Building comparison
head to head
Far Cry 2vsPostal 2
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is variance, and it is a single point.
Far Cry 2
Execution · Practiced Mastery
A gritty African shooter where systemic chaos roughens every firefight.
Postal 2
Execution · Twitch Chaos
An open-world provocation sandbox where escalating NPC reactions reward creative routing more than precise gunplay.
Far Cry 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Postal 2 leans Execution (Twitch Chaos).
Far Cry 2Postal 2
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 6
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Far Cry 2
Gunplay with degrading, jamming weapons
Postal 2
First-person gunplay and melee require moderate aim under escalating chaos
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Far Cry 2
Mercenary AI is mappable
Postal 2
NPCs react to player actions but follow scripted response trees
Variance3 vs 4
Postal 2 leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Far Cry 2
Malaria, jams, and fire spread inject chaos
Postal 2
NPC crowd reactions and police escalation introduce real run variability
Optimization5 vs 4
Far Cry 2 leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Far Cry 2
Loadout and route planning across hostile terrain
Postal 2
Errand routing and weapon selection provide a shallow planning layer
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.