POSTAL: Brain Damaged – Review
As the gaming industry strives to push the limits of hardware to create ever-larger and more realistic-looking games, Postal Brain Damage stands out among the rest. While the early Duke Nukem and Serious Sam vibes of Serious Sam are sure to catch the eye, is there enough substance to make this game fun?
The visual appeal of Postal: Brain Damaged is undeniable. It has the visual quality of a game from the early 2000s, and it is stunning. The visual style appears to be deliberate and consistent, rather than just the developers’ best effort, which is understandable given that this is a highly subjective style.
There is no suspenseful plot in Postal: Brain Damaged, which is a disappointment. It’s more like a South Park episode than anything else. Toilet humour, rude jokes, and a lot of mature content make up the bulk of this book. You can do whatever you want with your penis, whether it’s on an enemy or an innocent bystander.
The weapons are a lot of fun to use. It’s a mixed bag: some are normal and others are crazy. A bow capable of firing large dildos sets it apart from the rest. I guarantee that you’ll be smiling every time you shoot it because of the high-pitched sexual noises coming from your speakers. Avoid this game if crude humour isn’t your thing.
The limited amount of ammo can be a real pain at times. It’s not uncommon to run out of ammo even when using the game’s version of a standard carbine-style rifle. As a positive, this forces you to use every weapon in your arsenal, but it also takes away some of the high-speed action fun from larger combat encounters as you spend more time searching for ammo than blasting everything in the area into meaty chunks.
Some other mechanics can aid you in battle. Your bunny slippers-clad feet unleashing deadly kicks on elderly shotgun-wielding men in zimmer frames is sure to bring a smile to your face.
Because the timing of your melee strikes is so precise in this game, you can sometimes feel like it doesn’t work at all when trying to shoot back at enemy projectiles with them. Even if a bullet passes right through your foot, you’ll find that it doesn’t bounce back. Because of its unreliability, you won’t use it very often because your melee attack rarely connects with the incoming projectile, resulting in a lot of damage.
There isn’t much of a plot to Postal Brain Damage. To get to the end and kill everything in your path, this is more of a “classic” game. It’s a good solution that gives off a nice retro vibe. The levels aren’t particularly memorable, and the game isn’t particularly long. Even though the game’s first suburbia level is a lot of fun, a series of grimy levels that don’t really fit together in any meaningful way soon follows.
It’s just a series of levels with a variety of enemies to defeat from the get-go. However, a more upbeat suburban theme would have added more enjoyment to this already-entertaining title. We’ve had enough gloom and doom-laden shooters, and this one could have used some levity and a more upbeat tone.
