The demo of HAZE is great. I'm happy that Free Radical took the extra time and delays to actually deliver something next-gen from a technical point of view as I obviously can't judge much more than that by now. The FPS in this game (at least the demo) are rock solid. I don't know if it's 60FPS, but definitely no less than 30FPS. Plays and looks great. Love the nectar, and the way the music kicks in (not the Korn soundtrack) when you administer it? Awesome.

Candlejack

I love their music, I absolutely do not like the song.

Mr Fortitude

So, by theme they mean the song that plays during the title screen right? I hope none of it actually plays during the game.

Trog13

The mere association to Korn has ruined Haze, if not Free Rad as a company, for me.

gdf

Man, Korn doing the Theme!!! This'll be the best looking game of 1999! Kick ass!!

Garrison Dean, King Awesome

Fuck yeah! Videogames where people are talking normal!

futurebiblehero

Wow. That has got to be the most innane video clip for a game that I have seen in quite some time.

The Korn guy's insights are... I just wish I had the last 5 minutes of my life back.

This does nothing at all to change my opinion about Haze ending up as an also-ran in the already crowded FPS market.

Maybe Haze can invite Frontlines: Fuel of War for a drink. They have a lot in common.

DaPress

Meh, I used to really like Korn. However, their last three studio albums were duds to me. Haze still has me interested, though!

NinjaBurg3r

What?!? Video games are not just for little kids, you say? Adults are having fun, you say? Jonathan Davis, leader of Korn, you are a true renaissance trailblazer.

EmTeeZ

You can totally tell exactly how much he thinks Haze rocks.

What they don't show is the suitcase full of money in front of him.

Aethyr

That's pretty funny.

Bernard McGraw

"Gaming for me is a religion and Haze is the shit!" said Jonathan Davis. "I had to come up with a track that can hit up that kind of rush I get from the game and I think we really rocked it!!"

Yeah, I will bring that quote out every time Korn and Haze are mentioned together. Humanity needs to remember that.

Regardless of this has-been's slim drugged out involvement in it, I'm still excited about Haze after playing the demo.

ca$h

I do hope Korn isn't doing the entire score ... That would break my heart. I'd walk by Haze every day and feel pain.

mphz

It burns...

Moonshadow101

What a gimmick. And yeah its sad he only got to look at the trailer.

ka2lu

I think I just might need to murder someone after that. Any volunteer/"sacrifices"?

AuraHACK

there's plenty of really amusing death metal out there that wouldn't have an instant non-appeal for me like Korn does.. and they would be cheaper to attain...though if Korn lovers are the market I'm probably not..

this reminds me of that psp game by.. um planet moon Infected.. that had a similar type band (slipknot) do a song for them and although i like planetmoon, I was no longer interested in the game.

Ehardergardens

"...and that's what makes it different. Because when you write an album, you're just going for...whatever."

Wow. Korn's music must be deep.

Reiji

@JayD16: I liked early Korn as well, and Megadeth is awesome because Dave Mustaine is cool. BUT the fact stands that what this band was cool for then is completely overlooked now, yeah, they get paid for this shit, but seriously? They overmarket it to the masses hoping that people who USED to like Korn will buy the game due to some third party association with a band that was worth two shits ten years ago. While I think that this game should've probably stayed vaporware and never seen the light of day (I tried the demo, it's decent, but not like it's gonna get my $60...) and it seems like the biggest pull they have going for it is that Jonathon Davis sits here and tells us about how he has a basic concept of what the game is about and they wrote a song about it. AMAZING. Frankly, I don't doubt they play games (who doesn't nowadays) but assuming it has an impact or that the song wasn't just a product advertisement is just naive. The last good song that any band did for a video game was Megadeth (yes, we jumped back to that) doing the Duke Nukem theme.

CitizenInsane27

Jesus, that man is basically mentally fucking retarded now. I think the only thing that the game Haze and Korn have in common, is the use of drugs. How fucked up is that guy? "Mumble mumble music mumble mumble trailer fifty times mumble mumble..."

It's as painful as watching a kid with palsy perform brain surgery with a pipe wrench.

CitizenInsane27

So negative. I liked early Korn and I LOVE Megadeth and I have to say that this song is a better Korn song then I have heard in a while. Gears of War was a pretty bad Megadeth song. Are these bands being paid for their work...no duh. Whats the big deal?

Whats with all the crap this guy is getting?

JayD16

This topic attracted quite a few haters.

Nexus6

Yeah, because whenever a game is announced my first thought is, "What does Korn think of it?"

Strangelove

Wow, he's getting even uglier and fatter by the day!

Gigith

I'm just watching to see where the exclusivity on this game goes. I'm interested in the game but not for it's "pushing the envolope" on the status-quo . I want to see this game make me want to buy it because It feels like it's being similarly hyped like Blacksite Area 51.

okenny :)

no offense to korn fans, but the song strikes me as pretty generic

DaoKaioshin

I like a bit of Korn now and then, but who gives two shits about why Jon Davis wrote a song for Haze? Money, perhaps? I mean, what's the point of making this video?

ShaggE

Korn. LOL... what are we, in high school?

Ali

"Jonathan Davis of Korn talks us through his decision to write a song about Ubisoft's upcoming shooter Haze."

They offered him a bag of money, which he spread around the floor and rolled around it.

Fett101

I wish everyone wasn't so mean to Korn and Johnathan Davis.

To call him a sellout is terrible, I don't think he has ever 'sold out'. If anything they are one of the only bands that never has.

Also if you really read about Johnathan Davis you will see he is actually a very smart person, and has went through more pain and sadness than anyone should be put through.

He is a very respectable person in my eyes.

DimmuJed2

LOL @ Korn getting paid money to write a song, who they themselves probably outsourced. Korn hasn't written their songs for years (Ever since they wrote their own contract). They, like many big bands, use pop industry songwriters (Matrix from Avril Lavigne etc was one of them) to capitalize on Korn's sound while spreading it thin across as many markets as possible. This being one of those markets.

This smells of dirty marketing rather than Free Radical ingenuity. To think these guys had a hand in Perfect Dark. They are going to learn that you don't hype your game with a has-been who can barely muster the energy to hype his next album out of diminishing returns.

Dr Terror

@DimmuJed2: Tell that to the Korn action figures.

Fett101

@Ehardergardens:

I'm sorry, did you just refer to Korn as a death metal band? If you think Korn is death metal than you probably might be more interested in death metal than you think.

Try cryptopsy, carcass, cattle decapitation, or cephalic carnage if you want to discover how little Korn tries when they sit down to write a song.

Itami

First it becomes cool to be on the bandwagon, then it becomes cool to not be on the bandwagon. But then the lack of bandwagon becomes the bandwagon.

Discuss.

kwicherbichin

So much God damned drama in the comments. Who gives a crap whether Korn is crap or not, the song is crap or not, or whatever. It doesn't directly affect the game, you know? I reckon it'll be used for an opening clip at worst, credit sequence at least.

Demaar

@DaoKaioshin: No offence taken and I'm a raving Korn fanboy. The song is horrid.

TearsandScreams

@Itami: No I do not think Korn i a death metal band at all... I was stating that I would prefer death metal.. sorry I think of Korn in a chain of connectedness involving hot topic and NIN and 'Neu Metal'... I could still be wrong there as well... Death Metal they would most definitely not be.. and I would prefer death metal absolutely

Ehardergardens

ummmm... didn't Korn turn into a christian rock group??? Doesn't that seem counter-intuitive to FPS soundtracks? Or did I just hear a nasty rumor???

MasterYong

@ca$h:

Theres a haze demo?

PopACapsLockInYoAss

This seems like a Ubisoft rather than a Free Radical decision. I can't imagine them trying to be hip with the 1999 crowd like this.

MisterFister