Postal 3 Is Fixed! But at What Cost... 

It's less like they "fixed" Postal 3 and more like they "stabilized" it. Like imagine your house caught on fire, and the fire was finally put out, but the building is still crispy and covered in soot. Sure, you can still live in it, but... it still sucks. Still, big props to Zoom for actually caring and polishing this turd.

The Dude's voice is basically the only part of Postal 3 that RWS didn't disown. They brought Corey back both in Paradise Lost and as one of the voice options in Postal 4.

What's even funnier is that this game is even more shitty in Russia because it was completely voiced by one dude.

From what I understand, Rampage is based on an early draft of the Postal movie, when it was going to be a Postal 1 movie instead of a Postal 2 movie.

I wouldn't call Akella the biggest Russian game company at the time. It was in the big four, but the biggest? Nah. That'd probably be 1C, which both published higher profile foreign games AND had less infamous original titles produced, like the 2008 King's Bounty reboot series and Space Rangers. Akella would probably be #2 or 3.

The collectors edition of postal 3 came with a dvd called “the making of postal 3” which is 1 hour documentary explaining the development it’s on RU-vid with English subtitles if your interested Also RWS were pretty ambitious with what they wanted and the design doc (which is 200 pages btw) And you do gotta remember RWS were the people who wanted the karma system, multiple paths and also wanted the weird filter on the screen during cutscenes and also wrote the crappy story and humor They should still also be held accountable for this

Basically, ZOOM Platform fixed this game without receiving any sort of credit. It's a shame that this game always gets a bad rap because of the original developers' negligence on delivering the stuff when it was ready without having to rush it. Now that ZOOM has the game fixed, everyone wants a piece of the pie and yet none of them have the title as complete as ZOOM does, Steam included. I hope those who get the complete copy warm up to this game. Honestly, it was never all that bad.

Funny tale about the movie is that it’s actually what got me into the game series. I was at a yard sale and they had the unrated version and it had Postal 2 with it along with extra content like where Boll fought some critics in a ring. I was really surprised to see J.K Simmons, Verne Troyer and Chris Spencer among others in that movie.

It was "Hornio Brothers", the Ron Jemery mario movie

man that sepia and film grain effect look like someone just put on some reshade shaders and called it a day

The ZOOM Platform version looked better than the Steam one to me. Their release is the most complete you'll find!

rampage was actually written during the production of the postal movie but the script wasnt used as boll wanted to make a comedy despite the fact everybody clearly didnt want that shit

Postal 4 made the game non- Canon basically 😅

Really nice video, Dude. And an amazing job that Zoom Platform have done on fixing it. I really need to play this game!

I played Postal 3 when it was still broken, and I just gave up and cheated. I understand your opinion of the Postal movie and (pronounced "OOHvah") Boll's movies in general, but I'm one of those that just love it. Glad to see you back in action and covering good stuff!

Oh man, Akella dumped a lot of money into Postal 3 cause I remember tons of promo material in russian game magazines at the time of the development/release. The first project of these developers was actually a cancelled ps2 project called Axel Rage. It was kinda a big deal at the time for a russian company to make a console game. Thanks to your video, I think this is the first time in like 20 years I thought about this game. How time flies...

fan is remaking postal 3 in postal 2.

Postal 3 was definitely a worked on game of all time.

Honestly, Corkscrew Rules is always good content to talk about. It's spectacularly terrible, and makes you appreciate the original Postal 2 about as much as Postal 3 does.

Realize were talking Postal 3 but Zoom is miles better than Steam.

Postal 4 is the new Postal 3.

There are things to like in Postal 3, and sometimes it's even a bit fun. But my god, it makes you work for those moments.

Bro i was waiting for the scream all the video, you cant bait me like that man

Played Postal 3 when it came out. Just played Postal 4 after seeing the 1.3 update (I'm on friday). Although RWS may hate 3, it has more of a better story, interaction, and ultimately better NPC response system then 4 does. The only thing that Postal 4 has somewhat right is the combat and even that has issues. Call Vince and Mike so that they can burn me at the stake, but Akella ironically did a better job. Postal 3 is a few bug fixes from being a good successor game in my opinion.

Was kind of confused for a moment, turns out I was confusing this with the second game - I seem to have imagined another 2d Postal game after the first one. (So this would have been Postal 4.)

Even if Postal 3 is fixed, we still don't talk about it

I only play the real postal 3 Paradise Lost the postal 2 DLC which is my favorite postal game of all time. I fucking love that game I do love the fact that Running With Scissors finally made postal 3 available to purchase on steam. Running With Scissors is my favorite video game company outside of a couple others but they're mainly the my favorite. Because of how they treat their old games and how they treat their fans

Akella CEO explained in the "making of" documentary that because of the recession and the fact that they were also working on Swashbucklers at the time they had given Postal 3 into the hands of their D-list team (A-C were working on Swashbucklers). Take that with a grain of salt tho, he looked like a russian mobster who is also a rock musician. While I agree that Postal 3 would've probably sucked anyway, the early development footage looked somewhat promissing. So maybe it would've been atleast somewhat fun.

I cant even manage to play it for more then 1 hour after I bought it now its just in my library to collect all the games

I was so scared of the random scream that I couldnt concentrade on the rest of the video

postal 3 isn't bad as people say it was, of course the terrible drm sucked but having Steve Wik write it and it not trying to copy what made postal 2 successful (like what postal 4 did). I blame people like civvie who will dog on postal 3 and then promote postal 4 ignoring all the red flags it had durring early access.

I, too, regret everything...

Ok, falling down review when? Love that movie

Good. Now if we can redesign the entire game.

CDROM is look it from a wrong angel. It is Gopnikafied vision of how the Postal should sound, feel and play like. By playing P3 you are experiencing the indepth zeigaist of how Russians saw Postal 1 and 2. Also OST is 10/10.

Between playing some of 2023 broken games and Postal III I better inhale some Phenty and go on with second option.

5:23 gears of war trailer with sappy music was parodied by everyone including battlefield bad company 2

Postal 3 is just a hard experience to go through. Everything feels rush and unfinished, and while gunplay can be fun, it's only capable with cerain weapons as the targeting system is awful. You have to work around the target reticule in order to get a handle on how to shoot with certain weapons.

your Postal movie that's like Falling Down is called God Bless America.

Not gonna lie, this update is actually going to make me buy the zoom Postal III. Good "fix" or not, I'm actually really excited to fell inclined to finally play this game myself

1:05 that rhino actually looks awesome I wanna play that part

Best Postal game next to Postal 1. So glad it's back up.

At least with the benefit of hindsight we can now conclude that Postal 4 showed us that it wasn't just Akela that was the problem when it came to quality.

I was one of the suckers who bought postal 3 at launch, I heard about it, I had fond memories of fun in postal 2, and was excited. I was sad when it was delayed, but waited patiently, then it came out. I had some fun, then suddenly I got crash after crash... and at one point couldnt play anymore, and I got warnings about the game containing virus. So I deleted and abandon it. Was sad I never got to finish it. And now, thanks to your video, I got a way to play it again, thanks to Zoom fixing it to be playable at least. I know the game is suppose to be bad.. and it is... but its still somewhat enjoyable, due to either nostalgia, or maybe that some missions are fun with how they just let you blast away and go postal. Anyway, thanks for making me aware of that I didnt have to give up on playing this game again, and maybe I can get to finish it this time. \../

Then how did one aquire a steam key for the game via the rws store not a month ago?

I saw postal 3 on steam a couple days ago and I insta buyed it

23:35 you know... thats just... weirdly ironic

"im sure postal 3 have fans" ah yes, the 3 of them

23:12 Kind of bald of that guy to push the blame of him finishing his job scuffed on entire country.

Is there a first person view mode? That would be the deal breaker or not for me.

This is the closest thing we can get to a Postal 3 remake so i am complaining

My favorite part is your character can be a legitimate deranged mofo in 100% of the previous games and the games after and the dude is supposed to be trailer trash so the "health" pipes is kinda expected for a health kit

p.s. Can't wait for Postal 4 Co-Op update! Duuude!!! Thank you Sir for doing that dirty job!

Thanks for the review, I was wondering if you ever get time can you do a review on this 2001 ps2 game called Extermination. It was considered as the first survival horror game released for ps2. It’s kinda like a mix between John Carpenters the thing and resident evil.

Need a pdf of that Postal 3 book

Corkscrew rules has boobs and cucumbers. That makes it a pretty good game.

For a 2011 game. It actually look better then 4...... How

Is it worth buying?

Well despite Postal 3 actually being somewhat playable now. There's fan project still currently going under development called "Catharsis reborn" And it's pretty ambitious to say the least, and it looks to be the Postal 3 we never got.

I remember when this game came out. I got my first somewhat powerful PC back then with a i7 2600 and a GTX 560Ti, fall 2011. I remember looking at screenshots and being somewhat impressed and having played Postal 2 I was even more inclined to get it. Luckily for me I guess, there was some issues with the release of the game here in Germany, so I guess I dodged a bullet and saved some cash lol EDIT: 9:48 lmfao this is some classic postal gold though gotta admit. If only they kept the absurd punchlines and made the game actually sound from a gameplay perspective

my sense of humour is so bad that I died laughing at the "This is not france" joke. The whole game is questionable for its humour, but that joke, that I didn even know was in this game until now had me rolling.

The only fix this game can receive is a full scale remake by RWS

Can Zoom Platform store fix Boiling Point Road to Hell bugs? 😢 Why the good games can't get fixed but Postal 3 of all things does 😞

This will work in the uk right?

the only good thing in this game is that the town looks much better than the town in postal 4 propably because it was made on the source engine, but still there is a project to restore the hub sections that were cut and it looks more impressive than the postal 4 environments. Its sad because not only this game was never finished but back then they made much better environments than modern games. Also bloodryane 1 scene is more fappable.

postal 3 is till miles better than Postal 4. Also "Trash masters" were making the engine for P3, and RWS were writing it and designing quests.

If you think about it, postal 3 could have been postal 4

11:38 *_PRAWO TO JA HAHAHAHA_*

aight that's good you got a sub

Yoo CD-ROM Fossil! Your vid is boomin!

I didn't played Postal 3 back in the days but trying to play it few years ago didn't go well. Like, after that section with the red button game just simply freezes dead and does not work since then. So yeah, I can't even play this f-cking game. And yes, I tried those fixes that people made for this game, but they didn't helped. But I think that it is good that I didn't played it because, judging from your video this game is just straight up sucks balls. And the fact that someone is like selling it for the real money is dumb right away. Because, this game deserves a freaking torrent edition, or some trashy section on my abandonware. I'm not joking. Cause, why somebody would sell such a bad game is beyond my understanding. Even with the fixes, this game does not worth any money at all. Even if zoom is selling it for the real money is too much. They just better give it for free to people to not embarrass themselves.

22:58 through arse

Hey, dont say that about Uwe. The Postal movie is pretty awesome!

Since there’s so much hate towards postal 3-4 ima just say I like all of them I still pay the first one from 1997

Honestly, something about this game looks and feels more "right" than the Postal 4 that's being developed now. This actually feels like it was made by a professional studio. It's glitchy and was planned badly when you compare it to large scale games, but when you compare it to Postal 4, it's actually very embarrassing that RWS have alienated this game and made so much fun of it and then went on to develop an even lesser game, with superior technology.

HYPE

waaaay not the biggest buka single-handedly turned pirate paradise into a market 1c was backed by big office cash akella was third and it's a publisher with very few inhouse games

So its saints row? Without the gang?

At least the soundtrack is pretty good

"Post modernist and, some might even say, deconstructivist"... Paging the department of redundancy department

I have a soft spot for mediocre third person shooters with gore systems, I might actually play this now that they fixed bugs.

Gotta give RWS Credit for having Corey voice the Postal Dude as the Main Postal Dude in Brain Damaged (Hella Recommend it) and Postal 4 as a Playable Postal Dude. Also, The max payne movie is the worst video game movie ever Made, i wont Tell anything, but you might Block me After telling you that Movie exist.

Postal 3 but it's less worse.

You know a games bad when even the devs of the franchise beg you not to play it

I messeged RWS a while back on Twitter, before this ever happened. I suggested they should put it for sale for 8ish dollars to prevent cd resale. They said "We dont give a fuck, its not our game." Cut to present day...

I do gotta say this since it is something I've been thinking for a while, if postal 3 had a workshop or open source code, it might have been a great postal game, just imagine if the community managed to create better and more open maps, take advantage of the potential of the source engine and stuff like that, it would have been great. Postal 2 isn't exactly as comfortable to mod and the graphics definitely aged like milk (it isn't to say that the game is bad) so having 3 be the most customizable one would have been really cool, besides the whole aesthetic and design has aged really well, this is my favorite Dude design out of all, and the whole game definitely looks way better than Postal 4 with all those asset flips. Postal 3 had a great potential that got wasted and thrown away without a single chance to be fixed even by the community, and it's a shame because I can tell that some game's communities are willing to go through the hustle to fix a boring and unplayable game, like Deadly premonition 1 or Blood 2 the chosen, I would have loved to play Postal 3 with a similar concept as 2.

sucks im getting this video a few days after getting postal 3 on steam lol, i had to install some mods to fix it and it still doesnt work. good thing im a fan of terrible video games HAHA i didnt pay for the game myself luckily, being an artist and taking commissions pays off

"some sembelence of freedom" I don't remember feeling that when I played this trash heap.

Can you really fix something that is broken in every aspect?

the problem with Postal 3 is how on the surface it looks like a decent game. sure it's not first person like P2, but they made sure to pay attention to the Dude's animations. they flow nicely, they blend properly, it looks good. hell, even the art style and execution of the materials are good, like Postal 3 LOOKS good, this art style suits Postal way better than Postal 2's, it's cartoony, it's stylized but it still looks kinda grounded in reality which is the perfect blend for a satirical game. sounds are kinda okay too, over the top gun sounds and all. it's just that .. yeah, we got this shitty storyline and mechanics that go against what defined Postal as a franchise. I really wish we would get a reverse engineering or an SDK job so we could develop stuff for it, and make a better Postal 3 experience with proper free roam

Sadly these updates are still not on the Steam version

I know someone who actually own the collector's edition of Postal 3. Huh! What a loser.... It was me.

So the phrase on 22:51 was a joke about that everything in Russia made through the ass. Or vagina, there is no difference - it means bad quality. Also hearing this I find it kinda interesting to make a translation of the artbook, so if you can share PDF with me I can try it

I preordered this game... In Russia we have a lot of third party keys stores, i know that overseas you guys have like.... 2 or so... and i know only CDKeys. But here we have like 50 at least and at least 10 of those are completely legit. Anyway, i bought this game in one of the legit stores, and i got a torrent link with legit ISO of the game, and key to install it XD it was one of the weirdest things ever but it worked. I just checked, i cant download it anymore, it doesnt exist on the website, so basically the game i bought in 2011 vanished XD No link, no key XD And it had a DLC called "Gamathrower", i dont know if it was exclusive to the store, cause store called "Gama-Gama"...

AAAAARGH!!!

Postal 3??

The Zoom Version is the best and most complete and so is the Your Mom's box set that you can only get on Zoom. Postal 2 Zoom's version is the most complete version unlike steams or Gag's (GOG)

Postal 3 is the best

Wow it's patched? Oh wait, the RWS did that yeh. Actually i dunno who did the patch.

PLEASE cover corkscrew!!!