A doctor gives a report on the protagonist's mental state, suggesting that the stress of urban life may have caused him to ' go postal', over images of a hellish corridor, the protagonist curled up in the fetal position in his cell, a close-up of his face (albeit covered by bindings) and the door to his cell, Cell 593.

He then has a mental breakdown and wakes up to find himself in a mental asylum.

During the progress of the game, a voice in the protagonist's head (voiced by Rick Hunter) can be heard taunting his victims.Īfter massacring the Air Force Base, he is then shown trying to massacre an elementary school, however, his weapons have no effect.

He fights his way to the Air Force Base through various areas. He believes that the United States Air Force is releasing poison gas in his town and only he is unaffected. The game follows a man who has been evicted from his home. Even if the player is dead, they may still exit the level as long as the required number of hostiles have been killed. Only then the exit to the next level is activated.

Contrary to first-person shooters, however, the goal is not to stay alive and just reach the next level, but to kill a given percentage of the armed NPCs on the map.

Although it serves no practical purpose, the player can conceal their weapons by pressing the tilde key. The default weapon is a weak machine gun with unlimited ammo.

There are eight weapon slots, each with a fixed amount of maximum ammo.

The player, therefore, must always be aware of the direction the character is facing, which can be difficult to some players on the isometric maps.

Movement is always relative to the orientation of the player character (named 'The Postal Dude').

Gameplay and interface are similar to first-person shooters of the time in most, but not on all counts: Postal is a 3D shooter with mainly isometric, but also some top-down levels featuring hand-painted backgrounds.

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