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Postal 2 | 
| From: Running with Scissors
Category: Video Games
Buy Used: $34.45
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Seller: thebookgrove
Rating:  45 reviews
Sales Rank: 19188
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows
Genre: shooter_action_games
ESRB: Mature
Media: CD-ROM
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 98
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 1.3
UPC: 858700000017
EAN: 0858700000017
ASIN: B00008RGR5
Release Date: March 15, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 45
 a review by a gamer August 14, 2010
Virginia L. Chulkovs (New Milford, CT United States)
so i got this from my mom (Virginia) and i thought "okay its like a first person gta". So the first and only complaint i have is the condition of the disc, i had to go to my computer and manually explore the disc to install, because autorun didnt work. So once thats out the way i start macking fools around paradise, az(Turns out this was a real place, but is now a ghost town) it gives you simple tasks like get milk, but many times there will be a certain incident that gets in the way i.e. becoming a gimp due to gay rednecks. The game is definitely designed by someone whose mind is permanately in the gutter, finding humor in pissing on your dad's grave and making fun of muslims, however this can be funny sometimes. It definitely should not be taken seriously because it is just plain out strange in some parts. I have to say this game is pretty good for a cult game, i suggest you buy it,but not used.
Cruel? Only with the AW7 mod... January 4, 2010
ruessler
Postal 2 - one of the most controversial games of the last years. And yes, some people are still playing it.
Postal 2 is pure black humor, nothing more - and I like it more than normal shooters. Fighting some aliens in the space? Boring! Postal 2 gives you the challenge to master the every day life of the Postal Dude. And you decide how to master it. It's even possible to finish this game with zero kills - see Youtube for a video guide.
However, I don't think the original game is as cruel and sick at all. Yes, you can decapitate people with a shovel - but you cannot chop off limbs. You need the Apocalypse Weekend addon and the AW7 mod to have the full fun with this game. Really! Without the mod this game may be sick, but not with much gore.
It should be mentioned that in the original game it isn't necessary to kill people. And in some cases it's much more difficult to reach your goals with violence as simply paying for an item. For example: You want a Krotchy doll, unfortunately it's totally sold out. You can kill the mascot of Krotchy who is very hard to bead to get a doll - or you can steal one from the back room, however some people will attack you. Or you can buy it from the mascot - or give him the book of Gary Coleman on exchange - without violence.
The NPCs aren't very intelligent - they don't care if you destroy windows or cars, but they run away screaming if you kick them(or if they have a weapon they would fight you). They also run into fire or do other stupid things.
The police can catch you and send you to jail - however you can easily escape from the police.
If you kill someone in front of a policeman he will not arrest you - a bit illogical.
The design of the NPCs could be a bit more varying - you see a lot of equal faces and even same clothed people.
Overall Postal 2 makes a lot of fun to play - but it has some weak points. However, if you can live with that, you can get lucky with it.
 some of it was funny March 2, 2007
Kimberly (Alabama)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Most of this game was a bore. It was funny at times but really a complete waste of time to play. Do not pay more than 2 or 3 bucks for this game.
Wow September 11, 2005
Avatar of the Llama (Hell, or somewhere around there... I'll have to check)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Postal 2 is a very fun game overall. Really, you have to take everything in this game with a grain of salt, because after playing only a few minutes of it, you'll realize that this isn't meant to be taken seriously at all. If you do take it seriously, then you don't have any sense of humor and should stop playing before you start complaining. Yes, a lot of this stuff will offend those of you who don't like violence and/or animal cruelty. But, once again, DON'T TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY! This doesn't have the disturbing seriousness of its predecessor, so you can go ahead and laugh it all off. Trust me, you will. And if you don't, stop playing and don't whine and complain.
This is, as I've said before, a very, VERY fun game. If you have any built up frustrations from society's madness, you can let it all out with this. Think about it, what other game allows you to
a) Go up to some random person and shock him with a taser until he collapses to the ground twitching
b) Decapitate him with a shovel
c) Punt his severed head down the street and let your pet dog fetch it for you
d) Pour gasoline on his corpse and throw a match at him to set him aflame
e) And, as a final insult, urinate on him to put the flames out
Wow. Now THAT'S political incorrectness!
Still, if you like that type of stuff (that is, if you're a total sicko like me), you'll get a lot of laughs from this. I remember the first time my dog fetched a man's detatched head for me. I was laughing so hard, I spent ten minutes kicking it away and letting it bring it back, dropping it at my feet, turning around, and barking and wagging his tail for me to kick it again. Yes, I am that sick. But I enjoyed it nonetheless.
As far as plot goes, there's really none to speak of. But hey, I don't play these type of games for the plot (I play the Silent Hill series for that), I play these games just for one reason: for fun, and that's just what this game delivers. The graphics are okay, but I honestly don't give a hoot about that. Once again, it's the gameplay and fun factor I'm after. A lot of people don't like this game simply because it doesn't have top-notch graphics. Well, those dolts would like the game more if they just stopped obsessing over the graphics and got busy PLAYING THE FRICKIN' GAME! What a novel idea: playing a video game. Dang, that's brilliant.
This game does a good job of making the GTA series look like a Barney episode. It doesn't discriminate, though; it insults every race, both sexes, pretty much everything that exists. So it may be offensive, but at least it's not biased.
The game functions like any run-of-the-mill first person shooter: you have a respectable selection of weapons, you can go around and kill anything in sight, etc. But, in addition to the usual guns (handgun, automatic rifle, shotgun, sniper rifle), it also has a good amount of "creative" weapons that you can use for some really interesting kills. Examples of this are the deadly throwing scissors, molotov cocktails, a clipboard, a rocket launcher, a shovel (decapitation, anyone?), a stun gun, grenades, and your trusty tank of gasoline and matches. There are many firefights you can get into, and some of those are cases in which you're so outnumbered that running-and-gunning will just end with your death, and you have to use your different weapons for strategies to win. Also, a lot of the civilians who walk around are carrying firearms of their own, and if you happen to get into a little quarrel with gun-wielding lunatics, if you holster your weapon and run down the street, taking a few hits, you may be able to get either the police, ATF members, RWS (Running With Scissors) guys, and normal civilians to take out their weapons and fight your assailant. As long as you look like an innocent victim, it's all good. Actually, the RWS guys will attack any and all people assaulting you, and won't harm you, even if you join the firefight. If you attack them, they'll return fire, but only after many hits. These guys are your buddies. One of the most fun things to do is to spark firefights among normal people and just watch the bullets and blood fly. You can let them go crazy and do the killing for you, something you could never do in the GTA games without a code. There's even a survival mode for you to play in where you're a pacifist and everyone around you is going postal. There are 11 difficulty levels, and 19 errands. While that may seem like limited gameplay, make no mistake; there's no time limit to complete those errands, and you can explore the town (which isn't too large, but allows for enough exploring anyway) and do whatever the heck you want. While Paradise may not be as vast and complex as Vice City or Liberty, it still allows for good open-ended gameplay. You can blow up cars, explode or set aflame large crowds of civilians (including highly flammable marching bands - something that we all loved in the original Postal), blow people's heads off with a shotgun, decapitate someone with your shovel, kick people in the face, punt trash cans at someone, kick a person through a window, kick a severed head at a police officer to piss them off, the list goes on and on. Or you could be creative and pour gasoline on a detached head and punt it at someone, lighting them on fire, blow up a car and let it land on some innocent bystander, or anything else your deranged mind can think of. But, again, you don't have to be violent. You can choose to be peaceful, or homicidal, the choice is yours. But, some advice: to enjoy this game, go crazy; it's fun.
About the only thing I can complain about is the horrid loading times. There are a lot of them, and they're very, very long and tedious. This can get annoying, but once you get over it, you learn to ignore them. Well, at least a little...
All in all, this is a great game for those of you with a good sense of humor and a strong constitution. If you don't mind the gore and blood, love having fun, and putting a cat on a shotgun to act as a silencer, then this is the game for you.
Gone Postal....... September 6, 2005
Robert Evans (USA)
Postal 2 with out a doubt in my mind, IS one of the most violent video games ever made, sure the game never made it to controversial status like Grand Theft Auto but the game was still very very...disturbing. I mean you can do things like blow off a cops head with a shotty, piss on people, urin on animals, set dogs and cats on fire and LITERALY throw a moltov at a marching band and have them go crazy, running about screaming for help while they're running around in fire...The game is indeed sick AND FUNNY. Other then the games violence, another plus is the friggin humor, it's hilarious with some of the vulgar and funny stuff postal dude says. The game takes place in a(not so huge)town where you can go around freeroaming and doing random things like going to the arcade or getting some milk in the convenient store. Now of course that's not what you're suppose to do in the game...basicly everyday you come out of your trailer house and have abunch of errands to do(some which are very funny)and some(well acctually alot)of them will have funny misshaps causing chaos and violence. Overall the game is pretty funny, the missions are somewhat pointless at times and the games violence makes GTA look like an E rated video game made by Disney. First of all I will get this out of the way, I had a really fun time with this game but overall it's not a game you should shell out 50 bucks(well I should have said that at the time I was playing the game cause it was indeed 50 bucks). I for one did not spend the 50 dollars, I had it burned from a friend and now I'll get to it....
First of all I loved some of the missions, especially the one with Garycoleman and a few others, they were some pretty funny stuff right there, and some were abit disturbing(like the one where you have to visit your fathers grave)but overall everymission was quite entertaining. Visualy, the games average, no wows, not Greats nothing special JUST average. The weapons are awesome especially the one with the cat silencer and the areas and places you visit were splinded to see at some points. Now other then the funny missions and the game weapons, over the top violence the humor does get a LITTLE stale at some points and I will say this and I don't care for your flaming but THERE ARE WAY TOO MANY LOAD TIMES AND THEY TAKE FOREVER!! There are some points where I could go downstairs and get a drink and come back up and the load time would still be there! And alot of the missions become very very boring and repetitive. The load Times are horrid, the humor does get very stale and the gameplay may get boring REAL fast to some(heck maybe many!)and the game is just TOO SHORT(If you ignore the friggin load times and the stupid A.I you will notice the game is ridiculously short and I beat this on Normal mode, not to mention the game takes place in a 5 day period/scenario)..To some you will like it, to many you will hate it....and to others like myself you'll probably find it to be a below average FPS..But overall...I DID have a fun time with it..
The Good
-The humor gets at times is pretty funny
-Gary Coleman...nuff said
-Some missions are really really really funny
-You can use a cat as a silencer!!!
-If you like a game with horrible acts of violence, and animal abuse you will love this game
The Bad
-Gets Old REAL fast
-Load times are just........horrible..
-Some missions in my opiinon were just plain LAME
-This game may offend ALOT of people
-Some missions were abit frustraiting
-Nothing els to really do other then mess around, after you beat the game
-very short, just borrow it from someone you know, who owns the game
-In my opion...just a below average game(only to be played for kicks and fun)
Well I'm done with my complaining and ranting, the game is 20 bucks now and I still think it's not worth the cash, its short, not a very great game but the humor and jokes at times are hilarious but get stale later on...some of the games missions were just plain boring, only the violence, Gary Coleman and some of the missions kept the game entertaining for me at some points...but overall all I just didn't think the game was really that good... I give this a
2.5 out of 5
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