Evil Dead: Hail to the King Horror Games Review

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Title: Evil Dead: Hail to the King
Format: CD-ROM
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Platform: Windows 98
Publisher: THQ
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Review of Evil Dead: Hail to the King

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Comments for Evil Dead: Hail to the King

• Posted on 2009-10-24
  Old Heroes die hard
  
  This is another game that involves a lot of key board word on the gamers part, but don't let that stop you from getting it. The game plays pretty good even though you have to keep reloading your weapons and filling you gas tank. That just means you have to work a little harder to beat the game.
  
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• Posted on 2001-12-11
  So much potential
  
  Basically a pathetic rip-off of Resident Evil with a model that looks nothing like Bruce Campbell. It's just no-good. Got it cause Evil Dead movies rule, but this game just sucks, no two ways about it.
  
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• Posted on 2001-11-03
  Diehard fans only
  
  Wow! If it wasn't for the Evil Dead licence, this would be the worst videogame ever created. It is basically Resident Evil lite, with all of RE's faults and none of its strengths. In place of slow moving zombies which need to be dispatched before they can reach the player's throat, Hail to the King provides endlessly spawning floating zombie demon things that get really annoying after playing for longer than five minutes. In the end, the game boils down to mindlessly slashing enemies over and over and over again. Even the concept of health and ammo conservation is eliminated due to the fact that enemies conveniently drop items exactly when you need them. The only challenge left in the game is figuring out how to move ash around while fighting multiple deadites on either side. While Evil Dead: Hail to the King is not the absolute worst game ever conceived and produced by the human race, I strongly advise you not to buy or rent this game unless you really love Evil Dead. You might even want to avoid it if you do love the movies, as the story is clumsy and Bruce Campbell's voice work is sub-par. Just stay far far away.
  
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• Posted on 2001-10-02
  it's ok
  
  i have to respond to some of the negative reviews for this game. the graphics are not very good (quality wise but concept is great) and the gameplay isn't very exciting. it's a clone of resident evil and it wasn't done nearly as well.

  that said, it offers some positives if you enjoyed RE and are also a fan of evil dead. i think much of the evil dead reference is lost on the younger demographic which makes me question the reason they bought the license in the first place.

  however, had this game nothing to do with evil dead i would of rated it 2 stars instead of 3.
  

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• Posted on 2001-09-27
  I've seen better, but I've also seen worse
  
  To start off with, I will mention something that I have not seen in any of the reviews. This game is a combination of a third person view, but from a single camera angle.

  Most people are aware that third person is a view from behind the player. This game is similar, except that in most rooms you only have one angle for the ENTIRE room. You see Ash at a distance, but most of the time the camera never moves, unless the room is so big it can't fit all onto one screen.

  I have never seen a game set up this way before. I rarely play third person, I really only like first person. Anyway, this single view was hard to get used to for me.

  The opening animations are pretty good. Bruce Campbell does the voice overs, except the animation doesn't look much like him.

  The default keys are very strange. Usually the keys somehow relate to the weapon. Not in this game. R starts the chainsaw, E turns it off, F uses it. Now who would just think of that?? You can redefine them, but that still is pretty lame.

  Overall, not a bad game. Good graphics overall, good sound, and fairly good layout.

  The bad parts is Ash has very strange weapon controls, since the camera angle in each room does not change, it takes time to get used to moving him around. Almost every step you take a deadite pops up. I've never seen a game with enemies coming up so often. The deadites take forever to kill. I hit one of them over 10 times with the axe and finally killed it. I guess you could say the game is a combination of contstantly being attacked along with enemies that are hard to kill.

  You do need some horsepower to play this. I have a Pentium III 800 with 256 MB of RAM and a 3dfx video card with 16 MB, and even on my machine it runs alright, but it could do better. The loading times take longer than most other games I have played. I don't have much loaded in the background either. My setup is beyond their requirements.

  So essentially, the game is just alright. The price now is all I feel it is worth. This is coming from a HUGE Evil Dead fan. Unfortunately, the game was a little disappointing to me. Like I said though, I've seen worse. If you have ever played Alien Trilogy for the IBM world, you know what I mean.

  Finally, I don't know how often you are supposed to be able to save games. During the entire cabin scene I couldn't save, and once I walked outside, I still couldn't. Go figure.

  Overall, for HUGE fans of the movies, its not too bad. Takes getting used to. For those who love and worship this game, I guess they had less expectations than I did. If I had the chance to buy it again, I probably would, but I wouldn't pay anything more than what I did. It's not *that* good.
  

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