Evil Dead: Hail To The King (PlayStation)

Evil Dead: Hail to the King is a single-player survival horror game that was released by THQ in 2000 for the PlayStation and Dreamcast and in 2001 for Windows. It is based on the Evil Dead movie series and is a sequel to the Army of Darkness movie which was released in 1992.

Evil Dead is very much a clone of Resident Evil but of course with an Evil Dead theme. It has the same sort of pre-rendered backgrounds, camera angles, etc. You are armed with a shotgun and a chainsaw with limited ammo and fuel. The story is set eight years after Army of Darkness which matches the real-life timeline. Ash is back working at "S-Mart" and has a new girlfriend but has started having recurring nightmares about the Necronomicon. In a clearly stupid move that would only happen in a horror movie, his girlfriend decides to take him back to the old cabin to face his fears.

Despite being somewhat of a clone of Resident Evil, it really isn't nearly as good as Resident Evil was. Graphics aren't as good, controls aren't as good, even the story is less original. The PlayStation version got mixed reviews, the Dreamcast version was no better and the PC got even worse reviews. If you are obsessed with survival horror games or the Evil Dead franchise then by all means give it a try as you will probably enjoy it. Otherwise I would say give it a pass.

If you do want to play it, you'll have to track down an original. Being a game with a movie license there have been no re-releases and probably never will be. I don't believe there have been any sequels either. There have been other Evil Dead games for at least the PS2, Xbox, PS4 and PS5 but they aren't even the same style of game. There is also a much older Evil Dead game that was released in 1984 for the Commodore 64, BBC Micro and ZX Spectrum (only in Europe though).

Images above are from the PlayStation version of the game.

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