Evil Dead: Hail to the King (2000) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Evil Dead: Hail to the King

Hail to the King was developed by Heavy Iron Studios and published by THQ. The game featured familiar locales such as the cabin and the woods. The game expaneds with new locations such a nearby town, cemetary…

5 December 2000

What Evil Dead: Hail to the King is

Evil Dead: Hail to the King is an adventure game developed by Heavy Iron Studios and released in 2000. It was published by THQ. It is available on Dreamcast, PlayStation and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on TrueMotion.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Hail to the King was developed by Heavy Iron Studios and published by THQ. The game featured familiar locales such as the cabin and the woods. The game expaneds with new locations such a nearby town, cemetary, and Ash even gets to travel back in time to the middle ages. Hail to the King also features familiar characters from the films and includes the voiceover and new witty one-liners of Bruce Campbell.

Description from the publisher · source

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: Hail to the King is the second of 9 entries we hold in the Evil Dead series. It arrived 16 years after The Evil Dead. The next entry was Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick in 2003.

See all 9 Evil Dead games in release order →

What it launched against

Evil Dead: Hail to the King launched on 5 December 2000, within three weeks of Pokémon Crystal Version, Phantasy Star Online, Hitman: Codename 47 and Tales of Destiny II.

Released around the same time: Pokémon Crystal Version, Phantasy Star Online, Hitman: Codename 47, Tales of Destiny II.

Official trailer