The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor - PlayStation 2

My bro Caesar loves this game. This post won't be very informative I'm afraid, since he's autistic and pretty much all he told me was that he liked it and it was fun. Sorry couldn't be more constructive.

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...not a good game

The game is surprisingly fun. The disc arrived in good condition

3rdPerson Action-platformer lite

I really enjoyed the storyline and gameplay of this game. The graphics look really good and the action is fun. However, there are two things that make this game extremely frustrating and not worth buying. 1)The camera angles suck! And you have no control over the camera. I don't know how many times I died, particularly in the rock climbing portions of the game because I could not see what was coming next or where I had to jump. There are some portions of the game where you are running through a tunnel toward enemies that are shooting at you, but the camera is showing your profile so you can't see what you're moving towards. At one point, you're watching your character from behind when he moves through these slamming spike blocks, and when they closed, I couldn't even see my character, but he was repeatedly being a shot by an unseen enemy. 2)Rare save points. When will game designers realize that the player should have the capability to save the game when they choose and not force players to play to the end of a chapter or episode before being able to turn off the machine. If you're going to design this type of game, at least make the save times occur more commonly (like 5-10 minutes of gameplay time) rather than hours apart. Some episodes took a couple of hours to get through with no ability to save anywhere along the way. And if you got close to the end of the episode and had to shut down the game, well...that was two hours wasted and another two hours of playing through the same part of the game again, when you rebooted your game. The game has restart checkpoints that you reach every five minutes or so, so that when you get killed you don't have to start at the beginning of the episode again, but those are only good as long as you don't turn the machine off. I found myself having to leave my console on for hours or even days at a time because I did not want to lose an hour or two of gameplay. Do the designers not realize that some of us have lives and can't always devote hours to playing a game. If you don't have a good two hours to play through an entire episode, then either be prepared to lose all of your gameplay or to leave your console on until you can get back to the game. I really wanted to like this game and, save for the two (really major) problems noted above, it would have been an enjoyable game. Instead, it is a frustrating experience that leaves you wanting to throw your controller through the television monitor.

I just played Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor and I find the levels short and easy. I'm a casual player and it took me 3 days to complete the game. The soldiers are fairly easy to deal with. The guns are easy to control and effective if you use the automatic aim, there is also plenty of ammunition during the game. The climbing areas were not a problem, I did die a few times but I was able to complete them without being stuck in that level. The puzzles are very accessible and I didn't need to use the internet to find how to solve them. The controls during the "point and shoot" moments are awkward but I got used to them. In the last chapters the bosses can require some time to be defeated and that can be frustrating but I was able to easily capture their moving padrons. The saving system could be improved, the game provides many checkpoints but only allows to save when you complete the level. The story can be hard to understand if you never watched the movie. The game is not perfect but I had lots of fun playing it.

The Mummy Tomb of The Dragon Emperor is kind of like the other mummy games such as the Mummy Returns for the PS2. In this game, you play as Alex O'Connell and Rick O'Connell. Alex is now a 22 year old boy in which he followed his parents' footsteps ever since he was on an adventure with his family in Egypt. The game play at first was fairly frustrating at first especially trying to get past the museum with Alex and it had all of these booby traps with spears pointing up and spinny spikes in crevices that you have to time yourself right in. This game is different than the Mummy Returns because there is more interaction in the game and you play as more than one character. The game provides HUDS, puzzles and timed sequences. But once you get farther in the game and you play it for a little bit, you will soon get used to the game and it will become enjoyable. A problem with this game is that you do the same things over and over like kill enemies that look exactly the same and activating switches. IF you are a fan of the Mummy, go for it. If not, save your money. The choice is up to you.