Another Cop Out

I cannot stand it when people throw the PS3 under the bus for being hard to develop for. Personally I see it as a dev who can't code properly and since Microsoft made the X360 super easy to develop for, it always seems like someone needs to throw down the PS3. Yes, it is hard to develop for, so was the PS2 and the PSOne before it. If Sony didn't lay down these challenges then the videogame industry would have completely stagnagted after the SNES.

So here we are, about a year and a half since Haze was released, and former Free Radical and current Crytek UK managing director Karl Hilton, throws out that the PS3 being difficult to develop for made their game blow. Sorry guy's you made your game suck not the PS3. I don't know who played Haze, I myself couldn't make it through the demo without shaking my head in disgust.

The game was lauded by several game outlets as being a Halo killer, and the game looked great when you looked at screens or vids at any time prior to release. IT had lush jungle environments and a decent story to back up the gameplay. In the end it was just a generic FPS. Sure the PS3 is har d to make a game for, but using it at this point as the reason your game flopped is a cop out. Just say that you didn't do what you set out to and be done with it. There were numerous problems with Haze and most of them could be found in the demo.

A small interview is over at develop-online if you want to see what Mr. Hilton had to say