Postal III is nearing completion

Forget what you've heard and read about Grand Theft Auto or Modern Warfare, there is probably no well-known franchises that has been near to be as contentious as the Postal series. Ever since the first game came out 1997, these shooters basically shocked at the expense of pretty much everything and everyone, and created massive furore.

* See also: Review: Postal 2

Over the years, nothing has been taboo for developer Running With Scissors, and we have seen the mocked everything from Muslims and gays to school firings and other extensive tragedies. It has created huge media coverage and even led to the games have been made illegal in both Australia and New Zealand.

Now the game site Joystiq beaten by a very quick chat with Vince Desi, who is the brains behind the concept, and he can tell that the game will be completed in Russia during these times. However, there is nothing to indicate that it will come out before the first quarter of next year.

There has been little new information to track the game after E3 in 2008, and many have assumed for the reason that the project has been shelved or simply discarded. That's what's not.

Already at that time it was a playable alpha version of the game, but it is uncertain how much of this is passed on to the finished product. At that time there were at least talking about doing things like milling around on Segway vehicles, using hand-held badgers as a weapon and to meet the film director Uwe Boll, who allegedly paid money to join the game as a bifigur.

What is known is certainly that the game takes place in the neighboring town of Paradise to his predecessor, called Catharsis, and for the first time in the style of a third-person shooters. It stands in contrast to the previous two games, which were respectively in isometric bird's eye view and first-person. But we manage that is still the main character icy Postal Dude in an ultra-violent sandbox world filled to the brim with wacky and controversial humor.

Now the game site Joystiq beaten by a very quick chat with Vince Desi, who is the brains behind the concept, and he can tell that the game will be completed in Russia during these times. However, there is nothing to indicate that it will come out before the first quarter of next year.

There has been little new information to track the game after E3 in 2008, and many have assumed for the reason that the project has been shelved or simply discarded. That's what's not.