Players could win races by simply beating their opponents, or by smashing rival cars into oblivion and running over every pedestrian wandering around the track.
While this might not sound so bad nowadays, it sparked tons of controversy back in the mid to late '90s. The game was banned in the UK, India and Germany until the developers agreed to change certain parts. The human pedestrians were replaced with zombies and robots to make the game a little less grotesque.
This pleased censorship boards, which overturned the game's banning in most countries. The Postal series is one of the most controversial video game franchises in the history of gaming. The first game had its fair share of controversy, but the second entry, Postal 2 , received the most backlash. Postal 2 tells the story of a guy known only as Postal Dude, who must complete a list of tasks around his hometown of Paradise.
The tasks consist of picking up eggs at the local grocery store, going to a doctor check-up and giving his uncle Dave a birthday gift.
Seems pretty harmless, right? The game allows players to commit atrocious acts, such as dismembering random citizens or lighting people on fire, then peeing to put out the flames. Postal 2 upset many people with its graphic depiction of violence and gore. Why: Most war games are happy to try and re-enact wars from parts of history that most gamers are too young to remember spoiler alert — the allies win.
It would be nice to say the games bordered on tasteless but they have crossed the border, learned the language and now live in the democratic republic of tasteless with their wife and two kids.
MW2 has been harshly criticised in Russia for letting the player act as a Russian terrorist killing unarmed civilians and COD: Black Ops received condemnation in Cuba as it has special forces trying to kill a young Fidel Castro.
While I understand the controversy, the games are still the best FPSs to be released in the last couple of years and Black Ops has broken sales records. Well, the bright sparks at Run with Scissors games decided it would be a great idea to turn this real-life tragedy into a series of games and a movie.
Postal 2 faced the most ire of the public, with ramped up violence and drug and terrorist references, however, it was proven that the game could be finished without killing anyone — smart move Run with Scissors.
Unfortunately for the developers, this strategy was seen through and 13 countries moved to ban the game. Games like Half Life 2 and Doom were fine for simulated violence, using made up monsters, weapons and settings. The Manhunt series on the other hand, allows the player to violently murder characters with household objects and provides accurate descriptions on how to do so with the most ferocity. Owning a copy of the game in New Zealand is illegal!
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View mobile website. The game received a mixed reception from critics upon its release in , with some reviewers going so far as to give the game a score of zero, while others argued in favour of the game's concept and implementation. Regardless, the game was successful enough to receive several expansions and to be included in multiple compilations, and a film adaption of the game and its predecessor was made in Postal III, a new instalment of the Postal franchise, was released in after being developed by Russian based studio Akella using Valve Corporation's Source engine, although Running with Scissors has distanced themselves from the title.
It is still unknown if PewDie will play the game again for his channel again. Is the first video showing PewDie playing Postal 2 , but playing a mod for it. It is unknown if PewDie will return to.
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