BRUCE CAMPBELL!!!
User Rating: 9 | Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick PS2
I am back people. No applause...ok applause. I have owned this game for some time now and felt it necessary to use it to spring board back into the game review ranks. Bruce Campbell is really an iconic figure as most of you know and most of you know some his most infamous work was done in the trilogy that this game is based around. The game is actually really bad as far as actual game play goes. The game follows a kind of follow up to the last of the movie installments and forces you to travel through time fighting off the Deadites. The maps appear at first to be of considerable size but once the game play starts you are quickly shuttled down a very controlled and restricted set of paths, streets, allys etc. There is NO extra exploration and even though I just stated the levels are very restricted, they can also be very confusing. The first level sets this tone with the constant back and forth exploration for the key then the dynamite then this and that and blah, blah. The rest of the levels are just repeats of this concept with only the scenery changing. The game developers were very lucky that Bruce Campbell was on board with this project because it truely is a very poor game even by PS2 standards of that time. The graphics are less than mediocre, the sound effects are above average and of course Bruce Campbell does the voiceovers in the cut scenes and throughout the game. He also adds his patented one liners, which is the only reason to keep playing. I gave this game such a high rating because the greatness that is Bruce Campbell. Thats the only reason.
