History Trivia / Haze

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Unsurprisingly given how much of a bomb it was, but ''Haze'' has never been made backwards compatible on any newer Playstation consoles. However, it is one of the most emulator-friendly PS3-exclusive FPS games, likely due to originally being planned as a multi-platform release during its development.

* FakeAmerican: Nearly all the voice actors in the game are actually all british putting on american accents.

* CreatorKiller: For Free Radical Design. ''Haze'' was a new engine for a new IP on a console they'd never worked on before. A major gimmick was a task-based AI system that FRD paid for and then realized wouldn't work on the hardware they were developing for, meaning the game was making dead losses for them before they'd even started. Then came the elaborate pre-rendered trailers based on non-final scripts which had nothing to do with the final plot, licensed rap songs, and Rob Yescombe and David Doak claiming that making a game like ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' was "child's play." Since all their ''other'' projects were pitched on using the ''Haze'' engine, when ''Haze'' bombed all their customers dried up. Basically, Creator/IonStorm all over again.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Free Radical planned a sophisticated tactics/partner AI, which would have led to you commanding Mantel/Rebels in some team based combat and helped the game really stand out among FPS games. Unfortunately, Free Radical couldn't actually get it to work, so they dropped it and this game game became yet another FPS.

* CreatorKiller: For Free Radical Design. ''Haze'' was a new engine for a new IP on a console they'd never worked on before. A major gimmick was a task-based AI system that FRD paid for and then realized wouldn't work on the hardware they were developing for, meaning the game was making dead losses for them before they'd even started. Then came the elaborate pre-rendered trailers based on non-final scripts which had nothing to do with the final plot, licensed rap songs, and Rob Yescombe and David Doak claiming that making a game like ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' was "child's play." Since all their ''other'' projects were pitched on using the ''Haze'' engine, when ''Haze'' bombed all their custom dried up. Basically, Creator/IonStorm all over again.

* DevelopmentHell: The game was delayed nearly a full year; the main feature, an advanced task-based AI system, had to be discarded during development, and early trailers bear little relation to the final plotline. Ubisoft demanded the entire plot be rewritten several times, with the setting changing from present-day to near-future and Iraq to a random South American country, even having the ''name'' of the PMC changed from "Mantle" to "Mantel." Seemingly worried that it would overrun further, Ubisoft then pulled the plug to prevent it clashing with the release of ''FarCry 2''; the result is an ObviousBeta with at least one level clearly originally designed for the other faction (the container ship was obviously supposed to be a Mantel level, given the player can smash steel bulkhead doors while the enemies have to use cutting gear), a cobbled-together plot and a general feeling of being unfinished. The engine was also a bad fit for the Playstation 3 and poor in general, the audio director [[http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-05-04-free-radical-vs-the-monsters likened]] inserting sounds into the game to "papering a wall while the rest of the house is burning down".

* CreatorKiller: For Free Radical Design. ''Haze'' was a new engine for a new IP on a console they'd never worked on before. A major gimmick was a task-based AI system that FRD paid for and then realized wouldn't work on the hardware they were developing for, meaning the game was making dead losses for them before they'd even started. Then came the elaborate pre-rendered trailers based on non-final scripts which had nothing to do with the final plot, licensed rap songs, and Rob Yescombe and David Doak claiming that making a game like ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' was "child's play." Since all their ''other'' projects were pitched on using the ''Haze'' engine, when ''Haze'' bombed all their custom dried up. Basically, [[VideoGame/{{Daikatana}} Ion Storm]] all over again.

*** There are differing reports on that, some say that Battlefront 3 was 99% complete but EA cancelled the title anyways.

* CreatorKiller: Free Radical Design. ''Haze'' was a new engine for a new IP on a console they'd never worked on before. A major gimmick was a task-based AI system that FRD paid for and then realized wouldn't work on the hardware they were developing for, meaning the game was making dead losses for them before they'd even started. Then came the elaborate pre-rendered trailers based on non-final scripts which had nothing to do with the final plot, licensed rap songs, and Rob Yescombe and David Doak claiming that making a game like ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' was "child's play." Since all their ''other'' projects were pitched on using the ''Haze'' engine, when ''Haze'' bombed all their custom dried up. Basically, [[VideoGame/{{Daikatana}} Ion Storm]] all over again.

** As well, this project's disastrous development cycle was responsible for killing off [[VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefront Star Wars Battlefront III]] - the project was apparently close to finished, but when Haze was close to shipping, Free Radical had to divert all their resources just so they could make Haze even ''ship'', which resulted in ties with [=LucasArts=] beginning to fray due to lack of communication. The whole thing collapsed when [=Lucasarts'=] new president started pushing the studio even harder and refused to pass a milestone, apparently with the intention of forcing the project's cancellation.

* CreatorKiller: Free Radical Design. ''Haze'' was a new engine for a new IP on a console they'd never worked on before. A major gimmick was a task-based AI system that FRD paid for and then realized wouldn't work on the hardware they were developing for, meaning the game was making dead losses for them before they'd even started. Then came the elaborate pre-rendered trailers based on non-final scripts which had nothing to do with the final plot, licensed rap songs, and Rob Yescombe and David Doak claiming that making a game like ''{{Halo}}'' was "child's play." Since all their ''other'' projects were pitched on using the ''Haze'' engine, when ''Haze'' bombed all their custom dried up. Basically, [[VideoGame/{{Daikatana}} Ion Storm]] all over again.

** The draft of the plot that most trailers (and the box art) were based on had a much stronger motive for people to join Mantel (it was a force for order in a violent, chaotic world) and had Shane come off Nectar extremely suddenly after a pair of Rebels ambush him and another trooper. They kill the other guy and slash the [[StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Jem'Hadar]]-like Nectar tube of the old suit design, followed by smashing the faceplate of his suit. The city map this was supposed to take place in was released as part of the second DLC map pack.

* DevelopmentHell: The game was delayed nearly a full year; the main feature, an advanced task-based AI system, had to be discarded during development, and early trailers bear little relation to the final plotline. Ubisoft demanded the entire plot be rewritten several times, with the setting changing from present-day to near-future and Iraq to a random South American country, even having the ''name'' of the PMC changed from "Mantle" to "Mantel." Seemingly worried that it would overrun further, Ubisoft then pulled the plug to prevent it clashing with the release of ''FarCry 2''; the result is an ObviousBeta with at least one level clearly originally designed for the other faction (the container ship was obviously supposed to be a Mantel level, given the player can smash steel bulkhead doors while the enemies have to use cutting gear), a cobbled-together plot and a general feeling of being unfinished.

* CreatorKiller: Free Radical Design. ''Haze'' was a new engine for a new IP on a console they'd never worked on before. A major gimmick was a task-based AI system that FRD paid for and then realized wouldn't work on the hardware they were developing for, meaning the game was making dead losses for them before they'd even started. Then came the elaborate pre-rendered trailers based on non-final scripts which had nothing to do with the final plot, licensed rap songs, and Rob Yescombe and David Doak claiming that making a game like ''{{Halo}}'' was "child's play." Since all their ''other'' projects were pitched on using the ''Haze'' engine, when ''Haze'' bombed all their custom dried up. Basically, [[{{Daikatana}} Ion Storm]] all over again.