Postal²

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Postal 2 is the sequel to Postal, the gritty, violent, over-the-top game that was the target of almost every politician's speech about violence in video games. Once again, the player takes on the role of Postal Dude, a normal (comparatively normal, anyway) guy living in Paradise, Arizona. The game is composed of a five day week, Monday to Friday, where the player must accomplish various errands. There is no time limit and errands can be done whenever the player feel like it. Errands range from getting a carton of milk (buying it or stealing it, player's choice) to cashing a cheque at the bank (either wait in line or kill everyone, again, player's choice). The game is as violent as you are, meaning the player can go through the majority of the game without killing someone or beating up someone, but can also go through it killing and decapitating every one the player comes across.

For killing needs, the player has a plethora of ways to dispatch people: kick them, urinate on them (making them vomit), shoot them, bash them with a shovel, throw gas on them and set them ablaze, leaving behind a charred corpse, and if the player wants to be stealthy, it is possible to pick up a cat and stick a shotgun into its rear end to use it as a silencer. One of the similarly over the top weapons is a decapitated cow's head filled with anthrax, which will cause everyone in the immediate area to gag, throw up, and eventually die.

The game uses the Unreal Warfare engine, and comes packed with the Warfare editor, allowing the player to create new people, levels, or even entire mods.

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  • Postal 2 - Alternative spelling
  • 喋血街头2 - Simplified Chinese spelling

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Average score: 56% (based on 33 ratings)

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Average score: 3.2 out of 5 (based on 91 ratings with 5 reviews)

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The Good
You think GTA was bad? Think again. Postal itself is a series of dubious quality, sometimes hit and miss, but often has some unique features to make them differ, yet all games are meant to be boundary pushing, politically incorrect, tongue-in-cheek and explicit. Postal II is such a game, and most of all - it's possibly the most controversial of the bunch.

The game's premise is quite unique. Over a course of 5 'days', you must complete errands to progress. Sometimes you just wanna get it done and over with, or maybe you just wanna cause some anarchy. The game's freedom is mightily impressive, and it shows in the progressively open world that is Paradise, which behaves like South Park in a sense. Things get stranger and stranger, until it all culminates in one hell of an ending. You truly do have a lot of freedom to do insane and bizzare things yourself. You can slaughter the populace with guns, shovels and rockets, use cats as gun silencers, smoke crack for health and piss on people (literally). Some of this is quite entertaining, and can be really funny to boot.

The game's writing is also really funny, but it isn't for everyone. Pretty much what the Postal Dude says is pretty witty, and it's kinda tempting to root for him in a world where everything is batshit insane, though he's still reprehensible in his own right. Of course, it's also in bad taste, but it's funny and there were a couple lines or moments that were gutbusting.

The Bad
Again, the game is in bad taste...and in bad quality. Postal II is violent, vulgar, disgusting, horrific, juvenile and scatological. Racist stereotypes are abound, piss and shit are used for comic effect, the amount of violence and sexual humor, drug use as a gameplay element and occasional animal cruelty. It also has ugly graphics and a disjointed visual style.

No, seriously. The game is ugly in content and graphics. The game looks very dated, especially when the Unreal II engine was used for stronger and more capable games. Character models are jerky, sometimes lazily or sloppily (maybe amusingly) put together. Gun models look broken and cartoonish, and the blood effects look less brutal and more cartoony. Controls were also piss simple and sometimes didn't register, the AI was comically simple and were barely dynamic, and the original version had annoyingly long loading times that were fortunately patched up in Share the Pain, which had a pretty lame multiplayer mode.



The Bottom Line
Postal II is one of those games where it's so bad, it's actually pretty frickin' good. It's one of my guilty pleasures, and while it's not extremely vulgar as many made it out to be, it's still in bad taste nonetheless. If you get easily offended, grossed out, or think that video games are satanic or sexist or racist shit, don't play this game at all.

If it makes things better, the game is meant to be offensive on purpose. Unless if that makes things worse, then uh...eh, whatever.

Windows · by Tony Denis (494) · 2016

Not actually BAD...but it tries too hard...

The Good
I never played the original "Postal" but the best part of Postal 2 is part of its motto, its only as violent as you are. In fact, you can play the entire game as a pacifist. However, be warned the game tries smartly to make you "go postal"... for instance...Want to stand in line to sign an autograph? If you don't kill everyone in front of you, be prepared for a LOOOOOOONG wait!...

Much of the humor in Postal IS funny, such as your shotgun's "silencer" and the jokes that are around. Your character, the Postal Dude, says some funny lines as he roams through the town of "Paradise", Arizona, and as much as I hate Gary Coleman, his guest appearance here (Or when I played, his death) is well deserved. Finally, the developers name, "Running with Scissors" is GREAT!

The Bad
Postal 2 just plain tries too hard to be extreme, violent, vulgar and disgusting as humanly possible. Not that I'm either sensitive to that, mind you, my favorite game is Duke Nukem 3d, but Postal 2 goes a little far, and it feels fairly forced. The feature that allows you to urinate/unzip pants is a great example of this, but in this case it is made slightly funny by the Postal Dude uttering the words "That's the ticket!"

Postal 2 is very obviously inspired by Grand Theft Auto and Duke 3d, but it fails to be as funny, memorable and fun as either, as the level design is somewhat boring. While I enjoyed a different "extreme" first person shooter, "Blood", that game was more than its name and excellently designed, and what is it saying when a game titled Blood isn't as extreme as "Postal 2"?...

The Bottom Line
Postal 2 is by NO MEANS a bad game, but in its attempt to be the most extreme and politically incorrect video game ever (which it probably is), it stops trying to be fun and becomes just a way for the developers to show off HOW far they can possibly go...

Windows · by Mr. Me (28) · 2003

Don't judge the game yet...there's fun to be had!

The Good
This game is FUN. Its not fun as in I have to complete this next mission to see where the story goes, its not fun as in I have to show off these graphics to my friends, its fun because you can run around and cause havoc in this town. There is a huge variety of weapons to use, and the unreal engine provides adequate environments to use them. Everything can be blown up, and cars especially go flying up into the air and land with a gratifying crash after a good explosion. Some missions can be tackled from a number of different perspectives. Example: In one mission you must infiltrate the police headquarters to obtain something, I can't recall what. One way is to use a police outfit to fit in with the other officers and just waltz right up and take it. Another is to go in guns blazing. Another way is to take some "catnip" that slows down time, thus allowing you to run by all the officers, grab it, and run out. Or there is another way, I sat on the roof of the police station, found a skylight window, and lobbed grenades, molotov cocktails, and gasoline into the headquarters until there was no one left to stop me!
The game has a...distinct...sense of humor as well. Gary Coleman makes an appearance if that gives you any idea as to the basic scope of the game.

The Bad
The AI is this game is legally retarded. Basically the people in the game just stand and shoot at you until they are dead. Occaisionally they will run for cover, but most often not. The graphics are also quite lame, weak textures with low poly models most of the time.
The biggest detractor from this game is the load times. LOOOOOONG. Moving from one section of the city to the next can take forever as the level has to load ala Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Also if you don't appreciate this kind of humor, you may be very offended by the game.

The Bottom Line
Postal 2 gets a lot of bad press because of its content and tongue in cheek attitude. You play the Postal Dude, you live in a trailer, and throughout the game you are trying to go about your business (ie picking up a pay check, getting grocceries, etc.). Eventually you get into some pretty hairy situations that require the use of bazookas and flamethrowers...must've been a pretty bad week eh? Its a first person shooter based on the Unreal engine, although it is not optimized very well. It is fairly open ended, you have a whole town to walk around in and cause mayhem, although bits of it are locked and must be opened up at later levels. Its a very politcally incorrect game. You can pee on people and yourself, douse people in gasoline, use a cat as a silencer, at smoke a "magic pipe" that somehow heals you temporarily. You can kill a whole marching band and shoot up a circus. But it's fun!

Windows · by MojoHelperMonkey (39) · 2005

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Banned in New Zealand as of November 24, 2004.

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Game added April 17, 2003. Last modified January 18, 2024.