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Genocide video game is approved for release!

By James Dean. 

A violent video game that encourages players to perform gruesome killings on a “genocide crusade” has been approved for sale in Britain.

Hatred, believed to be the most violent game ever produced, was awarded an 18 certificate by the Games Rating Authority yesterday.

Players of Hatred are given an arsenal of weapons including a knife, a shotgun and a flamethrower to kill police and unarmed civilians. The game features an execution function where wounded victims can be stamped to death and shot in the face at point-blank range.

Hatred was certified for sale in the United States earlier this year, becoming only the second game in the past 20 years to receive the uppermost age restriction for extreme violence from the Entertainment Software Rating Board.

The game caused controversy when it surfaced as a concept on Steam Greenlight, a popular online PC gaming community, in December. It was removed within hours after an outcry by members, only to be reinstated two days later on free speech grounds.

Adam Simmonds, the police and crime commissioner for Northamptonshire, who has conducted research into children’s exposure to violent video games, said it was “outrageous” that Hatredhad been certified.

“We say that adults should be allowed to play these types of games, but then we’re shocked when children act them out in playgrounds with real weapons,” he said.

A trailer for Hatred shows the main character, referred to as The Antagonist, blowing off a man’s head with a shotgun before putting a gun in a woman’s mouth and killing her. The character says: “No life is worth saving. I will put in a grave as many as I can. My genocide crusade begins.”

Destructive Creations, the Polish studio behind Hatred, says on its website: “Don’t take it too seriously, it’s just a game. These days, when a lot of games are heading to be polite, colourful, politically correct and trying to be some kind of higher art, rather than just an entertainment, we wanted to create . . . something that could give the player a pure gaming pleasure.”

If the content of a game is deemed by the GRA to be illegal, or to have the “potential to be genuinely harmful”, it can decline to issue a certificate, which means the game cannot be sold.

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