10 Video Games We All Played WAY Too Young

6. Postal 2

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If Resident Evil was a little before your time perhaps you were a kid who grew up with access to Postal 2, a game which follows a protagonist known only as “Postal Dude” as he, well, goes postal.

Kids probably didn’t pick up on just how brutal the game was at the time because pew-pewing everything in sight was just way too fun. The game is ultraviolent and ups the ante from its predecessor by being played from a first-person perspective as opposed to the isometric view of the original. The gore is rampant, you can tack a cat onto your gun to make a really disturbing silencer, and use ‘health pipes’ which is exactly what you think it is. Dismemberments are a dime a dozen and there are so many different weapons you can pick up to cause carnage.

Postal 2 is still a top competitor for levels of blood, vomit, and other bodily fluids in a video game even today so you can imagine the horrified parents. Especially that one billboard that said ‘Hey kids, your parents are going to die.’

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Jess has been a journalist and content creator in the games industry for over 15 years and has been WhatCulture's resident Australian import and sorry cop since 2020, upping the quotient of swearing and apologising in WhatCulture Gaming's annual blooper videos considerably. She previously worked at GameSpot for 10 years, most notably hosting GameSpot News in addition to E3 live shows, and PAX panels. She regularly livestreams a variety of games on her 'jessmcdonell' YouTube and Twitch channels and hosts the 'Do It On The Day' podcast. She has won awards for her news and feature work in gaming as well as an accolade for her comedic writing (likely an admin error). She can be found on X at @jessmcdonell and Instagram at @jessicamcdonell sharing her current videogame fixations, industry insights, and videos of her cat, Karma.