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Stop the Madness

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 13
Date: June 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is truly horrible. I love Evil Dead. I love video games. Seems like a sure thing, huh?

NO. NO IT IS NOT!!

I've haven't seen a game this bad since Extreme Paintball. The controls are unmanagable, the enemies respawn so often that I thought it was an error found in games from the NES era, the amount of enemies is completely ridiculous, and it just plain hurts. It seems that whenever they thought they needed more of a challenge, they just added more enemies, which is like taking six extra doses of medication when you feel bad. After playing this game for ten minutes I had to stop because my brain and vital organs informed me they had formed a suicide pact to shut down and end my suffering if I submitted myself to any more of the torture.

I honestly cannot find one good thing about this game except for the Evil Dead tie-in. I'm completely dumbstruck and perplexed as how ANYONE could give this a good review, but the other reviewers look like 13 year olds who need to pop a few more pills of Ritalin and turn the rap music down.

THQ, I hate you. I truly hate you. I will not purchase any more of your games or even brake when your employees cross the street.

WEAK, WEAK, ...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: April 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

One word sums this game up. WEAK!

disgrace to the trilogy. can't map keys to a controler? Stiff 3D Ash,Can't save the game when you want. I have had more fun using the ash model in quake 3, it is more realistic and not a stiff board, and why diddn't they have the Bruce do voiceovers where you have text written at certain points in the game? Someone sold the license for a quick buck and made a ... game WEll they have my money now. As a die hard Evil dead fan this was dissapointing.

Hail To the Mediocre

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: May 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

When I first heard about this game, I couldn't wait to get it. Now that I own it, I feel like going skeet shooting with the discs.

The movie aspects of the game are really cool, but thats about it. Ash is extremely difficult to control. Weapon selection is very limited. The graphics look like something from the mid 90s and the number of deadites become annoying after about five minutes.

I can't believe Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi actually allowed themselves to be associated with this [game]. If you've never seen the Evil Dead Trilogy, do yourself a favor and watch it, just stay clear of Hail To the King.

BTW, I gave this one star, but seriously, it's really not even that good.

What a thud

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: April 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Not only does this game an injustice to the film series, but it's an insult to todays games. Clearly they slapped a license on a box and gameplay was an afterthought... at best.

Heartbreaking.

If you love "Evil Dead" or video games you will HATE this!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: April 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Way to blow a sure thing THQ. I think this game was made in 1988 because it sure plays like it. Worst camera angles ever. In the very beganing of the game when I first got out of the cabin I found myself fighting things behind trees. It sounded like a good battle but who knows since all I could see were branches. The creatures regenerate so many times I thought it might be a glitch in the game. You fight the exact same creatures over and over and over again. When you retrace your steps you have to fight the same monsters even if you just beat them for the tenth time in the exact same spot. If this game was released under a different title nobody would ever by it. Go get the Elite "Evil Dead" DVD instead if you want fun fast paced gore or play checkers against yourself for 8 hours in a row for a fun faced paced game that can really hold your attention span... well when compared to the "Evil Dead" game anyway. Not even a rental option. Yes it has blood and yes it is the "Evil Dead" but if you watched 7 seconds of the movie rewound and watched the same seconds again for an hour it also would get stale. That is the "evil Dead" game, repeating the same stuff forever.

So much potential

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: December 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Basically a pathetic rip-off of Resident Evil with a model that looks nothing like Bruce Campbell. It's just no-good. Got it cause Evil Dead movies rule, but this game just sucks, no two ways about it.

Diehard fans only

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Wow! If it wasn't for the Evil Dead licence, this would be the worst videogame ever created. It is basically Resident Evil lite, with all of RE's faults and none of its strengths. In place of slow moving zombies which need to be dispatched before they can reach the player's throat, Hail to the King provides endlessly spawning floating zombie demon things that get really annoying after playing for longer than five minutes. In the end, the game boils down to mindlessly slashing enemies over and over and over again. Even the concept of health and ammo conservation is eliminated due to the fact that enemies conveniently drop items exactly when you need them. The only challenge left in the game is figuring out how to move ash around while fighting multiple deadites on either side. While Evil Dead: Hail to the King is not the absolute worst game ever conceived and produced by the human race, I strongly advise you not to buy or rent this game unless you really love Evil Dead. You might even want to avoid it if you do love the movies, as the story is clumsy and Bruce Campbell's voice work is sub-par. Just stay far far away.

it's ok

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: October 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

i have to respond to some of the negative reviews for this game. the graphics are not very good (quality wise but concept is great) and the gameplay isn't very exciting. it's a clone of resident evil and it wasn't done nearly as well.

that said, it offers some positives if you enjoyed RE and are also a fan of evil dead. i think much of the evil dead reference is lost on the younger demographic which makes me question the reason they bought the license in the first place.

however, had this game nothing to do with evil dead i would of rated it 2 stars instead of 3.

I've seen better, but I've also seen worse

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

To start off with, I will mention something that I have not seen in any of the reviews. This game is a combination of a third person view, but from a single camera angle.

Most people are aware that third person is a view from behind the player. This game is similar, except that in most rooms you only have one angle for the ENTIRE room. You see Ash at a distance, but most of the time the camera never moves, unless the room is so big it can't fit all onto one screen.

I have never seen a game set up this way before. I rarely play third person, I really only like first person. Anyway, this single view was hard to get used to for me.

The opening animations are pretty good. Bruce Campbell does the voice overs, except the animation doesn't look much like him.

The default keys are very strange. Usually the keys somehow relate to the weapon. Not in this game. R starts the chainsaw, E turns it off, F uses it. Now who would just think of that?? You can redefine them, but that still is pretty lame.

Overall, not a bad game. Good graphics overall, good sound, and fairly good layout.

The bad parts is Ash has very strange weapon controls, since the camera angle in each room does not change, it takes time to get used to moving him around. Almost every step you take a deadite pops up. I've never seen a game with enemies coming up so often. The deadites take forever to kill. I hit one of them over 10 times with the axe and finally killed it. I guess you could say the game is a combination of contstantly being attacked along with enemies that are hard to kill.

You do need some horsepower to play this. I have a Pentium III 800 with 256 MB of RAM and a 3dfx video card with 16 MB, and even on my machine it runs alright, but it could do better. The loading times take longer than most other games I have played. I don't have much loaded in the background either. My setup is beyond their requirements.

So essentially, the game is just alright. The price now is all I feel it is worth. This is coming from a HUGE Evil Dead fan. Unfortunately, the game was a little disappointing to me. Like I said though, I've seen worse. If you have ever played Alien Trilogy for the IBM world, you know what I mean.

Finally, I don't know how often you are supposed to be able to save games. During the entire cabin scene I couldn't save, and once I walked outside, I still couldn't. Go figure.

Overall, for HUGE fans of the movies, its not too bad. Takes getting used to. For those who love and worship this game, I guess they had less expectations than I did. If I had the chance to buy it again, I probably would, but I wouldn't pay anything more than what I did. It's not *that* good.

Good Game, but experienced gamers may be dissapointed

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: April 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Just got the game. I have to tell you that as a die hard Ash fan, it is awesome. The prelude tells the story like both ED2 and Army of Darkness with floating pages of the Necronomican and Bruce Campbell's naration. It is certainly very funny and well-done and will appeal to fans of the series.

The game play, however, seems a little clunky. I thought it was going to be a first person shooter game, ala Doom, but it is more cinematic and from a third person (director) perspective, which makes it hard to control. Sometimes you walk in one side of an area, and you are walking a different direction when you leave. That is really my only complaint.

There are problems to solve, and the graphics are very nice. Ash can be made to say such Ashisms as "Come Get Some," "Groovy," and "Yo." Apparently you hear more as the game progresses.

Still can't get into the Delta 88 and haven't found my boomstick, but I'm trying. I can easily recomend this game to fans of the series, but more experienced gamers might find it limited. Me, I'm happy.

"Who wants some?"

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