Postal

Chamou-se Loose Cannon, mas Postal fica-lhe a matar. Porque o mundo está a ficar assim. Postal. Perdão, mortal.

Postal jest dla mnie kandydatem do gry roku. Wzorcowe wykonanie, inwencja i szokujące podejście do tematu godne są najwyższych pochwał. Ale jest to naprawdę chora gra.

There's nothing quite like a multiplayer game with a bunch of little postal guys running around destroying each other with heavy weaponry. Postal also includes a level editor, imagine creating a duplicate of your own office as a little tension reliever. Bottom Line: Very good graphics - excellent transparency, flame, and smoke effects. Nothing but non-stop action from beginning to end. The single player game does get a little monotonous after a while, but if mindless action is what you're looking for, Postal delivers in spades. Multiplayer games have no comparison.

Der Schwierigkeitsgrad steigt gemächlich, bleibt stets fordernd aber fair. Die trockenen Kommentare des Postal Dude sind genial und bringen den Spieler zwischendurch zum Schmunzeln. Wer sich damit abfinden kann, virtuell Amok zu laufen, dem sei dieses Spiel wärmstens ans Herz gelegt. Wer sich mit solch einer brisanten Thematik nicht anfreunden kann und Gewalt in Spielen verabscheut, sollte um dieses Spiel einen möglichst weiten Bogen machen. Bezüglich der Wertung tat ich mich schwer: Postal erhielt in den USA streckenweise gute Wertungen und war ein großes Thema in den Medien. Eine kleine Umfrage bei anderen Zockern bestätigte jedoch meine Meinung - Postal ist trotz der Thematik und seiner Schwächen eindeutig KULT.

Damn, this is one feature-packed, realistic, sick and twisted game. And it's definitely not for little kids. The violence is realistic, not sugar-coated. If you ask me, sugar-coated violence is what's truly evil – we're just showing it like it is. So, what's the best feature of all? That's easy: awesome, addictive gameplay! Because beyond the visual and audio effects and the twisted story and all the other stuff, it all comes down to gameplay. And boy does these game have a ton of it.

While Postal is an action-packed bloodbath of a game, it gets repetitive rather quickly. Although level bosses have become trite, the endless repetition of the same fodder grows old. So although I enjoyed Postal and have spent the time and effort to beat it, the replay value is marginal.

Er is genoeg 'eye candy' en sadisme, maar het ontbreekt hem aan 'body' om dit een geslaagd spel te noemen. Of je moet natuurlijjk echt een psychopaat zijn die zijn dagelijkse dosis zinloos geweld nodig heeft. Hou er echter wel rekening mee dat het spel waarschijnlijk binnen de week in de kast stof zal liggen te vergaren, want zelf heb ik Postal op 2 avonden uitgespeeld.

Overall, the selling point of Postal is still its best feature - unabashed anarchy and a willingness to go where other games haven't. The gameplay is average; really no new ground is broken, and at its core this is just arcade style action. But the fact remains that Postal has upped the ante as far as what is accepted in the mainstream gaming world. Where else can you wipe out an entire marching band with a well placed Molitov cocktail? If you're trying to get in touch with your inner sadist, give Postal a shot (or two)...

The lack of longevity in the single-player mode and the simplistic multiplayer options make Postal a moderately fun ride, at best. Never before has the computer gamer been able to act out the darkest fantasies of a homicidal maniac with such abandon, but the impressive volume of carnage is the only thing setting Postal apart.

I would have a dilemma if Postal was a generally solid game, but given that it is pretty much just the same thing over and over again, I can honestly say I don't know why you'd buy this game unless it was to shock your parents, co-workers or whoever. The folks at Ripcord pushed the depravity in Postal way over the edge in the very same way that a bad movie will throw in a couple of explicit scenes to get an NC-17 rating, in hopes of titillating the viewing public into seeing an otherwise shallow film. I'm not advocating censorship here in any way, but face it -- the fact that the trend in titles like Duke Nukem, Carmageddon, Mortal Kombat and Postal is to have the sex, violence, depravity and just generally disturbing stuff turned on by default, rather than letting each player (or each player's parents) decide how he or she is going to set the game, begs the question of the motivations of the publishers.

Vous l'aurez compris, ce jeu n'est clairement pas à mettre en toutes les mains et même s'il représente un bon défouloir, il fait quand même frémir par sa violence gratuite poussée à l'excès. Autre point, ce jeu date tout de même de 1997 mais fonctionne bien sous Mac OS X via Classic mais le joypad est vivement conseillé (il vous faudra passer par GamePad Companion ou un autre utilitaire par contre) car ça reste peu maniable au clavier. Voilà, vous êtes au point sur le sujet pour la sortie en principe de Postal 2 qui fonctionne avec le moteur d'Unreal et qui risque une fois de plus de défrayer la chronique...

Okay, here is the part where I neglect my plentiful criticisms and confound my audience. Postal is fun. Yep. I don’t know whether it reflects poorly on me, or if human nature can serve as the scapegoat, but there is something indescribably gratifying about senseless violence. In spite of the clumsy control scheme, the obstructing camera perspective, and the general sickening nature of the game, it is still fun to play, and fulfilling to complete—especially on the harder difficulty levels.

But it'll sell a lot of copies because the makers know what we want. We want controversy. We want things that are forbidden, that are bad for us. But Postal ultimately isn't controversial, and those looking to blame it for society's ills are missing the point. It's not guilty of ruining society - it's guilty of being a bad game.