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Postal 4 console release3/18/2024 ![]() ![]() ![]() Honestly, the level of comical violence present in Postal Redux is almost nothing compared with the kinds of things we see in games today. I should probably address the violence, since that was quite the hubbub back in 1997. It’s hard to remember playing the game back in 1997, but the smooth gameplay of the modern console remake makes it easy to dodge slower moving projectiles like missiles and also allowed us to poke around a corner, take a few shots, and jump back before an NPCs could get a shot back at us. In fact, when we played Postal Redux on the PlayStation 5, we didn’t notice anything different from the PS4 version, so the older console can easily handle everything the game has to offer. It’s a top-down shooter with a static world, so nothing to really push the CPU. ![]() The PlayStation 4 has probably got about as much or more horsepower than PCs did back in 1997, so of course Postal Redux runs smoothly. But it’s not something you will be really blown away by. You can even clearly read all the signs and find a few little funny things the developers put in there that might have gotten lost in the original due to the low resolution of the graphics. Things look good and you can tell what everything is now. That said, even with the massive visual upgrade, we are talking about a 25 year old game. Comparing that to the original graphics is like night and day. Because the console version is based on the Redux remake, all of the graphics have been updated to HD-quality. ![]() Incidentally, the original Postal game is free to play through Steam if anyone is interested in seeing the unadulterated classic. Postal Redux was already remade for the PC back in 2016, and that version of the game is available for under $10 on Steam. Two free-flowing joysticks are a lot better than a mouse and keyboard for games like this. It’s a lot smoother and more natural feeling (at least after you get used to the mechanic) than the original game was back on the PC. If you have ever played twin-stick games before then you will have no problem jumping right into this version of Postal. That means that you move your character with the left stick and aim with the right. On the PlayStation 4, Postal Redux is a twin stick shooter. The original Postal Redux was the HD remake of the original game for the PC, and now it is coming to consoles. Most of the state and local bans were overturned in court, and the Supreme Court eventually affirmed that video games were protected media, like books or other creative endeavors.Īll of those memories came flooding back to me when I heard that publisher MD Games had ported Postal Redux over to the PlayStation 4 platform. It was a pretty scary time for gamers, and for a while, it looked like the anti-gamers might actually win. I personally attended a Senate hearing in Washington DC where government officials were seriously considering trying to ban most video games. Other titles like Carmageddon also made their list. To be fair, Postal was not the only game targeted by those anti-video-game and anti-violence groups. Unfortunately, not everyone got that humor, and this began an all-out assault on the game industry by those who wanted to censor or restrict it. And we found some of the over-the-top humor to be pretty funny too, like earning a trophy for taking out an entire marching band with a Molotov cocktail. Mechanically speaking, it played really well, especially compared with some of the other mouse-and-keyboard games of that era. GiN was just getting started back then as well, and Postal was one of the first games that we reviewed. Way back in 1997, when the modern game industry was just getting started, rebel developers Running With Scissors released the original Postal game for the PC. ![]()
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