![]() ![]() He then attempts to overload the nuclear reactor using the security system. He manages to enter the nuclear power plant and plants the explosive on the nuclear reactor. To accomplish this, he needs a Composition C plastic explosive, which he gets by storming the Fort O'Connor military base, wiping out the entire base before heading to the power plant. After escaping the police by train, he devises a plan to carry out his mission of committing suicide and killing millions of people by blowing up a nuclear power plant near the city. Travelling from his neighbourhood to 1 Police Plaza, the man kills dozens of civilians and NYPD officers, prompting a government response. Disgusted by human society and general existence, the Antagonist decides to commit a "one-way trip" spree of killings in New York City using his arsenal of weapons. The plot of Hatred revolves around a man only known as "The Antagonist". The character's voice acting is deliberately kept to a minimum, with his ideology and motivations largely left open to interpretation. If the player is killed, the level restarts entirely unless the player completed additional sidequests that provide a limited number of respawn points. Health is regenerated by performing glory kills on incapacitated people the moves made to kill those victims involve cinematic switches of camera perspectives. The player can carry three weapons and an assortment of grenades, as well as drive some vehicles. Hatred is a shooter game presented in an isometric perspective in which the player character and protagonist is a mass-murdering villain who "hates this world, and the human worms feasting on its carcass" and embarks on a "genocide crusade" against the entire human race. The game's interiors can be explored and destroyed. "The Antagonist" (center-right on screenshot) engaging a massacre. ![]() Critics panned the game for being repetitive and lacking variation, criticizing its violent and controversial nature, although some minor praise went towards its gameplay mechanics.ĭespite the reception, Hatred developed a cult following and has been described as a cult video game. Upon release, Hatred received generally negative reviews in video game press. ![]() It was greenlit for a second time on Decemand released on June 1, 2015. The game was shortly removed by Valve from their Steam Greenlight service due to its extremely violent content but was later brought back with a personal apology from Gabe Newell. Its October 2014 announcement trailer was characterized as "controversial" by multiple video game journalists. The developer described Hatred as a reaction to video game aesthetic trends such as political correctness, politeness, vivid color, and games as art. The player character is a misanthropic mass-killer who begins a "genocide crusade" to kill as many human beings as possible. It says something when some user reviews begged fans to play spin-off Postal: Brain Damaged instead, with entirely different gameplay and themes.Hatred is an isometric shoot 'em up video game developed and published by Destructive Creations that was released on Jfor Microsoft Windows. Even when it did, it wasn’t just the game’s humor that was dated, as the open world gameplay was very similar to the older Postal titles, learning nothing from modern titles in the same genre. Rather than just poor performance, the game flat out didn’t work. It should be noted the Steam reviews are shockingly positive. Many user reviews on Metacritic called it unfinished and broken even after launching fully from Early Access, and accused positive reviews being from the developers themselves. The issue many found with Postal 4 was just how busted of a game it was. Postal 4 felt like a retreading, with many of the same gross-out and “shocking” gags being nothing new compared to the first game in 1997. I’m certainly not against crude humor, but along with what’s deemed “crude” changing over time, so does mockery. A cop flips off the Postal Dude for asking to sign his petition “to put a bidet in every home” via Postal 4: No Regerts (2022) Running with Scissors
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