Uwe Boll paid dev to appear in Postal 3

By Robert Purchese Published 9 June, 2009

"You can have fun with him."

Developer Running with Scissors has revealed German film-maker Uwe Boll has paid to appear in Postal 3.

"Uwe Boll paid us to put him in the game," Vince Desi, RWS boss, told Eurogamer Germany. "We agreed when he licensed the movie rights."

Boll directed the atrocious big-screen adaptation of Postal last year, which was awarded an astounding 0 per cent from the New York Daily News, according to Metacritic.

"Uwe will be presented as himself and of course you can have fun with him, it's Postal!" said Desi.

"Over time my thoughts have changed about the movie and my personal feelings are a separate issue. My main complaint with the movie was that it was too long, and could have been edited down at least another 10 minutes, this would have greatly improved the tempo and helped with the humour.

"I like Uwe and consider him a friend, I don't agree with those who scream for his head, they should try to make a movie then they can criticise him," he added.

Boll has responded to outspoken critics by fighting them inside a boxing ring. He decked SomethingAwful's Rick "Lowtax" Kyanka and even offered-out Hollywood director Michael Bay.

Running with Scissors is currently working on Postal III for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. There's no date, despite early press-released promises of a late 2008 launch. We do know the third-person shooter will be built using the Source engine and aims to be "the sickest and craziest game ever".

All we've seen so far, however, is a marketing video from E3 that features girls in pants.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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  • MENTAL1ST Verified Senior Software Engineer, Picsel UK Ltd. #1 3 years ago

    Tawdry as I find the Running with Scissors publicity machine, Postal 2 was an interesting, innovative game concept that was let down only by the appalling area load times and weak implementation of their guns.

    Since they're bringing it out on the consoles, too, this time round, they might have been forced to increase their production values in those areas.

    I await Postal 3 with trepidation, but interest.

  • Ninja_Tino #2 3 years ago

    I don't agree with the 'try make a film before you diss one' ethos. I don't want his head but his films are terrible. Also, has Far Cry came out at all yet? I remember seeing a trailer ages ago.

  • Evolution #3 3 years ago

    Ah the old "see if you can do any better" defence... I've seen fan films that are better than anything shot by Uwe Boll. This guy couldn't direct Kevin Spacey.

  • Domovoi #4 3 years ago

    So you can't feel that Jackson Pollock's work sucks until you also make modern art? Yeah, that makes no sense.

  • zisssou #5 3 years ago

    Running with Scissors to be out of business by christmas

    Edited by 1 at 09/06/09 @ 14:54

  • mega7ech #6 3 years ago

    Uwe Boll = LOL

  • FHUTA #7 3 years ago

    as rubbish as his films are, Boll is very clever at financing and producing movies which seems to be what he loves doing so fair play to him.

    that and he deliberatly acts an idiot to get press inches to market his films and In the Name of the King was actually much more enjoyable than the Lord of the Rings rubbish.

  • dr_faulk #8 3 years ago

    I like Uwe Boll. There, I said it.

  • reelbigkris #9 3 years ago

    justifying someones actions with either a "See if you can do better" or wanting to fight people who disagree with them is the most childish thing i have ever seen. Uwe boll is an awful director and has massacred a few franchises. that being said, people watch them because they are pretty awful. rental sales of Uwe Boll's films must be good because myself and friends have rented his movies in because we either liked the video game or fancied a laugh. If i get the right to abuse a virtual Uwe Boll, i think i'll give it a rent!

  • TitusCrow #10 3 years ago

    if only he had done a film with claus kinski and they had a documentry crew filming it :) that would havw been worth seing.

    You know someday they will make a film about him, and it will more than likely be excellent. Ed wood style hehe.

  • smernicki #11 3 years ago

    Jackson Pollock's work sucks

    all art is subjective, you're entitled to your opinion


















    you're wrong though

  • Midnight_Raven #12 3 years ago

    FHUTA wrote:
    (...) In the Name of the King was actually much more enjoyable than the Lord of the Rings rubbish.

    You must be joking or stark raving mad.

    Ninja_Tino wrote:
    (...) Also, has Far Cry came out at all yet? (...)

    It has been available on DVD in German speaking countries for several weeks now.

  • LazyDan #13 3 years ago

    I don't make songs, but I can damn well call the Black Eyed Peas rubbish with some authority.

  • FHUTA #14 3 years ago

    @ Midnight Raven - I am actually serious, but it's mainly due to thinking the Lord of the Rings films are dire than thinking In the Name of the King is good. Although I like the old-fashioned Krull-esque no frills hokum of ITNOTK and the slightly insane casting.

    Nothing can redeem House of the Dead though - truly awful

  • smernicki #15 3 years ago

    I don't make songs, but I can damn well call the Black Eyed Peas rubbish with some authority.

    you've obviously not got that boom boom pow...

  • _LarZen_ #16 3 years ago

    This is a must buy... :D

  • smelly #17 3 years ago

    "justifying someones actions with either a "See if you can do better" or wanting to fight people who disagree with them is the most childish thing i have ever seen"


    Have you ever spent ages creating something, putting a lot of blood and sweat into it - spending a huge portion of your life making that thing. And then you finish it - only for clueless nerds on the internet with fuck all appreciation of how much went on in making that thing slag it off because they think they're somehow better than you?

    If you had - you'd understand why he wanted to fight them.

  • smelly #18 3 years ago

    PS : For some reason, when i first saw this headline.. I read uwe boll's name.. and for some reason mistook him to be vin deisel!

  • rogueJT #19 3 years ago


    That Postal movie is absolutely hilarious.

  • Kami #20 3 years ago

    Uwe Bollocks.

  • abcdecoy #21 3 years ago

    Postal was an awesome movie.

  • MrChuckles #22 3 years ago

    Dieselexia surely?

  • XdarXideX #23 3 years ago

    Uwe Boll needs to find some other ways to get attention. Making bad movies isn't even cutting it anymore.

  • MightyMouse #24 3 years ago

    @dr_faulk

    Agree entirely, I love Uwe Boll and his films. You don't have to think they're the most profound things in the world, but they are consistently fun imo, whereas there are a lot of big-budget hollywood films that are almost physically painful to sit through (I'm looking at you Eragon).

  • Genji #25 3 years ago

    In The Name of the King was bearable. Not particularly good, but I have seen far worse. I think that a lot of people who rag on Uwe Boll haven't actually seen most of his movies. He's just someone who is easy to make jokes about, and a bigger target because he makes mostly videogame adaptations.

    Yes, there are some absolute shockers in there, but not all of his movies deserve to be called travesties. And I don't think he deserves quite as much hate as he gets. He hasn't ruined any valuable gaming properties as far as I can see, and besides, there are far worse crimes than making a few shitty movies.

  • Evolution #26 3 years ago

    @Genji

    If the highest praise you can give a director is that one of their films was "bearable"...

    I've sat through Bloodrayne and Alone In The Dark, and I don't think I could take anything positive away from those films. They are awful in every fashion.

  • TheVoice #27 3 years ago

    I watched Postal a couple of weeks ago. Certainly wasn't anything special, but it really wasn't bad at all and was quite funny in places. Not awful, by any means, although I have no idea what the games are really about so I was watching it with an open mind.

    And for anyone who has seen it:
    "What is the difference between a duck?"

  • drxym #28 3 years ago

    Postal 2 was such a horrible experience I have to wonder who is looking forward to the next one.

  • funkateer #29 3 years ago

    His movies might not be quite Stanley Kubrick level, but I think Uwe Boll is one of the most awesome people in the movie industry.