Postal 2: Share The Pain tries to combine the freedom and open ended gameplay of the GTA series with lots of blood, humor, and... long loading times. You play as the Postal Dude, who has to do errands for his... wife. But you can do it the "civilized" way, or the sadistic, violent way. You don't even have to do the errans! You can enter anybody's house, go to the clinic, police station, compound, even Osama's hideout. An example: You have to buy milk. You don't want to spend $5 or you don't want to wait on the line. What do you do? You escape through the back door. But nobody told you that there were 10 taliban women armed to the teeth waiting for you there. What now? Escape through a secret duct. But there are zombie dogs down there. You run from them until you reach the exit. Another example: See those people there insulting you? Cut their heads off with your shovel. Then kick the corpses and make a pile of 'em. Throw them gasoline and walla! A nice fire! Moments later you're wreacking havoc in the police station. Your arsenal varies from your typical pistol, shotgun, machine gun and rocket laucher, to a shovel, tazer, napalm launcher, your foot, scissors... even you can use cats as silencers and piss people just to watch them puke! The graphics are good. The characters are well made, and the environments too, only the interior of the houses look repetitive. The liquids effects are great. Piss down a hill, or in the walls, or even on the roof. Amazing! The sound effects of the weapons are average, the machine gun being the ideal example. The voice acting is good. Watch the people scream and insulting themselves! The music... there's no music. Not to mention the multiplayer's "capture the flag" with a little twist... unfortunately I couldn't play because of the high pings (there's no server near Chile). I found this game really funny and gorgeous. Maybe it has some design problems (bugs here and there, the house interiors are horrible, objects fall thorugh the ground) but it still makes a great game, all things considered. There's a joke around every corner! Some people complain there are no cars to be driven. Cars? Who needs cars when you have a diseased cow head filled with anthrax!
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