Reviews

A very unique if slightly strange game.

You play a postman. To progress you have to post each days letters. Thats it really.

Of course thats not mentioning the fact that your van talks to you like Kit from knightrider. You can upgrade your Postman Pat-esque van with "super pursuit mode" and fit various weapon systems with which you can dispatch the wandering baddies that for some unknown reason don't like you posting letters.

Near the end of each day there is the far too tempting to refuse pub "The Grapes" where if you enter it you become intoxicated and a policeman appears in front of your van leaving you with daring choice.

Overall its a subtly creative game with a very dry sense of humour.

I was always unamused with this game, this simply isn't a lot to it apart from the novelty bits like killing a policeman which ends your game. I suppose it'll keep you interesting for a short time but not for much more than that.

by Reptile Industries Ltd (David McGee, John Robinson)

You're in a future dystopic society, which is crumbling after clashes and revolutions unleashed by an oil crisis, and the streets are not so safe anymore, but you must deliver the post, no matter what.
There are many spiteful persons and prowlers yielding clubs waiting only for you to leave your van and smash your teeth. In short, we're in the present world.

Fumbling with the keys, or just deciding to read the instructions, you'll discover how to get in your bright red van, to pick up objects and do everything you need to do. That purple bomb lying on the road may result quite helpful to start your adventure in the letter delivering sector. While walking near the van and pressing the fire key, some icons will appear in the lower part of the screen, letting you chose to climb in or else. While you're in, you can select the BOV icon, which enables you to check what items you picked up and store them in the Back Of the Van, or activate them, making new icons appear. They can be bags of letters, or WEAPONS or a SUPER ENGINE to make you go faster, and you really need that if you don't want to die of boredom, because the van normally procedes at man's speed. Remember that the postboxes are very solid and you may need something very strong to open them. Once you gather some sacks, you can drop them at the Sorting Office, and pick up the letters to be delivered at the addresses that will be highlighted at the bottomest of your informative panel.

To say the truth, the most dangerous thing in the game doesn't seem to be the thugs populating the streets, but the policemen, which are quite stupidly inclined to walk in front of your van and be killed. Your aboard computer, whose name is S.K.I.T. and which calls you Michael, and I bet you resemble a certain David Hasselhoff], will then communicate that "you've killed an innocent man", a message that strangely don't appear when you run over ordinary citizens, so the philosophy of the game seems to be that all are probably guilty until the contrary is proven, and only the policemen are genuinely innocent. Which doesn't make their life particulary valuable nonetheless, because when you kill one, you are punished with just a 4 points penalty on your driving licence, but these are hard times, so cops death must be common and expected.
But you accumulate 12 points penalty on your driving licence and your career is over.
Of course, as in every postal service vehicle, you can activate a turret on your van and shoot the passersby.
3,5/5