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Mummy

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Much better than Frankenstein. I actually completed this one. I did learn that to get the best video playback, you need to install the QuickTime from the game CD. I thought that because I had a newer version that it would play better. But that isn't the case. Not as challenging as some games, but still worth playing.

good deal

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: February 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

For 10 bucks, I guess it will pass the time. I never got through either one of them. Dark and obscure. I did enjoy and get through Myst, Amber, and Gabriel Knight3. These were just so boring to me I gave up.

family fun

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

For the money I am happy with both games. My children love to help play the games. These games are easy to maneuver around so it makes them a good price choice for the beginning pc gamer.

Oh my god...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: May 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Is this even a game? All you do is control this little hand that's a pointer and click on random objects. It's really stupid. I couldn't even get out of the airplane on the mummy game. Not only that but on my other computer, some how, the mummy game made a directory called c:\mummy files\ and my computer was messed up for a while because of that. Maybe my version had a bug. But after it did that, my CD-ROM wouldn't work right because it couldnt find all it's files. For some reason my computer thought c:\mummy files was c:\program files so alot of my programs wouldn't work. Some are still messed up because when I try to run something, it can't find mummy.exe. So it's not only a really bad game, but the installation software is really messed up. This game wouldn't even be entertaining for 3 year olds. If you want a good family game, try something from Hoyle. Or if you want a good game filled with action, try Tomb Raider. These games are just an insult to video games.

Bad acting,bad games all around

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: August 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Frankenstein

This is the better of the games.Pretty easy,easy puzzles and easy to follow story.Bad acting from Tim Curry.I bought this games since he was in it.Good for the low price

Mummy

Horrible,bad story at the end of the game you are left with items you didnt even use,confusing.

Good as a temporary diversion

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: September 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

These games are okay if you're really bored, but their really not worth your time. Especially the Mummy game, it's really short and pretty unimaginative. Some aspects of Frankenstein are interesting, but I found it rather hard to get a hang of the game.

A mixed bunch

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: November 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I thought the Mummy part of this bundle was very enjoyable. It is a 2-D adventure/puzzle game. It was a fun diversion, although sometimes the acting/writing faltered slightly. Still, even though it was fun, the game is the shortest adventure game I have EVER played. I finished it in a weekend, and I am not a fast gamer at all. I would say there is maybe ten hours of gameplay. This will vary from person to person, of course.

As for Frankenstein, that was a disappointment. I tried to play the game, and twice when I loaded up the game, I found that all my saved games had disappeared, forcing me to start over. After the second time this happened, I just decided not to bother again. The game was not that great to start with, anyway. I found it less interesting than The Mummy, because you are restricted to just a few rooms to explore, and there are many annoying mazes connecting those few rooms that add nothing to the gaming experience.

Overall, I think even for the low, low price of this gaming bundle, you can still do better.

Disappointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: December 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I guess I shouldn't really complain because I bought this game used for [dollar smmount]. But even so, I was disappointed. The Mummy game has some interesting puzzles, but you have to put up with a lot of smarmy commentary from Malcom McDowell's character all the while. It really got old. Then I felt like the ending was so cheesy and abrupt that it wasn't worth the trouble of figuring anything out to get there. It was a true let-down. The Frankenstein game is equally frustrating. Lots of wandering around, having no clue what you're doing. Then once you figure out the puzzle, you want to kick yourself for wasting so much time on it. Because it really leads nowhere. Overall, both these games are decent pastimes, as long as you're not expecting high adventure or fast-paced entertainment. Which, sadly, I was.

It won't impress an eight-year-old

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: October 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

My eight-year-old son and I were really into playing this. But we were both a bit disappointed. He was disappointed that there never was an actual mummy.
The gamer becomes the character Michael Cameron, a somewhat whiney city-boy who works for the mining company. A mummy scare runs through the mining camp and a strike is threatened. Cameron arrives in Egypt to find out what's going on and to make sure the miners don't strike. The Cameron character is completely out of his comfort zone, he complains often, and yet, he's supposed to be resourceful enough to figure out what's going on and how to get into the tomb. I didn't want to be around this guy, but I was stuck with him.
Acting was stiff overall, especially once inside the tomb. The dead Pharoh and especially the High Priest who whines at you to read a life-giving incantation. Eventually he wants the scroll from you as well. When you finally give it up, rather than you handing it to him at the bottom of the screen like elsewhere in the game, the scroll is awkwardly thrown at him by someone off screen. Malcolm McDowell, although fairly well acted, was basically the same arrogant jerk character he usually plays. His constant appearance was annoying and seemingly forced in our face every time we exited a hut or turned a corner. (Can you say "BADDD GUYY?)
The game play was stiff as well. We suggest saving before trying any new action or solution. We would die several times before solving a puzzle, not because the solution was hard to figure out, but the clunky interface caused the solution to be difficult to decipher. Often, we had to click on a specific part of something to get a desired result. In the meantime, we'd die. Items in our backpack could only be used for specific times even though, logically several items could be used.
Also, we were corralled into specific actions. For example, when earthquakes shake the mine, logic would assume we can exit up a nearby air shaft. But NOO! We were coralled into racing through the tunnels valiantly, only to die just short of the shaft. After many sickening groans as the screen went black (this was always the experience of our death -- even as we drowned and likely couldn't have groaned) we were illogically expected to exit a different way.
Most of the initial puzzles were enjoyable common sense repairs and utilizing the things at hand, such as repairing wires and printing out computer data.
Some puzzles had solutions that could only be realized by either dumb luck or by dying on several attempts. After a particular water puzzle, the door to the stairway is open. However, you slip on the centuries-old slimy stairs until you discover an Egyptian rug has mysteriously appeared in the middle of the room.
At the end, I try to give the power crystal to McDowell. Each time I tried to open my back pack to get it, McDowell would shoot me. I may have had a bug in the machine but eventually I was able to complete the game.
The end was pretty anticlimactic and predictable. Overall, it's an O.K. game to pass the time but it won't fill you with a sense of fulfillment or accomplishment. And it won't impress an eight-year-old boy.

A Mixed Bag

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I understand WHY these two games are packaged and sold together. They both revolve around classic movie monsters and both feature big name stars (Malcolm McDowell in 'The Mummy' and Tim Curry in 'Frankenstein.') However, that's where all similarity ends. What this package gives you is one quite good game bundled with one lousy game to give you an average result at a low price.

The Mummy' is actually a delight, if a bit short. McDowell chews the scenery with abandon, alternately smarmy and pretentious. The graphics, while nothing to write home about, were quite adequate, given the low price of the game. The puzzles were straightforward, of moderate difficulty, logical, and reasonably well-integrated into the plot. And there actually IS a plot, if a fairly thin one. Overall, the game plays out like a 'Riddle of the Sphinx Lite.' Fun and decent, and well worth the price tag on its own.

'Frankenstein,' on the other hand, was so abysmally poor as to make me give up on it without even finishing the game. It starts out with some promise, as you quickly realize that YOU are the Frankenstein Monster. You wake up on the famous table, newly created, to find Dr. Frankenstein (Curry) furiously scribbling away in his journal. However, instead of being excited to find that his experiment has worked, the Doctor curtly tells you to go to your room and not to touch anything...more fussy and distracted parent than mad genius. It is in the getting to your room (and trying to get back out of it) that you discover the true nature of this game. It is nothing but one giant maze. You spend the majority of the game wandering back and forth through secret passages in the walls, each step of which looks exactly like every other step. It is hopelessly confusing, impossible to map, and loses all entertainment value after about 5 minutes. IF you are lucky enough to get back out of the walls and into the main part of the house, you discover various items laying around which you pick up. Why are you picking them up? It turns out that you are going to try to reproduce the Doctor's experiment on your own. Why? Who knows? In fact, you have no clue that this is why you are collecting the items unless you consult a walkthrough, as there is nothing in the game itself to tell you this. As doing this experiment is the game's main objective, it is a real shortfall that you have no real idea that that is what you are trying to accomplish. I can't imagine anyone actually enjoying this game. Finishing it is more a measure of your own stubbornness than any redeeming quality in the game itself.

Overall I gave this package a rating of 3 stars (though 2 1/2 stars would be more accurate). 'The Mummy' is easily worth 3 1/2 or 4 stars, but 'Frankenstein' barely deserves a single star.

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