Grab the shotgun shells Pa, here come the Zombies!
User Rating: 7.9 | Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse PC
Meet Stubbs, he isn’t your average brain eating zombie he’s a zombie with a sense of humor, and you get to satisfy your brain craving hunger vicariously through him. I will be blunt. The game play in this game clearly isn’t its strong point. The overall feel is generally clunky, which hopefully is intended seeing as you’re a zombie. It get’s pretty old pretty fast, seeing as all you do is limp around beating the snot out of all sorts of 50’s clichéd characters. Now when I say beat the snot out of there are a few different ways to do so. You can literally slap them to undeath, beat em a bit then feast on their skull buffet, hit em with a gut grenade, bowl your head into em, or fart and see how many you can snack on before they recover from your particular brand of undead stank and control their actions via your detachable hand. Every method of killing via Stubbs brings people back to until your following simply roams around and tears apart the fragile humans. By and large the best part of the game is the use of your autonomous hand. It’s something new and novel that I have never seen before. While running around with this wayward limb you can climb on the walls and ceiling, basically any surface in a constantly changing perspective. That is until you find a target ripe for possession. If you can get close enough to an enemy you can control their actions. This gives you instant third person perspective on a soldier, civilian, scientist etc. So you can try out all the weapons in the game from baseball bats, rifles, shotguns, machine guns, bazookas, laser pistols etc. The most fun were the snipers, bazooka men, and the barbershop security jetpack thugs. The inclusions of a few random vehicles were fun. The graphics were highly stylized so they are hard to rate. They weren’t supposed to look clean and they didn’t. At times they were too dark, and when brightened they looked even worse. The game featured non-stop humor, aside from the cut scenes and boss comments, the human fodder all had something to say when you were chowing down on their brains. The more people you eat the funnier it gets. Until you’ve heard everything and then you wish they would just let you eat in silence. Other than that the sound is standard, the only thing that goes bump in the night is you. For what it is, it was great. I would recommend this game as a lark more than anything else. If you’re looking for a fast paced action game that will occupy all of your senses look elsewhere. However if you want a game that will make you laugh and finally have a chance to play the other side you should check it out. Mos def a rent, not own. At times bumpy, but all in all a fun ride.
Bamm
