This is the only game I've played where I can attach a cat to a shotgun as a silencer, was banned then unbanned then piss on people I don't like, has a rare achievement on steam where I need to kick 10 people in the balls, and was banned, unbanned, then re-banned again as of the 25th of April 2024 in my country (Australia). Still fun to go back to every now and then even if I was probably a bit too young when I first played this
Postal 2 feels like an old shooter. The references are old (member Bin Laden, member video game protestors?), the mechanics are old (no reloading in a shooter?), the graphics are old (Halo 2 and Doom 3 came out the same year), and the humour feels old.
The game is a slog. You run errands around an "open world" with more loading zones than fun. The game takes place over five instances of the same map, one for each day of the week. And it gets very repetitive. Some errands give you creative ways to solve them, mostly destroying things and killing many people. And, what little entertainment I squeezed out of this game came that. But I didn't enjoy the game enough to play it more than once.
Moreover, the game is very buggy, and I experienced several random crashes to desktop while playing.
They were trying to make a super edgy game that would serve as a middle finger to all the pearl-clutching activists in the late '90s who thought video games were corrupting the youth. But this comes off more cringe than edgy. In 2003, I probably would have loved this game, but that was over twenty years ago.
The game is a slog. You run errands around an "open world" with more loading zones than fun. The game takes place over five instances of the same map, one for each day of the week. And it gets very repetitive. Some errands give you creative ways to solve them, mostly destroying things and killing many people. And, what little entertainment I squeezed out of this game came that. But I didn't enjoy the game enough to play it more than once.
Moreover, the game is very buggy, and I experienced several random crashes to desktop while playing.
They were trying to make a super edgy game that would serve as a middle finger to all the pearl-clutching activists in the late '90s who thought video games were corrupting the youth. But this comes off more cringe than edgy. In 2003, I probably would have loved this game, but that was over twenty years ago.
This game is pretty violent yet pretty fun. It contains dark humour and touches on some themes that still are very up-to-date. We can create all the chaos we want, but we will have to watch out for the police as well.
This game pissed off professional gaming journalists, they call it "the worst videogame ever", so you can see that it is pretty good to the point that it made the media go nuts.
This game pissed off professional gaming journalists, they call it "the worst videogame ever", so you can see that it is pretty good to the point that it made the media go nuts.
esse é possivelmente um dos meus top 5 jogos preferidos de todos os tempos, o humor dele não é pra qualquer um e ele é um tanto quanto injusto em alguns momentos, mas ele é extremamente divertido e bem feito. a única coisa que eu consigo falar depois de passar 69 horas da minha vida jogando essa obra prima é que eu queria que mais jogos fossem que nem esse, com uma liberdade enorme, várias maneiras de progredir, várias piadas com ou sem graça, ideias milaborantes, eu quero um jogo que exala alma tanto quanto esse e eu não consigo achar nenhum, esse jogo é simplesmente uma pedrada visual, com um personagem um tanto quanto questionável e uma história que não faz questão de ser realista ou fazer sentido e eu acho isso lindo!