The downside of the Stubbs visual style is that a majority of the game is presented through a grainy 1950s film filter. The absurdity of the dialogue nails that, as the story is mainly about people reacting to the presence of this awkward zombie with a gaping pancreatic wound. Stubbs' story isn't aiming for high art, it's aiming for a few good laughs. The sight gags and the one-liners from the various citizens, as well as the police officers and the militias, are pretty funny in a B-movie kind of way. The action is broken up with some primitive cutscenes and, as ugly as the visuals are in this game, at least the cinematics are good for some laughs.
It's fun for about a minute, but it gets repetitive fast, which I'll discuss momentarily. Move forward, eat brains, move some more, eat some more brains. But there isn't a lot of variety when it comes to objectives. Some won't resist, others will put up a big fight. The majority of Stubbs is simply running around and eating people. It might take a while, given that the tutorial is painfully slow. The idea is just to start munching on human heads. Don't think too hard about how he wound up there.
Stubbs just randomly shows up one day, hungry for brains. It's a futuristic town with guide robots and hover cars, but it's one that's basically stuck in a 1950s timewarp. Players are taken to the city of Punchbowl. The one major element of Stubbs the Zombie that sticks out is its setting. And, after playing it for a full weekend, I'm sorry to say that there's a lot about Stubbs the Zombie that didn't age well. When a re-release was announced earlier this year, I couldn't think of a single person who asked for one. Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse, originally released by developer Wideload in 2005, is one of those games that falls into the latter category. There were other games that were entertaining for about a weekend, but were quickly forgotten. There are many games from the past few generations that are remembered with a degree of fondness.
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