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Stubbs the Zombie is back!

MVW Encyclopedia
8 min readSep 4, 2021

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A quick review of an Xbox Classic literally brought back from the dead is now available for purchase.

Credit: Aspyr

From all the relatively unheard of classics from the original Xbox era, I never thought Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse would be the one to make a comeback in 2021.

Available for purchase via Steam, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and the Nintendo Switch; there’s no excuse anymore for you try out the dream: figure out what it’s like to create havoc and despair on a cartoonishly perfect city.

Without any spoilers of course, the game takes place in Punchbowl, an extremely exaggerated vision of what the “future” would be like if we had encountered it in the 50’s. Extremely colorful publicity, annoying friendly robots that look like they belong in the Jetsons, flying cars, perfect streets with no crime or poverty to be seen. Kinda like what San Francisco wishes to be. It’s just absolutely ridiculous.

Naturally, from this premise alone looks like we are in urgent need of some conflict here. You wouldn’t be wrong.

That’s why I’m glad to report that the “antagonist” of this whole thing is actually you. Arising from the ground in an almost George Romero fashion, you will take control of Edward Stubblefield “Stubbs”, an undead traveling salesmen that finds his way into…

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