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Evil Dead: Hail to the King

Hardcore Evil Dead fans want to like Evil Dead: Hail to the King so much that like zombies, they just might suffer through this CD’s imprecise gameplay and rough-hewn graphics. They’ll be rewarded by plenty of great visual references to the films, that unfortunately range from raggedy, uninspired monster designs to cool cinematic story sequences. Also, Bruce Campbell’s now-classic one-liners (Come get some!) are a major plus. However, it’s a mystery (and a shame) why with solid survival horror games like Nightmare Creatures or the Resident Evil series out there as examples, a can’t-miss movie license like Evil Dead couldn’t have faired better. Hold out hope that better versions of this game will show.

One would think the developers would understand some of the play mechanics that made Resident Evil cool, considering they decided to emulate that classic game. Nothing shocks or surprises you, aside from the fact that so many horrible decisions conceived this blundering zombie of a game. Enemies regenerate constantly, even as you're picking up items from the last battle. Combat is absurd, and the lack of variety in weapons (there are guns, but almost no ammo) make it a total bore. It's not scary, funny, or even gory. This Evil Dead stinks like a rotting, disembodied hand. If you love Evil Dead and want more, I suggest checking out Peter Jackson's Bad Taste and Dead Alive (the unedited version). You'll probably completely forget about this game when you see a man liquefy a house full of zombies with a lawnmower strapped to his waist.

Un jeu qui n'a que son nom pour susciter l'intérêt des fans de survival-horror. Le soft ne procure en lui-même aucune des sensations recherchées habituellement dans ce genre de soft. L'angoisse est ici carrément absente et ce ne sont pas son gameplay et sa réalisation qui sauveront le jeu d'une note très moyenne.

I consider Evil Dead: Hail to the King an utter tragedy. There's so many ways this game could have gone right, I have trouble comprehending how it turned out so bad. A 4.5 is a horrible score, but if this didn't have the Evil Dead license I may have given it a negative rating. The only thing it does right is swallow your soul.

Had the battle sequences not been so maddeningly frustrating and frequent, Evil Dead: Hail to the King would at least weigh in as a decent Resident Evil clone, but they work to make the game almost unplayable. The fights even undermine the otherwise decent puzzle-solving elements, since you're required to do a lot of backtracking across areas where Deadites constantly respawn.

Het beste wat je kunt doen als Evil Dead fan is naar de videotheek gaan, de drie films huren en dromen van wat dit spel had kunnen zijn.