i'm sorry gamespot...i have to totaly disgree with your score on this one
Storyline 7/10 ok, for a free roaming game
its pretty simple,your in this small yet largley explorable town and your this guy named the postal DUDE or something relavent to that (it really dosent matter since you never hear the protagonist name ever being used) anyway your this guy who basicly go's through a week of random missoin's doing random thing's such as " collecting milk " or " get your pay check " as boring as this sound's...this guy has the ultimate freedom to do it anyway way he want's ( which most people will most likely decide to pull out your gun's and literaly start shooting everything ) GTA style but possibly better in gameplay aspect and less traveling around, but basicly this game is about freedom and the main focus is gameplay,
Gameplay 10/10 pretty much the game itself
this is mainly why the game get's it's edge, this guy has the ultimate freedom to do almost anything, you can enter people's house's, break window's, grab gun's like m14's and shotgun's to throw in your endless invertory, rob a bank, anything you think of you can do in real life, but while only being in a game, this might sound plain, however its excuted very well, you take a decent amount of bullet's and so will your target's, there are cop's that will try and stop you to if they see you do something unlawfull ( till a certian time limit untill they give up looking for you ) and sometime's normal people themself's will carry gun's to defend themself's or crazy protester's, what's also nice the weapon's in this game are very well done in power and sound's, thing's can get bloody pretty quick if you decide to launch napalm across the street or throw a granade into a dance club, what else is fairly interesting the AI is also well done, they can tell when you bump into them, will scream if they see you pull out a gun, will know how to hit you when firing a gun, and will even interact with other AI at time's or even start shooting at each other as well and your free to watch or help or loot after there done at your desire, the cop's will also try to stop the AI as if it was really there job's, not to mention this game has some great dialog mostley pretianing to the protagonist whenever soemthing happen's, he usually has soemthing interesting or halrious to say, with everything said...this game's gameplay is for fun while maintaining decent realistic measure's if this was real life,
Graphic's 8/10 good
nothing breath taking but really not bad ether, people look like people, several diffrent model's and clothing type's are made for everyone, and the area's look's like what its supposto be, to be short and clear, it look's like real life through a digital camera thats not high quailty,
Music 7/10 hmm..
well...you dont here music peice's to often in this game...and when you do actually hear some they do match there place, but for the most part, you dont hear any music, because well, you dont really need it, and its more realistic, and im sure people dont want to hear peacefull music or switching to war music during there gameplay would probaly kill the mood of the situation compared to having none, i personally think it's a good choice to leave music out but for other people...it might disturb them,
Replay value 9/10 as expected
the main reason you'd play this again is to simpily have fun, really nothing more or less, there is a nice amount of land to explore keeping you away from the storyline while secrate place's to serch and find for that you probaly have passed consisting of weaponry reward's and such that could keep you busy for hour's and hour's even over 100 making your money's worth,
final word's...postal 2 has really great and fun gameplay making it sadly realistic of what a serial killer would do, but again i cant strees this enough, this game is not kid's at all probaly under 16, and im very sure gamespot is wrong on this one to give it a 4.8, as for some other's who have agreed with gamespot, i must say, this game isnt ment to be taken on so seriously, it actually seem's to fullfill it's actuall purpose of just being a game of, just play it and dont follow on set procedure's, reguardless...i sense the flaming heading my way heh