Posted on: May 10, 2009
Munkee79
Verified ownerGames: 557 Reviews: 34
Someone stole my donuts... Now you're ALL gonna PAY.
Postal 2 is not an exceptionally polished game. It is not a tactful game (not that one expects it to be). It is not a pretty game by any stretch of the imagination. Yet despite all this it manages to be fun. It's chock-full of the best one-liners since Duke Nukem, and you can set people on fire then piss them out... assuming that's your idea of fun. P. Dude's week starts off pretty normally, going to pick up some milk at the market and the like. By the end of the working week you'll have had a shoot-out with Gary Coleman, been abducted by hillbillies, survived a suicide bombing or three, escaped a burning library, and plenty more wacky hijinks I daren't spoil. Along the way you have a fair deal of freedom -- you can dick around with the cops and citizens, get arrested and break out, explore hidden areas and meet (and kill) dozens if not hundreds more people! Who would ever have expected to find a tunnel to a certain Iraqi terrorist's hideout in their own backyard? Over the Apocalypse Weekend you'll suffer violent hallucinatory episodes, steal a military nuclear warhead, dismember countless living creatures with a BOOMERANG SCYTHE, and do battle with a... unique Satanic figure with Tourette's Syndrome. This expansion is a standalone followup (meaning no boomerang scythe for you back on Monday, sorry), and strictly on-rails, which can be a good or a bad thing. It's completely balls-out insane and sick in every way the base game somehow managed not to be. It's also even buggier, and I encountered a few game-breaking bugs on my first playthrough that mandated loading an earlier save. Postal 2 was created somewhat so you can dig around for secrets and do the missions -- but really, it's all about WRECKING SHIT UP, missions or no. It's kind of buggy, kind of ugly, incredibly offensive through and through, the mechanics are awkward and unrefined... and I like it. Go try the demo first. If you approve, there's a hell of a lot more content just $10 away.
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