Evil Dead: Hail to the King

This game was great for the time period it was released. The intro movie and story to it is amazing, and picks up after where Army of Darkness left off, but once you start actually playing the game, it's basically like playing through the whole Evil Dead trilogy. Just about everything that happens in the movies you have to play through. (Even when you think the game is about to end, you go back in time like in AOD) The game has a perfect sense of eeriness to it and also throws in Bruce Campbell's signature humor. It is one of the few games that held my attention all the way through until I beat it. (Of course I am a huge Evil Dead fan though!) I own this for the Dreamcast and have always found that the games that were released on Dreamcast as well as Playstation 2 always played and controlled in a much cleaner fashion on the Dreamcast. Simply put, if you are a fan of Evil Dead, Bruce Campbell and horror games, you will enjoy this game!

This game continues the Evil Dead series in true fashion it is one hell of a good game! Bruce Campbell is just as funny as he was eight years ago. This is perfect for any Evil Dead fan and a great survival horror for any gamer! Not only does it continue traditions it continues the story which means you need to watch the films to make complete sense of it but is is still good to play even if your not sure what is going on. The only fault I could find the fact it rips off Resident Evil graphics and he moves badly but everything from the deadites to one-liners will entertain until the credits have rolled. Evil Dead Hail to the King is just like Sam Raimi has directed it.

The fact that this game played as an RE clone really bother me, especially considering that it was based off of a B-movie series. I'd expect a bit of a knock-off (especially from THQ) but all the originality was there where it counted. The first disc was really just a re-encounter with the movie series. The major problem with this half was the re-appearing deadites. The second half got much better, however, and gave us the unique side of this title.

And just as the films took their opportunities to poke fun at B-movies, the game gave us a few jokes about the survival horror genre. Truly a flawed masterpiece, meant only for those who enjoy B-games as much as they enjoy B-movies.

The game is cool just like the Resident Evil games. Bruce Campbell got his lines from the movies. If you press triangle on the controller he say "come get some", "yo", "let's go", "bring it on". I heard those lines he says in the game from Army of Darkness.

This game sucked. And in response to the guy who says that if you don't like this game you aren't a fan. To show the level of commitment as a fan of Evil Dead, I have a tattoo themed of all three movies that completely covers my forearm. How is that for a fan? Anyways, I agree with most on the game. It was really hard to play and you ran out of gas for the chainsaw way too fast. Pick up Regeneration or Fistful of Boomstick if you want to play a decent ED game. The quips are better. The weapons are better. And Regeneration has some interesting Easter Eggs. I would consider Hail to the King a test to see if there was a market for ED based games. Ten lines can be a pain in the butt.