Postal 2 (PC) Playthrough

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Published on July 9, 2022 8:24:57 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd-xYPjiDsQ

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Postal 2 (2003)

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A playthrough of Whiptail's 2003 first-person shooter for Windows PCs, Postal 2.

Postal 2 was Running With Scissors' follow-up to their 1997 cult-hit Postal. The sequel traded its predecessor's isometric perspective for a first-person viewpoint while doubling down on that game's love of warped and tasteless sense of humor, and though it was critically savaged, word of mouth spread quickly and it became a major sales success.

A friendly heads up: if you aren't a fan of crudely rendered 3D violence and badly dated stereotypes, this is not the game for you.

In this video, I'm playing the updated Steam release without the expansion packs. Here are some timestamps if you'd like to skip to a specific part:

Monday 3:39
Tuesday 49:21
Wednesday 1:53:08
Thursday 2:59:06
Friday 4:26:18

If you aren't familiar with Postal 2, you play as "Postal Dude," a guy who lives in a trailer in the sunny town of Paradise, AZ. He wears a trenchcoat, works as a video game developer, and is not averse to getting his hands dirty when he needs to get things done.

The game takes place over the course of a week lived in his shoes, and with each day comes a list of mundane tasks to accomplish. For example, on Monday, you need to pick up your paycheck, cash it at the bank, and grab some milk from the convenience store on the way home.

How these things get done is up to you, though. If you want to wait in line for the bank teller, go right ahead. If you prefer to think outside the box, though, you could just douse the teller in gasoline and light a match, climb onto the roof and drop some grenades through the skylight, or don a police uniform and help yourself to whatever is in the vault.

Paradise is an open world sandbox. It's up to you to decide how to accomplish your goals, but the carnage-laden path is usually the most fun way to proceed. It's structured a fair bit like a Grand Theft Auto game with a similar emphasis placed on wanton violence and destruction, and as you might expect, it generated its fair share of controversy in 2003.

The game clearly expects you to rain chaos down upon the townspeople, and the game is at its best when you do exactly that. You could just ignore the marching band as it goes by... or you could throw a molotov cocktail into the crowd and see what happens. You could politely thank Gary Coleman for his autograph at the mall book signing, or you could chase him down and urinate in his mouth for laughs. So many possibilities!

Postal 2 is crass and obnoxious, and that's it appeal. If you enjoy games that thrive on making midwestern housewives shriek things like, "But think of the children!" check it out!
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