Evil Dead: Regeneration (2005) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Evil Dead: Regeneration

Evil Dead: Regeneration takes over where the film Evil Dead 2 left off. You can play as Ash, who has been committed to an insane asylum where a mad scientist is doing experiments with the Necronomican. With…

65 13 September 2005

What Evil Dead: Regeneration is

Evil Dead: Regeneration is an adventure game developed by Cranky Pants Games and released in 2005. It was published by THQ. It is available on PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on RenderWare.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Evil Dead: Regeneration takes over where the film Evil Dead 2 left off. You can play as Ash, who has been committed to an insane asylum where a mad scientist is doing experiments with the Necronomican. With the help of some firepower and your new sidekick, a 3-foot tall "deadite," you can battle the scientist's unholy creations and save civilization.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Evil Dead series

Evil Dead: Regeneration is the fourth of 9 entries we hold in the Evil Dead series. It arrived 2 years after Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick. The next entry was Evil Dead: The Game in 2011. Its critic score of 65 is 2 points below the series average of 67. The highest-rated entry is Evil Dead: The Game at 85.

See all 9 Evil Dead games in release order →

How it was received

Evil Dead: Regeneration holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 24% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 2 points below the year average.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 6 hrs.

What it launched against

Evil Dead: Regeneration launched on 13 September 2005, within three weeks of Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy), Indigo Prophecy, Fable: The Lost Chapters and Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy), Indigo Prophecy, Fable: The Lost Chapters, Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow.

Cheats and codes

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Evil Dead: Regeneration yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

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Official trailer