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Summary: Sick, horrid, violent, evil... you'll have barrels of fun
Review: First off, I'm going to say something that I am sure someone else writing a review for this game has already said, "This is NOT a game for the faint of heart..." If there were a definition for, "violent" or "controversial" this would be it. You are a white [man] known as Mr. Peepshell, or the, "Postal Dude,"whom lives in a trailer behind someone's house and your soul task throughout the game is to run around a city commiting tasks that you would think to be simple for your .... wife. Freedom-wise, this game outdoes any of its predecessors tenfold. You may go into ANY building, interact with ANYONE you see on screen, and do virtually anything you want, from sticking a cat on the barrel of your gun to use it as a silencer, to urinating all over the place in some poor fool's house. This game pushes new boundaries in ignoring what the rest of the world thinks. You can pour gasoline on someone, light a match, throw it on them and they will be engulfed in a ball of flame and slowly burn to a charred corpse, crawling on the ground crying desperately for help. Even kick bodies and watch them flop around realistically, splattering a grotesque decal of blood on the wall. Walk into convenience stores and kick merchandise into people's faces, only to soon be attacked by enraged policeman. Something I may need to mention is that this game is extremely racist. The convenience store is controlled by a bunch of arab women who attack you if you decide to go into the "employees only" section. Gay dance clubs are strewn throughout with in which you can interact with some, let's just say, "interesting" NPC's. Anything you would not want your innocent little darling of a child to see is thrown in this game tenfold; do not expect anything wholesome. Even the kindest of people can have their heads blown off by, well, you. Religious references are intact and mocked horribly. (For example, you go to a church to confess your sins in one of the missions and a bunch of psychotics....burst through the door, and before you know it, the priests whip out shotguns and say they must, "Do it all for the glory of God."I suppose you are wondering why I enjoy this game. Simple answer; I'm sick. That and the fact you can run around with virtually no restrictions and fulfill all the dirty little thoughts that go through your head. If you have a strong stomach and a gamer's desire for, "No limits," buy this game. Otherwise, get over it.
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Summary: Fun! Pure and Simple
Review: 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.
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Summary: Short, boring and budget
Review: 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.
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Summary: This game is ... dumb.
Review: This game is a lame excuse for attention. The missions are meaningless and stupid. You go to the store to buy a gallon of milk, there's one mission. The game says "only as violent as you are" but is intentionaly made for you to be as violent as possible, or the missions wouldn't be so linear and stupid. Cutting a young girl's head off with a shovel, blowing a police officers head off with a shotgun and kicking it around as a soccer ball, pouring gasoline on someone and lighting them on fire, and harming/brutaly murdering helpless animals are some examples of the terrible and discusting violence included. Obviously the people that make this need to be sent to an insane asylum because it is not funny at all. It's the grossest game on the market and totaly uncalled for. If you're gonna make a game as graphicly violent as you can, the least you could do is include some bad guys. But there are none at all, except for yourself. The graphics aren't good, and everything else about the game "is bad" to an unbelievably high extent. I'm not one to complain about a violent video game but this is just sick. Go buy GTA3 or Vice City if you want to go on a rampage because this game is sofa king dumb. Avoid at any and all costs. If you find it on a shelf for 99 cents on clearence, it's still not worth it because it's such a bad game.
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Summary: Only my weapon understands me......
Review: Spend a week with a nutcase in Postal 2. Complete with a "Jackass" style warning label on the loading screen, developer Running With Scissors (RWS) gambles that they can stuff a game full of enough blood and gore to guarantee an assault by family-values groups, yet still make enough after the lawsuits to turn a profit. Let me be clear upfront, this game definitely delivers in the sick and twisted department and deserves the "M" Mature rating more than any game I've seen. Postal 2 is not designed for kids, but just like trashy rated R movies, I'm sure this game will be appreciated more by kids than adults. In order to push the envelope (snicker) RWS enlists the services of the Postal Dude; a goateed Gen-X slacker in a Matrix-style trenchcoat that starts the morning by kicking the dog and shooting the air conditioner for making too much noise. His nagging trailer-trash wife/girlfriend sends him on a list of ordinary missions like shopping for milk, cashing a paycheck, or picking up a christmas tree (in July), yet the situations our buddy Postal Dude finds himself involved become anything but ordinary. You see, Mr. "Dude" just wants to keep to himself and get through life without being hassled, yet all these people just won't leave him alone. He goes to his job at RWS and a bunch of video-game protestors bust in and start blasting away. He goes to the mall to get a book signed by Gary "I ain't going the the joint again!" Coleman and cops turn the place into a war zone. He goes to ... his dad's grave (seriously) and he's captured by a bunch of rednecks, locked in a brewery basement, and turned into a gimp - Pulp Fiction style. Politically-correct this game is not and you can tell the developers had fun dreaming up scenarios that many will find offensive. Animal-lover? You probably won't like how the neighborhood cats become a shotgun accessory. Religious? You probably won't enjoy the holy war that the catholics and the muslims declare on each other. African-american? You probably won't enjoy the ghetto-slang of Krotchy, the child action figure... I shouldn't need to comment on the violence in this game, but after a particularly bloody and brutal episode involving a meat-processing plant you may not want to eat a steak again. So you've got a sick sense of humor and not one politically-correct bone in your body. What's not to like? The problem with Postal 2 lies in the execution (not the people, the game.) Like the previous Postal, the graphics and gameplay seem very amateurish compared to the others currently out there. I didn't think it would be possible to create a bad game using the Unreal Warfare gaming engine, but this comes close. As a first-person shooter, it fails miserably. Everyone attacking hits you instantly, sometimes through walls, yet even on the easiest difficulty settings you have to pump about 40 rounds into someone to drop them. ... this game offers almost no interaction with the outside environment. Even the Postal Dude comments on the cars being "useless exploding props." Most annoying, however, are the godawful load times. The installation was probably the longest I've endured in any game and crossing from one tiny section of town to the next subjects you to load times resulting in waits of over a minute. Since you are frequently sent from one side of town to the other, you will spend more time waiting for the game to load than you will actually playing the game. There are some fiendishly clever moments and I'll stand neutral on the "garbage-in garbage-out" controversy this game will inevitably generate. What I will say is you will need to overlook some serious flaws in the mechanics of the game to be able to enjoy its twisted humor. Hope the review helped.
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Summary: Postal 2....Fun? Definetly!!
Review: 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!
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Summary: Controversy does not a good game make.
Review: 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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Summary: A kick [***] game!!
Review: 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!!
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Summary: Awesome!
Review: I only played the demo version and it looks great. I wish that either on the full version or an expansion pack, you could actually blow up everything (e.g., cars, houses, etc.). Right now the gas can just burns for a while over a static model and goes away after a while.
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Summary: ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS!
Review: This is greatest FUN game ever! I love your stile RWS! Now ready to blast all other 3D shooters to pieces! Go get it NOW!
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