Hatred

Hatred is a decent twin-stick shooter that stands out from the clutter more for its controversial 18+ theme rather than its overall quality.

Surprisingly good for a game mainly sold on controversy, Hatred has solid gameplay and presentation, but also a severe lack of depth and its own exaggerations often fall into the realm of parody.

Hatred is a good twin-stick shooter that manages to offer an interesting experience only through the actual theme. Besides that, however, it's not something outstanding. Developer Destructive Creations could have transformed its targets into zombies or civilians and escape the controversy, but it stuck to its initial idea, and while it's not executed all that well in terms of story, it deserves recognition.

Hatred isn’t half as provocative as moralists claim: it doesn’t emphasize the act of aggression; it cares only about the number of victims. Executions are carried out with about as much emotion as stomping on a Goomba in Mario game. [Sept 2015, p.71]

Hatred is an average Isometric Twin Stick shooter that will seduce gamers with it's destruction engine and the dynamic gameplay it offers, before disgusting them with very repetitive actions, its awful camera and a difficulty we thought was too exponential.

Hatred is a very playable game for fans of adrenaline and bloody thrills, although the content of the game is a bit controversial. The game could be longer, more diverse and better optimized (Unreal Engine 4 is hungry for power). And given the overall quality Hatred did not deserve all the media buzz surrounding its development and most likely it won't be remembered in a few years' time.

Hatred is better internet scandal than game. [Aug 2015]

Repetitive, short-lived, without a real plot and full of senseless massacres. Hatred is not a great game, but in its simple twin-stick shooter mechanics, it’s not too bad and it provides some cute ideas.

A useless game, more than a bad game. Give it a chance if you find it on sale only.

Hatred relies on being controversial, but as a game it's just an average action experience that will give you a few hours of moderate fun.

We don't know what to highlight in Hatred beyond the controversy for its extreme violence, It gets boring quickly. If you want senseless ultraviolence and fun gameplay, you are going to find only the second. At least, the visual style and the destructible environments are remarkable.

For all of the shock and hullaballoo following its path toward release, Hatred is nothing special or particularly egregious in the world of video game violence, except for the fact that it relies on that violence alone. The game takes itself extremely seriously and has plenty of extremely violent content and murder, but it ends up feeling more like camp.

There's nothing really special about Hatred. It's a twin-stick shooter. It has guns in it. It has objectives. Most of the time those objectives involve acting like a menace to society or blowing stuff up. It doesn't have anything new to bring to the table, or anything interesting to say about the genre. You can go back to yelling at it now if you want.

All the violence and shock value can’t hide the mediocre game behind it.

If you’re looking for a certain thrill to accompany random acts of mass slaughter, you’ll find it in plenty of other games on the market today. Controversy can only carry a game so far, before it trips itself up.

The only interesting aspects of Hatred are its graphics, impressing indeed, and its ability to shock the player (although in a very cheap way). Beneath that, there's only a dull and repetitive gameplay.

Hatred is nothing more than a bad video game. Destructive Creations has done everything in order to get as much hype as possible, in order to sell a mediocre twin stick shooter. The lack of an interesting point of view about hate and violence is enough to ignore this product, even during the Steam sales.

Destructive Creations is done well from the visual aspect, but when we look at the big picture, Hatred is a boring game.

The main issue with Hatred is not the fact that it's about killing innocent civilians, instead we have very serious problems with its boring gameplay and repetitive action.

Destructive Creations' debut project is not a very interesting one. Visuals can impress, but gameplay leaves a lot to be desired.

For those hoping for a game in which killing innocent people provides you with some sort of entertainment—be it humor, revulsion, guilt, a vicarious and morbid thrill—you can find it done better, in one way or another, in every other game I've mentioned in this review.

Hatred is a trite twin stick shooter. Fortunately it ends in a few hours.

It’s just unremarkable, which is disappointing after all the remarks we all made about it. It’s just a game. It’s mediocre. It’s run of the mill. It’s another indie game that uses another established formula to give us a few hours of repetitive gameplay that may or may not be to your liking. It doesn’t do anything grand and innovative, but it also doesn’t do anything wrong or heinous outside of its own overhyped controversy.

It is without a point. It fires its Uzi rounds aimlessly and manages to hit nothing. It’s not bad, it’s not horrific, it’s not reprehensible and it’s not memorable either.

When the first shock of butchering helpless people passes it turns out that this forbidden fruit is nothing but a seed. I could point out that it’s a good thing that Hatred depicts murdering innocents as a boring, laborious, frustrating chore but after having played it I’m in no mood for jokes. [08/2015, p.70]

The greatest controversy of this game lies in its boring gameplay, unbearable stereotypes and recurring errors that will soon start killing you. Fortunately Hatred will take three hours on hard difficulty so your suffering won´t last long.

Ultimately, I believe that the Hatred team simply tried to make something controversial in the hopes that nobody would notice how forgettable their title is. Even calling itself ‘ultra-violent’ is a stretch.

With an unimaginative outset, a try-too-hard look and controls that are almost unbearable, not even the most hardened tabloid newspaper should get offended by Hatred.

If you can overlook the horror of it all – something that’s surprisingly easy, given that Hatred is far more toothless than it thinks it is – there’s several hours of mindless if mechanically competent gaming here, artificially lengthened by a punishing degree of difficulty.

Hatred delivers some fleeting sadistic satisfaction and a gorgeous art style, but quickly becomes a tedious chore. After all the controversy, it's disappointing that the finished product is mechanically flawed and otherwise completely forgettable.

Hatred isn't a bad game for its violence. Is a bad game for its mediocre gameplay, control issues, poor enemy AI and simple and repetitive mechanics.

Hatred is quite simply a less than mediocre game that has received way too much attention.

A grim part of me actually looked forward to this. Good or bad, I thought we’d get something provocative or remarkable in some way, shape, or form. Instead, we got a prosaic and outmoded little pile of cynicism. Perhaps worse than that – we got a damn boring game.

If you strip away the totally overrated and needless controversy sparked by the first trailers, you’re left with what? A mediocre twin stick shooter with nice art design and totally redundant mechanics that is not worth a second look.

Hatred is a mediocre twin stick shooter, a miserable attempt to shock the audience with violence that turns out to be a major failure.

I have to kill everbody. It works, but it's a primitive piece of garbage. It's so bad, it's almost funny.

Not offensive enough to cause outcry, not good enough to warrant paying attention to. [Aug 2015, p.60]

Why do we need Hatred anyway when we have GTA?

The game is boring, repetitive, and simply not fun.

When the context and controversy of Hatred is stripped away, players are left with an off-putting and boring shooter, offering little but a sense of unease and repetitive gameplay.

Hatred is a game that basks in controversy for the sake of controversy, while doing nothing to keep the curious interested in seeing it through.

Ultra violent and desperate to shock, but this is far too boring and repetitive a game to either love or hate.

Hatred is too repetitive to be exciting, too dumb to be frightening, too basic for you to feel accomplished at its end, too dour to be violently cathartic, too self-serious to engender ironic amusement, and yet still too childish to matter...essentially, it's a nothing of a game.

Hatred fails to both be a properly working game and to thoroughly shock. While it does its best to hammer its 'no philosophy'-philosophy home, it doesn't make much of a statement at all.

This game has received undeserved attention only because of its controversy, that is even used the wrong way. Gameplay? Lousy.

At its worst, it’s the gaming equivalent of a drunkard shouting abuse from a park bench. At its best … well, the drunkard has leapt up and now he’s wielding a plastic knife. Rage against political correctness if you like, but don’t support this tired game as part of your ideology – there are so many better uses of your spare time.