HAZE Requires Mandatory 4GB Install
May 16, 2008 / 02:58 PM EDT / (@salromano)

Whatever happened to the good old days where we can buy a game and we could just launch it up and play right away. Oh yeah, you can do that on the Nintendo Wii and Xbox 360. Seriously folks, these mandatory PLAYSTATION 3 installs are really starting to piss me off (look at my face!).

Free Radical answered in it’s Ask the Developers topic whether or not HAZE would require a mandatory installation to play.

Will HAZE have a mandatory install?
[DL] You will need to go through a minimal install (about 4 Gigs) but not the whole game.

Oh, that is great. I can add it my Assassin’s Creed, Devil May Cry 4, and Skate installations along with my many PLAYSTATION Network games. It really bombs.

[HAZE Ask the Devs]

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  • whitelisted

    i really dont understand. thats what the hard drive is for isn’t it? im happy. anyone who really uses their machine as a media center has to have a much bigger harddrive anyway.

  • Shibbs

    Yet another reason for me not to get this game, my space is reserved for AAA titles.

  • Skittles

    which this is

  • BandAiD

    who cares, too many people complain about installs. It’s there to streamline your gaming experience, if you don’t like it. Sell your console.

  • Shibbs

    Haze isn’t a AAA title. it’s a C in my book.

  • Skittles

    reviews so far say it’s about an A-

  • jamhai

    4GB install for a game that doesn’t even look that good. Talk about laziness.

  • BandAiD

    Talk about uninformed…

  • incredibilistic

    The only way I’m really willing to accept a mandatory install is if totally erases load times. I shouldn’t have to spend several gigs of precious space on my HDD for a game that still forces me to stare at blank screen and rotating icon and/or progress bar.

    This could be related to a lot of statements I read about the PS3 and the way it allocates memory, which apparently is not logical. This would also explain the sometimes lousy performance of the web browser in the PS3. I can’t have YouTube and a site like Kotaku or Scrawl open at the same time without getting a memory issue.

  • Demibeard

    I wasn’t all that impressed with the demo, so Haze isn’t on my purchase list anyway.

    I have upgraded my HDD to a 250Gb one, but the installs do bug me, not because we have to have them, but because we can’t skip the ‘intro movie’ al-la GTA-IV!

    Why do I have to watch it EVERY time I want to play, admidity I could close my eyes, but that’s not the point.