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22nd May 2008, was the date given by Ubisoft for it’s PS3 shooter Haze yesterday, but now today they’ve only gone and changed it back to just ‘May’ meaning we have no idea of the actual day it will appear.

Originally the game was set for launch at the end of 2007, but it then got pushed back to fiscal Q1 of 2008 (between April and June). It was also penciled in for release on 360 and PC too, but it now seems that it’s staying put on the PS3 after Ubisoft announced it was a permanent PS3 exclusive title.

Haze is a squad based first person shooter that offers up to 4 player co-op gameplay. The rough plot is that you play an ex-member of a private military corporation who send in their guys (for huge amounts of cash) to clean up a ’situation’ oh and to make sure they perform at optimum level while in the battlefield they also fill them full of a drug called nectar.

It’s the use of nectar in the game that makes the FPS different from the normal run-of-the-mill shooter. If a soldier gets high on the drug they will become arrogant and ignore you playing dead, or if you’re more the genocidal type you can cut their feed-tubes so they overdose and start killing each other.

Having seen the game myself at the recent play.com live event in London I can confirm that it looks a lot nicer than I had anticpated. 4 player co-op could see this one turn out to be a bit of a sleeper hit. I’ll keep my eye on it.

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