Postal is a 3D shooter with mainly isometric, but also some top-down levels featuring hand-painted backgrounds. Gameplay and interface are similar to first-person shooters of the time in most, but not on all counts:There is no plot as such. The presence of a moving van on the first level suggests that the Postal Dude has been evicted from his home and is therefore "going postal", but no background story evolves during the game. However, the manual hints at a possible backstory (the Postal Dude believes the town's population has been infected by a madness plague), and in-between levels, players are given a chance to delve into the Postal Dude's psychosis with ominous diary entries containing phrases like "The earth is hungry. It's heart throbs and demands cleansing. The earth is also thirsty...". The game ends with the Postal Dude attempting to massacre an elementary school, but failing due to having a mental breakdown and ending up getting captured by the government and incarcerated in an asylum.
MINIMUM PC REQUIREMENTS
MINIMUM
Windows 95/98/NT4/2000
Pentium 90
16MB RAM
256 color SVGA (640x480)
Sound Blaster 8-bit or compatible
2X CD-ROM
RECOMMENDED
Pentium 166
32MB RAM
Sound Blaster 16-bit or compatible
4X CD-ROMs
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