POSTAL 2

It fucking pisses me off that this is banned in NZ. With a $2000 fine for playing it.

The game gets old really fast. 90% of the time you are running around a game world, over and over and over and over again. No min map, so you don't know where you are going. The map they have is hard to follow. Bugs like always showing your gun so everyone run away from you and the cops keep shooting at you. No Health anywhere so if you are down to 1% health you are trap in loop of restart, running non stop and diing. Again the game is just running around, and gets old and boring really fast like. Which makes the game not fun to play. Do not buy the game, only play it if you get it for free. Game makers need to stop making games for parents and start making games for us. The game could of been fun but the waste of time not doing anything but running makes the game suck. It a don't buy.

There are so many good games out there, why waste your time one this? Mindless violence.

This game is one of those games that lets you do all kinds of terrible things "IF" you want to. That's essentially the premise of it. If you want to let out your inner psycho and do messed up stuff then this is a game you might like. For anyone who wants to play a decent FPS this is NOT it. The entire game world is set up to aggravate the player into going "postal" and it does it by making you do these mundane chores in a surreal world. So you go around and do this chore list for the postal dude and along the way you end getting caught in some kind of violent situation. The setting of the world itself is like a caricature of the USA and it has racist and sexist themes all over it. I have no idea what RWS was trying to do here, if they were doing a tongue in cheek jab at how f***ed up the USA is as a country then they hit that nail on the head. I'm guessing they just brainstormed a ton of offensive themes for a game and added them in for shock value. Anyhow the core gameplay is FPS based. You get a variety of weird weapons to use against your enemies and you can go around and just kill people, dogs and other things however you want. It's morbid and the violence is over the top so if you don't like violent games you won't like this at all. As far as the FPS elements go, the game uses the Unreal Tournament 2004 engine and so it's a solid experience visually and sound wise. The shooting mechanics are ok but the AI in this game is really bad so don't be expecting the UT2004 bot level of AI in this game. That's pretty much the game in a nutshell. If you're a 12 year old the humour in this will make you giggle, but as a grown adult with a sense of decency you most likely will find this game to be a piece of garbage.

Postal 2 is way behind its time in every sense. Most importantly, the gameplay is very basic and unentertaining: everyone takes bullets like sponges, and the weapons are simply no fun to use because they're inaccurate and lame. All the hype about the game being only as violent as the player is bullcrap. You can't accomplish but a couple of tasks in the whole game without someone wanting to kill you. Playing pacifist gives no reward and around midway to the game it becomes largely impossible. The jokes were probably funny as hell for the makers, but basically they're just forced and juvenile. The expansion drops the whole open town concept that made the main game at least somewhat interesting, and as a linear corridor shooter it's simply abysmal and amplifies all the weaknesses in the game mechanics.