So I am just going to Review all of them all at once, in order. If you ever played Hail to the King, you will know how FRUSTRATING this game was... The coolest, but also hardest part about this game was the combo system. If you didn't know that you needed to talk smack to kill the Deadites in this game, it was over. This made the game VERY difficult at times. For example without using it, it was almost impossible to kill some of the Deadites. With it, there was one specific combo that you could do, that almost gauranteed item drops everytime you killed a deadite. And if you never played this game, you DESPERATELY needed those items.
The opening Scene is in the Cabin, which was like a maze in the first place. This game was true to Ash form if you really think about it though... talking smack, facing almost impossible odds, and trying to save the girl in the end. The girl was actually supposed to be the girl he kisses at the end of Army of Darkness with red hair. Bruce Campbell does do all the Voice over work for all of this game series which makes it pretty amazing. The only game he doesn't do the voice over work for, is a little known Android O/S game, called Army of Darkness Defense. The only reason he doesn't is all the Dialogue, is from the actual movie of Army of Darkness. The most Difficult part of Hail to the king, was the lack of GAS for the Chainsaw, which you needed desperately. I never actually Beat this game it was so difficult, and that was just on easy.
Fistful of Boomstick, now this game was much more tolerable to play. They did add a kind of "Grab" move with the chainsaw, and with unlimited gas for it... the game was much easier. If you performed the "Grab" where he would lift them up, and just evicerate the enemy by letting the chainsaw run inside of them, spurting gallons of blood... most enemies could not withstand it. The only other thing you needed was the musket pistol, which did insane amounts of damage and stunned enemies. You were pretty much unstoppable at that point, but then they give you the 8 shot boomstick which really was just ridiculous. at that point you should have had so many other rounds for the guns you had that you were just laying the deadite hordes to waste.
Next in the PS2 game series, was Evil Dead: Regeneration. In this game you had a sidekick named sam who is voiced by Ted Raimi. Brother of the Creator Sam Raimi and was also in the Xena/Hercules series as pretty much any extra they ever needed, and Joxar. He has a new york accent, and is Half-deadite... so he can Regenerate himself as many times as needed, or as many times as you can creatively think of killing him...Which was half of the entertainment value of the game. Personally for those of us who are the cult game fans... I wish this was rereleased as a PSN game, but i just don't see it happening. Especially now with all the information that has come out from Sony about the PS4 and the LACK of backwards compatibility... this includes PSN games. (seems stupid to me). I understand they are banking on people just moving on to the PS4 like they did from PS2 to PS3, but i don't think it will have as smooth of a transition.
The last Game is Army of Darkness Defense (that i have played, or KNOW OF). This is a very simple game, but very fun. You use the touch pad to move Ash left or right, and everything else is done automatically. You can upgrade your troops and castle, and use the upgrades to help you defend the necronimicon from Evil Ash, just like the last scene in the movie. This is a very simple game, and easy to master... and with the lines from Army of Darkness, put a fresh spin on a cult classic. This game seems to be just in time for the remake of Evil Dead, which I am sure will have people on the edge of their seats like the original did in the early 80s.
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