Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse

"Time for a change. Play the zombie."

Theres alot of zombie games out there. Resident Evil, Dead Rising, Silent Hill, it goes on. But time for a change. YOUR the zombie.

graphics:9/10
Its good graphics, but it could've caught up with the current graphics going on. Its the detail thats nice. You can see the developers put work into stubbs himself. You can see hes missing some of his guts. He always has his cigar, and theres a hole in his pants where you see his boxers. Zombies in game are nicely detailed, but the only diffrence from the human version is they have cuts, the head mark, Ect. Traits a zombie holds.

Gameplay:9/10
Nicely done. You feel more like a zombie starting a plauge then a guy nipping on heads until the victim joins him for mercy. You have 4 basic abilities. you can leak out a fart and have surrounding humans become vurnable to being eaten. You have a gut grenade, which much relates to the plasma grenade in halo,. except you have the ability to denoate it on will. A hand which is neat to control, fine more secrets, Ect. The hand allows stubbs the give the zombies a "Hand" and take control of the humans. during this time, zombies will recongise you as a freindly. While humans will not flip out ASAP. Theres a slight delay if you silenty take a victim. With your bowling head, all unprotected humans will become zombified when the head explodes. This can really come in handy.

Story: 8/10

Its funny, but it's like halo in objectives, its stale, you usually have to just destory a critical part of the city to infiltrate a labratory or police station. Though the objectives do begin to get better, such as rallying zombies to knock down a wall, using zombies as batateries, and peeing in a dam. As you move through the storyline, you will move from the suburban neighborhood, to the farms, and even to the Pospectic Jungle Of punchbowl.

Multiplayer:7/10

Its really dull on this end. Theres just cooperative. But it comes with the strategy and fun of the game. Each player will control his infected people, if that player dies, his zombies will follow the other player. The second player plays a darker suited zombie named "Jubbs" and he has devoted himself to helping stubbs on his conquest. The players can play the old flank trick. But there much more strategies players can use. Player will find the game has a easier setting, players can extend the death of a player, if a player dies, the surviving player my retreat to respawn the other player.

Overall, its a nice game to pull out when your hanging out with your freinds, or a game you can play for 2 or 3 hours and accomplish something. Shame its hard to get a copy.

Reviewer's Score: 9/10, Originally Posted: 09/25/06