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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.

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.

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.

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.

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 $$.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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