Postal 2: Share the Pain

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Game Information

Developer: Whiptail Interactive
Publisher: Running With Scissors
Genre: Action
Release: Apr 17, 2003 (EU)
PEGI: 18+

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Synopsis

Last April's Postal 2 seemed to purposely divide gamers into a "love it" or "hate it" camp, the latter of which was considerably larger. The sequel to the controversial 1997 shooter promised to be even more offensive than its predecessor, and it did in fact deliver tons of gross-out humor, racist jokes, and gory violence, all while being perfectly flippant about it. Truthfully, Postal 2's content wasn't far in excess of what you could find on a typical episode of South Park. Yet while the game flaunted its naughtiness, it unfortunately didn't offer enough in the way of entertaining gameplay or longevity to justify all the irreverence. More than half a year later, a rerelease titled Postal 2: Share the Pain addresses the most glaring technical issue of the original--the painfully long loading times between gameplay areas--and adds some goofy multiplayer modes (those who already own Postal 2 can get the multiplayer upgrade at a discount, though it was initially promised as a free download). The result isn't going to convince anyone who took Postal 2 the wrong way to give it a second chance, but it's a better game now than before, and those looking for some seriously lowbrow humor in first-person shooter form would likely get a kick out of it.

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Gameplay

The single player of this game is a 1st person shooter, as it follows up from the Postal 1 it is just a similar game just more improved. If you enjoyed the first one you will enjoy this one, I enjoyed it. The game's enemies make you jump sometimes but you soon forgive the games for its scary actions. Postal Dude (that's actually his name), you're tasked with completing a series of errands over the course of a work week. You may attempt to complete these errands conventionally--for example, on Monday all you need to do is collect your paycheck, cash it, and then buy a carton of milk--but you'll probably end up resorting to violence, and not just because you can.

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Graphics

The graphics for this game can only be described in one word, aporling. Its terrible the lag on the single player makes it un-playable. The enemies effects like the blood sometimes glitches and looks 3D. The ideal graphics for a high end action game like this is to keep it simple to reduce lag but they have put loads of 3D graphics in it has killed the loading speed. The way your guys runs really effects the viewing angle of your gun that is a great view. Its more goofy and not serious.

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Controls

As I played this on the PC, I cant really comment on the controls as I always found PC controls very hard to manage. With things like Up arrow, down arrow for movement its very arkward, but the wheel used on the mouse is used for weapon changing which is handy when you run out of ammo.

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Rating
5/10 - Avoid