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dkirschner's Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse (PC)

[September 12, 2011 07:56:43 AM]

I got real bored of this one. It's not bad...just old I think. Maybe if I'd played this 6 years ago when it came out I would have been more impressed. It uses the old Halo engine, which you can definitely tell in the vehicle portions because they have terrible handling.

In Stubbs the Zombie you play as Stubbs the zombie.

Your entire objective is to eat brains.

While the setting is neat (futuristic 1950s "city of the future"), the characters are funny, and there are some cool weapons, it doesn't stop the fact that all you do is eat brains. There are some amusing brain-eating animations, including my favorite, which is eating brains in front of a mirror so you can watch yourself eat.

The victims scream and yell silly things, a very light-hearted approach to a zombie game. But...you just eat brains and run through corridors and down streets, eating more brains along the way. Sometimes you have to possess someone with your idle hand, at which point you control them (a cop with a pistol or whoever).

There are a few unique sequences in the game that, if there were more of them, I may have stuck around. I played at least through the dance-off at the end of Ch. 3 or 4. You get arrested and the police chief says he is going to 'dance all over your grave.' After you brain-eat your way through the police HQ, you get to the chief, and indeed, he challenges you to a dance-off. It is bizarre, and awesome. It's just a Simon Says game, but it's so ridiculous and accompanied by some modern covers of classic oldies (the soundtrack is cool!).

So yeah, this game's been on my list for years and years, and I finally buy it and play and don't even make it 2 hours before getting bored. Sad!