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Strangely, this doesn't revolve around following a certain jam band around on tour. Instead, you're a private eye who wears his enemies' heads to gain their powers.

Genre: Action
Release date: Aug 28, 2007
Published by: D3Publisher of America
Developed by: Vicious Cycle

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Lose your mind in this terrifically twisted head-swapping horror show

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Aug 29, 2007 Nobody is going to want to swap heads with Fred, so fans of gore and macabre humour will be happy to know, our Fred is content to steal heads by yanking them off the shoulders of enemies. There are eight different craniums which you can switch between at will, each granting unique abilities once worn to better deal with certain enemy types, objects and solve puzzles. For instance, the default jar head allows Fred to charge up a special meter and turn invisible for a short amount ...

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Even by the bizarre standards of videogames, Fred Neuman is an unconventional hero. An undead, amnesiac private eye, Fred's out to solve the mystery of why someone murdered him and replaced his head with a brain floating in a jar. His hometown can best be described as a 1950s-era toxic-dump nightmare, which might explain his ability to rip zombies apart with his bare hands. He raises radioactive worms as a hobby, and then feeds them to mutant chickens that he enters in cockfights. Weirdest of ... » Read Full Dead Head Fred preview

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Of all the weird games we saw at E3 this year, few of them were as flat-out bizarre as Dead Head Fred. Offering up a cartoonishly grim take on brawling and film noir, it tells the story of Fred, a detective who runs afoul of a local crime boss and winds up headless. Luckily for Fred, a kindly mad scientist finds his corpse and reanimates him as a jarheaded monstrosity, able to steal and use his enemies' heads as he tries to track down his memory. It's a gruesome, darkly funny premise, and Dead ... » Read Full Dead Head Fred preview

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