GS News - Google Console Info, Super Violent Game Trailer Turns Heads

It's too bad you entirely missed 90% of what Manhunt does as a game: satirize the voyeuristic tendencies of a public keen on clicking video clips of the newest cams whether they're beatings, robberies or shootouts.

Manhunt was far from a sim(3rd person sim? lol); instead it lowered you into an ever escalating cat 'n mouse maze of stealth and high tension(Halloween-like score) horror. Really, one of the first games considered a "true work of art" by several prestige press reviewers.

Except in manhunt you were defending yourself in a sick death tournament. In this game you slaughter defenceless people. Not saying it shouldn't be made, but the differences are quite apparent.

@owlcoholic HaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaH

@Duke_51 People should think about reasons of school shootings in the first place. These tragic events have nothing to do with video games - in contrary to cult of firearms, lack of parential care and other social pathologies.

@Duke_51 You mean false flags

@SaintsRowLA I agree. A game like Tearaway on PS Vita was genuinely refreshing. That was a game that highlighted creativity and ingenuity. Hatred just seems like the type of game that will just create issues and encourage more people to stay away from the industry.

@XxXDarkness0XxX I know right. It's stupid. It is like they are scared that if they play the game they are going to be brain washed into copying.

I got a Platinum Trophy in Wolfenstein a couple of weeks ago, I sure as hell didn't dual wield a pair of machine guns and start slaughtering people in the street. And that was FPS not an isometric top down shooter.

@OneStrong2 Wow you really are a broken idi0t aren't you? You can't even play a game without being desensitised to violence?

You know what desensitises me to violence? That people are being beheaded on the internet this year and that the Nazis actually gassed and burned about thousands of Jewish people less than 100 years ago. Our own history is more violent than most of the stuff we can get in video games. Sure as hell not some isometric top down shooter.

We are already desensitised to violence, video games are not the cause.

@ginyuman School shootings will happen anyway, because video games are not primary or even secondary reason. Social pathologies are.

@ginyuman Yeah, like there where more kids throwing bricks from bridges onto passing cars after the release of Tetris.

@ginyuman
And politicians claiming games lead to mass murder -- cause everyone supports this, right?

Did you even watch the video? I think not....what they made isn't even a game. It's like the company that made an energy drink and then named it cocaine...just looking for news coverage.

@jasswolf I hope you actually played Manhunt fully through. Don't compare oranges to apples. Manhunt is a stealth/suspense survival horror game where you kill INCARCERATED PSYCHOTIC HARDCORE CRIMINALS in an elaborate penitentiary setting with goading from an equally psychotic warden talking to you(you) via an earpiece. Nothing like veteran Hollywood character actor Brian Cox's voiceover commanding you to keep killing in ever escalating violent ways.

(I stress the allcaps for readers unfamiliar with the game and passed over your facile comparison)

From the trailer Hatred appears to show a brooding mass murdering character in a Postal-like public setting. Just pure wanton destruction of property&person, unless very important details are forthcoming and will reveal the game's true purpose.

Manhunt artistically(according to some prestige press reviewers like the NYT&Playboy) recreates and viscerally simulates terror and vicarious butchering, but more importantly satirizes the culture of clicking that new cam video footage of this week's beatings/robbings/killings -- for a decade old game, it was visionary, a true test of art.

I talked to a gamer friend a few nights ago who thought a reboot/revision of Manhunt was in order. I disagreed, since the game's emphasis on videotape and the surrounding voyeuristic culture played so well to the PS2's graphics and the grainy surveillance footage. No wonder Manhunt 2 failed.

I do agree though with part of your comment: "...it is up there with Manhunt as a game..." Pretty damn far up, way past Hatred.

@jasswolf A legit, homicidal loon, tearing through society? Sounds like Trevor from GTAV ;)

@SamuraiuMujuru Skyrim wasnt really that big. I was disappointing by that news as I was expecting TW3 game world to be bigger.

@crysserik I don't see what the developers are trying to convey through this game. Are they trying to say that violent video games do not always have to have a deep and somewhat optimistic plot and world? Are they trying to say that they too hate humanity just as the protagonist confesses in the trailer? Are they trying to say that video game violence shouldn't be sugarcoated?

Sure, they have a right to release this game out to the public but the question isn't about whether the content is moral or not but rather will it be a success among the gaming community or not? Personally, I do not think so because video games already have been seen as bad influences on people especially the youth by those ignorant to the medium. It will only add fuel to the flame.

As far as I am concerned, I will absolutely not purchase this title because it doesn't appeal to me. The premise sounds silly compared to its very dark setting. Now I understand that every title does not have to have a compelling plot and what not but the premise to Hatred sounds ridiculous. Honestly, I first thought the guy next to the bus stop was a zombie due to the appearance of his demeanor but he was either drowsy or intoxicated. If he was a zombie than it would just be another zombie title which wouldn't be that much of a big deal. Then again this could be a social experiment of sorts; as in the title could have been made to see how people especially gamers would react to such content. Maybe they wanted to encourage or provoke gamers and others to rethink virtual violence and to not take it as seriously even though the game's personality looks quite serious which might confuse some.

@crysserik Just because your free to do something doesn't make it a good idea. This game looks like a poster child for another anti-video game movement. I can already see the protestors screaming "Will somebody think of the children!"

I remember the Witcher devs putting down the Edler Scrolls so I went in to the Witcher with high hopes and some degree of scepticism. Invisible walls were one of the first things that really annoyed me.

@sanform I still suppose it's a psychological experience ordered by the NSA... :D