This videogame which is the fourth installment in the Evil Dead trilogy. The bases of the game is that Ash returns back to the cabin and his girlfriend is kidnapped by Evil Ash. Ash must set to destroy Evil Ash and save his girlfriend. This game got me hooked from the start. I couldn't stop playing. I beat the game and the ending was a big plot twist. Go out and buy this game. You won't regret baby.
19 Reviews
I was crushed
Zorin-211 April 2001
Me and my buddies are avid Evil Dead fans. We have all seen the three films numerous times. When we heard the made a video game, we went nuts. After buying it we were a little disappointed. The game starts inside the cabin, and it is exactly like it is in the movies! the graphics are good, but it is very hard to play. Killing deadites becomes redundant and the angles are absurd. It's not very fun to play, but it does portray a great story and what else can I say about Bruce Campbell supplying the voice of Ash, a classic. Evil Dead fans should check out, other gamers should avoid.
evil dead hail to the king rules
dx4lifexpac14 December 2000
i am a big fan of The Evil Dead Trilogy and a huge fan of Bruce Campbell so when i heard about this game i was going crazy till it came out today i finally got it and it was worth the wait, Evil Dead Hail To The King is a very fun game it's alot like Resident Evil, Ash has some great lines in the game, but there are a few down sides your energy bar is not big enough one hit and your almost half gone, too many bad guys pop up at once making a bit too hard. and even though you do get alot of health by the time you pick it up another bad guy pops up, if you run they follow then you have to fight 2 guys, and your chainsaw needs gas after a while so you don't wanna waste it. despite all that i love the game, alot of people complain it's too hard and they are right but if you think about it if it was too easy what fun would the game be, but i do feel thq might have gone a bit overboard with making the game so hard, if you are a fan of horror/action/adventure games give Evil Dead Hail To The King a try and if you're a fan of the Evil Dead Trilogy buy this game for sure it rules getting to be Ash, i give Evil Dead Hail To The King 9/10 i would have given it a 10 but it's a bit too complicated at times but like i said this game does rule
One of the worst games I've ever played
bazmitch235 April 2013
My friend and I are huge Evil Dead fans and a few years ago, he bought the game and kept on pestering me to buy it. I said Okay and we went to this shop that doesn't exist anymore. I bought the game for £2. I took it home and I played it. I thought it was rubbish.
First of all, the plot were Ash decides to go back to the cabin. (wait a minute, remember everything got sucked into the porthole at the end of Evil Dead 2? How is the cabin still standing there?) Anyway, he goes back to the cabin to face his fears and sure enough, history has a way of repeating itself and Ash has to get rid of the demons all over again.
The controls are taken from Resident Evil and the graphics were terrible. The gameplay is unfair. The enemies kill you without giving you a chance to hit them.
It's just not fun at all. I hated it so much, I actually took this game to Work. I work at a builders yard and at the corner of the yard, we burn rubbish. I threw it into the fire. It was a delight to watch it melt in the fire. I said to myself "Ashes to Ashes." Which was the working title of this game.
My friend for a while loved this game like an idiot. But know he's come to his senses.
Bottom line, just because something is based on source material you like, doesn't mean it's any good.
Play "Regeneration" instead. At least it's fun.
First of all, the plot were Ash decides to go back to the cabin. (wait a minute, remember everything got sucked into the porthole at the end of Evil Dead 2? How is the cabin still standing there?) Anyway, he goes back to the cabin to face his fears and sure enough, history has a way of repeating itself and Ash has to get rid of the demons all over again.
The controls are taken from Resident Evil and the graphics were terrible. The gameplay is unfair. The enemies kill you without giving you a chance to hit them.
It's just not fun at all. I hated it so much, I actually took this game to Work. I work at a builders yard and at the corner of the yard, we burn rubbish. I threw it into the fire. It was a delight to watch it melt in the fire. I said to myself "Ashes to Ashes." Which was the working title of this game.
My friend for a while loved this game like an idiot. But know he's come to his senses.
Bottom line, just because something is based on source material you like, doesn't mean it's any good.
Play "Regeneration" instead. At least it's fun.
If it isn't near impossible, it wouldn't be Evil Dead!
CaptainLoogie24 May 2001
Well, Hail to the King has gotten alot of bad press, but after getting the game for myself, I like it alot. You would have to have seen the rest of the Evil Dead movies to really appreciate a lot the game though. Just like in the movie, Ash is in deep crap. The fact that you start out with so many weapons really does help... The cabin was painstakingly replicated from Evil Dead II. The whole feel of the first CD was totally awesome. Learning how to play the game is somewhat difficult and you do have to do it quick since you start out in almost immediate danger! Stay cool and conserve your rations and the legions of the damned will be no problem. The bosses are cool and SOMETIMES unexpected. Anyway, I would strongly suggest renting this game (after all, you really only beat it once, right?) and using all of your time to seeing it through to the end. If you do, you will see a tribute to the original ending to Army of Darkness. The whole game serves as Evil Dead 4 and since there are no plans for making a movie, this is it folks!
Worse than Jack of all Trades
Sciurus13 December 2000
For all of you ED and AOD fans (as well as Bruce Campbell fans), avoid this game!!! It will only serve to damage your opinion of any of the above. The intro movie is fantastic and really gets you psyched up for the action to come. But what follows is a poor Resident Evil clone with too much repetition in the Deadites and an extraordinarily frustrating control system. It is impossible to tell where the monster is in relation to you. I had looked forward to this game for months now but am completely disappointed in it. Save your money for the ED2 limited edition DVD and wait for the next ED game. Hopefully, it will live up to the license.
So faithful to the movie, it could be a sequel!
revolutionngn14 February 2001
It's not the best game ever made, more of a halfway decent Resident Evil clone, but the story and the voice acting is right out of the movie. Just like Evil Dead is the best B-movie ever, it's the greatest B-Game of all time. Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, what a combo!
Resident Evil Dead? You bet!
hellstorm2k13 February 2001
When I grabbed the copy of this game, I ran home and tired on my PS2 with smoother texture mapping. The backgrounds are a beauty and the sound effects are candy to the ears. The Cinemas match that of the last two Resident Evil Games for Playstation. Everything, from the one-liners to the Deadites to even the Ancient Damascus level brought a tear of joy to my eye. The controls were only a problem during boss battles, but nothing was a problem with my trusty Gameshark (Yeah! that's right! I cheat!). This is the next best franchise that may take Resident Evil's throne as king of survival horror, unless Silent Hill can do it first. Anyway, this game worth the time spent on it. Rent it! Buy it then return it! Whatever you need to do! Just play the game and inevitable get hooked!
Great sense of 'playing out the movie'
MonoxideChildNJ19 January 2007
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!
It was great!
Starfig87326 March 2001
I have to say that this is a wonderful game for Evil Dead fans! This game has all the humor and gore the films had. Bruce Campbell does a great job reprising his role (in voice-over form) of Ash. The game plays almost exactly like the Resident Evil games, so play should'nt be hard if you've had experience with those. Definetly one of the best purks of this game is that you get a button devoted to Ash's one-liners. You also get two weapons, your trusty chainsaw on one arm, and three other weapons in the other hand including: an axe, your boomstick(shotgun), or a rifle. The sounds are really creepy in the woods, but whenever you kill a deadite and Ash delivers "say hello to disco for me" things get a little brighter. The only problem that I do have to point out is that the floating deadites do respawn and are a pain to kill, and continuously fighting them gets tireing. I would recommend this game to all ED fans, it is a very good, funny, and at times challenging game.
scary stuff in there...
figure_four_headlock2 May 2002
Nice
carmex_02_user200231 December 2002
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.
Fascinating
aluric_dai15 August 2002
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.
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.
Hail to the King!
jabbawocky20045 May 2005
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.
THQ deserves to die
BenGrande3 January 2002
I can't believe that THQ got the license to one of the greatest film series of all time, got THE MAN to reprise his role in voice-over form, and they still churned out a pile of crap such as this. Right off the bat, I must point out that Bruce Campbell is awesome as far as the voice acting is concerned. Some of the other characters are weak, but Bruce is spot on Ash at all times. If only THQ did their part, and made a decent game to complement it. The backgrounds are blurry looping fmvs, and are acceptable, though pretty blurry. The enemies respawn as soon as they are killed, which makes it pointless to get in any fights. The character models are laughable. The FMVs are really sad. They don't even have the characters' lips move. The story is actually interesting, and integrates the Evil Dead mythos with some real history (The Mad Poet Aziz, the Book of Dead Names), but the game just stinks. Many fans of the game claim that people who don't like it aren't true fans of the films, but they are in some sort of strange denial over the lack of quality found in this game. Maybe THQ will take to heart the criticisms the game has received, as the game does show some potential, but then again, who are we kidding? It's THQ.
Response to not being a fan
strangef8-115 May 2006
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.
Gimme Some Sugar baby.
CZuck8321 November 2001
This has got to be the greatest video game that I have ever played. Any true fan of the series should love it. Anyone who doesn't, should stop acting like a fan. Bruce Campbell, as usual is funny as hell(even in animation form). Also works as a great tie in to the series, using a story that places it has the 4th Evil Dead.
Error?
keyser_soze_0826 January 2005
In the book for the game it says Ash lost his hand on his first trip to the cabin...... wasn't it in Evil Dead 2 that Ash cut off his hand? Does this mean Sam intended Evil Dead 2 to be a remake? I've heard arguments from both side but no solid proof.
In the book for the game it says Ash lost his hand on his first trip to the cabin...... wasn't it in Evil Dead 2 that Ash cut off his hand? Does this mean Sam intended Evil Dead 2 to be a remake? I've heard arguments from both side but no solid proof.
I copied and paste it to appease IMDb's guidelines saying I need at least 10 lines.
In the book for the game it says Ash lost his hand on his first trip to the cabin...... wasn't it in Evil Dead 2 that Ash cut off his hand? Does this mean Sam intended Evil Dead 2 to be a remake? I've heard arguments from both side but no solid proof.
I copied and paste it to appease IMDb's guidelines saying I need at least 10 lines.
To be honest, I don't like it.
varot98@yahoo.com11 January 2001
There are 2 things I like about this game. 1) The Introduction sequence is fantastic ! 2) Ash and the Deadites are great, just like the movies.
Now the bad thing, first thing is that the control system is complex. too much, really much. The other is that everywhere you go, there are deadites appear every step you made, I mean it.
If you are Evil Dead fan, maybe you should rent this game and give it a try. But if you just a game player, don't play this one.
Now the bad thing, first thing is that the control system is complex. too much, really much. The other is that everywhere you go, there are deadites appear every step you made, I mean it.
If you are Evil Dead fan, maybe you should rent this game and give it a try. But if you just a game player, don't play this one.
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