Watching the mummies twitch and writhe as they get hit from Rick's two pistols accurately captures the feel of the pulp era but, once the game deviates from that basic formula, it quickly loses momentum.
But, at the same time, the shoot-em-up scenes in the game are lots of fun. Combined with the other problems, the game's excitement level is diminished considerably by these elements. There are also traps that cause instant death, an element that is never fun.Īn inordinate number of doors slows the pace down as the hero must usually search for switches to open them, often having to kill monsters to get there, and all too often, the monster doesn't show up until Rick reaches the door. This leads to the character blasting away, perhaps with the same frustration the player feels at times, when attempting to push a button to open a door. For a bizarre reason known only to the designers, the spacebar is both the means of attacking with a weapon (be it Rick's trademark dual pistols, a torch, an "amulet grenade" or so forth) and the method used as he interacts with his environment. Unlike other parts of the game where Rick can take cumulative damage before dying, one misstep on the log causes instantaneous death, depositing Rick back at the beginning of the level in third-person perspective before he reaches the surfing portion again. Unfortunately, the game isn't always a first-person blaster in that it uses other elements, too, such as a game-within-a-game motif that includes a surfing exercise requiring the hero to jump or duck obstacles while riding a log down an underground river. This nice feature allows him to look down at a pit when his back is against the wall, without requiring you to have to continually adjust the perspective. The camera floats just over and above Rick's shoulder and has a built in "quick swivel" that moves so he's always facing away from any wall or object he's against. When he lights or douses a torch, the lightning in each area adjusts appropriately. In terms of graphics, Rick O'Connell's face is mapped onto the figure, although he's a bit blocky, and he sports incredibly muscle-bound proportions that aren't evident in the movie. Since the movie focused mainly on Rick O'Connell blasting away at things with lots of guns, though, the game lends itself well to the first-person shooter genre. It could be argued that the game is mostly a Doom remake with skins that happen to be Egyptian in appearance. The Mummy is a straightforward reenactment of a two-fisted adventure, straight from the movie starring Brendan Frasier - at least the fighting parts.
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