Hatred (computer game)

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Hatred
Original title Hatred
Studio Destructive Creations
Publisher Destructive Creations
Senior Developer Jakub Stychno, Arkadiusz Filip
Erstveröffent-
lichung		 June 1, 2015
platform Microsoft Windows
genre Shoot 'em up
Game mode Single player
control Mouse , keyboard
medium Download
language English
Age rating
PEGI from 18
information Indexed on list part D

Hatred is a shoot 'em up from developer Destructive Creations and was released for Microsoft Windows on June 1, 2015.

On April 20, 2016, the Federal Inspectorate for Media Harmful to Young Persons in Germany, at the request of the Commission for Youth Media Protection, indicated the game as telemedium on part D of the list with decision no: 12371, because it was judged to be potentially criminally relevant due to violent portrayals according to § 131 StGB . On December 7, 2016, the Tiergarten District Court confiscated seven uncommented video clips with recordings of the game for glorifying violence and violating human dignity according to § 131 StGB.

action

The protagonist is a misanthropic , sociopathic mass murderer who begins a “genocide crusade” to kill as many people as possible.

development

Hatred is the first game from Destructive Creations, a video game developer from Gliwice , Poland . The majority of the employees previously worked for the Polish developer The Farm 51.

Hatred announced Destructive Creations on October 16, 2014 with a trailer that a large number of computer game journalists described as "controversial". The developers described Hatred in response to the trend of political correctness in video games and wanted a game develop, shuns courtesy, bright colors and video games as an art form. In that regard, they also wanted to create a game that reclaims the history of the industry as "a rebellious medium" and brings back basic entertainment without "any false philosophy." Although the trailer was supposed to be provocative, the chairman of Destructive Creations, Jarosław Zieliński, did not expect the extent of the reactions and supportive fan mail. He added that he doesn't think the trailer crosses any moral line and that those who disagree don't need to play the game. In an interview with Vice , Zieliński noted that the dark ambient music in the game, as well as the character design, should be deliberately rendered without joy and said, “I don't want to justify anything. I want the player to ask: why. ”The game is based on Unreal Engine 4 and Nvidia PhysX . The Unreal logo was removed following a request from Unreal developer Epic Games .

The development team chose the single player platform because of the size of the team and hoped to distribute the game through Steam and GOG.com . On December 15, 2014 Hatred was briefly put to the vote on Steam Greenlight , but was initially removed by the platform provider; a person in charge of Steam testified that the company " won't publish Hatred ." On December 16, the game was resumed on the service and Valve boss Gabe Newell sent an apology to the developers. It then became the most voted game on Greenlight and successfully released on December 29th.

In January 2015 Hatred was given the rating "Adults Only" (German: Only for Adults) by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB). It is the third video game to receive this rating for extreme violence rather than sexual content; previously the games Manhunt 2 and the unreleased Thrill Kill received this rating. One of the developers challenged the rating and said that they were "not entirely convinced" of this rating due to the association with sexually explicit games. However, the developer added that “It's still kind of an achievement to have the second game in history to receive such a rating for violence and language alone. Although the violence is not really that bad and the language is not overused. ”The second trailer was released on January 29, 2015 along with the pre-order information. New weapons such as a flamethrower and new execution animations were shown.

The developers have announced that development tools for Hatred will be made available shortly after the release . The game was translated into German by Marcel Weyers , but he distances himself from the content in the game.

The game distributor GOG decided not to include the game in its catalog without giving any specific reasons. As part of the publication via the Steam distribution platform, a purchase by customers living in Germany or Australia was prevented. This restriction, which is intended to counteract legal action, was not initiated by the sales platform, but by the manufacturer Destructive Creations.

reception

reviews
publication Rating
Destructoid 5.5
GameSpot 3/10
GameStar 33%
Meta-ratings
Metacritic 43/100

Paul Tassi of Forbes noted that while the player has the same capacity to murder innocents as in the Grand Theft Auto or Fallout video game franchises , such acts are punished in those games, whereas Hatred does not, as violence "literally [ ...] the only content of the game "is. GameZone's Mike Splechta questioned the timing of the game and how it could become the "next scapegoat" when video games are again blamed for school rampages and other acts of violence. The Guardian described the game as "a silly shooting game that strives for a tap dance between self-despising parody and pseudo-anarchist pose to cover all areas, moods and issues of its demographic target group"; it is precisely tailored to the target group of frustrated gamers who feel marginalized by the discussions about sexism and violence in video games. Andre Peschke from GameStar magazine , who described the game as a “game for losers” before it was published, gave a similar verdict as a “calculated provocation, tailor-made to reopen the discussion that has often been played out by the amok simulator and to fool niche customers into the tickling of the wicked ". Technically it seems competent, playful but irrelevant and in terms of content without recognizable ambitions “beyond breaking taboos for its own sake”. In the test of the final version, the game received a rating of 33%. The game is not outstanding in any way as a computer game without its amok theme. The core mechanics of a top-down shooter, the shootouts, would work, but beyond that there would be nothing that differentiates the game from competing products and makes it better. In terms of content, the game fails due to the lack of any action or contextualization and provides neither a clever nor relevant contribution to the overhanded political correctness postulated by the developer. The game hides behind an exciting question without answering it. Instead, this merely serves as a pretext "to provoke and [...] to celebrate violence and hatred". For Felix Schütz from PC Games , the computer game is "a malicious rampage simulator that glorifies the slaughter of innocent people." He thinks it is "so monotonous and listless that even violent gamblers can quickly lose interest." Chris Carter of destructoid.com described Hatred as "lukewarm" and rated it as an average of 5.5 out of ten points. The International Business Times criticized the fact that the player mainly targets defenseless victims and that living out sadistic fantasies is in the foreground.

The Toronto Sun described playing the computer game as a "waste of time".

Forbes , The Guardian , Rock, Paper, Shotgun and Kotaku called Hatred a "mass murderer simulator".

The computer game received a rating of 43 out of 100 points at Metacritic .

Trailer

Several video game journalists reacted negatively to the announcement trailer, particularly because of the "portrayal of shameless violence". Polygon’s Colin Campbell wrote that they responded "with grave disgust" to the press release. They described the trailer as "appalling, extremely brutal and very tasteless". The NDR reported that the gunman in the game's trailer, "a white man armed to the teeth", massacred more than 20 victims in less than a minute - "exclusively blacks, Asians and police officers". PC Magazine's David Murphy wrote that if the game ever gets released, prepare for the reactions to this extremely brutal shooter. He compared the game to Manhunt , Postal, and Mortal Kombat - other video games considered controversial because of the violence they depict - and said Hatred "will create just as much controversy." Polygon’s Ben Kuchera wrote that the trailer was a “rhetorical failure” as it intended to shock viewers but ultimately reflected the attention-seeking youthful 1990s “shock culture” that was inspired by the Slipknot style. In contrast, the chairman of Destructive Creations felt that the trailer did a very good job of what is known as the "shock tactic," adding that the industry's response reflected the political correctness the game is rebelling against.

In connection with the publication of the trailer, the media reported on connections between studio boss Jarosław Zieliński and some of his colleagues from Destructive Creations to the right-wing extremist scene. Zieliński is said to have expressed support for the neo-Nazi organization “Polska Liga Obrony” via Facebook , which made headlines with actions against Muslims. His colleague Marcin Kaźmierczak is said to be close to the nationalist and homophobic youth organization “Młodzież Wszechpolska”. Thereupon Zieliński and two of his employees distanced themselves from National Socialist ideology and rejected the accusation of racism.

The second trailer, titled Devastation , received similar reviews. According to Polygon , it's "just as brutal and cynical as the first trailer."

Web links

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ AG Tiergarten, decision of December 7th, 2016, Az .: (353 Gs) 284 AR 55/16 (5820/16): Confiscation of video clips based on an online game because of glorifying violence . In: JMS report . tape 40 , no. 1 , 2017, p. 89 - 90 ( nomos-elibrary.de ).
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  5. ^ Valve pulls Hatred from Greenlight, calling it unpublishable . Gamasutra.
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  9. ↑ EA kills 'Thrill Kill' game before release . In: ZDNet , October 15, 1998. Archived from the original on November 16, 2006. Retrieved on December 18, 2006. 
  10. ↑ The Manhunt Saga: ESRB assigns AO rating . In: Ars Technica . Condé Nast Publications. Retrieved December 10, 2013.
  11. ^ Hatred given Adults Only rating in US and Canada . Retrieved January 16, 2015.
  12. ↑ Why the Adults Only rating may be pointless and harmful to games as an art form . In: polygon . Vox Media. Retrieved March 22, 2014.
  13. ↑ A history of (muted) violence . In: polygon . Vox Media. Retrieved March 22, 2014.
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  20. ↑ Review on Gamespot. Retrieved June 3, 2015 .
  21. ↑ Review on Gamestar. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 2, 2015 ; Retrieved June 3, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gamestar.de
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  26. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated June 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gamestar.de
  27. ↑ Opinion & Column - Hatred: The cruelty that has become a game - a comment by Felix Schütz
  28. ↑ 'Hatred' Review: A Genocide Simulator Is The Most Controversial Game Of 2015 , ibtimes.com, June 1, 2015
  29. ↑ Hatred review: Ultra-violent shooter a waste of time , Toronto Sun , June 4, 2015
  30. ↑ Keith Stuart: Hatred shooter removed from Steam gaming site . December 16, 2014. Archived from the original on April 25, 2015. Retrieved on April 29, 2015.
  31. ^ John Walker: Valve "Would Not Publish" Hatred, Deletes From Greenlight . December 16, 2014. Archived from the original on April 30, 2015. Retrieved on April 29, 2015.
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  33. ↑ Kristina Festring-Hashem Zadeh: "Jihad is better than Call of Duty" , NDR.de , December 4, 2014
  34. ↑ Oliver Klatt: Violence game "Hatred": Disgusting work or provocative PR stunt? , Wired (German edition)
  35. ↑ James Fudge: 'Hatred' Developer Creative Destruction Denies Accusations That Some Studio Members Are 'Neo Nazis' , gamepolitics.com, October 20, 2014
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