Stubbs The Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse

by Aspyr

Product Features

• Use your body as a weapon - Exploding gut grenades, toxic zombie spew, severed hands that can crawl through tight spots & possess the living and unholy flatulance are available to you
• Possess unsuspecting humans and use them as weapons
• Zombie strength lets you smash down walls and maul anyone who gets in your way
• Covert Stubbs' enemies into allies, by eating their brains and making them zombies
• Explore & take over Punchbowl, an immersive and futuristic city built with the Halo engine

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000BHCUW8
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: October 29, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #23,168 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: PC

From the Executive Producer of Halo, comes Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse. You play as Stubbs, an undead antihero who takes on a futuristic city using nothing but his own carcass and the weapons of his possessed enemies. This third-person action game uses the Halo engine and integrates tongue-in-cheek humor and a strong storyline with innovative combat. Be the Zombie!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An informed review, January 5, 2006

By 

J. M Quiggins "Sole_Fish" (Owensboro, Ky. USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse (CD-ROM)

I have seen some reviews that say you 'have' to walk through the entire game.

Untrue. There are some great vehicles you can drive and send your victims flying with.

Also, the plot is not just that the Police Chief is mad at you.
Fact is, you (Stubbs) have just invaded a town of the future. (Set in the past, but with a futuristic and comedic flair)

A perfect city that is without crime.

A city almost entirely ran by robots.

You begin your Zombie reign and he police force comes out in droves to stop you.

(Oh, and Stubbs falls in love at first sight with a woman who is drug away by ... I'm not tellin'....)

Now, there is more plot. But, why give it all away?

This program ran very well on a system that met just about in the middle of the minimum specs and the recommended specs.

It's quite a lot of fun. And, yes, when Stubbs walks he is rather slow.

But, what else would you expect from a zombie?

This is, in fact, NOT a track-and-field game.

BTW, The blood spurting effect is hilarious. Especially when the victims are screaming out 1 of dozens of very funny lines.

You can even rip off your arm and send it after a person while you're busy attacking someone else.

All i have to say is that this game turned out to be everything it promised to be.

21 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Zombie Goodness!!, November 28, 2005

By 

J. Grabowski (Berlin, Connecticut USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse (CD-ROM)

3rd-person zombie video game, done dozens of times before. 3rd-person zombie video game where you are the zombie! awesome. Add in a retro-future background and you have a classic in the making.

You are Edward "Stubbs" Stubblefield, former traveling salesman, former deinzen in the realm of the living. It's 1959 and you have risen from your grave 30 years after your death. It's time to find out what happened, and eat anyone's brain who gets in the way! Obviously not for the younger crowd, as the game features copious amounts of gore and violence (amoung other things, including the manner in which you must contaminate the local water supply).

Basically, the premise of the game is: you walk around, run into everyday folk, attack and/ or devour their brain, repeat as necessary, watch your zombie army amass from your vicitms, enjoy the chaos that ensues as you slowly disable the city of the future. Your zombie cohorts aren't as versatile as you are, and are best used in large numbers against the un-armed and armed citizens of Punchbowl, PA. But wait, you do have more powers than clawing the people and snacking on their skulls. Exploding intestines, beating people with their own limbs, possesion (a la Thing from the Addam's Family), bowling your head off... literally, and the staple of low-brow comedy: flatulance. And if you didn't think that was enough Stubbs can hop in certain vehicles and cruise around areas of the town.

I thought the game lacked a bit in the story telling department, but I also acknowledge the fact that the main character is a zombie, it might be a bit difficult to assemble a top-notch story based on this. The only other down side is the zombie mayhem doesn't quite last as much as I had wanted it to in each level... but then again I would have been happy just staying in the first levels and eating the respwaning people for hours on end so that gripe may be overstated.

Overall the game proves challenging enough and is one of the most fun (in that mindless kind of way) games out there. I would give the game 4.5 stars overall, but I am rounding up for originality. With the great replayability and decent pricing this is a game you should definitely pick up, especially if the whole zombie brain-eating premise combined with a great amount of humor appeals to you.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great game that I can actually own., June 23, 2006

By 

H. A Huffman "haumf" (Mt. Prospect, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse (CD-ROM)

Stubbs the Zombie:
1. The game installed on my PC with no headaches, hassles, nor spyware.
2. The game is easy to learn and fun to play (pure zombie goodness!). You run around and chomp brains, turn other people into zombies and use "special" zombie powers.
3. Unlike Halflife 2 and Sin Emergence, I actually OWN the game, I don't need to ask the developers for permission every time I want to play it.

For reason #3 alone, this game is worth your $$.

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