Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick ($15)
There are primarily three reasons you will see a videogame in stores for less than $20.
1) The game has recieved a sequel and/or has sold enough copies that it enters the console company's "Greatest Hits" lines. (i.e Jak and Daxter, Mario Sunshine, Project Gotham.)
2) The game does crap comercially and the publisher has to drop the price so that they arn't stuck with warehouses of unsold inventory. (i.e Bad Boys Miami Takedown, Beyond Good and Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.)
3) The game starts out as a small production, and the developers hope that you can overlook the lessened production values for the fun new and innovative gameplay mechanics that they bring to the table with a budget title. (i.e. Triggerman, Katamari Damacy, Serious Sam, Darkstone.)
Each category has its hits and misses, but most often games that fall in category one are pretty good, and the ones in category 2 are almost always crap, and the ones from category 3 are all over.
Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick is a game from category 3. When it came out back in June 2003, I snatched it up for $20 and immediately stuck it in my PS2. It was good stuff. I bought a second copy, something I never do, and gave it away as a gift.
A budget game based on a license from a budget horror movie. Two of my favorite things, all rolled up into one.
So what is this game about? Killing zombies and pretending you are Ash, king of one liners and pretty handy with a chainsaw.
And that is pretty much the highlights of the title. And for me, that is enough. I fucking hate zombies, and finally, after years and years of waiting, I have a videogame where I become a one-man zombie holocaust.
There is a magic system and some brainless find-the-key puzzles, but for the most part, I found myself playing just to get to the next cutscene which always cracked me up. The camera is an atrocious loosey-goosey 3rd person affair, and the combat is button smashing, but the first time you fire your shotgun over your shoulder, decapitating those filthy disgusting zomebies in a torrent of blood, you forget all about those things. All in all, good clean fun for the whole family.
1) The game has recieved a sequel and/or has sold enough copies that it enters the console company's "Greatest Hits" lines. (i.e Jak and Daxter, Mario Sunshine, Project Gotham.)
2) The game does crap comercially and the publisher has to drop the price so that they arn't stuck with warehouses of unsold inventory. (i.e Bad Boys Miami Takedown, Beyond Good and Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.)
3) The game starts out as a small production, and the developers hope that you can overlook the lessened production values for the fun new and innovative gameplay mechanics that they bring to the table with a budget title. (i.e. Triggerman, Katamari Damacy, Serious Sam, Darkstone.)
Each category has its hits and misses, but most often games that fall in category one are pretty good, and the ones in category 2 are almost always crap, and the ones from category 3 are all over.
Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick is a game from category 3. When it came out back in June 2003, I snatched it up for $20 and immediately stuck it in my PS2. It was good stuff. I bought a second copy, something I never do, and gave it away as a gift.
A budget game based on a license from a budget horror movie. Two of my favorite things, all rolled up into one.
So what is this game about? Killing zombies and pretending you are Ash, king of one liners and pretty handy with a chainsaw.
And that is pretty much the highlights of the title. And for me, that is enough. I fucking hate zombies, and finally, after years and years of waiting, I have a videogame where I become a one-man zombie holocaust.
There is a magic system and some brainless find-the-key puzzles, but for the most part, I found myself playing just to get to the next cutscene which always cracked me up. The camera is an atrocious loosey-goosey 3rd person affair, and the combat is button smashing, but the first time you fire your shotgun over your shoulder, decapitating those filthy disgusting zomebies in a torrent of blood, you forget all about those things. All in all, good clean fun for the whole family.
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