{"id":17160,"date":"2017-12-01T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T00:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=17160"},"modified":"2017-11-07T01:59:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T01:59:04","slug":"the-mummy-demastered-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/01\/the-mummy-demastered-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mummy Demastered (PS4, Switch, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Mummy is one of Universal Studios\u2019 most popular movie franchises.\u00a0 There have been several sequels and spinoffs, a ride at their theme parks, and I think there was even a cartoon at one point.\u00a0 Recently they\u2019ve remade the movie and WayForward published a game based on it called The Mummy Demastered.\u00a0 The reason for that title is because they made the game to look like a movie tie-in from the 16-bit era, and it\u2019s available to download for nearly all the current game consoles and PC (reviewed on PS4 here). It\u2019s a 2-D platforming run and gun exploration type of game, similar to Metroid.\u00a0 With all those good things going for it, could anything go wrong?\u00a0 You\u2019ll just have to read on to find out!<\/p>\n

In the game you play as a special ops agent and you infiltrate a creepy area where an evil Egyptian queen is creating an undead army to take over the world.\u00a0 Or at least that\u2019s what I surmised.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t seen the new remake movie yet as of this writing so I don\u2019t know how close it follows the movie or anything.\u00a0 Your character is a bit generic (looks like a Halo guy), but there\u2019s a reason for that and we\u2019ll get to it in a bit.\u00a0 Your character can run and jump as well as shoot guns in 8 directions.\u00a0 You can even hold a button to stand still and aim your shots in those directions.<\/p>\n

As a Metroid inspired title, you\u2019ll travel a sprawling map gathering weapons, upgrades, and other goodies.\u00a0 You\u2019ll get new weapons like more powerful guns, and grenades that can be used to blow up certain walls.\u00a0 Other items increase your health and mobility.\u00a0 You can then use these new skills to reach different areas of the map you couldn\u2019t explore before.\u00a0 Some of these new skills come in the form of scrolls that allow you to jump higher, swim in water, or climb on ceilings.\u00a0 While others are just equipment like repel gear that lets you climb down shafts.\u00a0 You\u2019ll battle all sorts of creepy enemies and bosses, like zombies, skeletons, bats, spiders, and more.<\/p>\n

With all this good stuff going for it, it would take a huge problem to really bring this game down.\u00a0 Unfortunately, this game has just such a problem.\u00a0 Just like Metroid, there are save rooms every so often on the map where you can save your progress.\u00a0 But if you die in the game, you start off with a new generic soldier, and your old guy turns into an undead monster.\u00a0 Your new guy doesn\u2019t have any of the health upgrades and other goodies your previous guy collected, so you must go find where you died, defeat your undead counterpart, and then you\u2019ll collect your upgrades.\u00a0 This creates some very unnecessary difficult and frustrating situations that could\u2019ve been easily avoided with a gameplay change.\u00a0 Sometimes a game developer may have an idea that sounds cool at first, but they should always ask, \u201cIs this fun?\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s a shame, too, because if it weren\u2019t for this aspect of the game, I probably would\u2019ve enjoyed playing it all the way through.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Mummy Demastered is rated E-10 with an ESRB descriptor of Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 Even though it\u2019s based on a scary movie and you shoot all manner of undead baddies, the 16-bit visuals keep violence from looking very graphic.\u00a0 If you\u2019re OK with your kids watching the movies (or playing Super Metroid), they\u2019ll be OK here.\u00a0 Reading skill is needed for the text, and younger gamers may get frustrated at the high difficulty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Mummy is one of Universal Studios\u2019 most popular movie franchises.\u00a0 There have been several sequels and spinoffs, a ride at their theme parks, and I think there was even a cartoon at one point.\u00a0 Recently they\u2019ve remade the movie and WayForward published a game based on it called The Mummy Demastered.\u00a0 The reason for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews","category-movie-reviews","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17161,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17160\/revisions\/17161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}