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Pure Zombie Goodness!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 20 / 25
Date: November 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

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.

An informed review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 17
Date: January 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

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.

BEWARE

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 19
Date: December 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game uses the invasive Starforce drivers. This form of copy protection causes a lot of issues on your computer including shutting down CD/DVD drives and often times barring you from a game you legitimately own. I purchased this game and had multiple issues related to the driver. It locked me from playing and would reset my computer at boot up. Finally managed in Safe Mode to figure out what was causing it and deleted the stupid thing. WASTE OF MONEY. Legitimate game companies don't need to resort to cheap tricks like that.

Great game that I can actually own.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: June 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

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 $$.

Slapstick and monotonous

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: February 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I really do enjoy the zombie genre, and I really didn't have high hopes for this game, but even my low expectations weren't really met. This game is more about slapstick comedy than it is about zombies.

The plot is pretty bare, but workable. The enemies that you fight are pretty well balanced against your own abilities. However, since you're a zombie, you really aren't supposed to be that smart and figure out how to use weapons. So the game designers decided to give you some special bio-weapons: like noxious fart gas. And a head that you can use as a bowling ball and it explodes and re-grows as much as you like. And an arm that you can detach and control and use it to take control of people, and that too regrows as much as you like. Call me crazy, but regrowing heads seem a little too far-fetched, even for zombies.

And then there were a few highly questionable "boss" levels. A dance-off? Peeing in a resevoir for two minutes? Ugh. Perhaps a nine-year-old would find this stuff more enthralling, but since it's an M-rated game I don't think many will (or should) be playing it.

For all of the money that they spent on hiring semi-famous bands to do remakes of classic 50's songs, the songs were pretty absent throughout the entire game. As far as I can tell, the only times you hear them is during the opening options screen. What a waste.

Most of the game is spent running (lumbering) up to someone that is shooting at you, slapping them around for a few times until they get faint, and then eating their brains. Then when your health gets low you run and hide in a corner somewhere until you're okay again and you repeat the process. It got really monotonous about three-quarters of the way through. I found the cheat codes for invincibility just so I could get the game over with as soon as possible.

Overall, I understand the different problems the designers had in coming up with an entertaining take on being a zombie (being a zombie would be really boring, if you think about it) but I felt that they should have seriously toned-down the ridiculousness, saved money on the indie bands that weren't really used, and focused on gameplay that centered around building a sizeable zombie army and taking over suburbia. If you can rent this game, do so, but don't waste the money on a purchase.

No StarForce

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 13
Date: December 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The copy protection on Stubbs the Zombie is NOT StarForce, but version 7 of SecuROM. SecuROM will still hog resources and block virtual CD emulators, but does not open up the same security holes as StarForce. So have a decent PC and some hefty RAM if you want to play Stubbs smoothly. Or if you have a concole, buy the console version of the game instead.

What a Fun Ride!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: December 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Stubbs is a dead traveling salesman from the 30's who comes back to life to eat the brains of the humans who have built a city over his grave in this camp take off on zombie movies. It is hilarious: imagine --you are Stubbs and you attack a couple parked on lover's lane making out. You eat thier brains and transform them into units in your zombie army. The new brainless zombies walk off to do your bidding while Cake sings "If I only had a brain" from the Wiz of Oz. Hilarious. The team that designed Halo brings you Stubbs. What better credentials. The negative cap-trap of some other reviews is misinformed and probably a sabotage job from competitors. This is a great game--driven by the Halo engine.

STARFORCE !!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 25
Date: December 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Great, another game I have to give to charity. I wish I would have read Jeremy's review before purchasing: haste makes waste.
I know people who have had STARFORCE related issues. I've read forums where many have had problems with STARFORCE and had more problens when trying to remove STARFORCE. Plus, more drivers; another way for viruses to get into my computer.
Maybe I'll learn to wait for reviews before purchasing ?

Killing Humans is Fun!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: March 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

First off, I want to say that I received a CD ROM version and not the DVD version of the game. I was mildly disappointed about that, but pricing is the same, so no great loss.
The game installed fine. No glitches during install.
There is a tutorial to help you get started and during the game when something new is introduced, little popups help you learn how to use the new item. Game play is easy with keyboard and mouse commands.
I did have to download a new video driver even though the game said my system met the requirements for the game. At one point during the game, only the background items showed. Anything that moved ie: zombie, humans, vehicles were invisible. Yet I could play them I just couldn't see them. Downloading the updated video driver took care of that issue.
I only ranked the game 4 stars as it's just basically the same kind of thing over and over. But it is fun being a zombie and killing humans instead of the usual other way around. So a nice twist.

Love or Hate

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: December 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

As previous costumers have either loved it or hate it philosophy, toward this game, one must realize that the manufacture describes the minimum and the recommended system to run this particular software is preformance, I would lean toward more the higher end, than the lower, even though some people may that the same enjoyment. Also I would place or install it on a partition that different than my OS was operating on; meaning "D:/" or etc. This could prevent some problems which other have had previously mentioned. Other that being a zombie isn't that bad only thing that there is no score or reward for eating the victim's brains or beating them senseless. It's a B-movie theme and hold to true with the "B" meaning BAD, either in a good perspective or actually bad. Enjoy.

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