Postal 2

by Running with Scissors

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00008RGR5
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: March 15, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,513 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Forget what you know about first person shooters. Walk a week in the Postal Dude's shoes. Freely explore full 3-D open ended environments. Interact with over 100 unique NPC's including Gary Coleman, marching bands, dogs, cats and elephants, protesters, policemen and civilians, with or without weapons. POSTAL 2 is all about choice; experiment with everyone and everything.

And remember ...it's only as violent as you are!

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34 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Only my weapon understands me......, April 19, 2003

By 

Derek G (North of Cyrodiil) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)   

This review is from: Postal 2 (CD-ROM)

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.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sick, horrid, violent, evil... you'll have barrels of fun, April 29, 2003

By 

Joman1000 (inside your brain) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Postal 2 (CD-ROM)

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.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Decent game, horrible load times, April 21, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Postal 2 (CD-ROM)

I got my copy of Postal 2 a few days ago, and have played it through about halfway. Overall, the game is fun, but there is one big drawback - the load times! It seems like every 2 or 3 minutes, I'm waiting for a section of the map to load. This can take up to a minute and a half, even though I turned down some of the settings and am running it on a 2 Ghz system.
The graphics are good, if a little repetitive (there are only about 5 or 6 different NPCs, they just have different colored outfits on, and some of the indoor environments are kind of boring), and the gameplay is great. I found the controls easy and how you interact with the environment good. But, you can't really "go postal", because it's too hard to kill your enemies. It takes several shots to kill anyone, even if you shoot them in the head. In fact, it doesn't seem to matter where you shoot them. I found myself running away most of the time, just 'cause it's easier.
Overall - A fun game, but the load times pretty much ruin it.