Free Radical's creative lead, Derek Littlewood has shunned internet hissy-fits over the revelation that Haze 💛on PS3 doesn't run in native 720p.

Haze is the latest of a number ꦛof games to run in a lower resolution than the HD standard 720p, for the benefit of a smoother✃ frame rate.

Littlewood confirmed that the final game will run in a resolution of 1024 x 576, essentially shaving 144 horizontal lines off of a typical 1024 x 720 picture, but he dismisses critics' "not true HD" ꦺcries.

"We 🅠prioritize a nice smooth frame rate over a dif꧂ferent res," Littlewood told.

"Pe🌌rsonally, I don't really buy the whole thing. People did the same with Call of Duty, they did the same with Halo, and they 🍒say with those games 'It's not running at true HD!'

"I don't care. If the game looks good and it runs smoothly, those are the important things to me. I don't understand why people care whether there's 20 pixels, 50 pixels, or 100 pixels ❀more..."

In case you're not up on this techy babble, developers occasionally reduce the pixels on screen to help free up some processing power for a s♚moother frame rate - as did FPS big wigs Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4.

Did you notice? Do you care?

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May 19, 2008