[Review] Stubbs The Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse (Xbox/Xbox360/PC/MacOS)

In one of my past reviews, I touched Bungie Studios, namely during the ONI development period. It was then that her merger took place with Microsoft. Many employees were not satisfied with this decision, among them was Alexander Seropyan, who founded the company in 2003
Wideload Games, the main goal of which was to break the playing industry templates. The fate of this studio was as sudden as the life of the protagonist of their debut project and it lasted only 11 years.
Starting in the last century, the zombie fever in the cinema reached the screens of monitors relatively recently, in the 90s. Since the time of school, I still remember how in the lessons of computer science I played in Dangerous Dave, crushed the walking dead and grannies in this gloomy house, who threw knives and fell exactly between the eyes (who they are really in fact?), and after many years, and to this day I continue to cut with friends in L4D2.
If you figure it out, today this topic has reached its peak, films and games about those who have come to life from the graves are already put on a well -over -over -over -overcuminous conveyor and he is not going to stop, since they still bring money with bags. Unless it upset that the "war of the worlds z 2 part" was canceled, I would have looked with pleasure.

But whatever you say, the dark https://hippo-bingo-casino.co.uk/ side of the strength is always attractive, and just for the zombares we are given oh how rarely (not counting the terrible Land of the Dead: Road to Fidder’s Green), rather, the numbers 4 8 15 42 42 will win in the ticket than we are again in the skin of the decaying Eater of Brains.
The toy was originally released on the needle, and a little later on Windows and Mac OS and bypassed PS2 for reasons that I will voice just below.
The game begins with the opening ceremony of the fictional city of Panchboul, Pennsylvania, in 1959 in alternative reality. The protagonist, Edward "Stubbs" Stubblefield, the unsuccessful commander was killed in 1933 during the Great Depression.
Already from the very initial screensaver, my smile spread throughout the face – bright colors, the atmosphere of the 50s, playing in the background “Mr. Sandman ", yes damn it! I was like Marty McFlay in the past, in which the grass was greener and people are kinder and coca-cola did not exist without sugar.
But back to our history. The calm dream of a dull trade agent is violated by loud music, over the place where it was sprinkled with earth, a city holiday was held. I wonder how Stubbs was able to get out of the grave? Maybe he just like Beatrix Kiddo took lessons from an old Chinese how to get out of a wooden box? Hm…
Instead of becoming like a surka and just looking at the sun, wipe his eyes and climb back, a dead anarchist discovers instead of a clearing on which he was buried, skyscrapers and buildings, well, of course, is the unbearable thirst for hunger. Initially, I did not understand the motives and goals of our decaying friend, well, besides the fact that he wants “brainwalk. ", Simultaneously open the cranial boxes and tear off the limbs, which is supposed to a self -respecting zombie. But the dog was buried right on the surface. As they say, in the world everything happens because of this. If you reach the end of the game, you will be pleasantly surprised by the plot tie, not that it will hit you to the core, just everything will fall into place.

The game is an action from the 3rd person. The first thing that catches your eye is the emphasis on the humorous component, everything is impregnated with jokes, starting from the appearance of the main character and ending with one of the bosses – a fat man, the chief of the police (his masterpiece dancing will still stand before my eyes) or the patriotic speech of Stubbs against the background of the US fragment.
The developers experience endless respect for the classic zombies-films, there is an attack by a fortified supermarket (“Dawn of the Dead”), the capture of a stabbed village house (“Night of the Living Dead”), as well as a planned eating of the military and scientists (“Day of the Dead”).
The robot will be our conductor in this big and beautiful world, and this is even before Borderlands! By the way, who, in view of his imperfection, takes us for an ordinary person, apparently in this universe there is a Bill Gates and only 640 kilobytes of memory were added to it.
The gameplay is quite simple, and what else can be expected from action, whose main character is a walking dead man? It is necessary to bite the living as often as possible, organize those who turned into the army as in Overlord, create a live shield from them and break through on the way arranging urban chaos as in GTA, as they say, “Destroy All Human”.
Unlike ordinary zombies, Edward is in good health, if, of course, you can put it regarding the dead man. Although, when our health is approaching a critical mark, I can hear the heart frantically starting to pound. That’s who had to transplant this muscle Johnn Connor, and not take from Marcus Wright.

Stubbs very much reminds me of Boogerman’a with his manners. They have a farting tower in the arsenal, one throws its goaters, and the other liver (though it has a more destructive effect). Well, they are both simultaneously ridiculous and vile characters, which you begin to treat with time as your old friend-nerd. Since Stubbs began to list the abilities of Stubbs, I will add that he was most likely an avid player in Bowling, no less than Homer Simpson, he takes off his head from his shoulders and knocked down his opponents, like KELL. If this is not enough for you, then another “chip” is in his pocket, Stubbs tears his hand and throws it to hell, and she is like a hand from the Addams family creeping in search of a victim. And when she overtakes the unfortunate, then as a real Hadcrab clings his head, simultaneously transferring control of control to the player. Very much helps out at those moments when there are someone with firearms among opponents. At the “Farm” level, it was just fun to get to the machine gun and say to the poor Rednecs.
In words, and in fact, it sounds very fun, but only the first several times. The main problem of this game is its diversity. The first 2 levels I forced myself to go through, giving a chance to show myself to the game further. And you know, the game succeeded, but partially. She entertained me only episodically, with varying success. And sometimes I just ran out, call the horde of zombies a whistle-that’s still a problem, for some reason I did it randomly and very rarely. Definitely, the second time you will not want to pass it.
At the level of "Trade Center" we will meet a boss-bonzoper. That uncle with a bag of Resident Evil 5 on his head just rests, if Edward were alive, he would die of laughter from his appearance again. Or maybe this is an Ash background? After all, we tear off his hand in battle! Hmmm ..
Otherwise, the whole game comes down to one simple scheme – kill people, eat your brains and go further from the level to the level. Stubbs can sometimes drive a wide range of vehicles, such as tractors, tanks, cars. Halo engine copes with this perfectly. Ordinary passers -by, police, scientists and the military will stand on our way. It is not clear that they found zombies in them, because, judging by their behavior and tactics, their cranial box is empty, like a bottle of port after a drunken homeless person. Although the military is a little smarter, they wear helmets, but they do not make up complexity, we tear off their hand and use it as a weapon of near -combat.
Graphics in the game corresponds to its time, strong four. It is clear why it did not reach PS2, the Halo engine slowed down on normal PC of that time, and the Sony console would not go further than the initial screensaver.

Now let’s talk about music and sound. It is enough to attach a track sheet of compositions, he will say everything for himself. I have nothing to add here. Obty hits Lollipop, Mr. Sandman here is performed by Death Cab for Cutie and Flaming Lips and other pop guides of the time of Elvis. Unfortunately, the king himself did not have enough money. Only a meager assortment of the voice acting of the screams of people is not pleased when you bite them in the head, a couple of phrases and all.
By the way, there is localization from Dmitry Puchkov, he is. O/y goblin. In his best traditions, he turns the plot up with his head. We play for Michael Jackson, who rebelled from the dead to avenge the silicone oligarch from Russia for his death. Yes, and there is a meaning in this, Stabbs is very reminiscent of the king, if in the game they knocked out a lunar gait in his performance, I would stand up to the developers. Yes, even the cover has similarity with the album "Thriller". After passing the game in this translation, when writing the text, for some reason I re-read everything in the goblin voice in my head, how much it eats into the brain of its phrases.
In general, the game left behind a mixed feeling. Wideload Games turned out to be quite a good debut. If the gameplay would have been a little more diverse, then the game would become an unconditional hit, because otherwise it is beautiful, for which you could not grab – humor, music, design. It has many good ideas that do not work, as Eurogamer correctly noted. And so, the game will remain in my memory as a quick and cheerful adventure, which I will remember for a long time. Over time, all the bad moments are in memory and I will advise her to friends, as once almost 15 years ago they advised her to me.