Postal 2 (2002) (VG)

User Rating:

8.3/10   

Directors:

Mike Riedel
Steve Wik

Writer:

Mike Riedel (concept)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Horror

Plot:

Take out your agression on a corrupt little town with a plethora of deadly weapons!

Plot Keywords:

Fire | Dog | Severed Head | Book | Police Officer

Cast

Rick Hunter	...	The Postal Dude (voice)
Gary Coleman	...	Himself (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Victoria Bell	...	Postal Dude's Bitch (voice)
Champ	...	Champ the dog
Marcus Davis	...	Male Voices / Krotchy (voice)
Vince Desiderio	...	Himself (voice) (as Vince Desi)
Kimberly Kaye	...	(voice)
Timothy Kuder	...	Habib / Rednecks (voice)
James Reeves	...	(voice)
Stacie Treumann	...	Female Voices (voice)
Tim Wambolt	...	John Murray (voice)

Directed by
Mike Riedel
Steve Wik

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Mike Riedel		concept

Produced by
Vince Desiderio	....	executive producer
Mike Riedel	....	producer

Production Companies

• Running With Scissors

Also Known As:

Postal 2: Share the Pain (USA)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Germany:(Banned) | Sweden:(Banned) | Australia:(Banned) | New Zealand:(Banned) (2004) | Norway:18 (self applied) | USA:M | UK:18

Company:

Running With Scissors

Trivia:

Due to the threatened legal action from the Post Office over the first game, the post office in this game is called the "Parcel Service".

Goofs:

Errors in geography: Even though the game is set in the U.S. (Paradise, Arizona), there are several signs in the Police Station which contain the word "authorised" as it is spelled outside the United States.

Quotes:

The Postal Dude: I suppose it would have been more politically correct to kill the women and minorities first.

Movie Connections:

References Pulp Fiction (1994)

You'll love it and wet yourself laughing.........

But after a couple of hours the novelty wears off and what your left with, is a standard FPS game.

The real selling point of this game, is it's non politically-correct attitude, other than that there's nothing else to this game.

Yes it's great fun being able to urinate on people and watch them throw up.

Yes it's funny to be able to stuff a cat on the end of your shotgun and use it as a siliencer.

Yes it's funny to be able to shoot the c**p out of religious fanatics, rednecks, tree loving protesters and parents against video game violence.

And yes it's even funny hearing people (and your character) swearing all the time.

BUT after the novelty wears off, what are you left with? Not a lot.

The basic premise of the game is you have certain errands to run each day (things like pick up the milk, cash your pay check, urinate on your fathers grave, that sort of thing), but unfortunately things always go wrong (like being attacked by the parents against video games, just after you have been fired from your job with a Video games developer). The errands themself are all quite original and funny and do make you wonder at times how the programmers really think. But there is one HUGE problem with this game, that makes it almost unplayable and that is the loading times between different sections of the map. Now on some errands you have to cross the entire town, which means you'll have to go through 3 or 4 load sections before you reach your goal, and go through 3 or 4 load sections to get to the next. This in itself is pretty bad programming, but for each one of these loads to take 2-3 minutes each, that's completely unforgiveable!! Now I know it's not my PC, as I've got a pretty high spec one (XP3000+, ATI 9700pro, 1.5GB DDR, and Maxtor 7200 rpm HD's), so I checked the net and found out that everybody has the same problem, but there is a patch that reduces this loading time, which I downloaded and applied; but it didn't seem to change anything on my copy. Oh well, never mind, eh?!

Postal 2 is a really funny game and an original take on the first person shooter game, but besides the very adult humour there is nothing else here that hasn't been done better in other games. Buy it for the novelty value only, otherwise get something better like MOHAA.