Postal 2
Well what can I say about this game?
You play the role of P.Dude, a man with ambition. He's just moved to a small town, into a smaller trailer, with a nagging wife(or is he like Norman Bates?), a broken down car and a job he's about to be fired from. The town is located in Arizona so naturally, it's very hot and everyone's is a right winged lunatic who knows the only real way to solve a problem is to shoot it till it's dead. You mill about the town doing day to day tasks, whether it's going down to the Lucky Ganesh:All American Grocery store to fetch a carton of goats milk or voting for the gimp in the next election. Anyone unlucky enough get between Mr Dude and the front of the cashiers line is about to learn that he's got a terminal case of the Monday's.
The postal series has been called many things. It's creators, Running With Scissors have been the subject of many an angry letter. If I were to call this game anything, I would say it's an anti-game. It's violent, rude, politically incorrect, encourages the player to maim and murder every thing in site in many morbid and violent ways. In other words do everything that goes against your conscience. That being said the game is also is also, innovative, darkly humorous, sarcastic, satirical, very detailed, riddled with interesting goodies, an ever expanding town and tons and tons bystanders some more innocent than others.
Now if ever I needed an example to prove that violent video games, most certainly do not, encourage young people to go out and murder people I would use this game as the penultimate example. This game not only lets you kill people it also personally targets groups like, book burners, rednecks, parents against video game violence, vegetarians, postal workers, butchers etc etc. I used to play this game over and over as a teenager and I have not once felt the desire to imitate P.Dude. Who in their right mind would?
This game has a timeless quality that I can hold dearly to games like Carmageddon, Sid Meier's Civilization, Arcanum, Fallout 1&2, Doom and a few others that elude my memory, in that you can play the game for months at a time without growing bored and when you finally do, if you feel the need to go back and play it at anytime it's just as enjoyable as when you first started playing it.
There's just something about chasing an unarmed human being down and smashing him with the head of a shovel to his cranium detaches from the rest of his body, that brings a great deal of satisfaction to a dark twisted, but other wise intelligent, friendly and rational human being such as myself.
Or maybe its the pretty patterns found in the trails of smoke as throngs of flaming people scream and wail having stepped in the lovely puddle of gasoline that I left there, just for them and threw a match into. Or the way the blood pours freely from their mouths as I infect them with anthrax, or watch them drag their useless legs along the pavement, their spines severed from a bullet sent like gift straight from the barrel of my sniper rifle. Or how the police cannot hear the sound of their head splitting apart like ripe melons, as my shotgun is silenced with a live pussy cat jammed onto the end....
Sorry where was I? Take too much damage from Taliban gunfire or one of Gary Coleman's well timed grenades? No problem! One swift toke of your "Health" Pipe with have you alive and kicking with the best of them. No ammunition to deal with that dastardly mad Police woman whose vomiting because you zipped down your fly and urinated in her mouth? No matter! A packed of scissors can be implemented in to deadly shurikens! Or failing that, several well time kicks to the face can out wit even the liveliest of cads.
The sounds of idiot bystander banter combined with the dry sarcastic tone of P.Dude himself make this game a must play if only to listen to some of things that are said. Listening to everyone call you a pinko while flipping you the bird, when you ask them to sign your petition is usually responded by a couple of pistol rounds to the head as P.Dude counts down the casualties with a "One for your mother, one for the pope, one for little johnny and one for Bobo the Space Monkey..." Not only that but the town itself is riddled with hundreds of little secrets, ever building accessible and there's new things to be found on each passing day.
In summary, all those concerned parents and politically motivated assholes who foam at the mouth at how violent and dangerous Grand Theft Auto is to their children's fragile little minds. All I can say is give Postal 2 a go, you don't know what your missing.
Well what can I say about this game?
You play the role of P.Dude, a man with ambition. He's just moved to a small town, into a smaller trailer, with a nagging wife(or is he like Norman Bates?), a broken down car and a job he's about to be fired from. The town is located in Arizona so naturally, it's very hot and everyone's is a right winged lunatic who knows the only real way to solve a problem is to shoot it till it's dead. You mill about the town doing day to day tasks, whether it's going down to the Lucky Ganesh:All American Grocery store to fetch a carton of goats milk or voting for the gimp in the next election. Anyone unlucky enough get between Mr Dude and the front of the cashiers line is about to learn that he's got a terminal case of the Monday's.
The postal series has been called many things. It's creators, Running With Scissors have been the subject of many an angry letter. If I were to call this game anything, I would say it's an anti-game. It's violent, rude, politically incorrect, encourages the player to maim and murder every thing in site in many morbid and violent ways. In other words do everything that goes against your conscience. That being said the game is also is also, innovative, darkly humorous, sarcastic, satirical, very detailed, riddled with interesting goodies, an ever expanding town and tons and tons bystanders some more innocent than others.
Now if ever I needed an example to prove that violent video games, most certainly do not, encourage young people to go out and murder people I would use this game as the penultimate example. This game not only lets you kill people it also personally targets groups like, book burners, rednecks, parents against video game violence, vegetarians, postal workers, butchers etc etc. I used to play this game over and over as a teenager and I have not once felt the desire to imitate P.Dude. Who in their right mind would?
This game has a timeless quality that I can hold dearly to games like Carmageddon, Sid Meier's Civilization, Arcanum, Fallout 1&2, Doom and a few others that elude my memory, in that you can play the game for months at a time without growing bored and when you finally do, if you feel the need to go back and play it at anytime it's just as enjoyable as when you first started playing it.
There's just something about chasing an unarmed human being down and smashing him with the head of a shovel to his cranium detaches from the rest of his body, that brings a great deal of satisfaction to a dark twisted, but other wise intelligent, friendly and rational human being such as myself.
Or maybe its the pretty patterns found in the trails of smoke as throngs of flaming people scream and wail having stepped in the lovely puddle of gasoline that I left there, just for them and threw a match into. Or the way the blood pours freely from their mouths as I infect them with anthrax, or watch them drag their useless legs along the pavement, their spines severed from a bullet sent like gift straight from the barrel of my sniper rifle. Or how the police cannot hear the sound of their head splitting apart like ripe melons, as my shotgun is silenced with a live pussy cat jammed onto the end....
Sorry where was I? Take too much damage from Taliban gunfire or one of Gary Coleman's well timed grenades? No problem! One swift toke of your "Health" Pipe with have you alive and kicking with the best of them. No ammunition to deal with that dastardly mad Police woman whose vomiting because you zipped down your fly and urinated in her mouth? No matter! A packed of scissors can be implemented in to deadly shurikens! Or failing that, several well time kicks to the face can out wit even the liveliest of cads.
The sounds of idiot bystander banter combined with the dry sarcastic tone of P.Dude himself make this game a must play if only to listen to some of things that are said. Listening to everyone call you a pinko while flipping you the bird, when you ask them to sign your petition is usually responded by a couple of pistol rounds to the head as P.Dude counts down the casualties with a "One for your mother, one for the pope, one for little johnny and one for Bobo the Space Monkey..." Not only that but the town itself is riddled with hundreds of little secrets, ever building accessible and there's new things to be found on each passing day.
In summary, all those concerned parents and politically motivated assholes who foam at the mouth at how violent and dangerous Grand Theft Auto is to their children's fragile little minds. All I can say is give Postal 2 a go, you don't know what your missing.
