Saber Interactive and Boss Team Games surprised during The Game Awards, announcing a new co-operative multiplayer game based on the Evil Dead franchise. “Based on the Evil Dead franchise and characters created by Sam Raimi, Robert Tapert, and Bruce Campbell, the game casts players against the forces of evil that have been unleashed from the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, with sights and sounds inspired by the films The Evil Dead, Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn, and Army of Darkness, as well as the STARZ original Ash vs. Evil Dead television series,” the release reads.
It continues: “Work together as a team of four survivors, exploring, looting, crafting, managing your fear, and finding key artifacts to seal the breach between worlds. Or take control of the powerful Kandarian Demon to hunt Ash and his friends while possessing Deadites, the environment, and even the survivors themselves as you seek to swallow their souls!”
The game’s due out in 2021 on PS5 and PS4, and you can catch the debut trailer embedded above.
[source youtube.com]
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Could be fun if they do it right! Such a great universe to play with—camp & horror!
Aww why they can't just do a survival horror style game like the one on playstation? Felt disappointed that is a multiplayer.
It’s literally just the Friday the 13th game and I fear this will be overshadowed by Dead by Daylight’s pre-existing audience and the new Left 4 Dead bringing in the fans. I fully expect to see an article about it shuttering or going onto PS Plus sooner rather than later.
GROOVY! Not my first choice for an evil dead game, but I can dig it.
I was hoping for more like fist full of boomstick. I’m concerned this is going to be a letdown now. The trailer doesn’t show any humour in fact looks like it takes itself too serious. And multiplayer, oh no.
Another multiplayer!? UGH!
I love the evil dead and am just happy that there is anything coming out in set in that universe. Especially pleased it brings the tv show into it as well. Looking forward to this one.
Well was excited until I read multiplayer.
I reeeally hope this is its own game and not just a cash grab re-skin of the friday the 13th game and dead by dawn (which is an evil dead reference btw) game.
Edit:aaaand its just a lazy reskin of Friday the 13th. Sigh
Why?!?!?!? The first few hours of resident evil vii showed that an incredible evil dead style game is possible in first person or VR. They had exactly the right approach given to them and chose to give us this... Muck instead. There's already so many of these cheap and nasty games out there already, why insult one of the greatest horror franchises of all time in this way?
@Leon_93
There was an Evil Dead survival horror/Resident Evil clone on the PS1 back in the day and it sadly wasn't very good. So I don't know maybe this direction was the right call.
Another Friday the 13th / Dead by Daylight clone essentially.
"Let's make a compelling story-driven single-player Evil Dead game with Multiplayer thrown in as a nice bonus"
"Nah that would require too much time, money, resources and creativity we don't have. Let's just make a Friday the 13th / Dead by Daylight clone, and call it a day. GROOVY!?"
"...groovy (Unenthusiastically)"
Great, multiplayer and it's basically a clone of the recent Friday the 13th game. Hard pass.
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