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Ash is Pimping...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is way better than the first one, the first one reminds me of (Medievil) but this is awsome, more action.
Real scary,Real funny its fun then watching (The Ren and Stimpy Show).

A 10/10 for this game.

Good Zombie Hacking Fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

While this game does have a few flaws, it is overall a good hack and slash game. Bruce Campbell lends his voice in a time-traveling, puzzle solving, zombie hacking good time. The graphics for the backgrounds is quite good although, the characters and monsters are a bit blocky. The mechanics of the game are simple to learn and it won't be long until you are slashing and hacking your way through the city streets slaughtering any evil dead that crosses your path. You don't have to be a fan of the Evil Dead movies to enjoy the game. The story, while simple is engrossing enough to keep your interest. The game is relatively short but for the price, this one can't be beat.

Fellow "Deadites" buy this game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I can't stop playing BOOMSTICK! I've played this game so much "... my hand went bad ...".
This game is great fun for Evil Dead fans. The game is challenging but easy to play. My husband is becoming an Evil Dead fan thanks to 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...

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!

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.

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]

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