Postal, I am sure you have heard of it by now. The game that was so controversial that chat show hosts just gave up, curled into the foetal position and cried themselves to sleep for they had been beaten in their own game by a simple piece of entertainment software.
Well, actually, not many chat show hosts went round setting people on fire, shooting things and blowing them up and this is what you can do in Postal 2.
Postal 2: Share the Pain is your run-of-the-mill Postal 2 with all the fun of multiplayer added in. Now imagine this; you go and play something like Counter-Strike, you get shot over and over again in the same cheap way by the same player, so you get angry. What can do you? Live with it, that’s all. If this ever started happening in Postal 2: STP what could you do? Well, you could grab a spade, creep up behind the son of a gun, and belt his head off watching it fly in a graceful arc and stick to a cactus.
The above is just one of the many sick and twisted ways in which you can kill other players when playing Postal 2. If you want to heat things up a little you can grab a gas can and give your buddies a drink, don’t forget to toss a match in their general direction afterwards and, more importantly, don’t forget to run.
Postal 2 offers not only many, many twisted and creative ways to off the other guys but it also offers huge environments blending seamlessly from indoors to outdoors. Although the graphics are overall not groundbreaking the vast levels, detailed character faces, and crazy fire effects provide plenty of eye candy for the graphically discerning gamer.
The single player game sees you exploring the huge and ironically named town of Paradise, the goal; to perform menial and seemingly pointless tasks most of which lead you into sticky situations such as a massive fire in the library or a hold-up at the bank. These situations will get more and more ‘sticky’ as the game progresses, if you have not played it yet the heed this advice: never take a sprinkle in front of a redneck.
If the tasks themselves don’t bore you quickly enough the situations they put you in will soon get you to go ‘Postal’ and you will realise where the game got it’s name from. It is almost impossible to play for any length of time without killing someone or something, whether intentionally or in self-defence. Once the killing starts you will soon find yourself starting huge fires, running madly round the town spading people’s heads off and kicking dogs just to see what happens. Simply put, Postal 2 is open ended, highly controversial fun. It is the kind of game which gets banned because someone, somewhere decided that violent games make violent people. It is the kind of game you will get addicted to, and the kind of game you can pick up and play whenever you feel you need to take out some of that frustration. PH
