While I appreciate that the developers went looking for a different way to heal besides collecting health kits or auto-healing while at rest, the execution system is pretty terrible in all respects. This results in an animation in which you stab the victim in the head, cut their throat, stomp their head into mush, or bonk them with the butt of your gun. The only way to heal your wounds is by performing an 'execution', in which you stand near a wounded victim and press the Q key to finish them off. There's also driving, for which the controls are comically bad, though thankfully it's only briefly required in a couple of missions. While there are a few optional objectives on each map, they're almost always the same: kill X amount of people in a certain location, and most levels end with similar standoffs against swarms of law enforcement. The only change as you progress is more enemies that take more shots to put down instead of any real evolution of gameplay, and the handful of different guns you can use don't add much variety. Eventually, though, forced to progress inch-by-inch through the maps while frequently falling back to regroup or lose pursuers, the game becomes a slow and repetitive trudge, since progress is almost always based on killing a specific number of targets as opposed to reaching a destination. This is initially more interesting than charging mindlessly into combat, and I did find early fights with armed forces fun.
Slow, deliberate assaults against the police and later the army are required, as are frequent retreats. Your character is not some superman capable of absorbing massive amounts of damage. Smoothly moving a small character clad in black on a black night through a black forest while spotting enemies (they're dark gray, at least) isn't an easy feat to manage.Ī common activity: looking down and trying to figure out where the hell you are. I think this is a neat idea, and I do really like the look of the world, but limiting the game to black and white requires a real mastery of design that's unfortunately absent here. It's presented in mostly black and white-things like explosions and explosive items, taillights and security locks, and some set dressing like billboards and banners provide bright splashes of color. This clumsy navigation is exacerbated by Hatred's visuals. Jumping over objects is possible, performed automatically while sprinting, though it's inconsistent as well: some obstacles don't allow you to vault them when they appear they should. The environment can be confusing: some hedges you can run straight through while other, smaller shrubs sometimes stop you short. Having to keep an eye on the minimap to pinpoint threats, and many of those threats shooting at me from offscreen, meant I often lost track of my character, who would wind up stuck on the corners of buildings, doors, foliage, and other objects. Sometimes the feeling is hard to define, a sort of sickening and fascinating revulsion with myself- why am I doing this?-such as when watching a character in The Sims slowly die from starvation while sitting in a puddle of his own filth because I've trapped him in a room for reasons I can't entirely explain. Killing innocents can be a means to an end or a solution to a problem, as in the Hitman games when I kill a janitor for his uniform, and it can provide a sense of grim satisfaction when I'm roleplaying a ruthless assassin in a Bethesda RPG. It's often fun and humorous, like when visiting over-the-top destruction on entire city blocks in the Saints Row series. It can be a mild feeling of guilt, such as when I crowbar a friendly Barney to death in Half-Life because I want to take his ammo clip with me. How does it feel having killed a couple thousand of innocent people in Hatred? As I said, killing bystanders in a game can result in a number of different reactions and feelings. After gathering weapons he stalks through residential neighborhoods, busy town centers, a moving passenger train, an army base, and ultimately a nuclear power plant, gunning down everyone he sees to make his dark vision a reality.
The unnamed character you control explains that he's sick of the world and the people in it, and would like to kill as many people as he can before dying violently himself.
Hatred, an isometric twin-stick shooter from Polish developer Destructive Creations, doesn't just include the killing of innocent bystanders, but features it as its primary activity.
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