{"id":421,"date":"2005-10-17T12:13:33","date_gmt":"2005-10-17T16:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/17\/rebel-without-a-pulse\/"},"modified":"2005-10-17T12:13:33","modified_gmt":"2005-10-17T16:13:33","slug":"rebel-without-a-pulse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/17\/rebel-without-a-pulse\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebel without a Pulse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photos\/stubbsthezombie.jpg\" title=\"Stubbs\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photos\/thumb_stubbsthezombie.jpg\" width=\"91\" height=\"130\" alt=\"Stubbs\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1up gave a glowing review to a game that will be released this week for XBox, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/do\/reviewPage?cId=3144774&#038;did=1\">Stubbs the Zombie in &#8220;Rebel without a Pulse&#8221;<\/a>. It uses the Halo engine and some of Stubbs&#8217; developers also worked on Halo. It&#8217;s said to have lots of gore balanced by a good amount of humor, and it&#8217;s set against the backdrop of the idyllic American 1950s. The perspective sounds intereseting, while not entirely new (MediEvil on PS1). You control a zombie instead of the usual zombie hunter, and your arsenal consists of parts of your body that you can detach and throw at people. And it features split-screen Co-op (got that Crabby?). People are already claiming that this will be the best game of the year that no one played (like the awesome sleeper Beyond Good &#038; Evil).<\/p>\n<p>FWIW, geeks seem to have a special affinity for zombies. Sure zombies eat human brains, and, yes, they&#8217;re ugly and undead. But I&#8217;ve never understood the fascination. I&#8217;ve often felt that zombie games put their theme first and gameplay second. That can be OK if the theme is great and the gameplay doesn&#8217;t suck (ex. Black &#038; White, Psychonauts). But zombies alone is not a sufficiently compelling theme. So I&#8217;ve avoided them with the thought that they typically relied on their theme which, to me, sucked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1up gave a glowing review to a game that will be released this week for XBox, called Stubbs the Zombie in &#8220;Rebel without a Pulse&#8221;. It uses the Halo engine and some of Stubbs&#8217; developers also worked on Halo. It&#8217;s said to have lots of gore balanced by a good amount of humor, and it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}