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FUN GAME. Not much more than that....but what do you want??

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: June 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I hate to say it....but I am starting to feel sorry for hardcore gamers. And I am tired of people holding EVERYTHING on the xbox to a higher standard.
This game is FUN. Pure and simple. Its not the next splinter cell....the graphics arent created to be next gen or so real that its not fun anymore....its about killing zombies with a chainsaw...SORRY ITS NOT MORE REALISTIC.
If you liked the movies....or even if you just like a break from most modern games and just want a no brainer killing spree....this is your game. Bruce Campbell is as entertaining as ever....although....sometimes the cheese is a little over the top. But hey. What does he care...its just a video game...not the next movie, right?
but. Yeah. its a solid romp. simple controls. some nice additions...(spells....gatling gun....) and MILLIONS OF DEADITES. Story is average....so is most of the voice acting. But. Like it said. ITS FUN! I dont know why!!! But swinging around a chainsaw and a double barrel in the middle of a hoard of 50 attacking zombies is just fun! Sue me!
For [$$$] brand new....this game is worth every penny.

Kiss My Boomstick (Shotgun goes off)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Ten years ago, Ash and couple of friends drove up to a log cabin in the woods hoping to have fun. Then they find this tape that has the readings of the Book of The Dead. When its play, all hell brakes loose(no really all hell those brake out)and everyone dieds within hours of the tape being play, except Ash. That was just the first night, the second night Ash had to fight his hand, deaditys and a wormhole which send him back in time to fight the Army of Darkness. At this point Ash is starting to ask himself is it worth it? Then eight years later after the movies, Ash is send back to the cabin in another Video Game and kick ... again to try to save himself. He makes out alive and now he mostly at his favorite bar. One day while at his favorite bar, a tv reporter plays the tape which brought the dead back at cabin, only its being play on every tv set in town. Now its up to him once again to kick ..., take names, blow .... up, and save the world from a crazy man who wants to take over it. Groovy! So get this game, its great.

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!

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".

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]

Boring and repetitive

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: July 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick is nice looking game, with some great lighting effects and extra touches like leaves blowing in the wind. Downside.. it's really, really dark.

Bruce Campbell voices Ash's dialog, which should please fans of the Evil Dead movies.

This game is boring, so boring that it's hard to play long enough to get to some of the game's more interesting elements like the selection of different weapons or the ability to cast a few spells.

If you want to play this game, I suggest renting it first. Shooting and slashing zombies can be fun, but after a while it gets really boring.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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