Can't say I'm not intrigued. I too would like to know the release date, but I'm guessing even the devs don't know yet.

Considering the fact that I couldn't even find the game by searching "Hatred PC Game" on the Internet (and had to instead search for the team's name), I presume that they decided to adopt the "There is no bad publicity" motto.

Yeah, well with a video like that one, I was pretty much assuming that. But still, it's a dick move to the community. The voice over is actually describing most of the US's mass shootings. If it gets popular over here, it's gonna be a shit storm.

Not my cup of tea, but anything that gives the politically correct the middle finger is cool in my book.

From the dev: Notice the line I underlined above. They claim that the game is solely about "pure gaming pleasure" and yet at the same time they claim they are making some sorta social commentary? Can they make up their mind?

Duh, hooking up the old Atari ST and playing from floppies is several levels more hipster than shopping at GoG.com =P

As for this game, meh. It looks boring. The trailer is just selling one thing: over the top indiscriminate violence, .. so it's porn?

So it's basically Postal 1 but with Nathan Explosion? How is this anything new? Unfortunately I can see politicians using this game as an excuse for more censorship though.

Nice. I agree, you can't have your cake and eat it too. Either this is just a game to fuel your basest desires for destruction, or it's some cerebral social experiment, where we the player are supposed to look inward and outward. Yeah, they can't do that cause with the last part, you are becoming what you specifically set out not do to: be more than base entertainment.

So... "we need more games like this" because exactly three people on the planet are playing games from Atari ST floppy disks? Your logic is so flawed, I don't even think there's any logic in there.

One thing is sure, the game has no appeal to me, because it has a serious tone which in my mind doesn't suit the genra of top-down shooter.
Unlike in True Lies, terrorism has ceased to be a funny subject in our western culture since long ago.
On the topic of violent videogames,it also reminds me of the debate that was caused by the infamous mission in Cod:Mw2. Although in GTA or in the Elders Scrolls, it is possible to be a mass murderer, it was not the main focus in any of these games.

To conclude, I'm not against killing lots of npcs in videogames, but most of the time, I enjoy more being on the good side than other one (Dungeon keeper :P).

I don't know if the game will be good but I don't expect it to receive a lot of praise.

GOG has Postal and Postal 2, not sure why he thinks this might be a problem haha. Don't forget Carmageddon and Phantasmagoria and tons of other games that had controversy around them, I can't wait to add this to my game library!

First let me just say I'm against censorship in any way.

The games that get compared the most as I read feedback are:

Grand Theft Auto
Manhunt
Hotline Miami
Postal (The first one)

Grand Theft Auto allows you to slaughter innocents, and in some pretty horrific ways, this is undeniable. However, it is NOT part of the main game. It is NOT required to progress the story. It is PLAYER CHOICE.

So instantly, I rule GTA out. GTA is about playing as criminals, but they have their own greedy and selfish goals that usually involve money and power. Innocents simply get in the way.

Next, you have Manhunt, which is a very dark and gruesome game. But this one also gets crossed out, because, while you may play as a criminal, a death row inmate even, implying he did something very awful indeed, the game doesn't have you killing any innocent people whatsoever. Your enemies are criminals, white supremacists, mercenaries, the mentally disturbed, and cops. Some of those are grey areas, sure, but they are all trying to kill and stop you, the player, from progressing. In other words they are a threat. You the player have to form a sort of unholy alliance to lead the main character to safety. I consider Manhunt a well made piece of dark art in the way it handles that.

Next, you have Hotline Miami, which honestly baffles me. Hotline Miami is about mind control and killing criminals related to the Russians and... its really wacky and out of this world. Just because its top down and violent doesn't mean shit.

Finally, the most accurate of them all, Postal. The first game has you playing a cryptic, delusional, mentally broken man who is convinced something is in the water and the world wants him dead. So he grabs his weapons and goes on a rampage.

However, there is an important thing you must understand about Postal and Hatred. Even in Postal, slaughtering innocents is PLAYER CHOICE. You only have to kill the cops to proceed.

And that's kind of my problem from what I see of Hatred. You see the player dash out, and just start spraying away at innocents, as he does his best edgy voice about being mad and "boo hoo time to kill a bunch of people i want to die violently so brutal".

Look, I hope this game has something to say. I hope it has a purpose. I want to learn about this character. What made him this way? Will he have a moral dilemma? What were the events that lead up to his mass killings? Am I only killing unarmed innocents? If so, that sounds very boring. Am I forced to kill innocents to proceed? Why? What happens to this character at the end? Does he just shoot himself? Congrats you beat the game? Does he go to prison perhaps? Will we see the consequences of his actions? Will he learn anything? Perhaps there will be a twist?

I hope there is more substance to this. I hope it's not Edgy: The Game. I'm sorry, I'm not 14 anymore.

This is the type of game that, when done wrong, can very well damage the art form we all love and enjoy. Video games. I can only hope the developer knows what they're doing...

Or a huge Deus Ex fan!

He was on a christian crusade against socialists...but even if your comparison didn't suck and he was into guts and gore, if only he did have this game, maybe he would have stayed at home and played this instead of the real thing.