I get it, guys. Senseless killing is not meant to be thrilling or exciting, just a dull string of ceaseless violence. Postal makes that point very clearly over its many boring levels.

It's bold, risky, and clearly made the impact that Running With Scissors wanted it to. Of course, it took them until Postal 2 to actually start having genuinely creative ideas, because at its core, Postal is essentially a point and click game, although the only thing you'll be delivering are, of course, bullets.

You go from level to level, tasked with wiping out a certain percentage of the population of each locale. You click on people until they fall over, some of them shoot back but there's not much you can really do other than pick your fights carefully, and use the right weapons. The most exciting thing is being able to duck under rockets (because apparently the guys can't just angle them down?) but it's not something you'll be doing regularly.

Once again, I can appreciate the sentiment that I believe they were trying to make here. But reviewing it as a game...this is a pretty terrible game. Boring, unfun, and if you take it at face value it's pretty disgusting.

Also, there's a button that blows your own brains out right next to several other important keys. I'm assuming it's a cruel joke. I'm not laughing.

Reviewed on Mar 11, 2023


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