot of people tend to forget that Free Radical were the original designers of the first-person shooter that radically changed the console gaming industry – I’m talking about GoldenEye for the N64

these guys and gals at Free Radical are not inceptive to designing games in the FPS genre. For them to take on new intellectual property doesn’t mean that they have to “prove” their skills to gamers every time they come up with a new idea in the same genre. If Bungie decided to take on a new shooter franchise, would everyone say that they have to prove their abilities with the new IP? Of course not. In fact, if Bungie announced a new IP directly after the successful release of Halo 3, everyone would flock to the news and instantly claim that it’s a project that’s worth keeping your eyes on.
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