Postal for the holidays, delivers Fudge
Running With Scissors (RWS) CEO Vince Desi doesn't care if you were naughty or nice - he just wants everybody to share in (read "buy") some Postal Holiday Fudge.
The inscrutable master of drawing-the-spotlight with not much more than a hackneyed game steeped in wild controversy, RWS' Mouthpiece in Chief won't let the b-grade game slide off the S.O.A.P. (Senators On A Platform) radar for very long. The Postal franchise is notorious/celebrated for its black-comedy approach to first-person shooter (FPS) gameplay. Its riddled with profanity, racial slurs and toilet violence (you add a silencer to your gun by mounting a cat on it using a specific orifice); as politically-incorrect as it gets. As such, Postal is a perennial target of parent groups and the uneducated litigators acting under the assumption that Postal is indicative of all shooting games, while it's actually a calculated aberrant that sees a spike in sales every time the media mentions the controversial title, which is one of the better and longest running inside jokes in the industry - all the more funny because the games are actually quite clunky, derivative and visually unremarkable.
Not to miss out on the holiday shopping frenzy, RWS has released the entire franchise as a single "special edition" called the Postal Fudge Pack containing the original 1997 game, Postal, plus the sequel, Postal 2, the multiplayer-component (added later) called Postal 2: Share the Pain and the latest expansion packs Apocalypse Weekend, Eternal Damnation and A Week in Paradise.
"What would Christmas be without Fudge?" Desi asked rhetorically.
The Postal Fudge Pack is available as a Windows/Linux/Mac hybrid DVD at
www.gopostal.com.