Eternal Damnation is a total-conversion for Postal 2, specifically the Share the Pain expansion. The game boasts improved gore, new weapons not seen in vanilla (and a few making it into the actual game), and a original plotline.
The game follows the Unscrupulous Hero John Murray. Having been institutionalized for killing someone for attacking his girlfriend, Lorie Heath, he escapes once the asylum gets into a riot, with the staff and other patients trying to kill him. Once he gets out, he tries to reunite with his girlfriend, only to discover that things aren't going very good...
The game would be added into the Fudge Pack, having its own disc. In 2022, a port for the Steam version of Postal 2 was released, no longer needing the old versions to run.
Tropes in this game mod include:
- Adaptational Nice Guy: The rednecks. In Postal 2, they try to rape the Postal Dude and force him in a gimp suit, try to kill him over taking their favorite Christmas tree, and make dogs and cats wear gimp suits and make them part of their harem. Here, they're much more friendly towards John and try to defend him from the zombie outbreak, even showing concern for his well-being.
- Bittersweet Ending: Despite John fighting off the undead and demons, Lorie is killed by John due to her demonic possession. John, heartbroken, kills himself to be with her in Hell.
- Bloodier and Gorier: The game has even more gore than vanilla, as heads explode more often.
- The Cameo:
- Rick Hunter, the voice actor for the Postal Dude, makes a brief cameo as a newsman on a TV.
- John Murray himself appears in Paradise Lost, the DLC for Postal 2. In it, he's in one of the patient rooms in the asylum when searching for air conditioner parts.
- Darker and Edgier: The mod is much darker than Postal 2, as while the vanilla game was also violent, it was for Black Comedy than anything else. Eternal Damnation plays the violence for horror and follows a serious storyline, even tackling serious subject matters.
- Disk One Nuke: In the Steam port, you get the katana very early in the game by killing a butcher wielding it in the apartment escape level. The katana is a very powerful weapon, it can rapidly slash groups and has an alt-fire that smashes zombie's heads like paste.
- Obligatory Swearing: While the vanilla game is more than willing to use heavy profanities often, it's even more noticeable here. John in particular swears like a sailor often.
- Pedophile Priest: Lorie was supposedly molested by one, except not, as Father Winston was actually trying to exorcise a demon from Lorie.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: When escaping the police and burglars in Lorie's apartment, John jumps out of the window and into a dumpster... and then ends up in the hospital due to the injuries from the fall. Trash bags are better to land on than asphalt, but they aren't soft enough to let you just walk off a big fall.
- Zombie Apocalypse: What happens to Hasselridge, which ends up being even worse than the outbreak in Paradise.
