Reviews

Yes you really are seeing something quite extraordinary…Postman Pat of all people had his own game! And after this he had two sequels as well! I had the second and third ones growing up but the first one alluded me throughout my childhood and maybe that's why I can't seem to enjoy it.

The game basically gives you one hour to drive around delivering parcels and latter letters, the fun part of the game being you drive around for 20 bleeding minutes lost in the middle of nowhere looking for the residence of a Miss Hubbard. Plus it's pretty slow and the van moves at the same speed even whilst driving backwards.

The game gives you one hour but frankly you'll be lucky to last more than 15 minutes. Not a game I'd relish playing again.

Postman Pat is a curious hybrid of Paperboy and an arcade adventure - with the lasting appeal of neither.

To begin with, Pat must deliver letters into the flashing mailboxes - so far so Paperboy. The action is viewed from above and the driving controls are dubious, to say the least. I found it easier to navigate Greendale backwards.

After succeeding in his task, and returning to the Post Office (for a frankly disturbing "cup of tea" sequence), Pat is roped into various other chores such as delivering parcels, messages and er.. catching sheep. The latter event occurs on a vilely rendered field area that you would never find without navigating the entire map and noticing a mysterious side lane that serves no other purpose.

All in all, I regret my time spent in Greendale. It's yet another Alternative licensed game with few redeeming features.

The first of Alternative Software's Postman Pat trilogy, and this couldn't have started on a worse note. Apparently, Pat has drive his van to deliver things to different people, which sounds just how a Postman Pat game should be played, but you do so on the world's slowest and rockiest van. It's like the van is driving on four flat tyres with the way it's rocking so much as it moves. You have one hour to complete your tasks, it might actually take you one hour to do one task let alone all of them. Oh and good luck trying to find who you are meant to be looking for, because you will most likely get lost, get stuck or end up back to where you began. And that was the EASY game, I'd hate to play this in difficult mode now, but thankfully I'm not going to. I can't believe I'm saying this, but it's even worse than the Trail Game.