Stubbs the Zombie, Unusual Mac Game, But Fun to Play

Stubbs the Zombie in “Rebel Without a Pulse” (ESRB: M) for Mac, or simply Stubbs the Zombie, is a third-person zombie game developed by Wideload Games, published by Aspyr Media, and built on the Halo engine. The story of this morbid game is set in 1933 and involves horror-like scenes of blood and slaughter.

Stubbs is a travelling salesman during the Great Depression trying to eke out a living. However, according to the game manual, Stubbs has had a string of bad luck since he was born, and was thereby unable to get people to buy what he was trying to sell them, life insurance.

After making love to Maggie Monday, she became impregnated. Stubbs was then murdered by Maggie’s father, Otis Monday, and was then buried in a remote Pennsylvania field. Maggie Monday later gave birth to Stubbs’ son, naming him Andrew Monday. He would later become a playboy industrialist responsible for the creation of the city of Punchbowl.

The game takes place in the fictional city of Punchbowl, Pennsylvania at its opening ceremony in 1959. Stubbs rises from his grave and decides to get his revenge by eating the brains of the inhabitants of Punchbowl, thus creating his own army of the undead, creating increasing amounts of havoc as the undead clash with the various militant factions of the area. During the chaos, Stubbs kills Otis Monday by blowing up his house after a brief reunion. Shortly after this in a spoof of War movies Stubbs stands in front of an American flag hanging from a barn wall and gives a speech to his zombies. Though the speech consists only of the word “Brains” said in many tones with limited gestures his Zombies apparently understand him well enough to let loose a cheer of ‘BRAINS” before shuffling away.

Stubbs eventually reunites with Maggie Monday and the two lovingly embrace, with Stubbs promptly eating her brain (whether she was willing or not is uncertain). Andrew tries to avenge his half-destroyed, zombie-infested city and his mother by killing Stubbs behind a force field. Stubbs, however, destroys the force field and looms toward Andrew, but Maggie, now a zombie, convinces him to spare him. It is implied that the two zombies declare themselves married to each other. The game ends with Stubbs and Maggie sailing off on a small rowboat, kissing as Andrew and all of Punchbowl are destroyed by a nuclear bomb, and they both “live” happily ever after.

Stubbs gameplay is unusual because the player plays as a zombie, rather than a human, and the primary goal is therefore to kill and eat the brains of humans. Eating brains gives back a certain amount of lost health to the player as well as converting humans into zombies, causing them to fight alongside the player. The player also has the option of beating an enemy to death with melee strikes to transform them into zombies. Stubbs’ zombie uses a variety of improvised weaponry and combat techniques, including severed arms, unholy flatulence, gut grenade, and stubbs’ own detachable left hand and detached head. Stubbs enemies include civilians, scientists, police detectives and police officers, riot police, hillbillies (militia), soldiers, robots, and barber shop security guard.

You can order Stubbs the Zombie game (Mac) from Amazon for as low as $10.99. Enjoy!

System Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later,
PowerPC G4/G5 with 1.5GHz CPU,
512 MB of Memory with 4.0 GB free disk space,
Video Card (ATI): ATI Radeon 9500 or NVidia GeForce FX5200.