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Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick

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This game is awsome! It is way better than the first one. My dad is the biggest fan of Evil dead movies, so I rented it. When I rented it, my dad's head practically blew it's hinges. Me and my dad alike love this game. It has great handling, the buttons are easy to follow and the graphics are great! The weapons and spells are even better. The zombies in the game scare me so bad, though. This game should be more than twenty bucks. It's great. If you like horror games, buy this game immediately. It has everything a blood-thirsty teen would ever wish for.

The Evil Dead films have--with good reason--a dedicated fan following, and a video game tie-in seemed like a logical choice. If you like the films, then you will probably like this game. Bruce Campbell returns as Ash, the Boomstick-slinging, chainsaw-wielding hero of the films with an axe to grind (literally) and Deadites to kill. The premise is very simple: Armed with his trusty chainsaw, Boomstick, spells, and a quip-spouting mouth, Ash must must travel through time to various points in Dearborn, Michigan's past and accomplish certain goals that will stop the Deadites from overrunning the Earth.

The Good: Action, action, action. Deadites are everywhere, constantly on the attack. Bruce Campbell has a number of great one-liners, and his vocal work and self-deprecating humor makes the more tedious parts of the game pass more easily. The game has an Mature rating, and with good reason: Ash hacks Deadites apart with his chainsaw, sending limbs and heads flying everywhere and blood spurting ten feet into the air. He blasts them into a fine red mist with his shotgun, and cooks them with his flamethrower. Definitely not a game for the kiddies. Controls are decent, though Ash seems to have trouble outrunning Deadites, who shamble and shuffle along. I especially like the two-handed attacks Ash can execute, such as using the chainsaw and shotgun simultaneously. You can also cast spells, such as "Possess Deadite" and a great lightning spell that add to your arsenal and allow you to work through some areas more easily.

The Bad: Constant Deadite regeneration. Just when you think you've cleared an area of Deadites, they respawn. This makes backtracking very, very difficult, as enemies keep respawning every time you pass through an area. This makes game progression difficult at times. Also, there never seems to enough health. I've killed literally dozens of Deadites and only been rewarded with one or two bits of health.

There are also too many cutscenes, and most of them cannot be skipped. it's annoying to face a boss character, get killed, and have to sit through the introductory clip again and again without being able to skip it. There are also too few save points. Constantly replaying the same areas again and again gets old after a while.

Graphics are subpar, but Ash at least LOOKS like Bruce Campbell, and the blood and atmospheric effects are adequate. The camera angle can be a real aggravation at times. I had to rotate it way too often to get my bearings, a problem commonly found in third-person games.

The Ugly: The Deadites. Nuff said.

A tip or two: Save devastating weapons, such as explosive shells, armor-piercing bullets, or the flamethrower for crowds of Deadites. When faced with that many enemies, your trusty chainsaw won't be able to mow them down fast enough to keep you from being surrounded. Single Deadites are usually best dispatched with your chainsaw. Also, when the music begins to quicken, that's a hint that Deadites are approaching. The game also has some good unlockable arcade levels, usually accessed by killing X number of Deadites in X amount of time.

Not a perfect game by any means, but for twenty bucks or so, a pretty worthy purchase.

This was the 3rd game I purchased for XBox, I got an XBox on the 4th of July, wanted to wait until some fun games came out.

Anyway, the main problem I have with this game is the ... cutscenes. Some you can skip, and some you can't. BIG turnoff. I don't want to sit through a 2 minute cutscene again after a boss kills me.

Second of all, no cheats. Don't get me wrong. This game wasn't extremly difficult. It would just be fun if you could go back and have infinite ammo or something. Not to mention picking certain levels. I loved the Civil War level, I'd love to go back with infinite gatling gun ammo. But sadly, no level select either.

The arcade mode is probably the most difficult part of the game, too many damn deadites!

All in all, it's a fun game. Not much replay value (unless you wait and forget how to solve some puzzles) but it's incredibly fun, ...! Stop being so stingy!

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.

My husband and I totally love the Evil Dead movie series - so when we happened upon this game in the mall the other day we figured why not buy it. I gotta tell you - the humor is great, the action is fantastic and the puzzles are fun. This could not have been done without Bruce Campbell who is the greatest B movie actor of all time. The bonus movie was well done and tells alot about what the game designers attitudes were during the making of the game. Would I have enjoyed this if we didn't see the three movies? Yes! We are also fans of Quake (every version), Unreal Tournament and countless other first person shooters and the graphics and weaponry are right up there. Favorite weapon - chainsaw hands down. However I'm having fun also with the exploding shotgun, sickle and hand cannon. This game is just a ton of fun and I highly recommend it. One thing however - the language is very adult and I would only recommend this for mature audiences. This is not for little kids!

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.

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.

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]

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".

If you are a fan of the Evil Dead series you will probably get this game. But don't think that it will be awsome.The storyline of the game is pretty cool but the gameplay is very bad. The controling to the game can sometimes be difficult. This game seems like it was rushed.When you have killed a zombie and keep on moving then comes the same zombie you just killed. It is non stop action. But it starts to get quite boring after a half an hour of playing. Most of the missions in the game are quite tedious. The graphics aren't that good either.The only cool thing about it is that Bruce Cambell provides his voice for the game. He gives a couple of his cheesy one liners from the three movies. Overall i would not recomend this game to you because it ain't fun.