The Raveonettes, Death Cab for Cutie, Cake, The Dandy Warhols, The Flaming Lips, and other “bands you’ve actually heard of” doing covers of 50s pop songs all while a zombie farts and bites his way through 50s style sci-fi dystopia. It also needs to be said that the soundtrack is fucking amazing, I can’t believe they kept/got/still had the license. Truly, video games get away with things you can’t can’t do in real life. Thank goodness we can’t think of anyone like that, right? And, of course, the scientific genius behind it all is a reformed Nazi that is now on our side. The founder of Punchbowl is a billionaire playboy industrialist that claims he picked himself up by his bootstraps and built his utopian city of the future. Ha ha! It’s so good THAT didn’t turn out to be the future, right? Well, the city of the future as portrayed in the 1950s, so flying cars and robot guides and vicious killer police using overpowered stun tools to attack the innocent. They, likewise, are individually weak, but there is power in a swarm, and it is undeniably satisfying to send a swarm of the undead after the cops and robots and scientists and other assorted occupants of poor, doomed Punchbowl.Īh, yes, Punchbowl, glorious Punchbowl. And that bite also infects others, creating a horde of zombies. Gag-inducing, absolutely disabling farts.Īnd there’s also a nasty bite which delivers unto him tasty tasty brains. He doesn’t have powerful attacks, but he can bat and flail at passersby enough to knock them off guard. He doesn’t have much in the way of guts, but that’s probably because he has a giant hole in his torso. While this was post- 28 Days Later, fast zombies hadn’t quite taken over everything yet, and Stubbs is a shambling corpse that can “run” at a fast shuffle at best, hardly the impressive protagonist with muscles like enormous hams that gamers usually value. It briefly got a Steam release, then laid dormant for many years…
Stubbs is emblematic of the end-of-lifecycle game in that it is extremely weird, kind of janky, and beloved by those who happened to pick it up in the game store, which was something we had way back then, because console games hadn’t invented online purchases yet.
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Platform: PC (reviewed), PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X Nintendo Switch Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse–hereinafter, Stubbs–rose from the grave of the original Xbox in October of 2005, about a month before the 360 would make its debut. The end of a console’s lifecycle is an interesting time: Big developers are probably focusing on launch titles for the new platform, which means there’s space for small companies to do weird things.
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