The POSTAL Dude is back!
Several years have passed since the events that devastated the once proud town remembered as Paradise. The only two to walk away from the cataclysm unscathed, the hapless everyman known as the POSTAL Dude and his loyal companion Champ, drive aimlessly through the scor...
Several years have passed since the events that devastated the once proud town remembered as Paradise. The only two to walk away from the cataclysm unscathed, the hapless everyman known as the POSTAL Dude and his loyal companion Champ, drive aimlessly through the scorching deserts of Arizona looking for a new place to call home. After a fortuitous gas station rest stop ends with their car, trailer home, and the rest of their worldly possessions stolen, all the Dude’s seemingly got left to his name is his canine cohort and his bathrobe, and neither of them smells all that great. However, on the horizon, the duo glimpses an unfamiliar and dazzling town that beckons to them. What untold prospects lie within? Fame? Fortune? Maybe a bidet or two? Edensin awaits.
POSTAL 4: No Regerts is a satirical and outrageous comedic open world first person shooter and the long-awaited true sequel to what’s been fondly dubbed as "The Worst Game Ever™", POSTAL 2! (No third game is known to exist.)
Key Features
Free roam, open world, sandbox gameplay: Approach your daily set of Errands in a non-linear fashion! Seek out optional Side Quests for additional rewards! Or ignore all of that and just cause general pandemonium at your own leisure!
Jon St. John, industry veteran and legendary voice for Duke Nukem, in the role of the POSTAL Dude!
A brand new town to explore: Discover Edensin and unearth the dark secrets of this gambling town! Visit the local penitentiary, but don’t become a permanent guest! Meet the mysterious and exotic locals at the Mexican border! Keep them doggies movin' in the western Ghost Town! Cruise the roads in style in your own fashionable Mobility Scooter! Test your luck at the casinos on the Zag, all under the watchful eye of the monolithic ERC Tower!
Pacifist vs. Aggressive: Enjoy full freedom in your choice of playstyle! New ammo types and other tools to greater support peaceful (or non-lethal, at least) confrontations, but violence is still always an option too!
Over-the-top arsenal: Series classics return such as the iconic Shovel, Gas Can, and the famous boomerang Machete! Brandish new weapons like the AK, Ingram, and Tazer Baton! Set traps and unleash feathered chaos with the new Pigeon Mine! Get creative with the Spurt’n’Squirt’s unique liquid ammo types: Fill it with water to put out fires, gasoline to create an improvised flamethrower, or urine to shower Edensin’s residents!
Potent Power-ups: Add that familiar POSTAL twist to your weaponry with power-ups such as the classic Cat Silencer, the slow motion-inducing Catnip, and the dual wielding Energy Drink! Supercharge your fists, mighty foot, and urethra with a dose of the testicle-shrinking Vitamin X!
Bevy of interactivity: Feed Doggie Treats to strays to gather canine armies to do your dirty work! Grab and carry around objects to stack them and reach new areas or just throw them at others to annoy them! For the first time in the franchise, use and flush toilets!
A very disappointing game, broken and not all that fun. Very much closer to the disappointment that was Postal 3 then the enjoyable romp of Postal 2. With some more polish and bug fixes it would be excellent but if its still broken years after launch it will never be fixed.
For EVERYONE who is regerting on performance issues: just turn off FOLIAGE DENSITY (switch to 0 or maximum 1). It doesn't affect flowers, bushes, trees, cactus, only this stupid 3D grass. Who the hell puts 3d grass in game- don't ask me - it should be vertical 2D textures or frames will drown down like floppy fick.
Postal4 feels like a weekend casual fun pew-pew game. If it was Postal2Remaster it would be understandable. There are "up-dated" jokes (like usage of mobile phones by every person in the streets, and nonstop record-reaction for Dude's actions), silly situations, posters, bystander gossips, many items kickable interaction and so on. However, it's just nowadays absurds sticked together, put in some canyon city and called a Game. It gets boring fast. So better treat it like casual fun from time to time.
BTW I play with my old PC: Intel i7-4770k, 32GB RAM, Geforce gtx1080, SSD, Windows10; PProcessing, Occlusion, Shadows, Textures, Effects, Fluids on ultra quality, no blur, overpopulation and other performance options on default setting and everything is fine in 60 FPS. (I have Nvidia Effects turned ON in video tab options).
[It's rather 3 and a half stars for rating.]
Before we start let's get the big statement out of the way. It is better than Postal 3. However, when compared to the rest of the series doesn't mean much.
One of the major problems is the humor. Sure Postal 2's humor was outdated and even offensive at points, but it was so ridiculously out there and attacked all sides that it worked. 3's humor tried to do the exact same as 2 but with very mixed results. Most of the time it fell flat or too much into the stereotypes for jokes. 4 attempts the same as 2 and guts the parts that could be considered offensive. Producing sterile, bland jokes that delves more into pop culture references and toilet humor that would be so outdated that by the next decade no one would find it funny. Not even the SJW and Mexican stereotypes are all that funny.
While we're at things being bland let's talk weapons. 2 is known for the ridiculous number of weapons it provided. Now could it have had less? Perhaps but it gave a lot of variety in the way you could play the game. The cheat weapons added even more fun with like a Box Launcher and even a Cat Launcher. Now let's see what 4 has to offer. Wait, its downsized heavily. With most either being either really generic or carried over from 2. The only unique weapons like the Rattler and Pigeon Mine you most likely don't use often enough for it to be worth it. The Fournicator while unique on the premise of it being a quad shotgun, is just a weaker Sawed-off despite the 4 shots allowed.
Lastly the tasks of the day. 2's tasks are initially simple yet turn insane once you do try to do it and there's always multiple ways of completing them. 4 is very on-rails and most of the time has only one way to complete the tasks. The biggest example is the prison task where no matter if the code is correct or not, it will open the cells.
I can tell that a lot of passion was put into it, but they focused more on getting an audience rather than actually figuring out what the fans want. It's mediocrely neutered.
The gameplay is close to Postal 2 and fun, but on a technical level it is terrible. My framerate fluctuates between 8 and 120 FPS - after I already optimized.
The in-game phone UI often stops working; NPCs do not spawn etc. RWS should really fix at least the major problems.