Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10055 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: THQ
• Released on: 2006-02-17
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• ESRB Rating: Mature
• Platform: Xbox

Manufacturer's Description
On his quest, Stubbs lurches his way through numerous large and visually captivating indoor/outdoor environments in and around the gleaming city of Punchbowl, PA, a city built during the Eisenhower administration to show off the ultra-futuristic technology of the 21st century. Stubbs' brain-eating adventure brings him through bustling shopping districts and verdant farmlands to battle mad scientists, rural militiamen and the world's deadliest barbershop quartet.

Customer Reviews

Stubbs the zombie, a fun, funny and gory brain eating spree
One of the few games that allows you to actually play as a zombie. Stubbs is a character that you can really understand and feel sorry for. An unlucky business man who, when visiting a possible client is shotgunned in the stomach.

The game takes place a few years after the incident in the beautiful, futuristic city of 'Punchbowl' built over the site where Stubbs was murdered. You play as Stubbs when he comes back, with new abilities and needs, like a hunger for brains. You must play through the levels 'persuading' humans to give you their brains and join you zombie army. This is one of the most essential skills in the game, making a zombie army. These zombies will follow you around and help you perform tasks and are basically your bodyguard. They can also convert humans into zombies and are great as moving bullet shields, although they are not as good as Stubbs, lacking his abilities.

Stubbs' abilities are extraordinairy and innovative, you slowly unlock them during the game and they can be replenished by eating brains. These mainly involve using various parts of your body to take out enemies. The first of these special attacks is the 'Unholy Flatuance', this stuns all enemies within range and leaves them open to a quick snack on their brains. Second you get the ability to take out your Pancreas and throw it, like a grenade, detonating it remotely or just leaving it to explode within a few seconds. You then gain the ability to remove your arm and control it as a seperate character. You can then posess enemies and take advantage of any guns they may be carrying. Last, but by no means least, you receive the ability to remove your head and bowl it at enemies while it spits at enemies, infecting them and then it detonates, zombifying any enemies within the blast radius.

The one major let-down with stubbs is the length of it. It is far too short. You can be left wondering why the game has ended so quickly. However the sheer enjoyment of the levels will make you want to play them over and over again. The graphics, soundtrack and design of the levels fits perfectly with the time of the game, a 1950's idea of the future. Stubbs is one of the games that will burn itself into your mind. I would reccomend it to anyone.

Zombie Game
This Game, though fairly short, is one of a kind.

It is the first ever game which allows you to become the zombie( none of that 'Zombie Hunting' rubbish). It allows you to go around sturing up trouble, beating people up, eating people and (my favorite) turning people into zombies.

You can create your own gang of zombies to do your bidding.

Summary:
Good game idea
Short
Fun
Re-playable
Sick

Brains, brains. Brains brains, brains. Brains. BRAINS, brains!
I love this game. I've longed for something like this ever since I first saw Dawn Of The Dead, and my prayers were answered. And not only that, but answered by the same people who made Halo! HOW GOOD IS THAT!?!

Unfortunately, I'm too big a zombie fan for my own good. So as might be expected, I found this game lacked a certain... realism. The abilities Stubbs possesses, such as Gut Grenades and the like, are amusing I'll admit, but I would prefer a normal, brain eating zombie.

The comedy elements are fantastic though. The "Brains" motivational speech before the farmhouse assualt, and the water supply "befouling" as one enemy puts it, are pure genius.

If you want to get the most out of this game, complete it. Then play again on a harder difficulty and look for the hippo-heads.