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Two New Xbox Originals on The Way

May 14th, 2008

Major Nelson has just announced that come May 19th, we will see two new Xbox Originals.

Price at 1200 Microsoft Points each, the two new Originals will be Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse and Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows.

You can view the plot synopsis of both, courtesy of Wikipedia, below:

Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows:

Centuries ago, four immortal heroes were gathered together to serve the emperor. He trusted their advice, but sought their immortality, and so his six great advisors used this against him, and tricked him into crucifying the heroes on a great tree at the bottom of the world. Afterwards the emperor regretted this act, and yet committed six other sorrows before he was killed by his trusted advisors. However, before his death he undid his first great sorrow and released his loyal heroes from the tree. Mysteriously set free, the heroes now must set out to destroy the emperor’s twisted advisors and set right the emperor’s six other sorrows. If the ancient heroes cannot undo the emperor’s deeds on their own, his mad plans may tear apart the world.

Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse:

In 1933, Stubbs is a travelling salesman during the Great Depression trying to eke out a living. However, according to the game manual, Stubbs has had a string of bad luck since he was born, and was thereby unable to get people to buy what he was trying to sell them, life insurance. After making love to Maggie Monday, she became impregnated. Stubbs was then murdered by Maggie’s father, Otis Monday, and was then buried in a remote Pennsylvania field. Maggie Monday later gave birth to Stubbs’ son, naming him Andrew Monday. He would later become a playboy industrialist responsible for the creation of the city of Punchbowl.

The game takes place in the fictional city of Punchbowl, Pennsylvania at its opening ceremony in 1959. Stubbs rises from his grave and decides to get his revenge by eating the brains of the inhabitants of Punchbowl, thus creating his own army of the undead, creating increasing amounts of havoc as the undead clash with the various militant factions of the area. During the chaos, Stubbs kills Otis Monday by blowing up his house after a brief reunion.

Stubbs eventually reunites with Maggie Monday and the two lovingly embrace, with Stubbs promptly eating her brain (whether she was willing or not is uncertain). Andrew tries to avenge his half-destroyed, zombie-infested city and his mother by killing Stubbs behind a force field. Stubbs, however, destroys the force field and looms toward Andrew, but Maggie, now a zombie, convinces him to spare him. It is implied that the two zombies declare themselves married to each other. The game ends with Stubbs and Maggie sailing off on a small rowboat, kissing as Andrew and all of Punchbowl are destroyed by a nuclear bomb, and they both “live” happily ever after.

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