I'd never heard of this game until this story broke out. Similar games have already been banned in the US when it was learned that they had been developed and pushed by White Supremacist groups as recruiting mechanisms.
In my opinion, the developer is either an idiot or has a hidden agenda.
=====From Yahoo News - Technology Section=====
Dutch Homosexual Fights to Ban Gay-Shooting Game
Thu Jan 23,12:04 PM ET Add Technology - Reuters to My Yahoo!
By Jana Sanchez
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch gay activist is fighting to outlaw the import of a U.S. computer game in which the player can shoot homosexuals, junkies, dogs and cats. Where's PETA stand in all this?
Henk Krol, editor of the leading Dutch gay newspaper, has asked prosecutors to start court proceedings and is lobbying parliamentarians to outlaw the game, called "Postal 2." Anybody heard of this? Its not on any store shelves here.
"It is disgusting. In the Netherlands we have anti-discrimination laws to protect people from discrimination based on sexual preference and that makes it easier to do something," Krol told Reuters on Thursday.
Postal 2, produced by Arizona-based Running with Scissors, is due to become available in the Netherlands in late March.
Vince Desi, who runs Running with Scissors, said the game did not discriminate against homosexuals.
"It's definitely not anti-gay. You know what? It's a game -- get over it," Desi told Reuters by telephone from Tucson. I disagree. Does this game include the ability to shoot other people, too, or just drug users and homosexuals?
Desi said the player can shoot gay people but does not have to do so, and does not win any points for shooting anyone.
"In the game, the player plays the role of a character called The Postal Dude. He lives in a town where there are all kinds of people, white, black, skinny, fat, straight and gay. You can play the game in a passive role without killing anyone," Desi said. Right, but do you really expect players to play it that way?
"We are not political," he added.
POSTAL BANNED IN AUSTRALIA
Postal 2 is a new version of the firm's earlier game "Postal." That game has been banned in Australia, but Krol said it was widely sold in Dutch toy stores.
The target of that game was to eliminate hostile elements and unarmed civilians in city streets, parks and suburbs using a variety of weapons. The player could exit the game by "committing suicide."
Krol says he is not certain the authorities will be able to prevent Dutch residents from buying the game from the company's Web site, but hopes his campaign to prevent it being sold in toy stores will make buyers aware of the game's content. His approach is sound - if someone is going to buy it off the Internet, then the presumption is that they would have a credit card, and if they have a credit card, then they have a job and/or a credit history, which would eliminate the ability for children to buy it for themselves and would make the game accessible to adults, but less accessible to kids.
"A lot of these games are being bought by parents and grandparents and one of our goals is to get people to understand what they are buying," Krol said. That's what parental warnings are for. Kids can't get it, and parents can screen what's given to the kids.
Desi said he did not believe a ban on selling the game in the Netherlands would apply to Internet sales.
"I don't think anything would prevent people from buying it on the Internet," he said. Customs laws would. Ask any porno king who's tried to sell internationally.
