It's just another day in Paradise - Paradise, Arizona, that is - and all the usual players are here: window-shoppers, children, gas-station attendants. And of course there's you, the individual known only as the postal dude - the misunderstood 3-D sprite with the trenchcoat, the perfectly calm voice, and the assault rifle.
Welcome to Postal, a hybrid Mac/PC CD-ROM tribute to life in 1990s America. As the inscrutable postal dude, you begin the game outside your front door, which you can't open; there's a police car in front of your house and lots of men with guns in the street. If the game rewarded introspection, you might be able to determine the psychological particulars that brought you here, but it doesn't, and your best bet is to start shooting.
Your disturbed little postal dude utters a constant stream of witticisms amid the bloodshed. "Oh, did that hurt?" he inquires after shotgunning a cop at point-blank range. Sinister, eh? Well, consider this chilling, observation: All in all, it's a pretty damned fun game.
Postal: US$49.95. Ripcord Games: +1 (408) 653 1897.
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