WASD for movement, Shift for Sprint, and the mouse for targeting and shooting.
Good thing about the control scheme is that it’s easy to pickup. The character movement on the other hand was sluggish at first where it was hard to turn around curves in tight corners with vertical sync on but after the recent game 174MB update, the control movement became smooth and it became easy to move the character inside and out a house. All missions revolve around killing a certain number of people and it can be a factor for boredom. The only thing that disappoints the players are the repetitive objectives.
Players can traverse through the stage and discover side missions you may or may not want to take. The unforgiving ability also gives various in-game scenes and style when doing “Execution” like shooting a person’s head off with a shotgun. Players can also perform the “Execution” move on sleeping NPCs. The special ability can be used when the NPC is knocked down or slowly dying on the ground doing an “Execution” move kills the dying character and also gives the main character health and the only way to regain health is to execute NPCs. Setting aside the pure killing-spree with limited gun choices, Hatred‘s notable and powerful “Execution” move is one of the best feature in the game that makes Hatred stand out. A game like Hatred, with more gore and violence, made me expect a lot dreadful weapons like an RPG, heavy machine guns, and the like but in the end, Hatred only provided basic weapons which was disappointing. However, the game poorly offers limited amount of weapons ranging from an assault rifle like an AK-47, SMG, handgun, shotgun, flamethrowers, hand grenades, molokovs, and flashbangs for your mass killing expedition. The game had similar gameplay elements with Alien Shooter (to those who played it, you know what I’m talking about) where you can control the character’s target with the mouse from a three-dimensional view, enemy A.I is intelligent, each stage becomes more challenging, and given the ability to switch weapons. The game is not all about being warlike with guns and shooting innocent civilians, but the essence of an isometric shooter game was present. Hatred lacks a good story to go with its fun killing adventure which made the game a dull shooter game. After the tutorial, the game showed a short in-game cinematic where the psychopathic murderer character narrates his goal. The game started with a straightforward and short tutorial of this simple shooter title. Twisted with hate and consumed with great darkness, the mass murderer will never stop until he kills every worthless existence in this world. Hatred is an isometric shooter game that is set in a town where an unnamed vengeful man starts his genocidal expedition to eradicate innocent people for Earth’s cleansing. Destructive Creations mass murder isometric shooter was removed from Steam but it was eventually restored to their list of games. The game is considered to be one of the most violent games released since Dennaton Games’ Hotline Miami.
Destructive Creations developed the mass genocidal game, Hatred. There are various types of indie games and this includes isometric shooter titles. Indie game development has become a trend nowadays and indie games give us the “fun” we’ve all been looking for.