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3. Cat Silencer - Postal 2

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2003’s Postal 2 might be the best entry in the controversial series, but that doesn’t mean it’s praiseworthy in a technical and/or traditional sense.

On the contrary, it doesn’t look or play especially well, and its loading times are notoriously lengthy. Thus, its chronicle of the “Postal Dude” carrying out mundane tasks in cartoonishly violent and imaginative ways plants it firmly in the “so bad, it’s good” camp.

That said, it’s got a ton of personality when it comes to how the main character carries out his carnage. In addition to your standard array of firearms and bombs, you get astoundingly bizarre add-ons such as the cat silencer.

Unsurprisingly, using it involves sticking the barrel of your shotgun or machine gun into the animal’s anus so that the bullets fly out of its mouth.

Of course, your feline friend makes several distressed sounds, and once the clip is emptied, the cat is launched at whatever the player wants (where it blows up on contact). If it hits a person, it’ll make them vomit, and occasionally, NPCs will giggle or commend you.

The cat silencer became so popular that it was even included in Uwe Boll’s infamous 2007 Postal film adaptation.

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