 After a television station broadcasts the Book of the Dead tape live on air, the town of Dearborn is taken over by Deadites. You play as Ash, armed with his chainsaw, trusty boom stick and other weapons such as shovels, flamethrowers and guns, you must search the town to save the citizens from being infected by the Deadites and to save the town from being overrun by the unspeakable horrors which have spawned from the Necronomicon.