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some of it was funny

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Most of this game was a bore. It was funny at times but really a complete waste of time to play. Do not pay more than 2 or 3 bucks for this game.

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.

Gone Postal.......

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Postal 2 with out a doubt in my mind, IS one of the most violent video games ever made, sure the game never made it to controversial status like Grand Theft Auto but the game was still very very...disturbing. I mean you can do things like blow off a cops head with a shotty, piss on people, urin on animals, set dogs and cats on fire and LITERALY throw a moltov at a marching band and have them go crazy, running about screaming for help while they're running around in fire...The game is indeed sick AND FUNNY. Other then the games violence, another plus is the friggin humor, it's hilarious with some of the vulgar and funny stuff postal dude says. The game takes place in a(not so huge)town where you can go around freeroaming and doing random things like going to the arcade or getting some milk in the convenient store. Now of course that's not what you're suppose to do in the game...basicly everyday you come out of your trailer house and have abunch of errands to do(some which are very funny)and some(well acctually alot)of them will have funny misshaps causing chaos and violence. Overall the game is pretty funny, the missions are somewhat pointless at times and the games violence makes GTA look like an E rated video game made by Disney. First of all I will get this out of the way, I had a really fun time with this game but overall it's not a game you should shell out 50 bucks(well I should have said that at the time I was playing the game cause it was indeed 50 bucks). I for one did not spend the 50 dollars, I had it burned from a friend and now I'll get to it....

First of all I loved some of the missions, especially the one with Garycoleman and a few others, they were some pretty funny stuff right there, and some were abit disturbing(like the one where you have to visit your fathers grave)but overall everymission was quite entertaining. Visualy, the games average, no wows, not Greats nothing special JUST average. The weapons are awesome especially the one with the cat silencer and the areas and places you visit were splinded to see at some points. Now other then the funny missions and the game weapons, over the top violence the humor does get a LITTLE stale at some points and I will say this and I don't care for your flaming but THERE ARE WAY TOO MANY LOAD TIMES AND THEY TAKE FOREVER!! There are some points where I could go downstairs and get a drink and come back up and the load time would still be there! And alot of the missions become very very boring and repetitive. The load Times are horrid, the humor does get very stale and the gameplay may get boring REAL fast to some(heck maybe many!)and the game is just TOO SHORT(If you ignore the friggin load times and the stupid A.I you will notice the game is ridiculously short and I beat this on Normal mode, not to mention the game takes place in a 5 day period/scenario)..To some you will like it, to many you will hate it....and to others like myself you'll probably find it to be a below average FPS..But overall...I DID have a fun time with it..

The Good
-The humor gets at times is pretty funny
-Gary Coleman...nuff said
-Some missions are really really really funny
-You can use a cat as a silencer!!!
-If you like a game with horrible acts of violence, and animal abuse you will love this game

The Bad
-Gets Old REAL fast
-Load times are just........horrible..
-Some missions in my opiinon were just plain LAME
-This game may offend ALOT of people
-Some missions were abit frustraiting
-Nothing els to really do other then mess around, after you beat the game
-very short, just borrow it from someone you know, who owns the game
-In my opion...just a below average game(only to be played for kicks and fun)

Well I'm done with my complaining and ranting, the game is 20 bucks now and I still think it's not worth the cash, its short, not a very great game but the humor and jokes at times are hilarious but get stale later on...some of the games missions were just plain boring, only the violence, Gary Coleman and some of the missions kept the game entertaining for me at some points...but overall all I just didn't think the game was really that good... I give this a

2.5 out of 5

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.

Like working in Levittown, PA again

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 12
Date: May 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The object of this game is to get through the working week. This is a difficult thing for all of us at times, but when you live in the trashy town of Paradise, Arizona, the concept takes on new meaning.

The player takes on the role of the antihero, whose name is actually Postal Dude. All you really want to do is relax and smoke your "health pipe" but your nagging wife keeps sending you out on errands. Since anything is better than listening to her voice, you grudgingly accept your assignments: get some milk, vote, pick up a toy at the mall, and so on. But there is trouble in Paradise. Book burners are protesting at the library. Your church is taken over by Muslim terrorists. And in the most obvious bit of satire, a certain game company is assaulted by parents protesting violent video games.

Most of the "missions" are interrupted by incidents like these, and it's your job to get out of them alive and move on to your next goal.

In addition, you can have fun just wandering around and messing with people. Disrupt a parade or a carnival show. Set people on fire, or go on an all-out shooting spree. If you run afoul of the police, you will find yourself on a new adventure.

It's an amusing game, and it is fun discovering what you can do as you wander through the various areas, but after time it becomes very repetitive. Your tasks almost always follow the same pattern: fight your way through whatever annoying special interest group is standing in your way. The character AI isn't particularly advanced, and the dialogue is very limited. Some of the lines may be funny the first few times you hear them, but not for much longer. It might be hard to believe, but urinating on people and making them vomit does get old after awhile. In the end, traipsing back and forth through the city in a most inefficient manner is simply tedious. If the setting weren't such an eyesore (which, I know, is the point) it might not have been so.

I love that the game is so outrageous and doesn't care who it offends. The charm of the gameplay itself, though, wears off quickly.

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!

Junk! Absolute Junk!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 11
Date: April 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Save your money. Don't buy this junk. Waste of money.

Good game for pinheads!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: April 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I found absolutely no challenge inthis stupid game at all. Itis beneath me. What a waste of time and money. This game is Garb-aaaaaggggeeee!!!

By far the second most Violent pc game out

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: February 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Postal 2 is by far the most horrindas and most violent video game after soldier of fortune. The games plot is usless and stupid but fun in some what ways.

THe point of the game is that you do stupid and some what funny errands on your list but you end up in bizar situations( like going to the church to confess and end up fighting taliban members with preachers helping your back). It is very offencive also so dont let the little ones playing this.
There are stuff in the game that might make some viewers to quit. For like one example you can go to the mall and go to a pet shop store and pour gasoline on the cats and dogs and set them on fire wich causes the owner to go insain wich causes you to blow his head off with a shot gun wich causes the police to come and they go phyco on you wich caused you to shock em with a tazer and wack there head off with a shovel and caused you to piss on there dead....OK! NOW IM GOING WAY TOOOO FAR.

BASICkly the game is sick. You can set picketers(who happen to hate violent video games) on fire! and then you can ur***e on there d****%$# body and yes the game does contain foul language and the game is very slow when it comes to loading times....VERY SLOW.....WICH also caused me to give it 3 stars.

BOTTOM LINE.........GET THE GAME AT YOUR OWN RISK AND DONT LET ANY ONE UNDER 18 OR 17 AT LEAST PLAY THIS GAME.....did i meantion you can start a big fight with cops and piciter and lure them to a parking spot full of cars and commit suiside wich cause the cars and every body by you to explode? well cya.

This Game Is Sick and Twisted

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: January 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is horrible. What kind of twisted person would want to play a game where you stick guns up cute little kittens behinds and use them as silencers? That is just wrong. Not to mention the ability to throw a decapitated head of a cow filled with anthrax, causing people to barf up blood. If your an animal rights activist, or just a normal person, then this game is not for sane people! With it's "over-the-top violence" (which I quote from the box) and extremely twisted plot, this game is a sick, twisted, mental, animal killing bloodbath from the beginning to the end. And don't even get me started with how this game is NOT for kids.... You would have to be seriously messed up in the head to play crap like this.

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