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Evil Dead: Hail to the King

System(s): Sega Dreamcast

Publisher: THQ

Developer: Heavy Iron Studios

Supporting companies: Tommy Tallarico Studios (audio)

Licensor: Renaissance Pictures, Canal+ DA

Peripherals supported: Jump Pack, Visual Memory Unit

Genre: Action

Number of players: 1

Official in-game languages:

English

Français

Release	Date	RRP	Code
US	2000-12-18^[1]		T-10003N
DE	2001-06-20^[4]		T-10005D-83
ES	2001-06-27^[9]		T-10005D-05
FR	2001-06-20^[2]^[3]		T-10005D-80
UK	2001-06-22^[5]^[6]	£29.9929.99^[7]^[8]	T-10005D-05
DE/FR	2001-06-22		T-10005D-83
ES/UK	2001-06-22		T-10005D-05

Non-Sega versions
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Evil Dead: Hail to the King is a survival horror game released for the Sega Dreamcast. It is based on the Evil Dead film franchise, with a story that takes place after the third film, Army of Darkness.

During development the game was known as Evil Dead: Ashes 2 Ashes.

Gameplay

Hail to the King follows the survival horror formula popularised by the likes of Resident Evil, with pre-rendered backgrounds, fixed cameras and "tank" controls.

History

Legacy

A sequel, Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick, with very different gameplay would be released for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox in 2003.

Production credits

Based on EVIL DEAD: Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, Bruce Campbell

Heavy Iron Studios

General Manager: Steve Gray
Producer: Mark Morris
Lead Designer: Mott Coohill
Designers: Kris Jackson, Jeffy Bronion
Programmers: Dan Kollmorgen, Marcel Samek, Shiraz Akmal, Kay Cloud, Jake Kauth
Art Director: Ira Gilford
Lead Artist: Robert Yang
Animation Director: Gregory Ecklund
Character Concepts: Carlos Huantes
Characters & Animation: Kyle Kirby, St. John Colon, Etot Cail-Sirota, Alex Cet, Rob Ostir, Xin Chung
Digital Artists: Jason Yonofsky, Richard Matsushita, Alex Cel, Bob Rossoff, Dave Nix, Avi Das, Bryan Whitcker, Jeff Benait, Lisa Foster, Nevelle Spiteri, Peter Baustaedter, Rosa Lin, Steve Galle
Texture Maps & Matte Paintings: Chan Ho Lee, Scott Chiu, Yongki Yoon, Peter Boustaedter
Compositing: Jason Yanofsky, Scott Chiu, Robert Yang, Bryon Whitacker, Jeff Benait
Storyboards: Peter Romsey, Rpin Suwannath
Audio Supervisor: Jeffy Branion
System Administration: Joachim Thuau, Armen Toorian, Greg Ercolano
Office Administration: Carmen Bogan
Additional Level Design: Byron Jelden

THQ

www.thq.com
Executive Producer: Scott Krager
Associate Producer: Rob Loftus
Assistant Producer: Greag Nakawatase
Senior Product Manager: Alison Quirion
Associate Product Manager: Greg Donovan
Publicity: Liz Pieri, Kathy Mendoza
Creative Services: Howard Liebeskind, Kirk Somdal
Instruction Manual: Alan Barasch
Lead Tester: Greg Manley
Testers: Josh Austin, Morgon Clark, Ryan Datry, Dan Deleon, Gearge Erwin, Cristopher Gonzalez, AJ Hernandez, Erik Hernandez, Ban Koontz, Scott Mainster, Tim Oole, Brian Turner, Mark Yance, Shaun Wharton

Tommy Tallarico Studios, Inc.

Sound Design: Joey Kuras
Music Composed By: Tommy Tallarico, Todd Dennis, Chris Rickwood, Jack Wall
Orchestrator: Steve Salani
Recorded in Budapest, Hungary by the Hungarian National Symphony Orchestra and the Budafok Chamber Choir
Conductor: Imre Kollar
Recording Engineers: Istvan Biller, Balint Biller
Music Produced By : Tommy Tallarico, Forte Music, Los Angeles
Audio Production Coordinator: Thomas V. Tallarico
Renaissance Pictures: Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, George Strayton, Ali Rasul, David Pallison, Sue Binder
Digital Banshee: Special Visual Effects
Inferno Compositing: Renee Chamblin

Method Studios Inferno System & Post-Production Services

System Administration: Scott Taylor

WAM!NET

Render Farm: Tim Eltfott, Josh Calbeck
Packaging & Manual Layout: Axiom Interactive Design

Voices

Ash / Evil Ash: Bruce Campbell
Abdul Alzeez: Ron Jones
Father Allard / Troop Leader: Steve Brodie
Jenny: Erin Ashe
Annie Knowby / Grammy: Lani Minella
Merchant: Ryan Drummond
Guild Members: Frank Caesar, Dan Castle, Ron Jones
Professor Knowby: Chris Wilcox
Deadites: Marc Biagi, Steve Brodie, Lani Minella

Special Thanks: Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, Bruce Campbell, Brian Farrell, Jeff Lopin, Michael Rubinelli, Germaine Gioia, Leslie Brown, Peter Dille, Alison Lacke, Tiffany Ternan, Jeremy Barnes, Jack Suzuki, Trent Ganino, See Un Lee, Sohn Cocke, Matthew O'Callaghan, Pete Anderson, Colin Walter, Hana Lui, Kirby Smith, Vinegrettes, Kristin Prylow, Ken Reinstein

Source:

US manual^[10]

Magazine articles

Main article: Evil Dead: Hail to the King/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #137: "December 2000" (2000-10-30)

Print advert in Official Dreamcast Magazine (UK) #19: "May 2001" (2001-04-05)

Print advert in Hyper (AU) #92: "June 2001" (2001-04-25)

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

576 Konzol (HU)

85

^[11]

Ação Games (BR)

65

^[12]

Consoles + (FR)

80

^[13]

Dreamcast Magazine (UK)

PAL

42

^[8]

Electronic Gaming Monthly (US)

NTSC-U

45

^[14]

Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast (RU)

81

^[15]

Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast (RU)

58

^[16]

GamePlay RPG (FR)

NTSC-U

61

^[17]

GamePro (US)

NTSC-U

55

^[18]

Game Informer (US)

NTSC-U

39

^[19]

MAN!AC (DE)

PAL

37

^[20]

Next Generation (US)

NTSC-U

25

^[21]

Official Dreamcast Magazine (UK)

PAL

50

^[22]

Play (PL)

59

^[23]

Power Unlimited (NL)

40

^[24]

Revista Oficial Dreamcast (ES)

PAL

40

^[25]

	54
Based on 16 reviews

Evil Dead: Hail to the King

Dreamcast, US
Cover
Manual Inlay

Dreamcast, FR
Cover
Disc

Dreamcast, FR/DE
Cover
Disc File:EvilDead-DC-FR-Manual.pdf Manual

Dreamcast, UK/ES
Cover
Disc Reg Card

Technical information

Main article: Evil Dead: Hail to the King/Technical information.

External links

THQ webpages: Dreamcast

References

↑ http://www.ebworld.com:80/ebx/categories/homepages/dreamcast.asp (Wayback Machine: 2000-12-13 17:23)
↑ http://www.micromania.fr:80/zooms/?ref=18991 (Wayback Machine: 2002-10-30 12:42)
↑ http://www.amazon.fr:80/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/557792/ref=vg_brbx_c_1_1/ (Wayback Machine: 2001-07-28 02:00)
↑ http://www.amazon.de:80/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004YSSM (Wayback Machine: 2004-04-28 00:30)
↑ http://www.chipsworld.co.uk/detProd.asp?ProductCode=4449 (Wayback Machine: 2001-07-30 17:37)
↑ http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/300720/ (Wayback Machine: 2001-08-03 10:58)
↑ Official Dreamcast Magazine, "July 2001" (UK; 2001-06-21), page 59
↑ ^8.0 ^8.1 Dreamcast Magazine, "No. 23" (UK; 2001-06-14), page 52
↑ http://www.centromail.es/top/ficha.asp?codmail=17154&codprov= (Wayback Machine: 2001-11-10 21:53)
↑ File:Evildead dc us manual.pdf, page 25
↑ 576 Konzol, "Február 2001" (HU; 2001-xx-xx), page 38
↑ Ação Games, "Fevereiro 2001" (BR; 2001-xx-xx), page 52
↑ Consoles +, "Février 2001" (FR; 2001-0x-xx), page 116
↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "March 2001" (US; 2001-02-06), page 113
↑ Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast, "Izdaniye chetvertoye, dopolnennoye" (RU; 2002-xx-xx), page 68
↑ Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast, "Izdaniye chetvertoye, dopolnennoye" (RU; 2002-xx-xx), page 73
↑ GamePlay RPG, "Janvier 2001" (FR; 200x-xx-xx), page 39
↑ GamePro, "March 2001" (US; 2001-0x-xx), page 93
↑ Game Informer, "March 2001" (US; 2001-0x-xx), page 79
↑ MAN!AC, "09/2001" (DE; 2001-08-01), page 50
↑ Next Generation, "April 2001" (US; 2001-03-20), page 85
↑ Official Dreamcast Magazine, "July 2001" (UK; 2001-06-21), page 58
↑ Play, "Czerwiec 2001" (PL; 2001-xx-xx), page 22
↑ Power Unlimited, "Jaargang 09, Nummer 6, Juni 2001" (NL; 2001-0x-xx), page 57
↑ Revista Oficial Dreamcast, "Junio 2001" (ES; 2001-05-25), page 44

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[:File:ODM_UK_21.pdf_p59-7] Official Dreamcast Magazine, "July 2001" (UK; 2001-06-21), page 59

[:File:DreamcastMagazine_UK_23.pdf_p52-8] 8.0 ^8.1 Dreamcast Magazine, "No. 23" (UK; 2001-06-14), page 52

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[:File:Evildead_dc_us_manual.pdf_p25-10] File:Evildead dc us manual.pdf, page 25

[11] 576 Konzol, "Február 2001" (HU; 2001-xx-xx), page 38

[:File:AcaoGames_BR_160.pdf_p52-12] Ação Games, "Fevereiro 2001" (BR; 2001-xx-xx), page 52

[:File:ConsolesPlus_FR_109.pdf_p116-13] Consoles +, "Février 2001" (FR; 2001-0x-xx), page 116

[:File:EGM_US_140.pdf_p113-14] Electronic Gaming Monthly, "March 2001" (US; 2001-02-06), page 113

[15] Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast, "Izdaniye chetvertoye, dopolnennoye" (RU; 2002-xx-xx), page 68

[16] Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast, "Izdaniye chetvertoye, dopolnennoye" (RU; 2002-xx-xx), page 73

[:File:GameplayRPG_FR_05.pdf_p39-17] GamePlay RPG, "Janvier 2001" (FR; 200x-xx-xx), page 39

[:File:GamePro_US_150.pdf_p93-18] GamePro, "March 2001" (US; 2001-0x-xx), page 93

[:File:GameInformer_US_095.pdf_p79-19] Game Informer, "March 2001" (US; 2001-0x-xx), page 79

[:File:MAN.21AC_DE_2001-09.pdf_p50-20] MAN!AC, "09/2001" (DE; 2001-08-01), page 50

[:File:NextGeneration_US_76.pdf_p85-21] Next Generation, "April 2001" (US; 2001-03-20), page 85

[:File:ODM_UK_21.pdf_p58-22] Official Dreamcast Magazine, "July 2001" (UK; 2001-06-21), page 58

[23] Play, "Czerwiec 2001" (PL; 2001-xx-xx), page 22

[:File:PowerUnlimited_NL_090_200106.pdf_p57-24] Power Unlimited, "Jaargang 09, Nummer 6, Juni 2001" (NL; 2001-0x-xx), page 57

[:File:ROD_ES_18.pdf_p44-25] Revista Oficial Dreamcast, "Junio 2001" (ES; 2001-05-25), page 44

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+During development the game was known as '''''Evil Dead: Ashes 2 Ashes'''''.
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 ===Legacy===
 A sequel, ''Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick'', with very different gameplay would be released for the [[PlayStation 2]] and [[Xbox]] in 2003.
+==Production credits==
+{{multicol|
+{{creditstable|
+*'''Based on EVIL DEAD:''' Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, Bruce Campbell
+{{creditsheader|[[Heavy Iron Studios]]}}
+*'''General Manager:''' Steve Gray
+*'''Producer:''' Mark Morris
+*'''Lead Designer:''' Mott Coohill
+*'''Designers:''' Kris Jackson, Jeffy Bronion
+*'''Programmers:''' Dan Kollmorgen, Marcel Samek, Shiraz Akmal, Kay Cloud, Jake Kauth
+*'''Art Director:''' Ira Gilford
+*'''Lead Artist:''' Robert Yang
+*'''Animation Director:''' Gregory Ecklund
+*'''Character Concepts:''' Carlos Huantes
+*'''Characters & Animation:''' Kyle Kirby, St. John Colon, Etot Cail-Sirota, Alex Cet, Rob Ostir, Xin Chung
+*'''Digital Artists:''' Jason Yonofsky, Richard Matsushita, Alex Cel, Bob Rossoff, Dave Nix, Avi Das, Bryan Whitcker, Jeff Benait, Lisa Foster, Nevelle Spiteri, Peter Baustaedter, Rosa Lin, Steve Galle
+*'''Texture Maps & Matte Paintings:''' Chan Ho Lee, Scott Chiu, Yongki Yoon, Peter Boustaedter
+*'''Compositing:''' Jason Yanofsky, Scott Chiu, Robert Yang, Bryon Whitacker, Jeff Benait
+*'''Storyboards:''' Peter Romsey, Rpin Suwannath
+*'''Audio Supervisor:''' Jeffy Branion
+*'''System Administration:''' Joachim Thuau, Armen Toorian, Greg Ercolano
+*'''Office Administration:''' Carmen Bogan
+*'''Additional Level Design:''' Byron Jelden
+{{creditsheader|THQ}}
+*www.thq.com
+*'''Executive Producer:''' Scott Krager
+*'''Associate Producer:''' Rob Loftus
+*'''Assistant Producer:''' Greag Nakawatase
+*'''Senior Product Manager:''' Alison Quirion
+*'''Associate Product Manager:''' Greg Donovan
+*'''Publicity:''' Liz Pieri, Kathy Mendoza
+*'''Creative Services:''' Howard Liebeskind, Kirk Somdal
+*'''Instruction Manual:''' Alan Barasch
+*'''Lead Tester:''' Greg Manley
+*'''Testers:''' Josh Austin, Morgon Clark, Ryan Datry, Dan Deleon, Gearge Erwin, Cristopher Gonzalez, AJ Hernandez, Erik Hernandez, Ban Koontz, Scott Mainster, Tim Oole, Brian Turner, Mark Yance, Shaun Wharton
+{{creditsheader|[[Tommy Tallarico Studios, Inc.]]}}
+*'''Sound Design:''' Joey Kuras
+*'''Music Composed By:''' [[Tommy Tallarico]], Todd Dennis, Chris Rickwood, Jack Wall
+*'''Orchestrator:''' Steve Salani
+*Recorded in Budapest, Hungary by the Hungarian National Symphony Orchestra and the Budafok Chamber Choir
+*'''Conductor:''' Imre Kollar
+*'''Recording Engineers:''' Istvan Biller, Balint Biller
+*'''Music Produced By :''' [[Tommy Tallarico]], Forte Music, Los Angeles
+*'''Audio Production Coordinator:''' Thomas V. Tallarico
+*'''Renaissance Pictures:''' Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, George Strayton, Ali Rasul, David Pallison, Sue Binder
+*'''Digital Banshee:''' Special Visual Effects
+*'''Inferno Compositing:''' Renee Chamblin
+{{creditsheader|Method Studios Inferno System & Post-Production Services}}
+*'''System Administration:''' Scott Taylor
+{{creditsheader|WAM!NET}}
+*'''Render Farm:''' Tim Eltfott, Josh Calbeck
+*'''Packaging & Manual Layout:''' [[Axiom Interactive Design]]
+{{creditsheader|Voices}}
+*'''Ash / Evil Ash:''' [[Bruce Campbell]]
+*'''Abdul Alzeez:''' [[Ron Jones]]
+*'''Father Allard / Troop Leader:''' [[Steve Brodie]]
+*'''Jenny:''' [[Erin Ashe]]
+*'''Annie Knowby / Grammy:''' [[Lani Minella]]
+*'''Merchant:''' [[Ryan Drummond]]
+*'''Guild Members:''' [[Frank Caesar]], [[Dan Castle]], [[Ron Jones]]
+*'''Professor Knowby:''' [[Chris Wilcox]]
+*'''Deadites:''' [[Marc Biagi]], [[Steve Brodie]], [[Lani Minella]]
+*'''Special Thanks:''' Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, Bruce Campbell, Brian Farrell, Jeff Lopin, Michael Rubinelli, Germaine Gioia, Leslie Brown, Peter Dille, Alison Lacke, Tiffany Ternan, Jeremy Barnes, Jack Suzuki, Trent Ganino, See Un Lee, Sohn Cocke, Matthew O'Callaghan, Pete Anderson, Colin Walter, Hana Lui, Kirby Smith, Vinegrettes, Kristin Prylow, Ken Reinstein
+| console=DC
+| source=US manual
+| pdf=Evildead dc us manual.pdf
+| pdfpage=25
+}}
+|cols=3
+}}
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Difference between revisions of "Evil Dead: Hail to the King"

From Sega Retro

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Contents

Gameplay

History

Legacy

Production credits

Magazine articles

Promotional material

Physical scans

Technical information

External links

References