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Platform:
PS2, XB, PC Genre:
Action/Adventure Publisher:
THQ Developer:
Cranky Pants Games ETA: Q3 2005
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Evil
Dead: Regeneration
Ash
returns in a new Evil Dead and is back to his old zombie-beating,
shotgun-wielding crazy masochist self. With the last Evil Dead movie
"Army of Darkness", released in 1993, the series is left to
continue in the realm of video games. Even though Hail to the King and
Fistful of Boomstick did not live up to the hype, THQ is attempting
their own "regeneration" of the Evil Dead series and
entrusting Crank Pants Games to accomplish it.
In Evil Dead: Regeneration, Ash is accused of murder and arrested. He is convicted but luckily escapes a death sentence. Instead he is assigned to Sunny Meadows, an institute for the criminally insane. However, his troubles are not over as the Necronomicon, the Book of |
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the Dead is back. That book seems to haunt
him,
seemingly following Ash everywhere. This time it’s in the hands of a
Dr. Vingo who is obsessed with science. He attempts to combine the
Necronomicon
with technology and unleashes its evil upon the world. Along with
the evil comes a new breed of Deadites, monsters and all sorts of
instruments of death.
Ash will also have a teammate for the first time in the Evil Dead series. His sidekick is a three foot tall snarky deadite that is able to help Ash through the adventure in some unique ways. For example, Ash is readily willing to use him |
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as a tiki torch and a bowling ball to help
his own cause. In fact Ash
would rather kill his sidekick than depend on
him but then again, we don't always get what we want.
Along
with Ash's chainsaw and renowned "boomstick", he also makes
use of everything from harpoon guns to flamethrowers. Also promised are
hordes of evil dead monsters to serve as good practice for wielding your
diverse weapons. If this all sounds familiar, don't be surprised. It
seems to be following the exact same Evil Dead formula that previous
games had and shows little sign of innovation. If Crank Pants Games can
fix the nuances found in the previous games, such as spotty collision
detection and repetitive combat, this might be a respectable game.
Otherwise it will just become another appetizer to satisfy the appetites
of Evil Dead fanatics.
-Stefan
Shetty (August
7, 2005) |
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