A survival mode, which has it’s own ending. Outside of just doing the main campaign, you do have a handful of extras. The game is all around really mean spirited, which isn’t my cup of tea. None of it is really pleasant outside of the odd ironic dialogue or the “He’s going postal” quote. Strange high pitched sounds, the screams of people, and officers currently shooting at you, saying “Don’t make me shoot you” fill your ears. I could probably chock this up to the game’s age giving it that look, but the loading screens between stages have edgy journal entries and disturbing visuals. There’s plenty of health and ammo pickups throughout the stages, even brand new weapons, much like any good classic shooter.Īesthetically, looks, sounds, it’s all meant to give off a feeling on discomfort, or to unnerve. I’ve found it’s better to pick people off one by one and fight from afar, but that’s not an option at times. Hostiles gang up on you, and you can go from lots of HP, to practically none rather fast. Even on Normal difficulty, I had to retry most of the stages quite a handful of times. If you just can’t take it anymore, there’s also a suicide action, which also has it’s own animations per weapon. Each gun has it’s own execution animation, something also added in Redux. If you don’t quite kill someone and they’re on the ground, crawling, begging for help…or death, you can and might have to finish them off. Every gun has a situation, but I found myself using the shotgun most often, it’s just strong enough to take out most hostiles with little worry. A Shotgun, a Magnum, not included in the original, grenades and moltov cocktails, and even a rocket launcher, among others. You start with just a sub machinegun, slowly getting new weapons along the way. There are just random, unarmed civilians, which you can shoot, but you’re not expect to, and I found it much more challenging, and funny to completely avoid them. Cops, Military, anyone who really is just trying to hurt you. Your goal is to take out at least 90% of the hostals in the leve. Each level is a different part of the town you’re currently going postal in, from your home, to a parade, to the trailer park, to even a carnival. That said, most of the humor is on the level of 9/11 jokes. That isn’t to say the game isn’t tongue in cheek or humorous though. It’s more of the grounded type of twin stick shooter, no big frills or anything. Postal, or rather Postal Redux is a classic twin stick shooter, it’s not fast or cartoony. With Postal Redux, we have a remake of the first game in the series, a new engine, the first on a console, and with all of the expansions, plus more. It says a lot of about culture and society that a game like Postal could release with an M Rating in 1997, but the game Hatred, released almost two decades after is struck with an AO Rating and struggled to find a release, despite being practically the same game. You ever know a kid that’s always joking about violence, death, inflicting it on others, or just really off-color things? The super edgy one.
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