Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick
Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick | ||
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Writer(s) | Ralph Fulton Brian Gomez Philip Lawrence | |
Action, hack and slash | ||
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick is an
Plot
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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
Ash goes outside to check out the seriousness of the situation, and it's pretty bad: Deadites are roaming around town, transforming civilians into Deadites themselves, and the local police are apparently going to great lengths to stop them. Ash decides to check out the KLA2 station, since that's where the trouble began, and get more weapons as well, as he is almost out of shotgun ammo. He finds a shovel nearby, and also finds that the Deadites have invaded the Kitten Club (Dearborn's local strip joint), and the police are blocking both the entrance to the bar and the part of town behind it to slay any creatures who come out. He manages to convince the chief of police to let him past after acquiring a police I.D. from a fallen officer and a chainsaw in the lumber yard. However, he discovers that the television station's gates are locked and jammed solid so that Ash cannot open them even with the key, and the station itself is on lockdown, and only the doorman has the key, and he went to the Kitten Club to "die with a smile on his face". The chief allows him in after he uses dynamite to blow up the Deadites in the club's backlot. He acquires the card key to the station, as well as a spell book, along with a spell that temporarily grants him the strength of ten men, which he uses to kick down KLA2's gates. Upon entering, he discovers Trisha and Eldridge being attacked by Deadites and saves them. He talks to Eldridge about what happened, and they unanimously agree that they need to find Professor Knowby's notes about the Necronomicon in order to discover a way to drive the Deadites back.
Afterwards, Trisha and Eldridge run and take shelter in the church, leaving Ash to do the dirty work. Around town, multiple vortices have opened up, releasing Deadites into the town, and the preacher at the church tells Ash that he needs silver to close them. He acquires some from a biker gang after saving them from the Deadites and acquires a handgun from a police officer, as well as Knowby's notes from a professor at the university; unfortunately, Knowby wrote the notes in code, being clearly aware of the dangers posed by the book, and they need a cipher to read them. Ash gives the notes to Eldridge and acquires another spell that allows him to possess Deadites, which he uses to bypass a massive horde of Deadites behind the police station and get the cipher and an envelope addressed to the local auto repairman from the trash can. He gives the envelope to the repairman, but it's only Knowby's payment for his car repairs; however, the guard gives him some explosive shotgun shells as a reward for his troubles. When he returns to the church, he discovers that the door has been broken in, the preacher has been killed, and Trisha and Eldridge are missing. He sets out to find them, and discovers that they have been taken by the Deadites to the park, along with mass numbers of civilians. Ash breaks into the park, kills the Deadites, and gives Eldridge the cipher. Eldridge reads the notes and discovers information about the Kandarian Summoning Stone, a mystical artifact that allows the possessor to control (and destroy) the Deadite hordes. They all deduce that the Stone may be in the local museum, as the museum's founder, Nathaniel Payne, was obsessed with occult artifacts and delighted in collecting them. Trisha and Eldridge go to the museum to search for it, and Ash accompanies them after closing all of the vortices around town.
When Ash arrives at the museum, he finds everything to be strangely quiet; Trisha and Eldridge are nowhere to be seen, and even the Deadites seem to be taking a breather. However, things soon heat up after Ash is locked in the
Dearborn, Michigan: circa 1695
Ash lands right after Eldridge, who had correctly predicted that he would follow him, in the
Dearborn, Michigan: circa 1863
Ash once again lands after Eldridge, this time in Civil War-era Dearborn. Eldridge quickly enters the Unionists' fort and opens a vortex. In order to get into the fort, Ash manages to convince both the Unionists and the Confederates to call a cease-fire and help him defeat the Deadites; the captain of the Unionists is Ash's Civil War era ancestor the great-great-great-grandson of Williams the Blacksmith, who is in possession of a Gatling gun that the blacksmith made from the piece of scrap iron that Ash gave him. Ash confronts Eldridge and shoots him, but this only transforms him into a monstrous dragon-like demon. Ash manages to defeat monster-Eldridge, and travels back to the present time.
Evil Dearborn
Ash arrives back in the present of Dearborn, only to discover that the Deadites have taken over the whole town in his absence and are led by their Queen, who is in possession of the Kandarian Summoning Stone, which Ash stupidly left back in the Unionists' fort. After freeing the prisoners, Ash confronts the Deadite Queen, who turns out to be Trisha. Trisha reveals that she has taken the stone to rule the world on her own. Ash explodes her by making her swallow dozens of dynamites, and reacquires the Stone.
Epilogue
Now back to where the game first began, Ash attempts to use the Stone to restore Dearborn to its former glory, but blunders and ends up warping himself back in time to feudal Japan, during the time of the Mongul's invasion of Japan, where he has been captured by guards. As it turns out, the man he has been telling the story, who turns out to be Japanese Emperor Kameyama who cannot understand a word he's been saying, though they claim that he hasn't shut up for three hours. Kameyama decide to use the Kandarian Summoning Stone against the Mongols and execute Ash, but before they can do so, the Evil Force returns and possesses the man who Ash has been relating his tale to, as well as some nearby samurai. Ash grabs a katana from one of the guards and tells the Deadites to "come get some!" in perfect Japanese, thus ending the game.
Reception
Aggregator | Score | |
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AllGame N/A | [3] | |
Electronic Gaming Monthly | 2.67/10[4] | N/A |
Eurogamer | 5/10[5] | N/A |
Game Informer | 7.75/10[6] | 8/10[7] |
GamePro | N/A | [8] |
GameRevolution | N/A | C−[9] |
GameSpot | 5.3/10[10] | 5.3/10[10] |
GameSpy | [11] | N/A |
GameZone | N/A | 6/10[12] |
IGN | 6.4/10[13] | 6.4/10[14] |
Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine | [15] | N/A |
Official Xbox Magazine (US) | N/A | 5.3/10[16] |
Maxim | 2/10[17] | N/A |
The Village Voice | N/A | 6/10[18] |
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Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick received "mixed" reviews on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.[1][2] Chris Carle of IGN gave the game a mixed review, calling its gameplay "fun, if a little repetitive", and noting that its twenty-dollar retail value is a suitable maximum price.[13][14] Adam Dodd of Bloody Disgusting wrote that the game was "actually pretty enjoyable" and that it was an improvement on its predecessor, Evil Dead: Hail to the King.[19]
References
- ^ a b "Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick for PlayStation 2 Reviews". Metacritic. Archived from the original on May 17, 2013. Retrieved December 5, 2012.
- ^ a b "Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick for Xbox Reviews". Metacritic. Archived from the original on April 29, 2013. Retrieved December 5, 2012.
- AllGame. Archived from the originalon November 15, 2014. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
- ^ EGM staff (July 2003). "Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick (PS2)". Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 168. p. 118. Archived from the original on April 1, 2004. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
- ^ Bramwell, Tom (July 22, 2003). "Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick (PS2)". Eurogamer. Archived from the original on November 1, 2011. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
- ^ "Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick (PS2)". Game Informer. No. 122. June 2003. p. 105.
- ^ Barber, Chet (June 2003). "Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick (Xbox)". Game Informer. No. 122. p. 114. Archived from the original on November 21, 2008. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
- ^ Atomic Dawg (June 19, 2003). "Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick Review for Xbox on GamePro.com". GamePro. Archived from the original on February 15, 2005. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
- Game Revolution. Archivedfrom the original on September 10, 2015. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
- ^ a b Davis, Ryan (June 23, 2003). "Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick Review". GameSpot. Archived from the original on June 8, 2016. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
- ^ Fraioli, Alex (June 19, 2003). "GameSpy: Evil Dead: [A] Fistful of Boomstick (PS2)". GameSpy. Archived from the original on July 24, 2013. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
- ^ Surette, Tim (June 26, 2003). "Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick Review - Xbox". GameZone. Archived from the original on October 1, 2008. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
- ^ a b Carle, Chris (May 22, 2003). "Evil Dead: [A] Fistful of Boomstick (PS2)". IGN. Archived from the original on April 14, 2017. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
- ^ a b Carle, Chris (June 17, 2003). "Evil Dead: [A] Fistful of Boomstick Review (Xbox)". IGN. Archived from the original on January 4, 2015. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
- ^ "Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick". Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine. July 2003. p. 95. Archived from the original on March 29, 2004. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
- ^ "Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick". Official Xbox Magazine. July 2003. p. 79.
- ^ Boyce, Ryan (May 21, 2003). "Evil Dead: [A] Fistful of Boomstick (PS2)". Maxim. Archived from the original on June 8, 2003. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
- ^ Catucci, Nick (June 24, 2003). "Hell Raiser". The Village Voice. Archived from the original on September 18, 2021. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
- ^ Dodd, Adam (2 April 2013). "[Ghosts Of Gaming Past] A Review Of 'Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick'". Bloody Disgusting. Archived from the original on 13 April 2017. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
External links
- Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick at Deadites Online
- Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick at MobyGames