{"id":601887,"date":"2026-03-20T01:52:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T01:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/evil-dead-the-game-understands-evil-dead-the-movies-better-than-i-expected"},"modified":"2026-03-20T01:52:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T01:52:57","slug":"evil-dead-the-game-understands-evil-dead-the-movies-better-than-i-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/evil-dead-the-game-understands-evil-dead-the-movies-better-than-i-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Evil Dead: The Game understands Evil Dead: The Movies better than I expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/evil-dead-the-game-understands-evil-dead-the-movies-better-than-i-expected.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;ve spent a morning or two with Evil Dead, and from the off it&#8217;s looked the part. Sam Raimi&#8217;s horror classics have a definite visual style, and it&#8217;s all there on the screen: the cabin surrounded by grasping trees, the lights strobing through branches, a variety of Bruce Campbells to play as. My cup runneth over. Is that an Oldsmobile to pootle around in? Yes please.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd it played&#8230;well, at first it was decent multiplayer horror stuff. For a morning I played in part of a gang of survivors online, four of us against a single demon player. Your job is to collect a bunch of stuff and then nuke the big baddies at the end of it all, while a timer ticks down and every major action you attempt &#8211; grabbing a map fragment or the magical dagger you need &#8211; brings the horde.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt was fun, and it looked like Evil Dead &#8211; so many Ashes! But it didn&#8217;t always feel like Evil Dead. It felt like a multiplayer horror game, albeit a decent one, albeit a decent one without much in the way of basic accessibility features. The same is true for what I think is the single-player stuff. I headed out as Ash and quickly got into serious deadite trouble. The woods looked perfect &#8211; but it felt like a lot of other horror games.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/evil-dead-the-game-understands-evil-dead-the-movies-better-than-i-expected\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/evil-dead-the-game-understands-evil-dead-the-movies-better-than-i-expected\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent a morning or two with Evil Dead, and from the off it&#8217;s looked the part. Sam Raimi&#8217;s horror classics have a definite visual style, and it&#8217;s all there on the screen: the cabin surrounded by grasping trees, the lights strobing through branches, a variety of Bruce Campbells to play as. My cup runneth over. Is that an Oldsmobile to pootle around in? Yes please. And it played&#8230;well, at first it was decent multiplayer horror stuff. For a morning I played in part of a gang of survivors online, four of us against a single demon player. 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