Parents, politicians and religious leaders who say Rockstar Games’ best-selling “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City” video game crosses lines of decency and good taste with excessive violence, sex and drugs will be just as unhappy, if not more so, with “Postal 2.”

Sequel to 1998’s Postal. The game postulated that the stresses of suburban life can sometimes push people over the edge and turn normal citizens into reckless maniacs. In this case, you played the part of the maniac. The same development team returned with a sequel, this time cast in the form of a first-person shooter. Set in a fictional small southern Arizona mining town called Paradise, Postal 2 opens the doors even wider and renders a living, breathing world for the player. Players’ interactions with the world determine how its citizens respond. Lots of bystanders and completely explorable environments attempt to give a sense of real world interaction.

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