Evil Dead: Regeneration
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| developer = Cranky Pants Games
| publisher = [[THQ]]
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| released = [[September 13]], [[2005]]
| genre = [[Action game|Action]]
| modes = [[Single player]]
| ratings = [[ESRB]]: Mature (M)
| platforms = [[PlayStation 2]]<br>[[Xbox]]<br>[[Personal computer|PC]]
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'''''Evil Dead: Regeneration''''' is a video game for the [[PlayStation 2]] and [[Xbox]] video game consoles and [[Personal computer|PC]]. It is based on the movie trilogy ''[[The Evil Dead]]'' and puts the character in similar environment but with new weapons and traditions. It is unconnected to the previous game ''[[Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick]]'', as it is really a "What if" scenario depicting what would happen if Ash ''didn't'' get sucked back in time.
==Plot==
[[Ash Williams]] is locked away in an [[Psychiatric hospital|asylum]] for the criminally [[insane]], as a result of the events that took place in ''[[The Evil Dead]]'' and ''[[Evil Dead II]]''. Convinced the world thinks he is crazy, the truth is much more nefarious. His doctor, Dr. Reinhard, somehow in possession of Professor Raymond Knowby's diary and the [[Necronomicon Ex-Mortis]], plans on using the books to bring about his ascension to power. In the process he releases an army of Deadites on the unsuspecting world and it is Ash's job to stop the doctor and put the Deadites back where they belong.
The game begins in Sunny Meadows, an asylum Ash is committed to. Ash is briefly visited by his lawyer, Sally. Sally talks about how she found professor Knowby's diary and believes Ash's story about the Necronomicon and the cabin. Ash thanks her but just as she is about to leave Ash comments on her wardrobe and advises her to wear more revealing clothing. Just as Sally leaves Rienhard accidentally unleashes the dead through the Necronomicon. The evil also breaks Ash free in the process. Ash travels through the Asylum killing deadites with a pistol he retrieved from a security guard. He eventually finds his clothing, his Boomstick and his chainsaw in the process. As he goes through the asylum Ash finds an electric deadite named Sparky. Ash kills Sparky and decapitates him. Ash briefly breaks the fourth wall as he speaks to the camera and throws Sparky's head away. Ash proceeds through the nearby cellar. However just as he is about to leave the asylum Professor Knowby appears to Ash and tells him about Rienhard and what he plans to do. Ash however refuses to try and stop him and begins to leave. However Professor Knowby also speaks about how Sally is in danger for taking his diary. Ash decides to stop Rienhard just to save Sally. Professor Knowby talks about how he needs to close deadite portals but he cannot do it alone. Knowby introduces Sam to him, a short half deadite who will re spawn if killed. Sam knows all the necessary incantations to close portals. Ash and Sam travel through to a cemetery and eventually find a portal in the nearby catacombs. However guarding the portal is a large deadite queen. Ash kills the queen with Sam's help and Sam closes the portal.
Ash and Sam go through the woods surrounding Sunny Meadows to find it infested with deadites as well. Ash finds a harpoon gun in a trash pile and modifies it onto his right hand. Ash and Sam with the help of his harpoon gun make their way into an abandoned mine where they find another portal. However as soon as they get there a spirit possesses a miner. Ash and Sam kill the deadite miner and close the portal. Professor Knowby tells them that Rienhard has his diary finally and needs a human sacrifice. Ash believes that Sally is the one he intends to sacrifice. Ash and Sam follow a mine shaft towards nearby docks where another portal is believed to be located. Ash goes to another trash pile there and finds a high powered torpedo gun. Ash and Sam make their way to the portal to find it guarded by a giant fish creature who Ash calls "The one who got away." Ash kills the fish creature and Sam closes the portal. They both go through the nearby swamp.
Ash and Sam make their way through the swamp. Ash finds a shack full of flammable materials and creates a flame thrower. Ash and Sam make their way through the swamp to a nearby town called Port Turnham which is infested with Deadites. They make their way through the destroyed city and in the process Ash replaces his chainsaw with a newer one with a titanium blade. Ash and Sam find a portal in a nearby courthouse. However Sam succumbs to fatigue and yawns while he is saying the incantation. The portal instead of closing sucks both of them into it. Once they are inside the portal Ash and Sam find themselves in a hellish dimension. Professor Knowby shows up telling them the only way out is to defeat Rienhard and rescue Sally. However he begins talking about how Ash must save the world in which Ash becomes very angry and says he is only out to save Sally and maybe Sam.
Ash and Sam face many obstacles in the deadite temple. After much struggle they make their way to Rienhard's lair where he is just about to sacrifice Sally. Rienhard says how impressed he is with Ash. However he apologizes that they had to come a long way to die. Rienhard uses the Necronomicon to turn himself into a troll-like deadite. Ash and Sam kill Rienhard and Sam closes the portal. In a very romantic scene Ash says he came a long way and overcame great odds to apologize to Sally on the fashion advice he gave her back at Sunny Meadows. Just as he is leaning to kiss Sally a spirit possesses her. Ash overcome with rage kills the possessed Sally. However just as he does this the portal reopens and sucks Ash and Sam into it along with the Necronomicon which ends the game.
==The characters==
[[Image:Ash-edr.PNG|100px|left]]
'''[[Ash Williams|Ashley J. Williams]]''' - The reluctant hero of the story, voiced by cult icon [[Bruce Campbell]]. Ash was committed to an insane asylum for the 'mass murders' he was responsible for back at the cabin in the woods. He tends to be wise cracking and has a strong disliking to deadites, including Sam. He is one of the few that survive the events of Reinhard releasing the evil back into the world, and fight to both escape the asylum and put a stop to the deadites. He also has a thing for Sally, his lawyer.
[[Image:Sam-edr.PNG|100px|left]]
'''Sam''' - Ash's half-deadite sidekick, voiced by [[Ted Raimi]]. He's a dwarf, about as high as the midpoint of Ash's thigh, and before his current state was involved in criminal activities (a few stories of which he'll drop bits of during the game). Sam can't be killed: he dies many times during the game (a few times thanks to Ash himself whether accidental or otherwise) and rises back anew, serving as one of the game's mechanics. He also has some of the knowledge of the incantations necessary to close the portals allowing the evil to enter the world. His main goal is to get revenge on Reinhard for causing his current condition.
[[Image:Knowby-edr.PNG|100px|left]]
'''Professor Raymond Knowby's Ghost''' - Raymond Knowby discovered the Necronomicon ex Mortis, and took it back to his cabin with his wife Henrietta to translate the book. In translating the text out loud to a recorder, he allowed Kandarian spirits to possess the living, and his wife was taken by them. When her body finally died, he couldn't bring himself to dismember her corpse (the only way to force the spirit out for good) and instead buried her in the [[Evil Dead II|fruit cellar of the cabin]]. It was his recording Ash discovered when he and his girlfriend, and others went to the cabin, and in playing it released the demons once more. Knowby's spirit assists where ever he can in sealing the evil again.
[[Image:Sally-edr.PNG|100px|left]]
'''Sally Bowline''' - Ash's Lawyer, and subsequently his love interest. She steals Knowby's diary from Reinhard's office and after reading it begins to believe that Ash just might be telling the truth and isn't actually insane. She leaves the asylum before Reinhard reads from the Necronomicon, sparing her from the fate of everyone else trapped in there. Her car appears to be an Oldsmobile Delta 88, a staple in Sam Raimi's productions.
'''Deadite ash''' - Ash becomes a deadite who is playabe
==Bosses==
*'''Sparky''' - A victim of overdone electroshock therapy, now a deadite, that utilizes electricity as a weapon.
*'''Necromancer Queen''' - A massive undead monster bound to her crypt. Uses Necromancy and other summoning-type spells.
*'''Major Miner''' - A deadite miner possessed and strengthened by an evil spirit. Uses two giant hammers as weapons.
*'''The One That Got Away''' - A massive mutated, armor-skinned rat/fish hybrid.
*'''Deadite Reinhard''' - Dr. Reinhard powered up into a massive troll-like being due to the Necronomicon.
==Weapons==
*'''Pistol''' - The pistol is Ash's first weapon. It is very fast but very weak.
*'''Chainsaw''' - Ash's trusty chainsaw which goes on his right hand. It is one of his first weapons
*'''Boomstick''' - Ash's sawed-off shotgun.
*'''Harpoon gun''' - After looking through a trash pile Ash finds a harpoon gun. He modifies it to go on his arm.
*'''Torpedo gun''' - When fired the torpedo attaches itself to the enemy and explodes afterwards.
*'''Flamethrower''' - Multiple uses.
*'''Super chainsaw'''
==Levels==
*Cabin
*Sunny Meadows Asylum
*Sunny Meadows graveyard
*Catacombs
*Woods
*Mine
*Port Turnham shipyard
*Swamp
*Port Turnham
*The Temple
==External links==
* [http://www.evildeadregeneration.com/ Official Web Site]
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