From a third-person view, the undead protagonist will toss projectiles during combat, drive vehicles, and explore indoor and outdoor locations of the city. Stubbs must eat brains of the living to have the energy to accomplish his missions. Note that this is an alternate 1959, with a retro futuristic vibe, including oversized robots that roll around town, hovering cars, ray gun weapons, and other sci-fi lore. Fast-forward a quarter of a century, and Maggie's son, Andrew, a billionaire playboy industrialist, has founded the fictitious city of Punchbowl, Pennsylvania, which is where Stubbs rises from the grave to exact revenge on everyone.
But Maggie's father strongly disapproves of his daughter's choice in boyfriends and decides to kill Stubbs and dump his body.
Players take on the role of Edward "Stubbs" Stubblefield, a down-and-out salesman during the Great Depression, who falls in love with the beautiful Maggie Monday. STUBBS THE ZOMBIE IN REBEL WITHOUT A PULSE has risen from the dead of its 2005 release to take a bite out of a new generation of consoles. Stubbs is also shown smoking a cigarette in most of his cutscenes. There's moderate language and crude humor, including flatulence and urination as part of the game mechanic. There are sexual comments and innuendo targeted to Stubbs' love interest, Maggie, who shows a lot of cleavage, and a flashback that implies sex between Stubbs and Maggie. You can remove your head and use it as a bowling ball or toss your pancreas like a bomb. There are guns in the game, and vehicles can be used to shoot projectiles at civilians, or these people can be run over and bodies will go flying. This is accompanied by eating sounds and victims screaming in agony or pleading for their lives. Players assume the role of a zombie who must kill and eat innocent humans (pedestrians, police officers, scientists, and more), and lots of blood can be seen spurting out of their heads and neck (as well as brain tissue).
Parents need to know that Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse is an action adventure game available for download on the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Windows PC.