[chainsoar]

I think both games had HUGE potential, but it was wasted. Running With Scissors could've been the awesomest game producers ever, IF they had better programmers, and graphic designers. In the first game, the interface was bad, the controls and the character's movement were clumsy, and the people looked horrible. Postal 2 - jerky and unsmooth in the transition between sanity and Postal Dude's sick fantasy world - bad graphics, and utterly crap AI and civilian/badguy movement.

I hate to sound conceited, but if I'd been around at the time to tell RWS what to do to make it better, and they'd implemented my ideas correctly, they could both be a lot better. The thing that is most disappointing about both games is that I can see how they could be absolutely fantastic, but it ain't happening. That's very frustrating. Both games are timekillers at best, and the first game is hardly worth playing at all unless you're patient enough to get used to the crap controls.

I've heard that Postal 3 is in the pipeline, for release on the Xbox 360. I still don't understand how it is that RWS have stayed alive all this time. Postal 1 & 2 and their add-ons are the only games they've ever produced, ever and somehow they've managed to stay alive on what must've been a limited revenue from the sales of Postal 2 nearly 5 years ago.

It seems to me that RWS are just, although this sounds harsh, a bunch of born losers, game industry wise. They once began developing a game for the Playstation called Flesh & Wire which was about a sleazy cop called Angus who awakes one morning to find his legs being swallowed by a giant alien amoeba. Angus discovers he can control the alien thing, so he gets up to find the city being swarmed by aliens. Action ensues.

Yeah. It got cancelled.


Having said all this, I can see myself possibly, maybe, at some point, getting into the second game. I'll give it a few more chances.