10 Video Games That Let You Get Away With Being An Absolute Dick

3. Postal 2

There's an entire subgenre of video games devoted to allowing players to harness their id and act out every violent, despicable impulse they've ever had.

And though the undeniable king of the genre is Grand Theft Auto, there's one game which makes GTA's rampage of carnage seem positively reasonable - and that's Postal 2.

Postal 2 may as well be called "A**hole Simulator," given that it actively encourages players to live out every twisted, puerile fantasy they can possibly come up with, despite the game's responsibility-deflecting tagline, "Remember, it's only as violent as you are!"

You can taze innocent people until they urinate themselves, piss on them yourself, set them on fire, or just cut to the chase and straight-up shoot them to death.

Elsewhere you can murder and brutalise animals, cause an elephant stampede, murder Gary freaking Coleman, and in the interest of equal opportunity dickishness, even invade the offices of developers Running with Scissors themselves and start murdering the employees.

Though it's clear that Postal 2's world is a hellscape full of reprobates, that does little to disguise the fact that the Postal Dude is one of the most repugnant characters in video game history - and that's exactly the point.