The Postal series has been widely regarded as one of the most controversial videogame series out there. Hooked Gamers got in contact with the Running with Scissors team and asked them about the upcoming 3rd installment in the series: Postal III
Justin from NoobFeed writes - Games like Postal 3 sometimes get delisted and disappear forever, but is this something that actually matters when the game is bad?
It's about preservation. Doesn't matter how bad the game, the movie, the book, the history was. It has to be archived, so that 10 years from now we can be like "oh yeah, this shite exists" and then again in 50 then 100 and then we can be like "this was what they were doing 100 years ago, how interesting"
The Postal games have always been somewhat of a mixed bag in terms of how they are received. The first two were not masterpieces by a long shot, but they have somewhat of a cult following. In case you haven't heard of the series before let’s bring you up to date, that's if you haven't already clicked off after realizing this wasn't a review for Portal 3. The first Postal game was released back in 1997 by American developer Running With Scissors (previously Riedel Software Productions of Spy vs Spy fame). A 3D isometric violent shooter that put you in the shoes of The Postal Dude, a guy pretty down on his luck that wants to slaughter everyone in town with a wide-array of weapons, it was pretty extreme at the time. The sequel released 6 years later, now a first-person affair in an open-world. Again as The Postal Dude, it's more of same except there were objectives added in the form of chores, such as buying milk from the grocery store or picking up your paycheck from work, and you could choose to go about it as a decent, upstanding citizen or you could just cause mass chaos. Anyway, while both games weren’t reviewed by critics too well, they were particularly fun for what they were.
From the review: "The Postal series of games have been primarily known for the controversy caused by their extreme levels of violence, disregard for graphic content, and exploitation of stereotypes. With the change from the Unreal to the Source engine, Running with Scissors had a chance to take the franchise beyond the simple foundations of bad humor and shocking imagery of past games. Unfortunately, Postal III continues in the tradition of its predecessors by containing generic gameplay, off-color humor, and an assortment of bugs that hinder the overall experience."
I'm one of the few who actually enjoyed Postal 2. Yeah it was off and unbalanced and stupid and offensive and buggy and had long load times and and and and...
...but you could put a cat on the end of your shotgun. So therefore it was fun.
I would walk around tasing people until they peed on themselves, set them on fire, and then pee on them. **laughs** The game got crazier as the days went by.
Anyways, here's hoping that they put out a ps3 version because I would definately buy it.
They are a colorful bunch. Running with Scissors. Man, awesome studio name.
the gene pool is stagnant and I am the minister of chlorine!
Another great game that'll come out this year, can't wait for it.