Evil Dead: The Game Captures The Horror And Humor Of Chainsawing Deadites

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The thing that's always been fun about the Evil Dead franchise is its mixture of gory horror and over-the-top ass-kicking. The demonic Deadites that protagonist Ash Williams faces can be terrifying, fully capable of taking over characters' bodies and ripping people apart--but Ash is a guy who has a boomstick in one hand and a prosthetic chainsaw in place of the other.

The intrinsic fact of Evil Dead, that both the monsters and the humans who fight them are capable killers, creates an interesting challenge for turning the franchise into an asymetrical multiplayer horror game in Evil Dead: The Game. In a lot of other, similar games, a group of players faces off against a single human opponent who plays a frightfully powerful killer. The survivor team is mostly trying to flee and stay alive, while the killer player is hunting them down. The survivor team's strengths lie in numbers, strategy, and hiding, but they often don't have much in the way of ability to wage war against their assailant.

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In Evil Dead, though, the humans don't just flee the Kandarian Demon, Evil Dead's supernatural antagonist, and its undead army--they fight, slicing off Deadite heads and spraying monster guts all over the place. That fact led Evil Dead: The Game developer Saber Interactive to find a different way to balance its game; it still sees a group of four players facing off a horror controlled by a fifth, but both sides are active in different ways