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Postal 2: How a Controversial FPS Won Over Players While Critics Stayed Away

Postal 2 launched in 2003 to scathing critic reviews but found a devoted audience that kept the game alive for over a decade. The 31-point gap between its Metacritic user score of 81 and critic score of 50 tells a story about what happens when a game leans fully into its own chaotic identity.