Evil Dead: The Game - The Final Preview

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Ash Williams and the rest of the Evil Dead gang haven’t been resurrected to star in a video game since 2005’s Evil Dead: Regeneration, but that’s all about to change when S-Mart’s top of the line returns on, fittingly, Friday the 13th next month, in the aptly-named Evil Dead: The Game. After playing it, it’s clear that the new Evil Dead game draws heavily from the survival-focused shooting and looting established in the Left 4 Dead series in addition to the character-centric, skill-based horror survival of Dead By Daylight. This monster mashup certainly nails the right beats for frenetic fun between friends, and at launch, Evil Dead: The Game will support out-of-the-box crossplay for all modern Xbox and PlayStation consoles, as well as the Epic Games Store.

Each skirmish in Evil Dead: The Game only lasts about 20 to 30 minutes, and it concludes when the party secures and defends the map’s Necronomicon after clearing a series of objectives, like fending off the Dark Ones with your very own Kandarian Dagger. If you have no clue what any of that means, that’s perfectly fine; Evil Dead: The Game does a great job explaining what everything is via its comprehensive tooltips. A single map can sling the party from point of interest to point of interest before the clock lapses to zero – but don’t let the user-friendly UI convince you to let your guard down; there are more than just a few twists on this dark road.

And that can be a problem if you happen to jump over one of many possible jumpscare traps. Yes, you heard me right, there are jumpscare traps in Evil Dead: The Game, and they can be found just about anywhere. Going hand-in-hand with these jumpscares, if your fear gauge gets too high, you might just find yourself shooting