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Evil Dead Regeneration
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System:
Xbox
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Genre:
Action
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Publisher:
THQ
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Developer:
Crave Entertainment
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Release:
9/13/2005
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Online:
No
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ESRB:
Rating Pending (RP)
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Fans of the cult classic movies will find a redeeming effort by Crank Pants Games in this upcoming release based on the old cult favorite films. But this time, there is a whole new spin on the plot. Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell and the developers at Crank Pants are combining resourceful techniques in telling a whole new story in the Evil Dead series. Which begins, or rather picks up, from the point in which the hero, Ash, has been condemned by a court jury to spend a good amount of time locked away in an asylum. Simply because they didn’t believe that he didn’t commit the murders of his friends in the cabin for which the Evil Dead series began. Now this might seem more like the ending of this horror-themed franchise. But instead it’s where the new tale of terror and comedy begin. Because after getting to ‘Sunny Meadows’, institute of the mentally unfit, the head psychiatrist of the institute is not what he appears. Or maybe he is? Nevertheless, Dr. Vingo has it in for attaining the powers within the Necronomicon. Which, conveniently just so happens to be a very, very evil book of the Dead, for those unfamiliar with the story.
Well, after doing a little investigating and finding out about the evil Doctor’s intentions, Ash decides it’s time to get back into the dead-killing game and stop the evil Doctor from unleashing all the evil deadies, zombies, monsters and whatnot of the netherworld, using the Necronomicon, and destroying all life on Earth.
This is where the player gets a handle on things. Playing Ash and escaping from Sunny Meadows is just the first step into this continuing saga of the the series. You must journey about wiping out the evil dead plaguing the land, restore peace, order, and a little blood-shed along the way.
The smaller they are, the harder it is for them to pull off your head
New to this game, and unlike previous Evil Dead games, players are given a bit of help from a little deadling: a small-person, with a taste for blood. You may employ this little creaturistic man-zombie to mutilate, decimate, and (literally) decapitate enemy forces. It’s messy, but someone has to do it. I suppose the thing that makes it hilarious (in a relentless way) would be the way Ash make’s use of his little sidekick friend. Kicking him into razor sharp fans, launching him a hundred meters or so across the screen onto the head of a rather large and ugly evil thing; just so the little guy can scream and pull, and kick and rip at the monster’s block until it falls off. That aspect of the game is almost a riot in itself. There are even times in which the player must control Ash’s miniature counterpart in order to access, unlock, or unblock certain passageways that other-wise Ash would not have been able to get to on his own. It refreshes a bit of the gameplay with a little platform/adventure panache using Ash’s sidekick.
--Just in case players get a little worn out from the continuous finger-workout this game puts you through. But don’t worry too much for Ash’s sidekick Sam, he’s a fiery little guy and can seemingly regenerate infinitely...Hence, Evil Dead: Regeneration...(Get it?) So he can infinitely be put through horrendously hilarious situations one-after-another. There’s even a part involving Sam, Ash and a basketball hoop. I bet you can’t guess what Ash has in store for Sam?
Shotguns, Chainsaws and the Evil Dead, OH MY!
The carnage in this game is entirely at the finger tips of the player. Wielding a supplemental weapon on his amputated arm and being able to use a firearm in the other hand, allows Ash to do some rather fantastic slice-n-dice-n-shot-n-blast type maneuvers. For instance: If the player has a chainsaw on the amputated arm and a shotgun in the other one, you could slash-swipe the enemy with the chainsaw and combo that into a swinging shotgun blast to the face. It is a bit difficult to describe the arcade type move, but it doesn’t take a large slate of imagination to picture a harpoon-like weapon that shoots out and brings back whatever it attaches to (i.e., which just so happens to be the badguys in most cases,) and then Ash fires his weapon repeatedly into the body of the victim attached to the harpoon until they disperse in vapors of evil gases. Which is another tactic Crank Pants and THQ thought would be a fairly adequate compliment to Ash’s physical endeavors: The ability to finish your foes by executing specific button combinations for certain fatality scenes, based on the foe, the angle and what weapons the player has equipped. And so far it seems as if there are more than a dozen finishing moves and hundreds of different animations for Ash. There’s even Bruce Campbell doing voice-over work for certain scenes and finishing moves. Weapon wise, the Shotgun and Chainsaw are a fair standard, and are the default of Ash’s inventory (Except when you start in the institute, it appears you have to earn the chainsaw later).
The Shotgun is equipped with a seemingly infinite amount of ammo, so players will never have to worry about being totally defenseless. But chainsaws and shotguns aren’t the only thing Ash has at his weapon-related disposal. The weapon/arm variety is large enough to fill the thirst of just about any gore-hungry gamer. There’s also automatic weapons, ones which include some nasty fatality moves; and there is also a flamethrower (I don’t think a weapon of this sort needs much of an explanation). Needless to reiterate, players who have it in for the dead will find a good multitude of ways to deliver death to the evil dead.
Quality over Quantity
THQ seems to be making sure this Evil Dead game doesn’t folly in the pits of less-than-decency like the previous titles of the franchise. Which is why they decided to toss in the more story-driven elements and versatile ways of dispatching enemies, along with the tossed-in addition of a sidekick. The errs of the past are looked upon shamefully it seems, and THQ wants to make things right by giving fans of the Evil Dead series something to rejoice over. Even though this is a button masher, and a bloody gory button masher at that, it does retain a sense of humor about it all and even chucks in a few unexpected twists. Like the amped up Evil Ash: A robust and evil-murdering Ash who feeds on the death of the dead. It’s basically Ash on steroids with a serious hunger for giving his foes a good thrashing; and from the looks of it, players looking ahead for a game of this kind will be looking to give evil a good thrashing as well. If you like humor, the sordidly evil kind of humor, infused with non-stop arcade style hack-n-blast type gameplay, you should be sure to keep an eye peeled for this sinister title to hit shelves on September 23, 2005.
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