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Postal 2

Postal 2
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Developer(s) Running With Scissors
Publisher(s)
  • Whiptail Interactive
  • Running With Scissors (digital)
Director(s) Michael J. Riedel
Producer(s)
  • Vince Desi
  • Michael J. Riedel
Designer(s)
  • Michael J. Riedel
  • Nathan Fouts
  • Steve Wik
Programmer(s) Michael J. Riedel
Artist(s)
  • Josh Leichliter
  • Geoff Neale
Writer(s) Steve Wik
Series Postal
Engine Unreal Engine 2
Platform(s)
Release Microsoft Windows
  • NA: April 13, 2003
Linux
  • NA: April 15, 2005
Share the Pain
  • NA: December 17, 2003
Apocalypse Weekend
    Microsoft Windows
    • NA: August 1, 2004
    OS X, Linux
    • NA: September 28, 2005
    Corkscrew Rules!
      Microsoft Windows
      • NA: August 1, 2005
      Paradise Lost
        Microsoft Windows
        • WW: April 14, 2015
        Linux
        • WW: September 16, 2015
        OS X
        • WW: October 19, 2015
        Genre(s) First-person shooter
        Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer
        Aggregate scores
        Aggregator Score
        GameRankings 59.07% (PC)
        Metacritic 50 (PC)
        Review score
        Publication Score
        Game Informer 7.5/10

        Postal 2 (stylized as POSTAL2) is a black comedy first-person shooter video game by Running With Scissors, and it is the sequel to the 1997 game Postal. Both are intentionally highly controversial due to high levels of violence and stereotyping. Unlike its predecessor, Postal 2 is played completely in first-person based on the Unreal Engine 2. Scenes of the game can be seen in the music video of The Black Eyed Peas single "Where Is the Love?"

        In 2004, New Zealand banned Postal 2 due to "gross, abhorrent content" and Australia banned the game a year later due to "excessive abhorrent content". On May 1, 2007, Malaysia banned the game outright due to "very high impact violence & offensive depictions of cruelty". The game was also banned in Germany and temporarily banned for sale in Sweden, however it was later legally made available worldwide through GOG.com in 2009 and Desura in 2012, and was successfully greenlit on Steam later that year.

        The game received a mixed reception from critics upon its release in 2003, with some reviewers going so far as to give the game a score of zero, while others argued in favour of the game's concept and implementation. Regardless, the game was successful enough to receive several expansions and to be included in multiple compilations, and a film adaptation of the game and its predecessor was made in 2007. The Complete Edition, available through Steam, remains continually updated, with a new expansion pack titled Paradise Lost released on April 17, 2015.

        In Postal 2, the player takes on the role of the Postal Dude, a tall and thin red-headed man with a goatee, sunglasses, a black leather trench coat, and a T-shirt with a grey alien's face printed on it. Postal Dude lives in a trailer park in the small town of Paradise, Arizona, with his nagging wife, who is identified in the credits as simply, the 'Postal Dude's Bitch'. The game's levels are split into days of the week starting Monday and finishing Friday.


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