The camera follows the head as it rolls along the ground, allowing you to get a good look at the adversaries and their formations. For one, you can remove Stubb’s head and use it as a bowling ball. Using an army of mindless minions, you now have all that’s needed to unleash chaos on unsuspecting citizens.Īside from the usual shenanigans that you’d likely expect from a zombie game, there were a couple of odd additional mechanics that are well worth checking out. Once enemies have left the plane of the living, they then become undead recruits, attacking anyone with functional brainwaves. Standard open-ended combat plays out with Stubbs either beating enemies to death or gaining a little gray matter sustenance. The gameplay itself is somewhat on the pedestrian side, but does mix in some variety to keep things fresh from time to time. It’s up to you to bring that dream to fruition, even though he hasn’t slept in over 20 years. Stubbs is hellbent on destroying the city of Punchbowl, Pennsylvania, and reunite with his still-living significant other, Maggie. It takes place in a futuristic version of 1959, where everything mirrors what you’d expect to see in a classic sitcom, with a little bit of bloodshed sprinkled in for obvious reasons. Call me cynical, but despite it running like dream on my rig, early on in the playthrough my “cash grab” Spidey-senses were buzzing off the damn charts.įor the uninitiated, the world of Stubbs the Zombie is very odd, to say the least. Instead, we’re being treated to nearly the identical experience that’s been available on PC since 2005, only now featuring resolution scaling options in the settings. Shit, calling it a remaster would likely qualify as false advertising. This is about as barebones a port as humanly possible.
You may have noticed that I referred to Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse as a re-release, as opposed to the typical remasters of the last few years. But after years of gathering dust on store shelves, can a simple repackaging be the spark of life this undead re-release has been looking for? In enters Wideload Games, answering this siren’s call with the brain-munching monstrosity know as Stubbs the Zombie. But there was one thing missing: an actual zombie protagonist. In that era, it felt like damn-near every title had an undead appearance.
Though it has been “all the rage,” for quite some time, it’s felt like forever since you could say that zombies were anywhere near the crutch they were in the mid-to-late 2000s. No, I’m not just some random cannibal, looking for his next fix.
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