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Gamasutra has a story covering the nominations for the 23rd Annual Saturn Awards given by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films. Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse by Wideload Games was nominated in the Best Video Game Release: Horror category:
Since I've already been called out for being petulant this week, I thought I'd do a follow-up on Uwe Boll's whinefest from yesterday where he takes a few swipes at his critics, just as I've taken a few swipes at those trying to let the air out of the tires of my favorite defenseless lovelorn zombie, Stubbs.
Aside from his complaint, most likely valid, that many who criticize his films haven't actually seen them (a sure bet for films that don't succeed at the box office, I'd imagine) Boll also suggests the following series of logical propositions as a counter-argument (click read more from front page for the complete article):
The Bleat has an excellent hypothetical exchange between the Doom movie scriptwriter and a Hollywood producer:
Producer: Of the game, maybe, but you know, we’re in the reimagining business here. Value added. People go see this expecting demons from hell, we give them something else, shake them up.
Eurogamer is carrying an interview with film director Uwe Boll about videogame movies. The thrust is basically that when his videogame adaptations have failed to succeed critically or to make good theatrical box-office numbers, the reasons have largely been a lack of support from the developers of the original game and an unfairly hostile press.
In the first part of my review of Stubbs, I lamented that most gaming media outlets were giving the game less attention than it deserved. That is still so. It was fortuitously released around Halloween, which gave many mainstream outlets an excuse to mention the game, but for the most part the hardcore gaming press dismissed it as a game with a cute premise and a nice soundtrack but just not much to write home about.
Without meaning any disrespect to Robert 'Apache' Howarth at Voodoo Extreme (a site I generally find to be a cut above most gaming sites, even if it is part of IGN) I found his mini-review of Stubbs a good example of what's wrong with game reviews in general and reviews of Stubbs in particular. So I thought I'd annotate a version of it here.
N1NJ4 is writing an Insane Walkthrough of Stubbs the Zombie in his Rampancy.net blog. Naturally, it contains spoilers, so if you haven't played the game yet but intend to, be wary. The first level, Welcome to Punchbowl, is up now.
I've been working on this one for a while and it is finally good enough to post here. Have fun with it, especially the end. I've added fingering to help you play it easier.
As always, I've included PDF, MIDI, and PrintMusic 2006 files for each song.
-Devin Eastman
More reviews of Stubbs: Anton P Nym wrote a nice piece on Stubbs the Zombie in his blog that is well worth a read.
Richard 'MrE' Elliott over at the Global Gaming League has an interview with Doug Zartman, now of Wideload Games and formerly of Microsoft Game Studios and Bungie Software.
Despite being not just very different games but nearly different kinds of games, comparisons between Wideload's debut effort, Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without A Pulse, and Bungie's Halo franchise are inevitable.
Wideload has derived not only their core personnel but also the game's engine from Bungie.
At first glance, if it weren't for the "made with the Halo engine" sticker on the box, there might be little to suggest any connection at all. Some reviewers have gone so far as to suggest this was merely a marketing ploy, to attach the relatively unknown Wideload's first game to the blockbuster Halo series. However, the connections are far deeper than that.
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