Stubbs the Zombie is a fantastic video game which was released by Wideload Games in 2005 for both the Xbox and the PC. The avatar and anti-hero is Stubbs the zombie; initially a traveling salesman, Stubbs was brutally murdered by his girlfriends father after their union was unexpectedly blessed with fruit. Now, 26 years later, Stubbs has risen from the grave driven by a thirst for revenge and brains.

The Meat

Stubbs digs himself up in the city of Punchbowl during its opening ceremony in 1959. Punchbowl is a fictional retro-futuristic 1950’s city with lazers, hovercars, robots and a hell of a lot of civilians, police and military - ripe for the biting.

Whenever you kill somone with Stubbs they has a chance of returning to life as a zombie under your control. These zombies, when not specifically given an order, will lurch around and bite any humans they encounter - turning them into zombies as well; like some sort of cannibalistic pyramid scheme.

In order to facilitate the creation of your own zombie horde, Stubbs has many inventive and fun options to choose from when killing the humans who get in his way. Stubbs can: Tear off people’s arms and beat them to death with them, Fart so corrosively that nearby enemies are stunned with sheer horror, throw organs pulled from his own ribcage that explode with damp furiousity, possess enemies with his left hand that detaches and runs around by itself and even bowl his own head at the enemy.

Stubbs weapons are slowly revealed to him throughout the story where they are necessary to get him out of more and more sticky situations and game itself is filled with lots of dark humor which makes it very entertaining and funny.

The Bones

Because Stubbs is a zombie he is unable to speak, except for saying the word “Brains”. This is wholly sensible behavior for a zombie and is to be expected, but, it makes it very difficult to understand the reason Stubbs does things when he literally doesn’t tell you. Wideload games did their best and Stubbs is a very emotive character but every so often Stubbs does something that is not well explained that left me lost and trying to understand why I was in this particular situation and what i needed to do to get out of it.

The Taste

Luckily, if you missed this gem of a game the first time - it is available on Steam and the Xbox Live Marketplace! For approximatly $20 you get all the brain eating, organ throwing, head bowling action you can possibly handle.

Get and play this game, if you haven’t already. Its offbeat humor, engaging retro-futuristic environments and the fact that you actually play a zombie controlling hordes of undead makes this game a must-play if you are any sort of a zombie fan.

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Tofu the Vegan Zombie is the un-dead embodiment of that classic zombie joke:

Q: What does a vegetarian zombie moan?

A: “Graaaiinns!”

Although some people are trying to spice it up with their own interpretations, it still stands the test of time as a truly awful joke.

Tofu, however, is a vegan zombie. One with his own toy range, animated videos (Quicktime Required), fan art and backstory.

This means that he exists more than I do, currently.

“Tofu” is a friendly zombie, created from a botched experiment in Professor Vost’s laboratory. Monkey # 5, one of Vost’s lab animals, stuffed a block of tofu into the zombie boy’s open skull after accidentally losing the brain. As a result, “Tofu” eats only vegetables and grains and has no taste for human meat. However, if “Tofu” ever loses his “tofu-brain”, he turns into a dangerous zombie creature, craving human flesh.”

Click here, or on the picture to the left, for more Tofu!

The Meat

You. Yes, you. Stop what you are doing right now and go find a copy of Fido. I mean it. Don’t even bother reading the rest of this review, we will all wait for you. Do not miss out.

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Many years ago, a cloud of radiation engulfed our planet. These space particles caused the reanimation of dead bodies - Zombies! Creatures with but one destructive need, to devour the flesh of the living and so, we were forced to defend our homeland. The Zombie Wars!. Mankind pitted against legions of the unstoppable undead. But, in our darkest hour - a savior - Zomcom! Zomcom disovered that if the brain was destroyed, the zombie was destroyed, never to reanimate. And so the Zombie wars - were won!

Zomcon built security systems like the perimeter fence that surrounds our towns in a wall of protective steel. But even within the fence, danger lurked. Lingering raditation ensured that anybody who died became a zombie! And then - a breakthrough! the domestication collar. With the collar in place, the zombies desire for human flesh has been contained. Making the zombie as gentle as a household pet.

Thanks to Zomcon we can all become productive members of society. Even after we die. Zomcon a better life though containment.

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Fido is set in a post apocalyptic society, 5 years after the Zombie wars in the 1950’s. Its a beautiful fenced community, nobody locks their door and everyone has a flower bed, a white picket fence and a domesticated Zombie slave. In this community young Timmy’s mother (played by Carrie-Anne-Moss) has just rented a new Zombie (played by Billy Connolly) from Zomcon. This zombie comes into a family with a distant father, a mother trying to hold the family together and Timmy, who is bullied at school and holds opinions of zombies which differ from the norm and changes all their lives.

The Bones

The cinematography in this movie is fantastic and the performance by Billy Connolly, who can only communicate through facial expressions, grunts and roars really brings this movie to life.

The Zombies are portrayed as your standard lurching type and although the makeup used makes the zombies look like people with skin conditions, little touches like torn mouths make a big difference.

If you are into dark comedy see this movie while you can, i highly recommend it.

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