Gamasutra’s Pierre Gaultier has an interesting interview up with Derek Littlewood of Free Radical on the subject of the upcoming PS3 title Haze. Narrative design and this whole question of making games compelling on a level a little deeper than ‘Oooh, shiny!’ is a hot topic, and various studios have claimed to have made great strides in realizing games that have some sort of higher purpose. Most of them have fallen short. Way, way short. Free Radical has set out to tackle the challenge, and from what I’ve read about Haze over the past couple of months, they seem to be hitting a lot of the important points in a pretty deep way – which is more than can be said for a lot of these ‘Look, look, we have a deeper purpose!’ games out there. What’s Littlewood’s take on Haze‘s place among games-with-a-purpose and games in general?