Evil Dead: Hail to the King

i am a big fan of The Evil Dead Trilogy and a huge fan of Bruce Campbell so when i heard about this game i was going crazy till it came out today i finally got it and it was worth the wait, Evil Dead Hail To The King is a very fun game it's alot like Resident Evil, Ash has some great lines in the game, but there are a few down sides your energy bar is not big enough one hit and your almost half gone, too many bad guys pop up at once making a bit too hard. and even though you do get alot of health by the time you pick it up another bad guy pops up, if you run they follow then you have to fight 2 guys, and your chainsaw needs gas after a while so you don't wanna waste it. despite all that i love the game, alot of people complain it's too hard and they are right but if you think about it if it was too easy what fun would the game be, but i do feel thq might have gone a bit overboard with making the game so hard, if you are a fan of horror/action/adventure games give Evil Dead Hail To The King a try and if you're a fan of the Evil Dead Trilogy buy this game for sure it rules getting to be Ash, i give Evil Dead Hail To The King 9/10 i would have given it a 10 but it's a bit too complicated at times but like i said this game does rule

The fact that this game played as an RE clone really bother me, especially considering that it was based off of a B-movie series. I'd expect a bit of a knock-off (especially from THQ) but all the originality was there where it counted. The first disc was really just a re-encounter with the movie series. The major problem with this half was the re-appearing deadites. The second half got much better, however, and gave us the unique side of this title.

And just as the films took their opportunities to poke fun at B-movies, the game gave us a few jokes about the survival horror genre. Truly a flawed masterpiece, meant only for those who enjoy B-games as much as they enjoy B-movies.

I have to say that this is a wonderful game for Evil Dead fans! This game has all the humor and gore the films had. Bruce Campbell does a great job reprising his role (in voice-over form) of Ash. The game plays almost exactly like the Resident Evil games, so play should'nt be hard if you've had experience with those. Definetly one of the best purks of this game is that you get a button devoted to Ash's one-liners. You also get two weapons, your trusty chainsaw on one arm, and three other weapons in the other hand including: an axe, your boomstick(shotgun), or a rifle. The sounds are really creepy in the woods, but whenever you kill a deadite and Ash delivers "say hello to disco for me" things get a little brighter. The only problem that I do have to point out is that the floating deadites do respawn and are a pain to kill, and continuously fighting them gets tireing. I would recommend this game to all ED fans, it is a very good, funny, and at times challenging game.

This game sucked. And in response to the guy who says that if you don't like this game you aren't a fan. To show the level of commitment as a fan of Evil Dead, I have a tattoo themed of all three movies that completely covers my forearm. How is that for a fan? Anyways, I agree with most on the game. It was really hard to play and you ran out of gas for the chainsaw way too fast. Pick up Regeneration or Fistful of Boomstick if you want to play a decent ED game. The quips are better. The weapons are better. And Regeneration has some interesting Easter Eggs. I would consider Hail to the King a test to see if there was a market for ED based games. Ten lines can be a pain in the butt.

I can't believe that THQ got the license to one of the greatest film series of all time, got THE MAN to reprise his role in voice-over form, and they still churned out a pile of crap such as this. Right off the bat, I must point out that Bruce Campbell is awesome as far as the voice acting is concerned. Some of the other characters are weak, but Bruce is spot on Ash at all times. If only THQ did their part, and made a decent game to complement it. The backgrounds are blurry looping fmvs, and are acceptable, though pretty blurry. The enemies respawn as soon as they are killed, which makes it pointless to get in any fights. The character models are laughable. The FMVs are really sad. They don't even have the characters' lips move. The story is actually interesting, and integrates the Evil Dead mythos with some real history (The Mad Poet Aziz, the Book of Dead Names), but the game just stinks. Many fans of the game claim that people who don't like it aren't true fans of the films, but they are in some sort of strange denial over the lack of quality found in this game. Maybe THQ will take to heart the criticisms the game has received, as the game does show some potential, but then again, who are we kidding? It's THQ.