

"The Antagonist", in Hatred announcement trailer, October 2014

It's time for me to kill and it's time for me to die. And I will put in the grave as many as I can. This is the time of vengeance and no life is worth saving. My whole life is just cold, bitter hatred and I always wanted to die violently. I just fucking hate this world and the human worms feasting on its carcass. What is important is what I'm going to do. As he collapses, severely injured, he activates the explosive trigger the power plant explodes, levelling New York City and killing millions of people. After several failed attempts to manually override the reactor, soldiers arrive and shoot him multiple times in the chest while he laughs. 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. 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. Hatred is an isometric shoot 'em up video game developed and published by Destructive Creations that was released on Jon Microsoft Windows.
