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Man this Game is a hoot.
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User
This is not a game kids should play.
I must say, Bud the Chud was one of the funniest Zombie Comedies ever produced for the cinema, and that is why I bought this game.
The idea that a zombie would still be out running around and trying to run things. Stubbs is nuts.
A great choise...
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User
This game is very fun. It's however to short. Eating breains is a very fun stuff (at least on this ame :). It is the first game were I hear about YOU being a zombie! Sounds ridiculous, but it's very fun. The system reqirements are a little big to high, but for this days it is OK.
Stubbs the Zombie... a GREAT game. (see Gamespot.com 7.7 Good)
I say: 8.0 Great :)
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.
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.
Do You Like Crack?
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 0 / 2
Date: May 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User
This game doesn't necessarily have the best level design, or insane graphics or anything, but I don't care. Every once in a while a game comes out and it's just ROCKET JOCKEY and what the hell can you do but let it have its way with you. I love the concept and the mechanic. I love this game, it is crack.
You stagger around and bite people's skulls and eat their brains! Which makes them zombies! Under your control! THEN YOU ATTACK COPS AND MAKE THEM ZOMBIES TOO!!! And hillbillies! AND THE ARMY!! You can fart and knock people out in a 15-foot radius! You can fart people right out of cars and tanks!! Then eat their brains while they're staggering! You can rip out your guts and throw them and they blow up like remotely-tripped grenades! You can bowl with your head and knock the crap out of dudes and then make the head explode and KILL EVERYONE! YOU CAN POSSESS PEOPLE AND MAKE THEM SHOOT EACH OTHER! WITH BAZOOKAS!! YOU CAN EVEN POSSESS A COUPLE DUDES WITH JET-PACKS!!!
I'm frothing. OK, time to be serious now...
Like I said, if only DOOM8 or Metal BladeGuns: Kill All The Insane Telekinetic Convicts In The Incredibly-Rendered-But-Disgusting Prison With Your Bare Hands is your only cup of tea, then this isn't the game for you. It's not the latest graphics card/render engine advertisement that also happens to be a 1st-person shooter (don't get me wrong, I love those games). This is a *game*, first and foremost. So if you dig stuff where the point isn't to perfectly render sweat while ragdolling your frag victims with realtime physics as they break into realistic bone fragments and their body chunks become inseperable from the fully ablative environment, you should look into this.
This is for us oddballs out there who love a great sense of humor backing up FUN GAMEPLAY...
Do you think Rocket Jockey was just way too ahead of its time and unleashed on the world far too early to be understood as the complete work of genius it was? Did you play all the way through No One Lives Forever 2 more than once because, damn it, sometimes this game is as fun as HitMan and it's funny to boot? Did you giggle endlessly as you used the LandShark Gun and that awesome glider pack in Armed And Dangerous? Do you long for another Thief game (but not T3 haha - OK wait I'LL BUY ANOTHER T3 GAME IF THAT'S ALL YOU'LL MAKE, SPECTOR, just please give me another Thief game) because the gameplay was just so unique and addictive? You know who you are.
Hell, do you just like zombies? That alone is enough to make this sucker worth it.
I got this game and a Belkin Nostromo n52 thingamabob controller I found for like $6 after rebate and the two together nearly killed me dead. I couldn't take it anymore. I had to uninstall this sucker and get my life back it was so damn fun. I miss it terribly but won't dare reinstall it. Damn, I wish I'd had this controller thing back when I was a Thief junky.
Holy crap, buy the game, it's like 16 bucks or something. WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
A evening of Brain eating Enjoyment
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 0 / 2
Date: May 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User
I looked foward to recieving this game and I was not let down. I've always been a big Zombie fan and when I got the chance to see how the other side unlives I truely enjoyed it. The tongue in cheek style of this game fits me really well.
The only let down is the camrea angles that can get confusing at times, butu once you get use to it you can adjust yourself to it.
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!
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.
Games like this aren't Christian
1
Rating: 1,
Useful: 0 / 23
Date: February 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User
I'm a 552 year old elf, just using the kid's review because I'm tired of getting spammed after people read my real name at Amazon.
This is the most horrid, evil, filthy unChristian game I've seen in years, and when I say that I mean that, cause I'm over 5 centuries old. Anyway, you play as an evil zombie that rips other people's heads off and eats their brains. That's it. I've played a full demo of this horrible game, and the whole time I was not only bored out of my wits, I was shocked and angered by the content of Randy the Zombie or whatever the name of this piece of crap is.
Did you like this game? Well, somebody else liked this game too: Vladmire.
Sincerely, Haldir
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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