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Ever have one of those days? Well now you can!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Ever have one of those days. . . One thing I have found out over the past 14 years is that software manufacturers have an endless world of ideas to work with. I remember playing Postal years ago and thought it was okay, but nothing like Postal2, in fact its like night and day.

Following an install that went very smooth on 4 different systems including 1 laptop, the software ran under Windows 2000 and XP without fail. I did find that the more memory, both system and video, the better.

The one thing I found to be a little annoying was the refreshing time after entering a new zone, it seemed to take longer than I wanted it to, but overall there were no major software problems.

The game is violent, hardcore death and destruction violence and this is was sets the Postal2 game apart from all other games. You have a number of violence levels to choose from, from easy to Hestonworld, which is where I spent the game playing.

You have a number of weapons, from the shotgun to a flamethrower to a cow's head. In fact you can even kick and baton people during the game. There are a couple of special weapons you can discover while playing.

You have to make your way through 5 days with tasks from returning a book to getting milk. Along the way you encounter a host of different people from band members to book burners to even a group of angry priests.

Not normally a player of FPS type games, I found this to a fun and entertaining. I did have several laughs during the first day of the game. With the amount of violence and language this game is not meant for the younger crowd.

The game even talks to you and for you. As mentioned before the language is adult in nature, even when you enter the "cheat" codes, which I found that can help you during each day.

Overall Runningwithscissors has once again put together a game that any serious gamer. So if you need to find an escape from the world around you, this may be the game of choice. All you have to remember is that this is a game.

Postal 2....Fun? Definetly!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: April 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is by far, the most original, creative, open-ended, bizarre, and downright fun game that I have played since I popped in the original Grand Theft Auto back in '97. The non-linear gameplay is refreshing, as you walk around a huge, totally interactive city...the question is, will you be passive and peaceful, or go completely POSTAL! It's all up to you and you control the speed and outcome of the game, as you are the postal dude. The graphics are completely top-notch and use the latest Epic(R) Unreal Warfare(R) Engine...Sound, is in high fidelity Ogg Vorbis 48kh, so you can hear everything, from crickets beneath the dusty wood planks of an old house, to the crack of a hunting rifle going off into your next victim. One warning, is that this game is the first game in history to recieve the ESRB Rating of "Intense Violence", so don't even think about buying it if your under 17, as every store on the market is extremely strict about this particular game. As for bugs...I've been playing for 2 days solid and have found none. There have been several reports of horrible load times, well as long as you have a PIII 800mhz or above, your load times should be fast, however, with a Pentium 4 you're load times will be like a torch through butter. I give this game a 5/5 for being totally original and outright fun!

Wow

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Postal 2 is a very fun game overall. Really, you have to take everything in this game with a grain of salt, because after playing only a few minutes of it, you'll realize that this isn't meant to be taken seriously at all. If you do take it seriously, then you don't have any sense of humor and should stop playing before you start complaining. Yes, a lot of this stuff will offend those of you who don't like violence and/or animal cruelty. But, once again, DON'T TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY! This doesn't have the disturbing seriousness of its predecessor, so you can go ahead and laugh it all off. Trust me, you will. And if you don't, stop playing and don't whine and complain.

This is, as I've said before, a very, VERY fun game. If you have any built up frustrations from society's madness, you can let it all out with this. Think about it, what other game allows you to
a) Go up to some random person and shock him with a taser until he collapses to the ground twitching
b) Decapitate him with a shovel
c) Punt his severed head down the street and let your pet dog fetch it for you
d) Pour gasoline on his corpse and throw a match at him to set him aflame
e) And, as a final insult, urinate on him to put the flames out
Wow. Now THAT'S political incorrectness!

Still, if you like that type of stuff (that is, if you're a total sicko like me), you'll get a lot of laughs from this. I remember the first time my dog fetched a man's detatched head for me. I was laughing so hard, I spent ten minutes kicking it away and letting it bring it back, dropping it at my feet, turning around, and barking and wagging his tail for me to kick it again. Yes, I am that sick. But I enjoyed it nonetheless.

As far as plot goes, there's really none to speak of. But hey, I don't play these type of games for the plot (I play the Silent Hill series for that), I play these games just for one reason: for fun, and that's just what this game delivers. The graphics are okay, but I honestly don't give a hoot about that. Once again, it's the gameplay and fun factor I'm after. A lot of people don't like this game simply because it doesn't have top-notch graphics. Well, those dolts would like the game more if they just stopped obsessing over the graphics and got busy PLAYING THE FRICKIN' GAME! What a novel idea: playing a video game. Dang, that's brilliant.

This game does a good job of making the GTA series look like a Barney episode. It doesn't discriminate, though; it insults every race, both sexes, pretty much everything that exists. So it may be offensive, but at least it's not biased.

The game functions like any run-of-the-mill first person shooter: you have a respectable selection of weapons, you can go around and kill anything in sight, etc. But, in addition to the usual guns (handgun, automatic rifle, shotgun, sniper rifle), it also has a good amount of "creative" weapons that you can use for some really interesting kills. Examples of this are the deadly throwing scissors, molotov cocktails, a clipboard, a rocket launcher, a shovel (decapitation, anyone?), a stun gun, grenades, and your trusty tank of gasoline and matches. There are many firefights you can get into, and some of those are cases in which you're so outnumbered that running-and-gunning will just end with your death, and you have to use your different weapons for strategies to win. Also, a lot of the civilians who walk around are carrying firearms of their own, and if you happen to get into a little quarrel with gun-wielding lunatics, if you holster your weapon and run down the street, taking a few hits, you may be able to get either the police, ATF members, RWS (Running With Scissors) guys, and normal civilians to take out their weapons and fight your assailant. As long as you look like an innocent victim, it's all good. Actually, the RWS guys will attack any and all people assaulting you, and won't harm you, even if you join the firefight. If you attack them, they'll return fire, but only after many hits. These guys are your buddies. One of the most fun things to do is to spark firefights among normal people and just watch the bullets and blood fly. You can let them go crazy and do the killing for you, something you could never do in the GTA games without a code. There's even a survival mode for you to play in where you're a pacifist and everyone around you is going postal. There are 11 difficulty levels, and 19 errands. While that may seem like limited gameplay, make no mistake; there's no time limit to complete those errands, and you can explore the town (which isn't too large, but allows for enough exploring anyway) and do whatever the heck you want. While Paradise may not be as vast and complex as Vice City or Liberty, it still allows for good open-ended gameplay. You can blow up cars, explode or set aflame large crowds of civilians (including highly flammable marching bands - something that we all loved in the original Postal), blow people's heads off with a shotgun, decapitate someone with your shovel, kick people in the face, punt trash cans at someone, kick a person through a window, kick a severed head at a police officer to piss them off, the list goes on and on. Or you could be creative and pour gasoline on a detached head and punt it at someone, lighting them on fire, blow up a car and let it land on some innocent bystander, or anything else your deranged mind can think of. But, again, you don't have to be violent. You can choose to be peaceful, or homicidal, the choice is yours. But, some advice: to enjoy this game, go crazy; it's fun.

About the only thing I can complain about is the horrid loading times. There are a lot of them, and they're very, very long and tedious. This can get annoying, but once you get over it, you learn to ignore them. Well, at least a little...

All in all, this is a great game for those of you with a good sense of humor and a strong constitution. If you don't mind the gore and blood, love having fun, and putting a cat on a shotgun to act as a silencer, then this is the game for you.

Terrific, sick, funny... BUT VERY "BUGGY"--- BEWARE!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'd love to love this game. I've been a computer nerd for nearly twenty-five years and "politically incorrect" pc games take the edge off the day when I get home from the nine-to-five. My present pc is no slouch vis. power/memory/graphics, but installing "Postal2" and keeping the game from crashing is a nightmare...
I've followed the instructions on the official website, downloaded the patch, downloaded "DirectX 9", re-installed numerous times, ran the game in "safe mode", submitted bug reports...
The result???
A beautifully twisted vision of a potentially GREAT game which because of the "bugs" is ultimately aggravating and *NOT* worth the $$$.
Unless you have tomorrow's top of the line gaming machine with *all* the bells and whistles, my advice is to wait until they can work the bugs out or it comes way down in price.

A fair game but little else

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Playing this game I kept being reminded of Eddie Murphy's movie "Raw." It was his follow-on comedy concert to "Delirious" where Eddie had been stung by his critics and was showing his anger, which got in the way of being funny.

Similarly this move shows the flack the developers got from the original "Postal." It starts with a disclaimer about violence and makes several pointed jabs at a certain congressman, and doesn't focus on either the humor or the action. There's literally dozens of ways this games could have been more humorous or (unnecessarily) more violent.

The much belabored violence to me seemed fairly tame. If anything this seemed almost in the same theme as Duke Nuke'em 3D, with the aliens and monsters replaced by civilians and a few bad guys. Indeed, an alternative title might have been "The adventures of Duke's homely younger brother."

The appearance of the game is a little behind the times, looking more like something circa 2000 than this year, and the AI of the other characters leaves a lot to be desired. Despite swapping lots of heads and body parts it's obvious you're seeing the same seven or so people over and over again, and for some reason they're all walking around aimlessly. As for playing it's old-style first shooter, the machine gun is a surprisingly weak weapon, the shotgun is one of the most powerful (Like in Doom) and you only see splatters of blood--there's no body parts flying around except for boint plank headshots.

As the developers say the game is only as violent as you are. You have a week where you have several daily errands to run, and if you play the game non-violently the only times you kill anyone is when you're trying to save your own skin. It also becomes very boring. It's not until the second half of the game some puzzles and challenges come up, but all stuff you've seen before. Essentially the game boils down to how much you enjoy blasting away at random at the populace, about half of whom fight back, and how long you can survive. (Althought smoking the catnip does give a very cool Matrix-like slow motion to everything.)

Easily offended people will be horrified at this game, but for the most part it's a fairly crude and simplistic theme that get most of it's attention from the people who've complained about it. There's been more violent and offensive games released, just this one self-consciously centers on it.

A kick [***] game!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: April 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is the coolest game ever. Even better than GTA series.
If youre a fan of criminal games, get this game by all means necessary. If youre looking for great graphic this game has it.
Buy the game right now!!

Bargain basement quality, crudeness, and boredom.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: June 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I've been eagerly anticipating this game after having played the original. Well, the game is here, it is from the same company, it is supposed to take the tongue-in-cheek hyperviolence of the predecessor to the next level and yet I only played it for 40 minutes before uninstalling it and putting on eBay. Why would that happen? I'll tell you why!

This game is slow. In fact, it is not slow - it is SL-O-O-OW. Start the game and you are presented with a borderless window with a warning with no visible activity going on for about one minute. At some point I was sure the game had quetly terminated leaving this window behind and I was going to restart it when it finally went fullscreen. Loading between areas is also very slow - on my machine it takes about 1.5-2 minutes. Remember - we are talking about areas within a single mission, so you'll have a chance to experience these reloads several times through each mission. As there is no sign or indication of area switch, it always comes suddenly. First time I was through it, the area around was so non-descript in both directions, that I mad a mistake and backed out one step. Bad move! I was punished by loading the very area I came from (and subsequently by having to load the new area again). Finally, in many cases such delays are accompanied with absolutely no activity on-screen so it is quite difficult to figure out whether the game is dead or it is merely loading. Just in case you wonder: my machine is pretty fast. Most of modern games (e.g. the recently played GTA3) show excellent performance on it.

The game graphics looks crude. It looks like an old 3D shooter game rendered in OpenGL - in other words, very immature. It is OK to have such shabby graphics in an open source program or a free demo, but there is absolutely no excuse to release a commerical game with such graphics in 2003.

Finally, the game looks very mundane. Sure, there are 'cute" moments to it with people yelling obscenities and a programmer's workplace located in an office bathroom - but all of this is merely an icing on top of a very dull first person shooter. You go around and run chores. You may also kill people walking around. So much for thrill.

All in all, this is what it looks like - a rushed release of a dull, generic first person shooter of bargain basement quality. Spend your hard earned money somewhere else (like an excellent (and I do mean it!) Grand Theft Auto III) or this game will make you go postal.

Thes game is won of the best ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: May 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I beet Pastol 2 yezterdey an dit was the funnist game I have ever beenten... its good grafix and other good stuff like the grafix and the content rocks! I love how the grafix are really shiney and sparckleng... very grat! I am supprised this game isnt rated Teen... its nat thet bad... reality its not ! I beat it in 4 months on lievermode, which is the easiest. So this means the rapley valyou is rally hi! HAVE FUN!

Not worth the code it was compiled with

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Developer Running With Scissors was obviously trying to cash in on the popularity of Rockstar's "Grand Theft Auto" series, and they failed miserably. The game is boring and pointless.

The plot is simple: the player assumes the role of "The Postal Dude" and, each day, sets off to complete a list of boring tasks, like going to the store for milk. Invariably each mundane task ends in disaster as various nutty groups in the game burst in and start shooting.

The game plays up the "choice" the player has, whether to be passive or to "go postal" with various weapons. There's no reason to play passive, and the novelty of the over-the-top violence gets old fast. Characters spout inane dialog, and the only high point of the game is when Gary Coleman (yes, Gary Coleman) makes an appearance at a mall which, of course, ends in a gun battle.

Although powered by the Unreal engine, Postal 2 looks drab. Out of the box, the game has some serious bugs, including ridiculously long load times between levels. This gets frustrating fast as there are so many level changes to get from point A to point B. A recent patch has fixed this issue, but the game remains a pointless exercise in futility.

Sometimes the saving grace for a bad single-player game can be the multiplayer option. "Postal 2" does not have multiplayer. Instead, you have to actually purchase the multiplayer add-on for $9.95. Running With Scissors might have scored an extra star had it released the multiplayer part for free, as was the case with the "Return to Castle Wolfenstein" multiplayer expansion, "Enemy Territory," which started life as an expansion to RTCW and ended up being a free stand-alone product.

You're better off spending the $20 on the vastly superior "Grand Theft Auto III" or, for ten bucks more, "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City." Either choice is a better one than the terminally boring "Postal 2."

Controversy does not a good game make.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: April 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Obviously intended to be irreverent, super-violent, and disturbing, rating Postal 2 on a politically correct, moral, or ethical basis would be ridiculous. So let's just rate it on quality of programming and enjoyment of gameplay, shall we?

The graphics: Not bad, but certainly not on par with games like No One Lives Forever 2 and Mafia. The game does utilize the Unreal engine and has some nice textures here and there, but the town has a very artificial and claustrophobic feel to it. The NPC textures are o.k., as well, but nowhere near those in Return to Castle Wolfenstein.

The sounds: Very so-so. I found the weapon sounds in particular to be very unrealistic - especially the AR15. (It sounds like an airgun.) In a game where gunplay is an essential part of the fun, this is a glaring flaw.

A.I. - Not nearly good enough to be satisfying in the way the game claims to aspire to. To truly descend into the cellar of bad taste, the NPC's would have to behave in a believable manner, with a certain complexity of interaction available. As it stands, the NPC's have a very limited range of behaviors. This, combined with the so-so graphics makes for a very artificial environment.

Gameplay: Obviously, the creators did not have the funding nor programming talent to make Postal 2 into a game with cutting-edge graphics and groundbreaking gameplay. Even with these limitations, however, the developers could have made the game far more fun with just a little thought into what makes all of us want to go "postal". Getting stuck in traffic, having to wait in long lines, getting diss'd by a rude employee - with a little creativity, the programmers could have inserted these scenarios into the game to add fuel to our virtual postal tendencies. As it stands, apart from the postal dude's general psychosis, your player has no real motivation to go wacky - and the A.I. just isn't good enough to make it fun when you do. Without these assets, any open-ended environment - no matter how big - won't keep you coming back for more...

System Specs: P4 1.9ghz, 512mb rambus, Geforce4 Ti4600 128mb, Soundblaster Xgamer. Game ran fine on highest resolution with only a few stutters here and there, but I found loading times to be a bit excessive - especially considering the lesser graphic quality.

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