The voice of Claptrap becomes the voice of Pisstrap in Postal 2's surprisingly big 20th Anniversary Update
Postal 2 is a notoriously bad videogame. Some people liked it when it launched back in 2003: PC Gamer, according to a Metacritic(opens in new tab) roundup, scored it 79%, calling it «a nonstop tour de force of insulting insanity.» Computer Gaming World, on the other hand, handily summed up the more common consensus, rating it a flat 0 and declaring that «until someone boxes up syphilis and tries to sell it at retail, Postal 2 is the worst product ever foisted upon consumers.»
The situation is somehow clearer yet more confusing on Steam(opens in new tab), where Postal 2 has amassed an «overwhelmingly positive» rating across more than 71,000 user reviews. Irony is obviously a factor in that, with user reviews like «better than Cyberpunk» and «you can piss on people,» which is doable when a game is regularly available for $1 (and sometimes free), as is the case here. Still, that's a lot of people who own Postal 2, and according to Steam Charts(opens in new tab) it's put up better player numbers over the past 12 months than Marvel's Avengers(opens in new tab).
That may in part be why, 20 years after Postal 2 first came out, developer Running With Scissors has released a new update creatively entitled the 20th Anniversary Update. And it's not just a handful of minor fixes and tweaks: This is a significant reworking of the game that incorporates the fan-made xPatch(opens in new tab), improves Steam Deck compatibility (for the record, Postal 2 is rated as «playable» on Steam Deck), adds the Paradise Lost expansion as a new game mode, «Ludicrous» difficulty, and something called the Cat Launcher «as a cheat-only weapon.»
Perhaps the most Postal-esque addition to the update is the addition of David Eddings, the original voice of
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