User reviews for The Mummy
4.5 / 10
Combined Score
4.3
Community
4.7
Internet
THE BAD:
Bad character controls, he can't do many movements. Boring game play. Lame levels. The graphics are pretty bad, and game play is repetative. It seems like you are doing the same thing over and over, the rooms just look a little different.
SUMMARY:
I wish I had not bought this game. I traded it in. I found it boring, annoying, and poorly done. I adored the movie, but the game is a big loser. The movement is really weird, the main character walks in a way that does not look like normal human movement, and he has a odd hopping jump and run. This is no Tomb Raider game. If they had made the control of the character more like Lara Croft, it would have been a heck of a lot better, though the levels would still be boring. Every time you complete a level, you end up back in the same spot, the camp outside the tombs in the movie. The game is very circular, it doesn't seem...
THE BAD:
Simple graphics. Goofy voice acting.
SUMMARY:
I know what you're saying, "But games with a movie license suck!" I hear you, and I believe you, but here's the thing, this one ain't that bad. The game has a couple of features that scared me a bit. It's on a single disk and in addition to having a full trailer for the Mummy II available from the main menu, the opening sequence to the game is about 5 minutes of FMV taken right from the movie. Two problems with this, first, "You had this much free space? Where are you storing your game?" second, changing from the FMV to the blocky polygons of the game is a harsh shift. The graphics are unspectacular, it seems to use the same engine as the Xena Playstation game. The voice acting, while not bad, is clearly not the actors from the movie. But enough of all this down talk, let me tell you what makes this game worth...
