Hatred

Critic reviews

• Dual Shockers

  Giuseppe Nelva · Jun 12, 2015

  5.5

  It’s a pretty competent action game with really great visuals, but marred by quite a few flaws. If you don’t like playing with keyboard and mouse, then steer clear, but if you don’t mind putting your controller aside, and you enjoy the genre, it can be worth quite a few hours of your time. I didn’t hate Hatred, but I didn’t really love it either. Yet, it’s a pretty promising debut for a new indie team.

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• COGconnected

  Paul Sullivan · Jun 04, 2015

  3.0

  Hatred is a subpar twin stick shooter whose only claim to fame is its Adults Only rating from the ESRB. The novelty of the rating and some good destruction tech does not make up for the coated-in-molasses control, idiotic AI, and feeling of unease the game puts forth. Worse yet, the game is boring, repetitive, and simply not fun. Save your money for something with more substance.

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• PC Gamer

  Christopher Livingston · Jun 04, 2015

  4.8

  There are a few things I enjoyed about Hatred, but its many and major flaws quickly turned it into a largely forgettable shooter that grew less and less interesting the longer I played. 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.

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• Cheatcc

  Angelo M. D'Argenio · Jun 03, 2015

  4.4

  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.

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• Shacknews

  Daniel Perez · Jun 02, 2015

  3.0

  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.

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• Game Informer

  Daniel Tack · Jun 02, 2015

  5.5

  Hatred is a marginal twin-stick shooter that rides the shock concept hard, and if you’re just looking for an angry protag-antagonist delivering deadpan death-lines as he dodges cop cars and fumbles changing guns, it might work for you. Not much else is here other than the novelty of the latest “ultraviolent” video game. It didn’t work for me, but I think Destructive Creations could tailor its twin-stick shooting chops into something interesting in the future.

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