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Short, boring and budget

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: April 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The one crime a game can commit above all others is to bore the player.

Postal 2 is not only boring but it's also very short.

No real story to speak of, but does it need one? You play the postal dude, you know that guy in shop class who creeped you out in high school? You spend a 5 day week running errands in the small town of Paradise Arizona. Get some milk, fix your car, but some napalm. All the normal things the loner psycho would do. Except your not really a loaner at all. You have a unseen woman who yells insults at you before and after your day. I suspect her insults are supposed to be funny. Like a lot of the game I kept trying to find the "funny" bits.

The humor is all over but it comes at you so low, you may miss a lot of it. If you like it when wrestlers do funny little skits on their shows, you may like some the humor. I think most people over 12 will be bored by it all.

The worst crime this game commits is cowardice. The developers could have made a game with real punch but they chickened out and tried to make the game funny.

I honestly think no one could make a game about a social retard mowing down innocent people with all manner of weapons in a serious way. Could they? Would they want too? Apparently not. Like a teen poser who acts all street and bad, the came is seriously flawed. It's nothing original. Grand Theft Auto did it a lot better and did not try to be funny.

The game looks ok. The graphics feel very beta-ish. Level loading is slow and the sound is just ok. The postal dudes voice is the games saving grace and it's only redeeming feature. But lets be honest here, it is the same thing we saw in the original postal way back when.

The world you move thru gets boring after about 20 min or so. Once you notice how bad it all is.

The developers say you can play the game without killing anyone. They say you can wimp out and be a pacifist. I don't see how since the force you to kill people all the time. The open ended gameplay they talk about so much is no where to be found. Once you complete a chore, the game takes over, shows you a in game movie and then people proceed to try a kill you.

Did I mention the game is short? It really is. A good player will be done in a very short time. A bad player may take a little longer but they will finish it.

The developers also talk a lot about a twist ending! Oh yea. I will save you the trouble. You get shot by your woman for forgetting ice cream! Baw ha ha! Funny stuff that.

On the whole it feels like a bunch of lonely insecure kids who like to burn stuff deiced to make a game for their lonely insecure friends who like to burn stuff. If your 12, think guns and fire are "cool", you may like this game. If your not, you will be bored.

It's funny how a game trying to scream at you with controversy is nothing but a short, boring budget title at best.

Fun! Pure and Simple

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: April 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

What people don't realize is when you buy a game like Postal you buy it only for the fact that you can kill everyone. What do you think the Postal name is all about??? People are idiots if they buy this game for a "story". This game is FUN, PURE AND SIMPLE. Just murder. Awesome. This with revolutionize the freedom a player has in a game. I've heard people complain about the "missions" in the game.... WHY? Why don't you all just kill yourselves because in this game you don't do "missions" you "live" a real life with objectives that people do IN REAL LIFE. If you think its stupid then your life is stupid, so why not end it? This game is not stop fun. Live a life of an ordinary man... that kills people. But only when you want to. You can play the whole game without killing anyone, thats what makes it so cool. You have the choice to kill.

Postal 2 -- FINALLY!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: March 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The fine folks at Running With Scissors have done it again. The original Postal was condemned by Senator Liebermann, banned in 10 countries, pulled from major retailers store shelves and sparked a lawsuit by the US Postal Service. Apparently it's considered okay to have violence in books, TV, movies, art, etc., but not video games, even those developed and marketed to adults (i.e., the MSRB 17 rating). This game will no doubt stir up that hornets nest again, with the same predictable result - lots of free press (translating to sales) for Postal 2.

The basic premise of the game is that you play the Postal Dude and have to get through a week in his shoes to complete the game. You are placed in a variety of situations where you can react passively or um, "not so passively". Violence is optional, it is not required to complete the game successfully (RWS's web site states the game is "only a violent as you are"). They do however, give you a lot of resources in the event you decide to take the "not so passive" approach, including various machine guns, explosives, a gas can & lighter, and a, er, "cat silencer" (don't ask). The violence is supposed to be very over the top and humorous in a twisted way. How Gary Coleman fits in to all this should be something to see...

This game will be stress relief for a lot of responsible, mature adults who understand the difference between fantasy and reality. That said, observe the rating code and don't let your kids anywhere near it ...

...P>I have Postal 2 on pre-order and I'm anticipating hours of mature, engaging, stress reliving virtual mayhem ...Thanks RWS!

Awesome Game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: April 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If youre willing to buy this game dont pay attention to one star ratings and buy the game rightaway. Its one of the most fun and original games ever made. People who are dropping one stars have probably been shocked by the game and are having nightmares but IMO the level of violence in this game is same as GTA3.
Kudos to the guys at "Running With Scissors" which i consider them one the best game developers of our time.

Laugh out loud funny for sick puppies

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Postal 2 revels in it's unashamed un-PCness. It is racist, violent, scatalogical and includes unspeakable acts of violation against cats (not one for pussy lovers - ahem). It requires a very broad sense of humour and a love of perversity to fully appreciate (hence the high score). Needless to say, I love it!

Reviewers who tire of the endless, seemingly boring, disgusting acts (it gets boring urinating in people's faces etc) are missing the point. Yes, it's boring to keep going up to people in the street and peeing on them but boy does it cut through a queue of people (I hate queuing).

It's not the best in terms of game play with long upload times between areas and lack of interactivity (at least Duke Nukem got to chat to the ladies) but that can be forgiven because the game has real personality. It's the personality of a retarded sex criminal but personality nonetheless. The noise the cat makes when stuck on the end of my shotgun had me laughing out loud.

My only real gripe with the game is that it doesn't go far enough into un-PC territory. How come I can't molest women I meet on the street (although I can expose myself to them)? Why can't I molest corpses (except to micturate on them)? Why aren't there any children to kill? If the indian grocery selling Jihad goat's milk has an Al Qaeda training camp out the back (and a clerk thanking me for my unclean visit), I don't see why the game can't be as sexist as it is racist.

Can't wait for Apocalypse Weekend.

Postal II

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Postal II is an excellent game i would recommend it to anyone who loves action games and would not mind over the top violance. I have never played the first Postal. You play a guy called The Postal Dude. He reminds me of the Blood dude Caleb. Postal 2 is almost like a first person Gta3 without driving. Postal 2 has no plot. It takes place in Paradise, a frictional place and during five working days, starts on monday and ends on friday. All you do is do is run errands for your wife like get milk, return library book, giving a gift to uncle ect. In one mission Gary Coleman appears and you need to get his autograph. Almost all these errands end in disaster, like being attacked by tree lovers. The selection of weapons are great though none unique, a gun, a shotgun, a machine gun, a napalam launcher ect. There is a way to use the shotgun as a silencer but i have never tried it since i like cats (dont ask). The weapon effects are really nasty. If you change your costumes to something else you can go anywhere and do anything you want, no body not even the cops would mind and the game will be very easy even on the hardest difficulty. Postal 2 is built on the Unreal 2 engine. It runs great but the load times are really long and the latest patch fixed nothing. The outdoor areas are beautifull but the art direction for indoor enviroment are not good. The charecters look and move strange but it fits well for a game like this. It's fun hearing people and your character swearing all the time. The biggest problem other than the load times is that the game quite short for my liking but it has a great replay value. If only the load times are short the game could me more fun.

[Edit] Forgot this, Install the latest patch, the load times are fixed and the game loads much quicker. It has a couple of new maps, weapons and few new charecters. The patched version has the best level of postal 2 so i highly recommend you to install the patch.

Hillarious!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Especially to the younger crowd, this is a game that will apeal to them. Why? Because the adult situations, extreme and rediculous violence, and suggestive themes (such as the terrorist ordeal and the un-patriotic American signs) will make children everywhere laugh histarically. I do happen to agree with most people here. This is a low-budget game but with some great graphics and very funny parts. The reason this gets a 4 stars instead of five is because the game is INDEED short. I finished the game within days. But the thing is that this game hasn't gotten BORING for me. Walking on the streets and lighting them on fire with a gas tank never really gets BORING. If you found games of Grand Theft Auto tedious, this may not be a game for you. But if you enjoy the free gameplay of this game, this could be a looker for ya! Maybe you should check out the demo, which is on Postal 2's main site.

Mindless

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Don't quite know what to make of this one. Its OK for a laugh if you don't take it too seriously. Personally I didn't find the violence to be that realistic looking. I mean you've got to shoot someone in the head about 5 times before they go down. But these guys seem to have gone out of their way to insult every minority group there is, and I can't decide whether they're right-wing pro-gun or they're taking the p*ss out of right-wing pro-gun. The asian shopkeeper Lucky Ganesh seriously cracked me up though, although its obvious the makers of this game don't know the difference between Hindu's and Muslims. I'm British and we have asian shopkeepers exactly like him over here too. Very funny. Mostly though this game is pretty infantile.

Postal Paradise

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If there was ever a time for the ESRB to use its content control to its fullest extent, this would've been the time. This game is tremendously violent, yet extremely fun to play. Even if GTA: Vice City doesn't affect your morals, this game probably will. I'd still buy it if i were you and I liked FPS action games that are non-linear.

Good Game -Long load times

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

A good game, very fun[]. Long load time between sections of the map (about 20 seconds). The game also involves some thinking (like how can I kill everyone in the building and not get killed myself). Very basic premise, shoot everything, rob people and not get caught or if you do fight your way out.

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