Load your shotgun, refuel your chainsaw and rev up the Oldsmobile: this month we’re going on a joyride to explore some classic ghoul gibbing served up Ash-Williamsstyle. With another Evil Dead game set to burst its way out of the ground in February, now is as good a time as any to review one of the higher points in Ash’s prior forays into videogames: Evil Dead: Regeneration.
Regeneration was developed by Cranky Pants Games, a studio founded by several former employees of EA Seattle and owned by THQ. Holder of the Evil Dead game licence, THQ had previously published two titles based on it: 2000's Evil Dead: Hail To The King for PS1, Dreamcast, and Windows; and 2003's Evil Dead: A Fistful Of Boomstick for PS2 and Xbox. Looking to make another instalment in the franchise, THQ passed the project onto Cranky Pants, which had previously cut its teeth on GameCube ports of the Red Faction and Summoner games.
