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It's an OK game, but just plain ridiculous when it comes to errors.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: May 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Well, I've had Stubbs for over a year now, and just tonight, I popped it in and played it. First off, I liked it. The sound, graphics, and AI is memorable, but 10 minutes later I decided to quit, due to the fact it got boring after a while, same old "rip this apart, form the zombie horde, die over and over", you get the picture.

Well, I went to play it again, and then the errors start. I first get a message when I click the "Play" button at the menu that the game has encountered an error and needs to close. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, patches, cracks, even a couple of files for download off of the Internet. Finally, I consulted Aspyr, an experience I shall not soon forget due to their inept workers.

I received the reply about, oh, 20 minutes ago of,

"I need to know more about your computer. I advise installing the latest drivers and updating some stuff on your computer."

That's an exact copy and paste from what he said. I gave him, however, full technical documents via the DXDIAG command in RUN. How much more info do you want, buddy? Would you like me to rip my computer apart and snap photos of it then upload them to you? My drivers are completely updated. What doesn't make any sense is that I played it for the first 10 minutes with no problems at all, then it doesn't work? I didn't modify anything at all, either. I just quit via the EXIT button. My request for answers was changed to "Resolved". The problem is not resolved. It would seem that they don't know what to do and so they stop trying to help. One thing is certain, I will not be purchasing another item from Aspyr until the day they are run out of the business.

From what I played, it's not a bad game, but it gets old after a short time. Also, don't expect any help if you have a problem. Aspyr's tech support, as you have hopefully read, is about as helpful as asking a blind man to read a manual to you. They will stop trying before they even begin. Stubbs had potential, but it's just too faulty.

Fun, but not for children

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Original gameplay, amusing story, and lots and lots of zombies... Do your eally need anything else?

This isn't a deep game. Nor is it meant to play with your children. The violence is over the top and there's a fair amont of crude dialog. But the atmosphere, retro-future, seems perfect for a zombie story and there are times when the jokes make me laugh out loud. You shamble, eat people's brains, throw "gut grenades" and possess people with your detachable hand. If it's too hard or too easy, you can ajust the difficulty accordingly, increasing or decreasing the effectiveness of your human opponents. Mostly, I play it for the humor and the silly zombie schtick, things that could possibly get old after enough hours of game play. But I've also found that as you move through the game there are enough variences and challenges in the game play to keep me shuffling forward.

The game plays like a console game, one save point, automatic saves at various checkpoints, and no manual saves without exiting the game, but there are plenty of checkpoints and I haven't really been frustrated by scheme yet, though there was a level I had to restart because the save point came at a particularly bad time.

All in all, it was probably not worth the ~$50 a new game usually costs, but at $15 or less, it's a definite bargain for your own personal zombie hoard.

A truly great game... just a little short

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: January 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is spectacular. My only complaint is that it is too short.

I love eating brains, I love throwing my guts at people, I love using my head as an explosive bowling ball, and I love urinating in the public water supply!

Ohh, the pain.... the HORROR!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 21
Date: January 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

You're a hunched over zombie. You move slow, you slap people, you thow your intestines and they explode, you bowl your head and it explodes, and you fart.

There's really no story to this game. Blood guts and gore just don't make a good game.

Walk slow, slap at an enemy, suck his brain, repeat, repeat, repeat...

Every now and then is a cut scene for the poorly written plot (The cheif of police is mad at you, oh what a plot).

Though its first person, everything is slower (not because my PC is slow, you're just walking through the entire game). Slow action, since you have to walk up to your enemies.

Yawn.

Spend your 49.99 on ANY other game, you're sure to have more fun, and a more stimulating experience... maybe with a plot.

BTW... the copy protection doesn't slow down your PC. If you have the software to detect it and the type, your intentions are less than noble... why would anyone need to know what type and version of copy protection a game has? To copy it! BOO, spend the money (well, don't spend the money on this one), but spend the money, support the creators!

ONE STAR TOO MANY

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 14
Date: December 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

You pay your money. You take your chances. If it runs on your computer consider yourself lucky. If it doesn't, don't say you weren't warned. My PC has run every major FPS from Doom3 to HL2 with no problem, but cannot even launch this game. Aspyr's tech support simply consists of telling you to download either a newer or older video driver. If that doesn't work, then too bad, or to use Aspyr's support terminology "Resolved". Seems "resolved" doesn't mean they got the game to run. It just means they stop trying. There are over 10,000 hits related to Stubbs error messages on Aspyr's own support site. Guess they're all "resolved" too.

Braiinnnsssss

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

You can eat peoples brains, rip off their arm and beat em with it, or rip off your hand and run around like "thing" from the adams family, takeing control of whoever you can get your hand on. Much fun.

Bosses are a little over the edge, and you can only use guns if the person you mind control is carrying one (rocket launcher soldiers rock) , and never in the slightly annoying boss fights.

Real fun, and funny story, but somehow manages to get less fun as you get towards the end of the game. Killing hoards of scientists who all happen to have some sort of crazy energy weapon tucked under their lab coat gets rather lame. Some good games leave you wishing there was more too it when it ends, this one is different as when it ends I was left feeling that it was plenty. Not too short, and any longer and it would have been squeezeing too much out of it.

Well worth it.

*uses HALO engine, if your computer cant run it then simply dont buy it.

The copy protection on the game ruins the game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 25
Date: December 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I can't even enjoy the game because I fear installing it would destroy my system.

At the end of the installation process it asks to install some dll files and such. Half-Life 2 has something like this, but it is slightly more legitimate as it doesn't start installing oddly named files.

Don't buy this game for PC, as you won't be able to enjoy it legitamtely.

Waste of money and needlessly so!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: April 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Before I get the usual, "you shouldn't rate games you haven't played yet" or "You should have checked the requirement" reaction, let me say I have a top of the line computer, plenty of memory and a brand new video card which enables me to play "Star Wars: Empire at War" with no problems. Stubbs, however, will not allow itself to be opened and played. After installation, I get the main splash, but then it just closes. I've tried everything avaialable on every site imaginable with no luck!

So while I haven't actually 'played' the game, I think reliability and ability to BE played are just as important as the content itself. Therefore, I have to give this game a failing grade, because it was good money out the window with a lot of aggravation to boot!

incredibly bad

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 32
Date: July 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this is one of the worst games i have EVER played, maybe the worst. even in really terrible games, i can usually find something good to say about it, but this one fails on EVERY single level. play the demo before buying. if you enjoy it, you have mental problems.

Check System Requirements Elsewhere!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 13
Date: January 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I could hardly wait for this game to arrive, only to find out that my computer doesn't meet the system requirements (which were not laid out here on Amazon). The game does NOT play with an Intel Chipset, despite having 3D graphics abilities. How frustrating.

I'll wind up passing this along to a friend whose computer - although much older than mine - has the required video card.

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