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I expected so much more

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Evil Dead. When you hear those words you think true horror, deadites, or even good acting. This game features only one of those and im sad to say that the deadites are it. The game takes place sometime after the events in Army Of Darkness. Ash returns to the cabin with his new girlfriend. Just when it seems that things are going ok, Ash's hand returns and turns on the tape by Professor Knoby. The evil is unleashed and the game begins. The first thing i noticed was the bad camera angles that made me feel like i was in a third rate Resident Evil. The next thing was the incredible difficulty, even at the beginning. Lets take my least favorite part, leaving the cabin. Now as you walk outside you are immediatly confronted by a few "deadites". Ok so lets say you [destroy] them and decide to make sure there's nothing left in the cabin. You go back to the cabin and are confronted by the same deadites. The fights are repititious, boring, and far too difficult. This game is a true dissapointment.

Great! but could have been better.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 13
Date: December 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is a good game, but these are the bad things, and the good things: Good things: U get the shotgun, axe, rifle, and of Course! The Chainsaw!! bloody, and not impossible to beat! Bad Things: U can run out of gasoline for your chainsaw, weapon in each hand can get annoying, controlls a little weird at first, to many guys form one after another, and lastly it is to short, i got to the sencond disk in 2 hours! the first time playing. I know, there are alot more bad things than good things, but this is just my own opinion, u might give it a 5, or maybe nothin, it's up to u.

COME GET SOME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

THQ has done an excellent job of recreating the Evil Dead (ED) experience. Having seen all 3 movies, it was very creepy wandering through the woods that surround the cabin (where you start out). It's 8 years after Army Of Darkness and Ash hasn't lost a step. Sure, the controls seem hard to master at first but once you get going you really don't notice. The more I played, the more I thought that this game was better the any of the Resident Evil (RE) games. When my 17 year old son came over this weekend, I commented about the controls and this game vs. RE games. After a few minutes of play, he had to agree on both points. Not an easy audience to win over. I loved the taunts and upgradable weapons. Now for the best part - for the price of a single game you get 2 discs!!! The first disc has Ash in the woods and the second has him transported back to Damascus. All in all, an excellent game that I will play again real soon...... as soon as I get it back from my son. Hail to the king baby!!!

Growl! This is a stress attack...too much headache!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: January 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is a stress attack. There are not enough places to save. There are too many attackers at times. You run around in circles. There are no levels to work with (it takes awhile to get use to putting your finger, here, your other finger there, your thumbs here, blah blah blah). Its a total headache. Unless you have days and days without working or having a life...

Evil Dead: Hail to the Cheese

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: January 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

All Evil Dead fans can agree on one thing. We were all very excited to see this game. BUT as we are all finding, it leaves a lot to be desired. You have horribly awkward changing camera angles while fighting, sloppy fighting animation (I just didn't get a good eviscerating feeling from using the chainsaw), Unfufilling story line etc. At the end I found myself just thinking "That was it? That's all?" I played and finished this game once and have had no desire to put it in and play it again. The only saving grace (making it two stars instead of one) was the entertaining voice over from Bruce and his cut scenes. I felt pretty cheated that this was sold as a two disc game. There just isn't that much there. Hopefully as another reviewer put it this won't kill a possible franchise in games for Evil Dead. They just need to make it a lot better. If Sam Raimi can't see it to make more movies then we want more games. I wish game designers out there would think more about long term playability so you can actually get some life out of these titles. So far Syphon filter 1 & 2 have been my mainstays.

An Honest Review

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: November 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I hate to say anything bad about Evil Dead, (I love the movies) but to review the game HONESTLY, I'm going to have to give it an average rating. The Graphics, I thought were good. The Story, was no different from that of the movies. The Funny Ash, was all there.

The Zombies, I had a problem with. They floated through the air like balloons. Their attacks were so Nintendo (Yes, the regular version; not Nintendo64, or 98, or whatever the Hell they call it). And the zombies lacked anything real. Even Ash seemed Cartoonish. If you're expecting the same realism you get when you play Resident Evil or Silent Hill, you're not going to get it in this game. When I shoot at a deadite, I don't want to see a white spark (that's suppose to be a bullet) fly across the screen. I want to see that Witch's head get blown off like in the movie, and her decapitated body running after me with a chainsaw. All well, I guess I'll live. They could of been more creative on how ASH collected items. You pick up mushrooms the size of your head to make fuel for your chainsaw, and collect medic packs by killing deadites. If I went out and chopped up my girl friend with a chainsaw, she's not going to drop a medic pack for me. Just little things like that really make the game ridiculous. Something else ridiculous were the puzzels, like in order to unlock the church doors, you have to put a starw hat, a plant and a gravestone before the entrance, which makes absolutely no sense.

Another horrible factor is that the game isn't scary at all. Throughout the entire gameplay, it has the same humor that you'll find on Army of Darkness. That might not be bad, but believe me, I think if the game had some of the same morbidness you'll find in the Evil dead 1 and 2 movies, it would of been better. The game doesn't have the roots of the Evil Dead Tree, only the dried leaves on the crown.

Enough complaining. If you're an Evil Dead fan, you will have fun playing the game (I'm just saying it could of been a heck of a lot better). You will laugh, but you will not cry, because the game isn't painful at all like in the beginning movies. It's really hard at first, but it comes easy like learning how to drive. And I'm talking easy, man. I beat the game in two hours the first time around. So, it's a quick fun play, but not thrilling like Silent Hill or anything. And it's cool to show to all your Evil Dead buddies, if you have any.

In fact, after writing so much about it, I think I'll go Carve Me A Witch and play a little bit.

gimme some sugar baby,this is my BOOM STICK!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: July 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game rules fans of the evil dead films will love this!!!!sadlly if youre not a fan and never seen the films this wont appeal to you.resident evil style gameplay and the humour of the films,and best of all "Bruce Cambell" as the voice of ash!!!with chain saws and boom sticks and an Ash one liner button,this game is well worth the money,Graphics are beautiful and the animation hilarious and superb!!Well what are you waiting for buy it and kick some deadite butt!!!

The dead rises again...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is a spectacular instalment of the past 90's movies "Evil Dead" and "Army of Darkness". It uses great voice overs (For instance... Bruce Cambell). The angle shots and graphics could use a little bit more progress but the button handling and controlling is great for a PS1 game of it's marvelous movie credencials. I reccomend this game for (...) teens everywhere.

Good, but not Great

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: February 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game over amazon.com, because ever since I heard about it in July, 2000, I've been waiting forever. I bought it and immediately put it into the Playstation. I thought it was ok at first, but the Deadites keep coming back. You get no clues on where to go. Your chainsaw runs out of gas all the time. And the Deadite's hardly give you health. The boss's were hard, the deadite's were hard. And when I got to disc 2, I said, "That was the shortest ... disc I've ever seen. They should of made it only 1 disc." I beat the game in about 3 hours total. The ending wasn't much of an ending. And there were too many bosses. I give this game a 2 star. 1 star for giving you something to do for 4 hours. Another star for Bruce Campbell's voice. Don't waist ... your hard earned money. Rent it and beat it that day.

the closest to an Evil dead 4

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: June 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Let's face it, they're not making another evil dead. Check Bruce Campbell's site if you don't believe me. This is the closest they'll get. The controls are very much like Alone in the Dark. It takes some getting use to, but the fact that they assigned a button just to make Ash one-liners tells you how much they thought of the fans. If you're not a fan, here's you chance to jump in. you'll love it. You almost get the feeling that the movies were the perfect build up to this game. Simply put, a must have with your PS collection, or near your necronomican.

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