It's times like this I really wonder how IGN could've declared God Hand a horrible game, yet be so forgiving with this living disaster...this...abomination of a game.This is an extremely forgiving review. First of all, being a longtime Postal fan, I actually shelled out the $40 plus $15 (!) shipping to get the boxed edition of this game, only to get an email from the game's producer saying that the replicator they contracted to manufacture the discs broke just about every single Disc 1 of the boxed edition, pressing it in a way where the disc errors out and doesn't install the game data. You have to install the 3GB from Disc 2 and enter the CD Key to download the other 14GB from Steam before you can play.I downloaded it over a day and a half, and then upon playing it, was given one of the most insulting experiences I have ever had as a lifelong gamer.Sure, it looks pretty good...for a Postal game, but that's about where it ends. Don't get me wrong, I love humor, and I loved everything that Postal 2 stood for, and I still play it to this day, but this game makes Duke Nukem Forever an awesome game in comparison. Ironically, all the hammed-in "offensive" crap in this game is so dated that it's probably the least offensive part of the game itself.I know that RWS as a company has never had much class or pride in what they do, but I feel that if they put half the effort into this game that they did into the (surprisingly hilarious) movie they released a few years back, it would've at least been playable.Between the bugs, the piss-poor voice acting (the new Postal Dude voice really grates on me too), AI, gameplay mechanics, constant crashing, lousy collision detection, and the near-static characters during cutscenes that make Dreamcast games look advanced, this game is at best a pre-beta turd they tried to pass off as a quality game.Not to mention, this game had an 8-year dev cycle. 8 friggin' years! I remember we were first promised this game back in 2008! The only somewhat educated conclusion I can come to is that RWS pissed away all their money on making the movie, and had to start and stop development periodically to gain more funding, except between dev starts and stops, there were probably different devs put on each time they started it back up. So instead of doing the right thing and developing it in-house, they give it to a Russian publisher I've never heard of. And after looking at Akella's website, I came to the conclusion that these guys aren't incompetent, I'm just willing to bet that RWS couldn't pay the bills, so they churned out a crappy product to match the (more than likely horrendously low) budget.As a gamer, I'm insulted. As a paying customer and a Postal fan, I'm absolutely pissed. This is quite literally the worst game I've ever played, and in my book it actually surpasses Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust in the sh*tty game department.I mean seriously? What kind of company lets the game make fun of their own crappy gameplay? Do you know how long it would even take to ham in something like that? It's like they took one look at it halfway through and said "Yeah, this game is gonna blow, we might as well make them hear about it WHILE they're playing our crappy game."I can honestly say that RWS not only dropped the ball on this one, they rolled it down a hill and crashed it into a busload of orphans, and then the bus rolled off the road and crashed into a Animal Rescue shelter on Free Puppy Day. This is NOT a game, it's a big middle-finger to everyone whose pissed away their time playing this absolute failure of a game and an embarrassment to the entire gaming medium.
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Whoever was playing in that video needs to pay more attention. Enemies would move just to the left or right and suddenly the guy playing was oblivious to their existence. Hate people with that problem.
Good idea, poorly executed.
More info- Postal is a joke, the game is so bad that it is funny, therefore good. Many love it.
postal 3 is a crock of stuff. the stuffty humour in it doesn't excuse the bad gameplay or glitchiness of it. postal 2 had funny glitches, tolerable humour, and it was a great sandbox game. postal 3 is a completely linear pos
