Postal Comes to Good Old Games This Week

Good Old Games announced their addition of Running With Scissors to the developer library over at GOG.com.  Running With Scissors brings with them the original Postal, which is now entitled Postal: Classic and Uncut, which is available for purchase today at $5.99.  The follow up to Postal 2, now entitled Postal 2: Complete, will be coming to Good Old Games in a few weeks.

For those that were too young to remember, the original Postal, was not a first person game, and you did not play as “The Postal Dude”.  Instead, you played a man that had snapped and through fourteen isometric viewed levels, you reigned terror upon the city and its citizens.  While it may look tame in the screens included, it was a tough game to play.  It included things like citizens that would gasp out things like “Please stop” or “I Can’t Breathe” or the ever popular “I Can’t Feel My Legs”.  It also included the suicide mode where you could end up putting your gun in your mouth and pulling the trigger.  Yeah, definitely not for kids.

It was critizied by the media, but due to slow sales and some buggy gameplay, it was not a huge seller, but it was an interesting title nevertheless.  Check out some of the screens after the jump of both Postal: Classic and Uncut as well as Postal 2: Complete.

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New Footage from Postal III

Anyone that knows me, will attest to the fact that I am a huge fan of Postal 2.  It was a morally reprehensible game, filled with ugly stereotypes, over the top comical action, cat silencers, and of course, Gary Coleman.  Postal 2 was one of those games that I would play for an hour, stop, feel so dirty for playing it, and then go back for more.  It was mindless fun, and now we have some footage coming out of GDC that is showing off Postal III.

Just watching the trailer, I can see that it is going to be more of the same.  Mutliplayer Segway battles, new cover mechanic, better blood effects, and of course, the chainsaw like Badger/Wolverine attack weapon.  Call me sick, call me insane, but I am ready to get my inner Postal Dude on.

New Postal 3 Footage from Leipzig

I am going to admit that I liked Postal 2.  It was not great, and I felt morally dirty whenever I played it, but it was a good dose of stupid fun.  Yeah I would not rank it as a great game, but a fun diversion for a few hours at a time.  Besides, who didn’t like the idea of shooting, burning and then finally decapitating the corpse of Gary Coleman.

Now we have Postal 3, in an early form, and I have to say that right now, I am not impressed.  The guy running the demo seems a little out of it, and the game itself does not look all that special.  Clipping abounds, and why is it that no cops react to a prisoner breaking out of his cell.  They did say it was a pre-alpha build, but with a game that is not well liked by critics, to show it in this form is not going to help in any way.

Indiana Jones Gets Competition from….Postal?

Our favorite slayer of game to movie adaptations, Uwe Boll, has convinced his production company that Postal is the perfect choice to go up against Indiana Jones IV. Stop and read that sentence again, just to make sure you soak it all in. One has to wonder what is going through Mr. Boll’s mind when he thinks that this movie is perfect counter programming to one of the biggest cultural icons of the last 25 years.

And while I have looked at this movie with some curiosity, there is no way that any self respecting fan of Indiana Jones movies, like myself, would be caught dead going to Postal on opening weekend over Indy. It just isn’t happening.

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See Also:

Uwe Boll: The Interview
Uwe Boll Claims Postal a Masterpiece at Cannes