Evil Dead: Regeneration

 PlayStation 2
  • Publisher: THQ
  • Release Date: Sep 13, 2005
  • Also On: PC
Metascore
68

Mixed or average reviews - based on 26 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 19 out of 26
  3. Negative: 0 out of 26
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  1. GamingTrend
    91
    Fast, furious, funny, and a breeze to play through so it’s perfect for the weekend gamer.
  2. BonusStage
    85
    The black humor, bad jokes and buckets of blood flying at a rapid fire pace in interactive form will keep fans of the series coming back for more while we’re waiting for Hollywood to get its act together.
  3. Play Magazine
    80
    One of this year's biggest and most pleasant surprises. [Oct 2005, p.64]
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  5. Gaming Target
    80
    Evil Dead: Regeneration has a different feel from its predecessor and it’s a little on the short side, but Evil Dead fans should eat it up.
  6. Game Over Online
    78
    It's not fancy and it's not amazingly deep, but it does let you chop up an awful lot of zombies. It's entertaining for what it is.
  7. PSM Magazine
    75
    Regeneration dumps the mass deadite attacks of "Fistful of Boomstick" in favor of a fairly balanced action-puzzle approach, nicly snapy control, and decent level designs. [Nov 2005, p.94]
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  8. Game Chronicles
    75
    A fun little game that should not be overlooked if one is looking for a cheap yet satisfying game.

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User Score
8.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 30 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 30
  3. Negative: 0 out of 30
  1. Qatar
    Dec 19, 2020
    10
    افضل من the last of us part 2
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  2. bestbry
    Jul 12, 2021
    8
    First time playing ever after discovering the movies and the game. Altough sometimes repetitive, ive had fun with thid game! Campbel’s voiceFirst time playing ever after discovering the movies and the game. Altough sometimes repetitive, ive had fun with thid game! Campbel’s voice acting is fantastic and the weapons are great. Even ig youre not used to old games, this one might be fun for you… Full Review »
  3. rcoberle54
    Nov 22, 2020
    8
    Well if the first game was the first movie, and the second the second, then Evil Dead: Regeneration perfectly capped off the trilogy by beingWell if the first game was the first movie, and the second the second, then Evil Dead: Regeneration perfectly capped off the trilogy by being the best game and matching the 3rd movie in terms of tone. It's most comedic and the most fun of all 3 games. Some people will go to bat for the 3rd movie and call it the best. I'm in the camp of Evil Dead 2 is the best movie. So in my opinion the 2nd installment of the movies is the best and sandwiched between two other good movies while the games progressively got better.

    While a pretty obvious and remarkably lesser God of War clone, Evil Dead: Regeneration is still a blast and exactly my style of game. I don't want to have to manage resources and search for ammo and worry about reloading. I want to hack and slash and blast my way through deadites without remorse or mercy for 8 hours. I want to feel like an absolute superhero. This game delivered on that. It added a combo system which was a nice change of pace. However, it felt redundant once you unlocked the spear gun. It felt like the fastest and most efficient way to kill enemies was to reel them in with the spear gun, blast with shotgun, then hit triangle for finishing move. I felt like I simply spammed this for the entire second half of the game until I finished it.

    The other new, big element this game added was inclusion of a deadite sidekick to Ash. Most of the comedy was derived from this character. I couldn't help myself but chuckle every time Sam was accidentally killed in a cut scene in the most gruesome and gory ways. This also helped add to the story as Ash had to put aside his hatred for the undead and learn to get along with a deadite for a change.

    However I felt the mechanic of using Sam was sort of a wasted opportunity. I wanted it to be a bit more like a Ratchet and Clank game where the two characters have distinct abilities and uses to solve puzzles and progress through the levels. What you do in this game is possess Sam with Ash to reach smaller areas that Ash normally wouldn't be able to get through. But when you play as Sam you are doing the same things as Ash. You are moving linearly through the level, and pushing square to shoot at deadites. It's basically the same thing but with a different character skin. It needed to be a bit more different and distinct.

    Like the last game in the Evil Dead franchise you get numerous different attachments other than just a chainsaw for Ash's arm which is quite fun. There were some remedial puzzles to solve that required a specific weapon. And Same takes to his sidekick moniker quite literally as you often have to punt Sam into enemies or objects to progress.

    All in all Evil Dead: Regeneration is an improvement over its predecessor in terms of gameplay, graphics, story and is just a more fun game. I will definitely remember this one more fondly even though it's not without its faults. The things that could have been improved on and felt like a swing in a miss are sort of forgivable when the rest of the experience was so much fun.    … Full Review »
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