Play Haze At Nottingham’s GameCity

Let’s not forget that in addition to all the events and festivities happening in the capital today as part of London Games Festival, there is also the UK’s leading indie games festival kicking off up in Nottingham this week. News of the latter today is that gamers will be able to get hands on time with Free Radical’s highly anticipated Haze at the weekend.

Haze you will no doubt be aware, is Free Radical Design’s/Ubisoft’s ground-breaking new FPS initially launching on PlayStation 3.

The four-player, co-op features and the storyline in Haze(feeding heavily on the current unease about the wartime use of private military contractors) really do set the game apart.

Set in the near future, the game follows protagonist, Sergeant Shane Carpenter’s, journey through a war in South America during which he is fed a ‘miracle nutritional supplement’ called NECTAR that makes him and his fellow soldiers tougher, faster and smarter.

However, Carpenter soon realises that his employers - and Nectar itself - have a dark side. Carpenter defects to fight against his former comrades and learns to use their addiction to Nectar against them.

Get down to Nottingham to catch up with the guys from Free Radical Design and to check out the Haze exclusive demo kicking off at 11am-1pm this coming Saturyday, 27th October, Broadway Cinema and Media Centre

For more on GameCity check out gamecity.org.