A billionaire inventor and his extended family are in charge of everything, and it’s your job to ruin every last bit of it. The conceit of the game is ridiculously dumb and campy (in a good way): you play as a recently brought back to unlife zombie in a 1950s futuristic utopia where robots do all the work and humans are as dumb as they come. But I’ll get the few positives out of the way first. In many ways, Rebel Without a Pulse hasn’t aged well at all. In Wideload Games’ Stubbs the Zombie’ case, however, given that it’s not one, but a straight up port with no real tweaks and some wonkiness to boot, it’s clear that the rose-colored glasses effect truly exists. Pandemic Studios’ Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction was among some of my most beloved Xbox games, along with Destroy All Humans!, and in my memory at least, Stubbs the Zombie was also one of those.Īs the recent remake for Destroy All Humans! proved, nostalgia can be a fickle mistress, but I was still able to get some enjoyment out of that game, especially because of some of the improvements that came with the remake. And I had a blast playing through most of them. The Grand Theft Auto games from the PlayStation 2 era were still very much in vogue, and practically every development studio was trying their hand at putting out their own flavor of run-around-destruction games. Where to begin with this? Well, in 2005 I was really into open-world games, or the notion of what was considered open back then. Without a doubt one of my favorite original Xbox games in my memory +15 years later (damn, it’s really been THAT long, hasn’t it?), getting to play it again thanks to Aspyr’s recent re-release on modern consoles really drove home just how much games have evolved, and at the same time, how much my taste in them has changed over the course of a trio of console gens. Case in point Stubbs the Zombie: Rebel Without a Pulse.
If there’s one thing that really brings me down is finding out just how wrong my nostalgia for things can be.
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