Postal 2 coming to consoles?

[Michael Bluth]

Not sure if many of you have heard of this game, but it has to be one of the most mature games coming out, check it out at www.gopostal.com . Anyways, I contacted the developers to see if they had any plans for a port, and here's the reply I got:


"I'd love to, but that involves getting permission from the gods at ms and sony, and that is another world apart from where we are

who knows? maybe they wont be able to resist

thanks

Vince"


GoPostal.com (http://www.gopostal.com)
Gameplay Video (http://foulmag.com/downloads/postal2.wmv) <--- download that!!!!!


Screens:

http://www.gopostal.com/postal2/screenshots/carnage.jpg

http://www.gopostal.com/postal2/screenshots/butcher.jpg

http://www.gopostal.com/postal2/screenshots/library2.jpg

http://www.gopostal.com/postal2/screenshots/slaughterhouse.jpg

http://www.gopostal.com/postal2/screenshots/splatterhead.jpg

[PhixedDice]

... is that a dead little girl in the 2nd picture?

And some type of dog in the 1st?

[Michael Bluth]

Originally posted by PhixedDice
... is that a dead little girl in the 2nd picture?

And some type of dog in the 1st?


'tis. Download the movie ;)

[PhixedDice]

Can't.. I get a whole mess of characters and crap like that when I click on it..

[Michael Bluth]

Drench 'em and light 'em
Postal 2 has such a way with gasoline
by Cindy Yans

This article first appeared in the May 2002 issue of Computer Games Magazine.

1997 saw the release of one of the most egregious, heinous, deliciously violent games in recent memory. Paving the way for Carmageddon, Soldier of Fortune, Hitman, Kingpin, and Grand Theft Auto, was Postal. Its rather dismal gameplay mattered very little to scads of people who picked it up simply for its shock value.

Mom always said "don't play ball in the house." Mom always said, "Don't run with scissors." Mom always said, "Don't throw napalm on the marching band." The creators of Postal, Running with Scissors, did allow you to napalm the marching band, and firebomb hospitals, and shoot just about everything and everyone into a bloody mass, and execute them after hearing them beg for mercy. OK, is this over the top? Sure it is, and many people thought it ruled, and many others, Senator Joe Lieberman included, thought it horrifying. In fact, Lieberman decried it on the senate floor as being one of the "three worst things in American society," and child-advocate organizations everywhere absolutely agreed.

Did that stop Running With Scissors? Of course not. Now we can look forward to Postal 2, which places you once again in the role of Postal Dude, the maladjusted maniac who gave postal workers everywhere a bum rap several years ago, and whose sole motivation here is to run some normal everyday errands such as picking up a quart of milk and cashing his paycheck. Sir, would you like a Molotov ****tail with your Borden's 2%? How about dousing the payroll clerk with gasoline and lighting him on fire?

While the earlier graphics were often humorous and (ahem) charming, this time you can look forward to first-person 3D, using the Unreal engine with its capability for natural terrain with 32 layers of texture blending, and technologies allowing for greater character and world geometry, texture detail, and a new particle system. Ignited gasoline effects promise to be splendid.

A whole grisly arsenal of weapons will be available, to use creatively at your discretion, and the developers have even attempted to give you a sense of responsibility for your actions. Sure…bomb the orphanage and win valuable prizes. Seriously, though, Postal 2 will feature a design that allows for both violent and non-violent play styles. This we have to see.

It's interesting that Running With Scissors founders Vince Desi and Mike Riedel originally developed licensed children's games and edutainment titles such as Grover's Counting Cafe, Bobby's World, and Tom & Jerry for Super Nintendo Entertainment Systems. And now—brutality, torture, no mercy—all in fun (?), with a touch of the company's signature humor. What on earth happened?

Desi happily assures people that in Postal 2, "You can kill anyone." But when the Center for the Prevention of School Violence, and the Committee for Children, and WAVE (Working Against Violence Everywhere), and Mothers Against Violence in America, all begin to picket outside his door, will he still be smiling? Perhaps, and perhaps even all the way to the bank.


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[Future Starlocke]

Yeah... this is the game banned in Austrailia and looking to get banned in Amsterdam... you can kill adults, kids, gays, animals, priests, nuns, police and anything else you can imagine.

[sagara0510]

thats a shit load of ketchup in those pics
especially the 2nd pic. that just makes me sick
i love my violent games, but that looks extreme.