Four Ash and a boomstick: Latest Evil Dead game is downright groovy

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With more than ten Evil Dead video games, plus a few significant cameos, it’s likely you’ve had a chance to play as the one-armed, boomstick-wielding Ash Williams over the past three-and-a-half decades or so.

But this time it feels different, or at least that’s what developers Saber Interactive are hoping with their asymmetric survival horror take on the franchise: Evil Dead: The Game.

“There’s never been an Evil Dead game like this before; obviously technology has increased quite a bit since the prior games, and combining that with our dev team’s expertise allowed us to bring players something that doesn’t just attempt to approximate an Evil Dead experience, it is an Evil Dead experience,” said Tim Willits, chief creative officer at Saber Interactive. “We’ve put more focus on the look and feel of Evil Dead than any other game attempted before. Players are in THE cabin. They’re fully immersed in the woods, getting scared and fighting deadites – or fighting as deadites – in ways that we think they’re going to be really happy with.”

Willits acknowledged that Evil Dead is a picked over topic for video games, in fact, Ash Williams is playable in another asymmetric horror game: Dead by Daylight. But, Willits said, Evil Dead: The Game is a very different experience.

To read the rest of this story, which first ran on May 13, 2022, visit the Epic Games Store.