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Simple Premise (kill Mummies) but a blast and a challenge

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I don't play a lot of video games; we bought a Game Cube last year and we have a few games, then we "inherited" my nephew's PS1game and "The Mummy" along with it. My nephew, like most teens, is very prolific at these games, but he got stuck on the 3rd level(caverns of the Nile) when he could'nt make it down the river on the log. I'm in my late 40's with a degree in US History, so I'm drawn to anything even remotely historical. I LOVE this game! Yes, some of the graphics are a little outdated, but games have come a long way on the past 5 years. The weapons,fights, and various settings are very well done, and the music and the many booby traps keep you on the edge of your seat.I have made it through all 16 levels, in just a few months; pretty good for someone with NO game experience at all. If I had more time, I would play it 2 hours a day, every day- but I don't. And for those "reviewers" who complained about it being unrealistic ("I'm sure Egyptologists are killing everyone"), well HELLO! This, like 99% of video games is FICTION! Anyway,if you want a game with a simple premise, lots of action and progressively harder challenges, give "The Mummy" a try. My only regret is that I won't get a chance to try "The Mummy Returns", as it is a PS2 game. If I had a chance to purchase a less-used copy of "The Mummy" I would, as mine is starting to wear out!PS. The 4 or 5 chase scenerios and the 2 trips downriver on logs are an absolute challenge, and a BLAST!

It is not that bad to compere with other PS games

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I loved the movies and got the game and thought with the cheats it was cool. Infedent ammo lives and weapons, its not that bad. Thay could have made the graphics better, and made more like the movie

THE MUMMY

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: February 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

FIRST OFF, THE GAME IS CHALLENGING AND REQUIRES SOME HAND EYE COORDINATION. YOU WILL NEED SOME CHEAT CODES IN THE END UNLESS YOU PLAYED THE GAME OVER 200 TIMES. I HAD TO REPEAT SOME LEVELS BECAUSE THEY WERE TOUGH BUT EVENTUALLY YOU GET THE HANG OF IT. EVERY GAME HAS A SEQUENCE TO IT AND ONCE YOU FIGURE THE PATTERN YOU WIN ALMOST ALL THE TIME. AS FOR GRAPHICS, I DONT KNOW WHY PEOPLE EVEN BOTHER DISCUSSING GRAPHICS BECAUSE OF COURSE THE HEADS WILL BE SQUARE AND THE SCENERY WILL NOT BE AS DYNAMIC , BECAUSE THESE PLATFORMS DATE BACK A FEW YEARS AGO. SO THE GRAPHICS IN TODAYS PLATFORMS SUCH AS PS2/DREAMCAST OR NOW XBOX ARE LIFELIKE. IF YOU WANT GREAT GRAPHICS UPGRADE TO A MORE NEWER PLATFORM SUCH AS DREAMCAST OR XBOX AND TOSS THE OLD TECHNOLOGY OUT. REMEMBER THE OLD SAYING, AS SOON AS YOU BUY YOUR COMPUTER ITS ALREADY OUTDATED. COMPARE THE SONY GRAPHICS TO THE OLD SEGAS OR NINTENDO. BUT NO 360 DEGREE REVOS IN THOSE OLD GAMES HEY! HARD TO FIND THE ONES THAT DID.

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1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: December 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

both of the movies were great, but this game is pathetic! i had a sleepover with my friends and my mom went out and rented 2 games we wanted ready to rumble boxing and some other game but they didn't have it so she got the mummy. so i was thinking cool maybe it will be as good as the movie. i was wrong after the first 5 minutes or so me and my friends were both bored and frustrated. DONT GET IT DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY!

This mummies okay with it.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: July 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

My 9 year old son and husband enjoy this game. Graphics are not very good.We don't think they sound like the real characters either but we find it humorous. We all like the music. You don't have a choice of characters to play with. The game is not real challenging.We liked both movies so they just have fun with the combination of music and levels they are playing on along with some imagination. We rented this game and are now purchasing it. We can think of better ways to improve the game but for now they are just having fun with it.

The WORST adaptation of a movie ...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: May 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I was very excited when they announced that there was a game for one of my favorite movies. But that excitement ended very fast when I began to play it. The graphics were THE WORST I have never seen before. Rick O' Connell looks like somebody hit him with a pan. Very bad. And the game... a Frustrating experience. It's SO bad I sold it as a trade in and I guess I won.

Don't Bother

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: April 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you're looking for fun, challenging, action-based games...leave this one on the shelf. This is yet another video game that is loosely (and I do mean LOOSELY) based on a popular movie that doesn't even come close to living up to expectations. Other than the movie-clips present at the begining and the movie characters names, there is no connection. Now, don't get me wrong, the movie wasn't exactly a showpiece either but at least you knew that going in. As for the game...geez, where do I begin?

The characters look like clunky, poorly drawn blobs as they move around the screen. The camera angles are horrifying and 80 percent of the time you are trying to compensate for this, all the while you're being whacked by some pharoh or whatever it's supposed to be (again, its hard to tell with the attack of the block-headed creatures). The controls are sloppy to the point of being totally unforgivable. Your character often plunges to his death because you cant control his movement or worse yet, because the damn camera is at the wrong angle. The music is looped so you hear the same few tunes over and over, which is beyond boring. Voice talent is limited as are the various creatures that attack you. The game has very little challenge unless of course you count the sloppy control features and camera problems...but I doubt you'll want to include that since that really makes it FRUSTRATING instead of challenging.

Overall, I really can't think of anything good to say about this game except that it makes other games seem alot better. The only reason it got one star is that there isn't a lower rating that you can submit. If you enjoy action games, there are much better ones out there like Spiderman 2000. If you are still bound and determined to try The Mummy Blunder anyway, you'll want to rent it first....you'll be over it soon.

Scary movie - even scarier game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: April 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The only scary thing about this game is that you paid to play it. If Hollywood put as little effort into its movies as game companies put into the adaptations, people would watch re-runs of "Suddenly Susan" and stay home.

(Clever Mummy Joke Here)

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is fun if you like straightfrward simple games. If you're looking for a challenge, look elsewhere. If you liked the movie, this may provide limited enjoyment, but the sloppy controls and lack of replay value should bore away any serious gamers.

Should be mummified

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: December 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I liked the movie, so I got the game for Christmas. The minute i started playing it, I was very disipointed. The Graphics are ugly and way to polygonic. The gameplay is plain, boring and pointless. I though it was going to be like Tomb Raider or Indy Jones. Instead, it's like Small Soldiers video game; your objective is to kill everything and everyone (what would "real" egyptologists think of this?). You run through the Egyptian temples like you're runing through a boot camp training gantulet. When O'conell runs, he looks like he's running on hot colls. The voices don't even sould like the real actor; O'conell sounds like a British trying to be a locked-jaw American. ....

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