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sega_kid

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Loving zombie films doesn't make it any better.

You won't find a bigger fan of the undead than I... *Challenge*

And That's one of the main reasons why I think this game is such a travesty.

If you look back to one of my earlier posts, my issue was that this isn't just any old bad game, it's a bad zombie game, and that's going to do no good for other potential zombie games out there, when we live in a world where publishers sign contracts on proven track records. Poor, shitty selling zombie games, mean no more zombie games, or at least not as many.

i just sat through return of the living dead 5, does that rise to your challenge? ;)

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i just sat through return of the living dead 5, does that rise to your challenge?  ;)

Only if you give me some love for Lake of the Living Dead aka Zombie Lake! You know it was heart warming, and the sweetest film of the undead.

And give us some love for Autumn, arguably the best series of novels in the undead world.

As for Stubbs, tell me what you thought of the level design? to me it was stupidly bland, had no build up, and no finale style ending, it just ended.

The dance mini game, felt so bolted it barely clung to the disc.

Most of my other complains all lead down to the fact that you're controlling a zombie (sluggish controls, poor friendly AI, rubbish combat), it's all how you expect a zombie to be like, which leads me to believe that the concept is a broken one, that would never have worked within the confines that it was applied to.

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You guys are way too harsh sometimes, I was expecting something as bad as Fahrenheit.

Sure it's slow, the level design is atrocious, the character design is even worse, it's boring, uninspiring, no sense of story, you don't know where you're going or why, the combat is repetetive and awkward, the 'humour' is a travesty (this is my worst complaint, why didn't they hire somebody funny if they wanted to put funny bits in the game- it's embarrasing), the seperate parts( dancing and hand control) feel bolted on bits done by a different company (I guess they were), the control of the hand is awful- ice skating through the air, the zombie jumps like he's on the moon, the drip feed of powers is pointless, the gun bit controlling the cop in the police station made me cry, the dancing bits are so badly thought out there isn't enough time for an animation for one dance move to end before the next one begins- schoolboy error, plus if I wanted to play simon I'd play fahrenheit.

But having a zombie horde do all your dirty work for you whilst you hide and let you're health recharge a la Halo is at least average.

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Fucking awful. How they managed to go from a fantasic looking (and very humorous) trailer to this pile of unpaced boring shit is beyond me.

WORST. TRAVESTY. EVAR.

I just hope Dead Rising does not make the same journey from good looking trailer to oh my god how the hell did they manage to fuck this up.

You BLATENTLY never played Land of the Dead.

A prettier piece of steaming dog turd I have never before seen.

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sega_kid

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Only if you give me some love for Lake of the Living Dead aka Zombie Lake! You know it was heart warming, and the sweetest film of the undead.

And give us some love for Autumn, arguably the best series of novels in the undead world.

As for Stubbs, tell me what you thought of the level design? to me it was stupidly bland, had no build up, and no finale style ending, it just ended.

The dance mini game, felt so bolted it barely clung to the disc.

Most of my other complains all lead down to the fact that you're controlling a zombie (sluggish controls, poor friendly AI, rubbish combat), it's all how you expect a zombie to be like, which leads me to believe that the concept is a broken one, that would never have worked within the confines that it was applied to.

ahh, zombie lake i have it on dvd, lots of naked flesh, and zombies you actually feel sorry for! (or i did anyway)

im not really a reader, and havent heard of autumn, but will look into it!

the level design is very by the numbers, but the appeal of stubbs is there, my only real complaint is the whole whistling for your zombies feature, it never seems to appear when i actually need them :(

and ive just tried the land of the dead on xbox this morning. sigh.

now that IS a awful game. ive only done the first level, but it was enough! totally dire :)

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I'm pretty far into Stubbs at the moment and I'm surprised by some of the thoughts here - by no means is it an amazing game but it's been a lot of fun. Admittedly the early levels were atrocious, but now I'm fighting/posessing soldiers and scientists with rayguns it's a pretty good challenge.

A safe 6/10.

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KieronGillen

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Resurrecting this thread as I'm playing this for some manner of review.

Just wanted to <ah-ha-ha!> pick anyone who's played it brains, and I've hit a dead end.

First Large fat gentleman with a chainsaw in the mall. Having serious problems with him. None of my special attacks seem to do anything to him, the lumbersome controls make actually diving in and out to attack between the three-absolutely hit and miss and... well, I'm in a "I feel I must be missing something" moment.

I guess I have to get his arm off, as I've done that once. Which I managed when he walked into a mob of about 12 of my zombies and the option appeared to do so. Only time I've ever seen it.

Any tips anyone who's played it? Bar setting fire to the game and just giving up with it completely?

KG

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roskelld

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Scratch the help request. Worked it out myself. In that there was nothing to work out, just the tedious in and out between flurries with a single blow which actually *do* add up.

KG

Times must be bad Kieron if you're having to review Stubbs on a Saturday night.

You've managed to get further in the game that I got... Not sure if thats Kudos to you or not. Still, it pays the wages right?

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TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap

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So, has this game sunk completely then? Apart from this thread, I read or heard nothing about it anymore, let alone seeing boxed copies in the store. All signs that the game was a huge commercial failure, or did it actually manage to sell a bit?

I got my copy of Game Developer Magazine where Stubbs is this month's Postmortem game, where the developer says it's been a success, or that at least the company survived it so to speak.

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The DDR section on the PC is out of sync with the music and/or the simonsays graphic on the floor, forcing me to skip that section. I didn't play too far after that part.

As for the rest, play the demo and you've essentially played the entire game. Dissapointing.

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Stroker Ace

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Stubbs is the worst game of the generation, and quite possibly the worst game I have ever played.

I don't throw that expression around lightly, either.

I mean, there are certain games you expect to be shit, and you disregard them for that reason. But Stubbs has a great engine, and (in theory) some decent talent behind it, yet it's shit. It's so, SO bad that I actually wish I had bought a copy so that I could smash it with a hammer.

If I had to choose a game to play for all eternity in Hell, and I could pick between this and Smurf on the Atari 2600, I'd go with the little blue bastards.

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Stubbs is the worst game of the generation, and quite possibly the worst game I have ever played.

I don't throw that expression around lightly, either.

I mean, there are certain games you expect to be shit, and you disregard them for that reason.  But Stubbs has a great engine, and (in theory) some decent talent behind it, yet it's shit.  It's so, SO bad that I actually wish I had bought a copy so that I could smash it with a hammer.

If I had to choose a game to play for all eternity in Hell, and I could pick between this and Smurf on the Atari 2600, I'd go with the little blue bastards.

Can it *really* be worse than "charlies angels" on the gamecube? i cant see how thats possible, sorry man but i cant see there being a worse game than that for a while.

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Stroker Ace

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Yes, but we all knew Charlies Angels was going to be shit. It had shite written all over it - it was practically made to be shit.

Stubbs meanwhile had money and effort poured into it, by apparently talented people, and they came out with a turd.

It's like, if a straight-to-video movie is shit, you say "fair enough"; but if a movie gets a theatrical release, and it's shit, then it really deserves a kicking. If I were to claim that, "Film X is the worst film I've ever seen", I'd obviously be discounting all the straight-to-video or made for TV shit I've seen. Presume the same here.

Stubbs is a "theatrical" release - a big game.

Yet it's shit.

That makes it the very worse kind of shit.

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decider

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Wise Fwom Your Gwave! (haw-haw)

This is out over here now.

It's fucking atrocious. Really, really terrible in every way. Well, except the loading screens, which are quite nice.

Imagine Halo running a zombie mod with none of the fun and you're still in for a disappointment.

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