Accompanied by Champ, the Dude's semi-loyal pitbull, battle your way through open environments populated with amazingly unpredictable AI. Meet Krotchy: the toy mascot gone bad, visit your Uncle Dave at his besieged religious cult compound and battle sewer-dwelling Taliban when you least expect them! Endure the sphincter-clenching challenge of cannibal rednecks, corrupt cops and berserker elephants. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?īlast, chop and piss your way through a freakshow of American caricatures in this darkly humorous first-person adventure. Postal 2 serves mostly as an example of a very strange point in gaming history.Live a week in the life of "The Postal Dude" a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. ![]() Apocalypse Weekend is a worthwhile expansion if you need more days with Postal Dude. Postal 2 Complete offers the Share the Pain multiplayer expansion but good luck finding a multitude of players to use it with. Honestly, I’d suggest going the cheat code route if you really want to enjoy the game. Gameplay certainly functions but it’s tougher than you might expect. Simpson, hanging chads, and Heaven’s Gate are also (expectedly) dated. In a way, Postal 2 perfectly lampoons how screwed up America can be with hate, but seems to have too much fun glorifying the issues. Seeing a shop plainly labelled “Queers”, men in turbans who wreak havoc on a church, and everything else is incredibly disconcerting. Quite frankly, it’s incredibly off-putting to me and probably would be to many other modern players. Outward racism, extreme violence, homophobia, and more hang around every corner. Instead, it takes on all the worst facets of American culture. Paradise, Arizona is anything but its namesake. What Running With Scissors hoped to accomplish was keeping players entertained thanks to the wacky world and characters. Each day you will walk to locations, complete a task, get attacked, and then proceed forward. In any case, the experience is all rather simplistic. Firefights like these are tough to survive without taking down enemies yourself. After completing any task, gun wielding NPCs always come charging in for no apparent reason. ![]() Otherwise, it just seems an increasingly difficult experience. The best method of completing it is also through violence. Apparently you can actually make it through the week as a complete pacifist, but every step of the way the game is trying to make you act violently. He has to run go to work (and get fired), cash a check (with a long line at the bank), and simply make it through the week without, well, going postal. He’s got the same problems that we all do. Postal 2 tells the story of Postal Dude’s life from Monday to Friday (and Saturday/Sunday if you play Apocalypse Weekend). With an ad campaign proclaiming it was only “as violent as you want to be” it was pretty hard to ignore. The original postal aroused suspicion and excitement in the gaming community, but not nearly as much as its sequel would. Platform: PC – Desura, Direct, GOG*, Green Man Gaming, Steamįor better or for worse, Postal 2 is one of the games that people know about even if they’ve never played it.
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