Hatred Earns Steam Greenlight [Dec 30, 2014, 10:34 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
The
Steam Greenlight page for Hatred announces that Destructive
Creations' isometric shooter has been approved by the community for sale on
Steam (thanks
One Angry Gamer). The game attracted a lot of hatred following
its announcement as it puts the player in the
role of a mass killer, which led to the game's
first Greenlight campaign being
suspended before Valve apologetically
reinstated
it. The game is currently slated for release for Windows in Q2 2015, and the
description gives a sense of what it is about as well as why some find it
objectionable:
Hatred fills your whole body. You’re sick and tired of humanity’s worthless existence. The only thing that matters is your gun and pure Armageddon that you want to unleash.
You will go out for a hunt, you will clear the New York outskirts of the humans with a cold blood. You will shoot, you will hurt, you will kill, you will die. There are no rules, no compassion, no mercy, no point of going back. You are the lord of life and death now and you have the full control over lives of worthless human scum.
You will also run, you will need to think, you will need to hide and fight back when armored forces will come to take you down. You will have no mercy for them, because they dare to come in your way.
Only brutality and destruction can clear this land. Only the killing spree will make you die spectacularly and go to hell.
Also, the game is not out yet so how can people judge it already?
The game's trailer had plenty of gameplay footage that was disturbing at best. The voiceover explains the character's motivation, which is essentially kill all human worms because he hates the world and everyone in it. It seems aimed directly at angry loners who want to lash out at people around them.
I'm not saying this game will cause violence anymore than DOOM did, but it's in extremely poor taste and seems to normalize the kind of horrific senseless violence we've already seen too much of. Maybe this is me getting old, but I think this game is a terrible idea. Just because you can make something doesn't mean you should.
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