It's a crashy, buggy mess. It was developed in 18 months, but still has better writing at times than anything Bethesda did for Fallout. Prepare to have an abusive relationship with some dumb game about a mailman and to see the phrase 'FalloutNV.exe has stopped responding' a ton. Check out the Viva New Vegas modlist for a good time, otherwise you're not gonna have a good time. Ring-a-ding-ding, baby!
This game still isn't great. I played it on release and felt underwhelmed, and still can't consciously recommend it to people who enjoyed Postal 2. Postal 2 is a good game despite it's setbacks, and Postal 4 tries awfully hard to reach that same style of comedy, but misses the mark and hits a bystander instead. It's still buggy and crash-prone, and the writing and story feels almost flat and uninspired, lacking in the real satirical awfulness of Postal 2 and coming across more to me as an edgy teenager re-writing that game in a more modern setting but missing the key points of what made it a fun experience. It's got a lot of the hallmarks of Postal: cat silencers, urinating, political incorrectness, etc, but it lacks the life that Postal 2 had. I'll still support RWS with all my heart, I stand by them as a company, but they can surely do far better than this. The people defending RWS's decision to release the game in the state it's in are obnoxious, and blaming people pointing out the game's flaws as "SJWs" or whatever else helps nothing. Postal has always been an unapologetic and vulgar car-wreck of a game series designed to offend as many groups as possible, video gaming's South Park long before South Park games were a thing, but Postal 4 just feels uninspired. It feels like RWS tried too hard to capture the lightning in a bottle they had with Postal 2, and it resulted in stories and missions that just weren't interesting or fun to play, among other issues. The open world is massive, yet feels empty, almost like the poor man's New Vegas. Postal 2's map was compact, important areas were placed in a way that was easy to navigate, Postal 4's map makes it a pain to do absolutely anything, as all of your objectives are spread out over such a large area of land. I will say, though, the voice acting is quite nice, I like having multiple options for the Dude's voice, and Jon St. John was a good pick. TL:DR, Play Postal 2 again, don't bother with this game for now.
Playing this as a person from the USA nowadays is just a freaky time, man. RWS updated the controls a while back, they're a ton better now. This game's all kinds of screwed up. Definitely a distinct art style and disturbing tone, an interesting experiment from the then young RWS. Shame they never made any more games like this, but it is absolutely though just a game about a mass shooter going on a rampage. It's a disgusting game from days long behind us, but the kind of disgusting media that should be preserved, never glorified. If you're a fan of Postal 2/4/Brain Damaged and the more wacky take on the Dude, you might be surprised at his humble origins in this game. Play Postal at least once, that's all I've got to say about it. Be warned, the noise this game plays starting up is loud as hell, it actually startled me a few times. There's a good remaster of this game on Unreal called Postal Redux, but it isn't on GOG.
