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groovy

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

the latest in the evil dead series is a good one. this new third person action title delievers much of the wit and humor that comes along with the evil dead series. you play ash, which is voiced by the one and only bruce campbell. the cinematics of the game are amazingly good and look excellent running on the xbox. the gameplay is pretty good but can get confusing when you have about 12 deadites on your screen. another great thing is when you do have 12 deadites on your screen and blood and severed limbs flying around, the game doesn't lag up or give you any problems. the weapons are pretty good, you start off with nothing, but it isn't long before you get yourself a shotgun and the classic chainsaw attachment. the graphics in game are decent. the best part is the fact that its a good evil dead game at a terrific price. makes you almost forget about the atrocity that was "evil dead: hail to the king".

Great game for a great price

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

After all the other games based on the Evil Dead movies, this one has finally appeared and is worth the title. Complete with trademark Ash quips and laden with cheesy deadite threats "I'll swallow your soul" this game is a great value. The only complaint I have about it is that the bosses are really easy, once you figure out how to beat them. But you can't have everything, and seeing Ash's ancestors more than make up for it.

With the great gameplay, I was more than satisfied when the game was over, but the ending sequence was one of the best i have seen in any game! Definetly something to look forward to.

Loads of fun...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

We rented this game first and then immediately went out and bought it. This game has been lots of fun for me and my boys. I laugh at all the corny Ash oneliners and the boys get a thrill out of slashing all the deadites. The graphics are good (sometimes a little dark) but overall it looks better than a lot of...games ... I would suggest this game for anyone who liked the movies. With Bruce Campbell doing the voiceovers for Ash it really can be very funny.

Pillow Talk

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

A Fistful of boomstick kept me playing until I beet the game. I love the fact that you have a button for Ash saying. Boomstick is a game that I have not gotten completely bored with and I do recomend it.

Good, Unclean Fun... and Ash is Back!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Video games have been stealing from the "Evil Dead" movies for quite some time now. Take Duke Nukem, for instance - he really wants to be Ashley Williams, when it's all said and done, and that's why he steals the "Evil Dead" hero's quips whenever he spills the entrails of some invading alien. Oh, and what of Caleb, the undead anti-hero of the "Blood" series? Yes, he too owes the majority of his one-liners to Mr. Williams - who we have come to know as `Ash.' Let's face it, "Evil Dead" is the perfect movie-to-game property, and Ash, chainsaw-armed hero of the films, is the perfect gaming bad@$$. When it comes right down to it, it doesn't even matter how well "Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick" plays, provided Bruce Campbell returns to voice Ash. Fortunately for us "Evil Dead" fanatics, Campbell is back, and the game plays pretty darn well too. You're in for some good, unclean fun, you primitive screwheads.

The story picks up sometime after the end of the third film, and we find Ash tilting a few back in his favorite bar in his quaint hometown of Dearborn, Michigan. Naturally, things aren't quaint for very long. A spectacle-toting professor reads an ancient arcane passage from the Deadites' favorite book on a local television broadcast, and it all goes downhill from there. The inhabitants of Dearborn begin to change into slavering undead freaks - and it's up to Ash and his boomstick to save the day.

The storyline is appropriately campy in a fashion that is consistent with the franchise, but otherwise unremarkable. Just the same, it provides all the motivation you will require to dismember hordes upon hordes of Deadites. The game plays out in a way best described as "Tomb Raider" meets "The Thing," and the action, while a little bit on the repetitive side, is slick and bloody. Ash will uncover more ways to dispose of the opposition than you, as the player, will ever have time to use in one play-through, and it's just plain addictive. Some puzzles crop up to offset the mayhem, and they provide some welcome cerebral moments that are rarely illogical.

During the course of the game, Ash will venture through present day (but Deadite-infested) Dearborn, colonial Dearborn, Civil War era Dearborn, and post-apocalyptic Dearborn. This time travel scenario provides some much-appreciated variety in the locales, and an "Army of Darkness" ambience besides. It all looks pretty nice too - crisp and colorful, and fraught with detail. Only the segments of the game that take place in the forests around Dearborn are unattractive, point of fact, and that's saying something when you consider that this is a budge title retailing at about $20. What's more, the character models, while not bursting with detail, are very well animated, and usually quite convincing.

Any "Evil Dead" fan looking forward to this game is probably asking: "So, how are Ash's one-liners?" The answer to that is this: not bad, but not half as well-written as the ones from the films (which is to be expected). Even so, Bruce Campbell's delivery compensates for even the worst of them, and his vocal presence alone is worth the price of admission. Besides, there are some hidden gems scattered here and there that will tickle Deadite aficionados in all the right places. Add to that some well-made cut-scenes (and a BRILLIANT finale), and you've got the closest thing to "Evil Dead 4" you're going to see... at least for quite some time.

It's not all unbridled joy, though. The game is a bit on the short side, and requires a lot of backtracking and errand running. Boss battles are not very intense, and the solutions to defeating them are all but spelled out for you in a most unsubtle fashion. As an "Evil Dead" fan myself, I was also a bit disappointed by some of the enemies in the game, which don't really fit in the "Evil Dead" universe, and seem to have come instead from an entirely different game.

As a game, without any other considerations, "Evil Dead: Fistful of Boomstick" is good. It plays well, offers a few scares and a few laughs, and a whole lot of M-rated action. As an "Evil Dead" fanatic, the game delivers all of the above and the added delight of revisiting Ashley Williams and watching him kick all kinds of Deadite @$$. Finally, as a budget title, this game represents pure excellence. In a rare twist of fate, just because you're paying less doesn't mean you're getting less. Hail to the king, baby.

Final Score (with an "Evil Dead" fanboy bias): A- [or 5 stars]

The good book

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is really fun. Great weapons and magic spells. Don't expect it to change the way games are played or viewed, but it has a great quality to it that makes it different. The game is solid and the " to do " mission aren't very easy but not overly complicated. Ash has a great personality and his humor is " ash " the only way to put it. The only complaint I have about this game is the camera angle. It is the most confusing to get used to. It wouldn't be so bad but you constantly need to view all around you. There are so many zombies attacking you at once, that the camera falls short into taking full advantage. Holding the left trigger, aiming, while running helps. For the price, this game is worth playing or renting.

senseless garbage

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: August 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

For starters, this is my brother's game, but I tried it out for like, fifteen minutes, before I got so bored I turned it off. This game is a pointless shoot 'em up where all you do is run around shooting this or sawing that. It's entertaining for a little bit watching the zombies fall apart at the hands(or blades) of Ash's chainsaw. But it's only a matter of time before the gameplay becomes so redundant you have no will to continue playing because all you do is chop stuff up(and what's with the strip clubs everywhere?!).There ARE spells that attempt to add some depth to the game, but when the day is over, you're left with the same shoot and slash garbage you started with when you turned the game on. Anyone into these kind of games should check out the Hunter games instead. They have better variation in weapons, and you can play with a friend. I would not recommend this game to ANYONE unless they're a die hard fan of the Evil Dead series.

This game stinks!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: June 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!

Graphics-2/10. look like a PSX game with its choppy, blurry graphics. The charatcer blends in with the background so hes VERY hard to see.

Sound-3/10. Ever hear Atari? Souns WORSE.

Control-6/10. The controls are decent, X to do the attacks, and the D button to walk.

Gameplay-1/10. Very repetative. Same thing over and over.

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!

Why isn't there negative stars?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: January 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Alright, so my friend and I love renting horrific video games. We absolutly enjoyed Contra Shattered Soldier, because the entire game was borrowed from the SNES... but this... noooo. Never before has a game been so grotesque, and unenjoyable, we literally lost IQ points for watching the screen.

If you have ever seen any of the movies, you will quickly realize upon playing this game that not only is not nearly as witty, satisfying, or downright even boredom solving, it will quickly make you want to eviscerate yourself and plummet into inferal damnation and/or a pit of despair. If you do not get these inclinations while playing the game, please have the closest competent human being commit you as soon as possible.

In conclusion, this is the game of the year, please go out and buy 4 copies immediately...your enemies will never know what hit em.

Fistful of Boomstick?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: July 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game was one of the worst ones i've played in a while, its right next to The Hulk in the Worst Games of the year awards. It has horrible gameplay, and is obviously a take off on resident evil. Yet in this its just Leon with black hair, and a chainsaw for a hand. So basicly it not Fistful of Boomstick...

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