The game more or less just tells you to go ahead and have fun with the concept of being the returned dead, giving you a slowly growing, if small, set of abilities to cause havoc with and letting you loose. Set in a satirical take on the 1950s city of the future, you are a suddenly reanimated zombie awoken during the official grand opening of the city of Punchbowl, Pennsylvania. Stubbs was originally built for the Xbox on the Halo engine and was a point of reference for the original marketing. If anything, that’s the first thing that stands out, bringing the game to modern consoles and placing it into a market with more modern games just highlights all its flaws. Simultaneously, all the issues it previously had are still here. The game is almost completely unchanged, with some small but important changes I’ll get to in a moment, as such everything that people enjoyed about Stubbs the Zombie is here for the most part, with some small exceptions. This is to its detriment as a modern product though. Some will think this is the right way to go, as it is important to preserve the original title for those who want to revisit and those who never got to before now. Aspyr has done the bare minimum required to bring Stubbs back to life. The first thing to note here is that this isn’t an overhaul of a classic title with new visuals and improved features. Now, fifteen years after its initial release, we see original North American publishers Aspyr put in the time to bring this monster of the past back to life and bring it into the modern world. It didn’t really take off though, releasing in small numbers and after a turbulent development.ĭespite its inventive ideas and more humorous take on horror, it just became thought of as an obscure gem.
A game that aimed to reinvent the zombie genre that was dominated with Resident Evil. Stubbs the Zombie has always been one of those obscure but well-regarded titles.
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