Stubbs The Zombie Is Free On The Epic Games Store

Arguably it has been a bit of a slow week, which is to say I didn’t rely on news too much this week. Monday, I spoke about Doctor Who and when I’ll be reviewing Series 13. Tuesday, the Activision-Blizzard state and federal lawsuits are becoming a complete mess, and Cozy Grove got an update. Then on Thursday, Bomber Crew‘s sequel Space Crew, which is just 3D cartoonish FTL, is to get a new expansion.

Onto this week’s Free Game on the Epic Games Store and the game that is available for those that were honest and have age-gated accounts. I make it very clear with every month’s Prime Gaming article, things like Paladins and other things like Warframe or Genshin Impact can jump in a ditch. Nonetheless, this week you can pick up the Paladins Epic Pack, which according to Epic is worth over thirty bucks, but I’m calling a load of horse manure. It is conflated value for a thing in a free-to-play hero-shooter game aimed at children. It features “champions” from each role and skins for each.

Moving on to the actual game with some actual value, we have Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse. That has to be the worst Public Enemy reference I’ve heard this week. Released in 2005, and more recently re-released onto modern consoles back in March, Alexx wrote a review of it (link above) for the Switch upon release. Generally favorable from all, including Alexx, it’s nostalgia encapsulated in the remaster and within the game’s story as you plunge yourself into the banquet of screaming humans of a retro-futuristic 1950s akin to Destroy All Humans and Fallout.

What freaks me out the most about this whole soundtrack, is that it is a collection of classics from the 30s-60s covered by the likes of Death Cab for Cutie and The Flaming Lips. For a game with decent ideas for the mid-2000s, though not always hitting the right notes to form a chord, it is odd to see such a licensed soundtrack. Do you know what it is like? It is like taking drugs and hallucinating Beethoven covering “Shake it Off” by Taylor Swift. It makes no logical sense that this happened, outside of this one stupid happenstance. It is just mad in every sense of the word, though sometimes it lacks a cohesive direction, you’ll probably enjoy its short length.

All this week, you can pick up both Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse and the Paladins Epic Pack until the morning of the 21st of October. Moving on to next week and the Epic Games Store. We’re getting into that point in October where if I hear another person say “Spooky season,” I’m going to be digging some shallow graves in the woods for barrels full of sodium hydroxide. Anyway, horror games are en vogue around this time. So next week, I’ll be talking about Among the Sleep – Enhanced Edition, a game about a toddler adventuring around at night in search of its mother.