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Summary: Nice idea, if you're ready for prison.
Review: I thought it'd be fun to play an ultra-violent game for a change. It was fun, for the first 5 minutes. After that, the game gets a little old and makes you a little cranky. Especially when you sit and wait for the next scenario to load. I think the developers did that on purpose to tick-off the gamer even more, and make him even more violent.
The graphics started out nice enough, but I guess the guy doing the building interiors had the week off when they put this game together.
As far as a fulfilling experience, the only thing this game teaches is how to get mad. Most of us have figured that out, already.
For all you Gary Coleman fans, this game is a must!!!
For everyone else, you can find better use of your time.
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Summary: Pretty Good But Also A Letdown!
Review: The first Postal game was so cutting edge, so violent. And years later we get the sequel. And while it is an enjoyable game, what's the big deal? It is offensive, but nowhere near as violent as Solider of Fortune II (a MUCH better game).A lot of the missions in this game are pretty lame. Seriously, after the excitement of Grand Theft Auto III who is going to get excited about a mission to go pick up a carton of milk? Oh, so the store owner is packing a gun? Wow, how daring and exciting. The game can be pretty funny at times but the jokes get old quick. The inside of many of the buildings is very boring. The rooms are empty and very boxy. This is a professionally made game? Hardly seems like it. Gary Coleman makes an appearance in the game. But why not Stephen Geoffreys? You know, the actor who played Evil Ed in Fright Night and then went on to a career in gay porn? Or maybe Roger Moore? Or how about Don Adams of Maxwell Smart fame? Just my suggestions. Gary makes for a funny video game bad guy though. And some of the sections of the game are fun but pointless. Like the elephant park? If you've never seen elephants roaming about among people and then suddenly going insane and killing people...well, then this game is for you. There are even some Osama Bin Laden bad guys in this. But they needed MORE voice overs from the AI's! There is almost none. The AI is also pretty lame. The bad guys run at you and that's about it. The bad guys in Goldeneye back in the 90's moved better and smarter than these stick figure AI's! And this game takes place over the course of one week. Why just five days? This game needs SEVEN DAYS. Seven levels of play. And it needs vehicles you can drive in. The graphics are pretty choppy in places and the load times (even with the improvements on the new multiplayer version of the game) are a NIGHTMARE! Awful, horrible load times! All in all, the game is pretty good. Not much replay value. I didn't want to bother with replay with the awful ass load times. The game is a better than average first person shooter. But nothing to write home about. And not that shocking.
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Summary: Postal II
Review: 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.
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Summary: Not worth the code it was compiled with
Review: 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."
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Summary: Stress Relief
Review: This has got to be the most violent and vulgar game I have ever played. And thus the most fun I have had in a long time. This is the only game I have played that watching others is just as fun as playing. The controls are easy and the storyline is filled with humor. I found myself pausing in mid-game so my laughing wouldn't get my character killed. If anyone needs to go postal, this game is the best game out there.
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Summary: A fair game but little else
Review: 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.
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Summary: Be Sure To Download The Patch!!
Review: This game is kind of a pain to play, since the load times are so long, but the extreme violence and twisted things you can do make it a nice, wholesome experience. I bought this game, and went home and played it. I was almost offended at how violent it can be(almost). Do not let kids play this game!! The patch makes the game load faster, plus it adds some new weapons, like a cat launcher!! The cats also come in handy as silencers, but you will have to get the game to check that out. I applaud the develpoers for making a game that mimics real life. You can choose to be good, or you can go postal.
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Summary: Terrific, sick, funny... BUT VERY "BUGGY"--- BEWARE!!
Review: 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.
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Summary: This isnt a shooter, its a shooting
Review: This game has no substance whatsoever and runs purely on shock value, if your looking for a game this is the last thing I would recomend. The player slays innocents, thats it, no actual game. Its like the Grand Theft Auto series minus the action, the driving and the story. Kudos Running With Scissors
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Summary: Faster load time
Review: All the other reviews describe the game really well. I just wanted to say there was a new patch and it helped the load times. It cut the load times in half atleast. Postal 2 is a great game.
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