9 Famous Video Games That Are Actually Responses To Other Famous Video Games

4. Haze Was Infamously Created As A "Halo Killer"

Video game companies just don't get it sometimes.

When a property gets popular, be it Call of Duty, Halo, or Fortnite, publishers scramble to create something that can take it down and replace it at the top of the food chain, reaping the rewards in the process. The problem is, this rarely ever happens, and in order to save face, few publishers actively admit they're gunning for another property just in case they fail and have to eat their words.

Ubisoft is not one of these companies. Instead, when the studio drafted in Free Radical, beloved underdogs responsible for the TimeSplitters series, to work on a big-budget PS3 exclusive called Haze, they wasted no time in stirring up the console war and pitching it to the press as a "Halo killer".

It got to the point where the general public might not have even known how the game played, but knew that it was gunning for Halo's crown, and was , ultimately, an attempt to get Halo fans to pick up Sony's console.

The two games don't have too many similarities outside of the sci-fi framing and first-person perspective, but that didn't stop the hype train. Apparently the developers weren't actually keen on the constant comparisons, and it was Ubisoft who pushed the approach, setting the game up for its inevitable, disastrous fall.