Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy Critic Reviews

All in all, Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy is a truly fun little romp. While not as long as some games, it's worth the price of admission just to see the Mummy dancing with electricity or flattened like a piece of paper!

Expect some of the coolest levels out there, a slew of amazing characters, and something lacking from many games today: a sense of humor.

This game is, simply put, brilliant. The music is intoxicating, the locales magical and the overall vibe decidedly dreamy.

It’s well-crafted, challenging in all of the right ways and just a heck of a lot of fun to play with a cool blend of Egyptian mythology and Manga-like fantasy.

Wonderfully entertaining.

A dynamic, immersive game that may be too complex in the puzzle department for some. For others, if you pay attention to your environment, and don’t let little setbacks slow you down, but keep plugging away, you will find a rhythm and pacing to this game.

A fantastic game that offers dual play modes, challenging puzzles, a progressive character development system, and balanced gameplay that is great for gamers of all skills and ages.

A fairly well balanced title that, like "Zelda," serves up a semi-non-linear experience complete with huge worlds to explore, difficult and satisfying puzzles, entertaining weapon and item advancements, and more, and it's all very much on the same epic scale as Nintendo's franchise.

An intelligent, humorous, creative, and generally satisfying game that fans of intelligent, humorous, creative, and satisfying videogames should definitely check out.

Strikes a great balance between its fantasy and Egyptian-history-based elements to create a world that is rich with character, color, and originality, and its unique method of puzzle-solving makes it an easy recommendation to any fan of the genre.

The only real gripe there can be used against Sphinx is the sound, more so the lack of voice acting but you soon get over that after awhile and agonize more about the puzzles involved in the game. With Sphinx begins a new platformer legend that hopefully we will see a lot more of in future.

A thoroughly humorous and entertaining game with a few rough edges. Camera problems and a lack of voiceover acting are the only real flaws.

Solidly designed, solidly programmed, very pretty, and about as close to "Zelda" as PS2 and Xbox will ever get. This one deserves to be a sleeper hit.

Don't judge Sphinx before Tutankhamen is transformed into a mummy, however, as the game simply doesn't catch fire until then.

Acceptable character animation and slightly angular backgrounds, decent combat and imaginative puzzles make for a warm gaming experience that's heavily undermined by a total lack of voice acting.

Good (but not great) visuals, excellent (but not ground-breaking) gameplay and decent (but voice-over deprived) sound/music effects make Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy a winner for THQ.

There are frustrating points (like the long save point distance) but it creates the desire to know what will happen next if you keep going.

Two words for Eurocom and THQ, though, concerning the next installment in the franchise: more Tutankhamen.

For players fed up with over-simplistic puzzles or seemingly unnecessary backtracking to find out-of-place items to put into even more out-of-place statues then you are in for a delightful treat.

When you spend some time with this game, you'll find that it slowly pulls you in, as it manages to turn what appears to be its weaknesses into pure positives.