The Mummy

About

The Mummy casts you as Rick O'Connell exploring Hamunaptra’s catacombs in a platformer tied to the 1999 film. You’ll navigate tunnels fight off thieves and use a torch to burn scarab swarms while solving basic puzzles to unlock doors. Combat relies on a sword and timing with enemies ranging from mummies to armored undead that need precise strikes. The action stays straightforward but ramps up tension as you progress deeper into ancient traps and cryptic corridors. Developed by Rebellion and published by Konami in 2000 the game leans heavily into its movie roots mirroring key scenes and dialogue. While the graphics and mechanics show their age the direct tie to the film’s lore and escalating difficulty with varied enemy types make it a curiosity for franchise fans. Its single-player focus and PC/PlayStation 1 release place it as a relic of early 2000s tie-in games offering a simple but structured adventure with a familiar cast.

Storyline

Ardeth Bay addresses the player directly, saying that they have released an ancient evil fear for three millennia. The player then takes over as Rick O'Connell, who is situated in the catacombs of Hamunaptra and begins making his way through the tunnels, killing off thieves and taking any artifacts he can find. O’Connell then operates the opening mechanisms for the tunnel doors, wherein he finds more artifacts and more thieves to be defeated, with a new menace coming in the form of scarabs, which are burned away with the torch that O’Connell must light. Going further into the catacombs, O’Connell states that he has a bad feeling and makes his way into a pit, at which point a dried, raspy inhuman voice shouts in ancient Egyptian and mummies erupt from the ground, which are more challenging to kill than the thieves. After dispatching the mummies and escaping the pit, O’Connell goes in further to find more undead minions, these dressed in blue and gold trimmings and prove harder to kill than the mummies, requiring three strikes of the sword. These are defeated, however, and O’Connell encounters more grave robbers before going further into the catacombs, finding a room filled with some treasure pieces which are taken, before moving on to reach another corridor filled with mummies. In time, O’Connell reaches a sarcophagus that is opened, revealing a sword that shines blue. O’Connell then leaves the chamber.