Customer Reviews

Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse

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I accidentally bought this not knowing it would not run well at all on an Intel Mac. My mistake, don't do the same!

I picked this game (copyright 2005) at the Apple store in the US. I brought back to Saudi Arabia and slapped it into my 2007 20'' iMac. It will not load. So I wrote to customer service. They told me that the game does not work on new iMacs with the x1600 video card. I did not see that in the system requirements. What other Macs will it not work on? Seems the only way to tell is to buy it and hope.

All in all, it is an older game and is now being dumped at low prices before it is completely obsolete.

I ordered this game because I wanted something new and you can't beat an 8 buck price tag. I worried as some people mentioned frame rate problems and such. No problems here with a first generation Macbook Pro and 10.4. It plays pretty seamlessly.

Overall, the game is solid. Some of the cut scenes are a bit long and you keep doing the same thing over and over--eating brains--but it is a nice game to turn off your mind and just enjoy. You don't have to use 50 zillion keys to run it--in fact, I used my touch pad and about 8 keys with no problems. Some sophomoric humor, but a solid game.

Is it Halo? No. Is it Medal of Honor? No. Is it fun? Yes. Will I replay it? No, probably not. Is it worth 8 bucks? Yes. For that price, I'll pass it on to a friend and let him enjoy it, too.

YMMV.

...this title looked too fun to pass up.

I was a little worried by some of the reviews here and on the Apple site suggesting that the game would not play on Intel Macs. I have a first generation Intel iMac with a 1.83 GHz core duo processor, ATI Radeon X1600 graphics card and 1GB of RAM. I had some issues in the beginning because I hadn't copied the game folder to my hard drive as instructed in the "Readme" file. D'oh!

The game started up fine and played as well as could be expected running under Rosetta. Tweaking the game settings also improved the overall experience.

Stubbs the Zombie is a wonderfully original game that takes the concept of zombie horror movies and flips them on their head by putting you in the shoes of the brain eaters.

In the game you play Edward "Stubbs" Stubblefield a mild mannered salesman who rises from the grave in search of a new life, a new love, and of course brrraaaaiiiiiiinnnss.

Gameplay wise Stubbs uses a combination of physical attacks like punching, kicking, and head/brain grabbing and other more supernatural feats like gut bombs, undead flatulence, head bowling, and my personal favorite the detachable arm that runs around the game like Thing and affixes itself to unsuspecting citizens thereby taking control of them.

Perhaps the best thing about the game is that is really embraces the zombie canon. All your movement, attacks, and abilities fall in line with being a walking corpse. You can't fire guns unless controlling one of the humans and most of your actions are dictated by you lust for brains. Wideload, the game's creator, really paid attention to what playing a zombie would be like and incorporated those aspects making the game both true and a unique gameplay experience.

I can only hope that other game makers are taking notice and that we'll see more innovation in the space from now on.

I want to make sure potential customers realize that "Stubbs the Zombie" cannot be played on a Mac OS that is 10.3.9 or lower. The game requires a video card your machine won't have, that costs about half the original price of your system. It's too bad, too - looks like a fun game. Sigh.

Stubbs is a great game - fun story line, excellent graphics, outstanding soundtrack, ... but ... you have to LOAD THE ORIGINAL DISK INTO YOUR COMPUTER EACH TIME YOU PLAY IT! You can't just load the game, and go on your way. I thought that I may have made a mistake when installing it, so I opened a support ticket, and their answer was ... this is a security feature, to prevent illegal copying of their game ... This isn't convenient if you plan to load it on your laptop, and take it on the road, but if you're sitting home on a desktop, ... go for it.

I agree with the people up top who say that Mac just doesn't make good action games playable on their systems. I have a LOT of memory that I put into this iMac just for games, even though I only have Stubbs, KOTOR and Warcraft III! This game is great, the humor is very tongue-in-cheek, and if your Mac is tough enough, the game plays great. Be warned: as the other reviewers said, you need a powerful engine to get this game playing smoothly. Aspyr Media tries to port well, but like KOTOR, Stubbs needs adjusting before you play. configuration-wise.

However, if your Mac is up to par, play this and find out why it became the sleeper hit game of the past year! Trult addictive and hilarious!

I found this much too hard to control. I gave up on Stubbs after less than two hours of play. I'm glad that I'm only out $7.99 + tax, I would have been really upset if I had payed full price.

El juego es simpatico, facil de ganar, tiene buena musica y variados escenarios. Sin embargo no tiene muchos niveles. Corre bien en maquinas G4 con tarjeta de video (Ibook), no valido para Mac Mini intel. Si bien se puede jugar pero pierde todo el atractivo de los gráficos.