Postal II

Running with Scissors · Apr 13, 2003

Mature

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Blast, chop and piss your way through a freakshow of American caricatures in this darkly humorous first-person adventure. Meet Krotchy: the toy mascot gone bad, visit your Uncle Dave at his besieged religious cult compound and battle sewer-dwelling Taliban when you least expect them! Endure the sphincter-clenching challenge of cannibal rednecks, corrupt cops and berserker elephants.

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PC

Critic 4.4 (3 critics) · Gamer 9.5

Critic reviews

GameSpot
Erik Wolpaw · Apr 15, 2003
4.8
We live in a world in which the extremely violent Grand Theft Auto III not only succeeded on its own terms, but also become an accepted part of the pop-culture landscape. It's clear that Postal 2's developers attempted to make an outrageous game to get everyone's attention, but these days, even a game like this requires great gameplay to accompany its naked bid for infamy, something the game's designers seem to have failed to realize.
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IGN
Ivan Deez · Apr 03, 2003
5.5
Vulgarity doesn't make Postal a particularly bad game. Postal makes Postal a bad game. Flawed from the start, being crude for the sake of being crude makes it lame, but playing it makes it a pain.
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Euro Gamer
Martin Taylor · May 06, 2003
3.0
We were hoping Running With Scissors would be capable of pulling off more than a decent looking Half-Life mod crafted by a 13 year-old boy with a concerning fetish for mindless slaughter, but that's what it feels like we've been playing. The basic toilet humour running through the piece can't hide the short-lived gameplay, and leads to an extremely unfulfilling and tiresome experience that any sane person would be hard-pressed to push on with.
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