History VideoGame / EvilDeadRegeneration

''Evil Dead: Regeneration'' is an [[ActionGame action]] [[HackAndSlash hack-and-slash]] game developed by Cranky Pants Games it is also the third and last licensed ''Franchise/EvilDead'' game published by the late Creator/{{THQ}}. It was released for the Microsoft Windows, UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 and UsefulNotes/XBox.
It has no relations to the previous two Evil Dead games (VideoGame/EvilDeadHailToTheKing and VideoGame/EvilDeadAFistfulOfBoomstick).

* DropTheHammer: One boss battle is against a big possessed miner with [[DualWielding two]] sledgehammers.

* HomemadeFlamethrower: When Ash and Sam arrive at Port Turnham's fuel storage. The deadite slayer [[MacGyvering whips]] himself up [[hhttps://youtu.be/tnK9k5sGMr8?t=27 an arm-mounted flamethrower]], after seeing the completed invention. Sam is understandably fearful of it.

Shown when Ash finds his old belongings next to the morgue.

* TwoFaced: Half of Sam's body look like a deadite.

The game takes place in it's own timeline (essentially a WhatIf), wherein Ash wasn't sucked into the portal that sent him back in time at the end ''Film/EvilDead2''. After escaping the cabin, he ended up in Sunny Meadows, a mental asylum for the criminally insane. After everyone was left convinced that he was insane and that all the sickening events that took place in the cabin was his fault. To prove his innocence, a lawyer named Sally helps him out and after finding Professor Knowby's diary, fully believes Ash's story about the deadites. However just as she leaves, one of the asylum's staff members, the insane ObviouslyEvil psychiatrist Dr. Reinhard reads from the Necronomicon Ex Mortis and accidentally starts another deadite crisis that is much larger in scale compared to the cabin.

Using the chaos to break himself free and regain his possessions, Ash gets two allies along for the ride. The spirit of the late Professor Knowby who assists him from beyond the grave and Sam, a half-deadite [[PluckyComicRelief comic relief]] midget (voiced by Creator/TedRaimi) whom is pretty much immortal and despite his buffoonery is actually knowledgeable about the occult, making him valuable to putting a stop to the current crisis.

* HomemadeFlametherower: When Ash and Sam arrive at Port Turnham's fuel storage. The deadite slayer [[MacGyvering whips]] himself up [[hhttps://youtu.be/tnK9k5sGMr8?t=27 an arm-mounted flamethrower]], after seeing the completed invention. Sam is understandably fearful of it.

''Regeneration'' is the third and last licensed ''Franchise/EvilDead'' game published by the late Creator/{{THQ}}.

[[WhatIf What if]] Ash wasn't sent back in time at the end of ''Film/EvilDead2''? He would have been locked in a mental institute, and he'd have to fight deadites summoned by his crazy psychiatrist Dr. Reinhard, with an undying [[PluckyComicRelief comic relief]] at his side.

* AbnormalAmmo: Ash's boomstick fires energy bolts when he turns into his deadite form.

* BedlamHouse: The sanitarium where Ash was in placed in wasn't a nice place even before the deadites started to run wild.

* DamselInDistress: Sally, who is kidnapped by Reinhard to get a hold on Prof. Knowby's diary. [[spoiler: After being rescued at the end of the game, she abruptly turns into a Deadite without warning, and Ash has to blow her away. He ends up walking off into the sunset with Sam instead.]]

* HappyEndingOverride: To the first two films; Ash was unable to provide a believable explanation for why he killed his friends at the cabin, so he was institutionalized.

* ItsQuietTooQuiet:

* LockAndLoadMontage: Shown when Ash finds his old belongings next to the morgue.

* PsychoElectro: First boss fight is against a possessed electroshock therapy patient.
* PsychoPsychologist: Dr. Reinhard, the BigBad.
* SpiritAdvisor: Professor Knowby, the giant floating ghost head.

* RoleReprisal: Creator/BruceCampbell reprises his role as Ash from the movies.

* RealityEnsues: To the first two films; Ash was unable to provide a believable explanation for why he killed his friends at the cabin, so he was institutionalized.

[[WhatIf What if]] Ash wasn't send back in time at the end of ''Film/EvilDead2''? He would have been locked in a mental institute, and he'd have to fight deadites summoned by his crazy psychiatrist Dr. Reinhard, with an undying [[PluckyComicRelief comic relief]] at his side.

* LockAndLoadMontage: Shown when Ash finds his old belongings nex to the morgue.

** Entering a gate guardian's mouth leads Ash and Sam bein farted out the other end.

->''"Listen up, shake and bake. [[BadassBoast I eat evil for breakfast and danger for dinner]]. So spread the word: Ash is back in business."''

* DamselInDistress: Sally, who is kidnapped by Reinhard to get a hold on Prof. Knowby's diary.

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