Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick
Fully "armed" with his chainsaw, trusty boomstick, and trademark quips, Ash must once again save Dearborn from the unspeakable horrors spawned from The Book of the Dead. After a vortex to the undead is…
Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick is an adventure developed by VIS Entertainment, released 20 May 2003 on PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
What Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick is
Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick is an adventure game developed by VIS Entertainment and released in 2003. It was published by THQ. It is available on PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game begins three years after the events of "Hail to the King". Ash Williams is telling the story of his battles with the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis to an Asian man, and then starts to tell the story of how he ended up with the man in the first place through a series of flashbacks. Dearborn, Michigan: Last Night A special "Live" episode of Mysteries of the Occult starts at the local KLA2 television station (a reference to the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still; KLA2 is pronounced "Klaatu," the name of the protagonist.) Trisha Pettywood, a journalist out to expose the truth of the Necronomicon, is the host, with her guest, the parapsychologist and best-selling author Professor Alex…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Evil Dead series
Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick is the third of 9 entries we hold in the Evil Dead series. It arrived 2 years after Evil Dead: Hail to the King. The next entry was Evil Dead: Regeneration in 2005. Its critic score of 58 is 9 points below the series average of 67. The highest-rated entry is Evil Dead: The Game at 85.
How it was received
Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick holds a critic score of 58 out of 100. That places it above 14% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick launched on 20 May 2003, within three weeks of Silent Hill 3, Rise of Nations, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow and The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Silent Hill 3, Rise of Nations, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon.
Official trailer
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