is this game any good?

[Ur mum]

i have a 75 percent off coupon for this game is it worth buying or not
UPDATE: i bought the game and played it, i think it's a very good game, thanks for suggesting to buy it

[Pyro Dude]

Buy it.

[Alotta Fagina]

I dont think a guy like me wouldnt spend 135 hours on a bad game.

[DatBoi T]

This game is worth every hour that you throw at it. Invest in yourself with this game.
(One of the few times that I would actually pay Full Price for a old game)
[but, i actually ended up buying the entire series (1, 2, PL & 3) for $10 over the new year]

[Vengeance]

It's a 2003 comical violent freeroam fps. If that sounds good to you then you cant go wrong with this one.

[RpRocker]

Buy it if you like

[Vile Sentry]

It's a massivly updated and fixed version of a game that was once fun but sadly broken and unstable.
The steam version is very stable (haven't had it crash once, compared to postal STP which crashed on me constantly) and the inventory system and load times have been massivly improved.
If that means nothing to you (it won't unless you played the original) then consider this, no other game is like this. It's not hatred, the story isn't "humanity sucks so kill people" it's a basic series of normal everyday tasks that go tits up because the town is full of thick skulled maniacs.

Bassically, it's a freeroam FPS where you can choose to kill random people like in GTA but the other people are just as prone to random acts of violence. The game takes place the week of the "apocolypse" with every "level" being another day of the week. The closer you get to friday, the more crazy the townspeople become.


The game is freaking amazing, weirdly ahead of it's time in some ways, and it's a lot of fun. If I list the things you can do, it sounds pretty dumb and juvinile, but something about the way it all comes together just makes it feel perfect. If a person shoots a rocket at you, your kick button can be used to knock it back towards the enemy. If you kick a door, it flies open with a satisfying thud.
You can go through most doors, meaning it's not full of houses that are just there to look nice but with no functional purpose (like gta, where houses are bassically giant rocks for all that they are useful for) meaning pretty much every house (actually, pretty sure every single house, but I could be wrong) can be entered and will usually contain a useful item or weapon or a funny easter egg.

It's just such a good game. It's good dumb fun on the surface but it's so lovingly detailed and crafted. It's obvious a lot of passion went into this game.

Ok again, to compare to GTA (which is not fair and they are very different games obviously) in GTA, you get arrested and spawn at a police station with some money gone and either your weapons or ammo gone, depending on the game. In postal 2, you respawn in jail, where you have to break out.
Granted the actual "breaking out" of the cell itself seems to only have one, very obvious solution but then getting out of the jailhouse is it's own freeform adventure. You can steal a police uniform from the locker room to make an easy escape and the best part, you have the police uniform still. The game doesn't just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ignore it like other games might. The protagonist now has new lines of dialog with him pretending to be a cop and the townspeople (I think) React to you as a cop. That is not the game, that is just one small piece that can easily be completely ignored throughout your playthrough.

The game has really been undersold throughout history. I remember first hearing about it from a kid at school, and I honestly thought he was just making it up because it sounded like it couldn't be a real game. "You can pour gasoline anywhere, make shapes or write your name, and then throw a match into it and watch it go up."
Any time I heard about the game since then (always just online) people talked about it as if it was just a game made to be controversal and edgy. Bassically how hatred is talked about now. It's funny, looking at it now it's obvious that couldn't be further from the truth. It's a game that kind of takes "that subject" (you know the one) and kind of satirizes it. The game itself isn't dark and edgy, it's an adventure through a world of cyncical satire. It's dark in it's depiction of the world but the world itself is a colorful and varied place.

Ok that is a long ass rant. If you want a TLDR version, yes buy this game. Want to know if it's for you? Imagine "idiocracy" as a first person shooter game and you have a pretty good idea of what postal is.

Probably too late, but don't even look at youtube videos for this too much. There is a lost pleasure to going into a game blind. Yes it sucks to buy a bad game, but you also find insanely unique experiences. This would be one of them.

[Atlas]

this game.......
is offensive to every SJW and politician under the sun.
it allows you to ♥♥♥♥ on a civlian then taze it to death
it allows you to be able Shove a cat up your gun barrel and use it as a silencer
it allows you to set people on fire.
and its nonliniar.

hitboxes are a bit ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up but its fun 10/10 would steal a krotchy doll again

[victorzvyagin]

Not only It's really good, it's also Highly replayable

[benecia]

BUY IT NOW

[Man Of Many Wololo's]

You can contract gonnorhea and use it to your advantage in combat. Nuff said.

[Vile Sentry]

Originally posted by CenturioN:

this game.......
is offensive to every SJW and politician under the sun.
it allows you to ♥♥♥♥ on a civlian then taze it to death
it allows you to be able Shove a cat up your gun barrel and use it as a silencer
it allows you to set people on fire.
and its nonliniar.

hitboxes are a bit ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up but its fun 10/10 would steal a krotchy doll again

I completely forgot about the tazer! You can taze people until they curl up in a ball and wet themselves!

[HaMtEr]

Polecam postal2 wszystkim ktorzy lubia rozpierdol:D

[Ur mum]

thanks i decided to buy it, it's pretty good so far

[Vile Sentry]

Originally posted by GrandOldWizard:

thanks i decided to buy it, it's pretty good so far

When you get to level 2, it's just a blank screen wtih a note and a picture of the RWS in mexico with your money.
The note is probably some monolouge read by Vince explaining that he's sorry but you taught him everything he knows about cons and then he ends with some piece of dialog you said earlier.

Here's hoping that reference makes any sense to anyone.

[B Dawg]

Originally posted by DriscolDevil:

-Giant wall of text-

That was a mighty fine read :D
That should be your review for the game.