The Mummy Returns Critic Reviews

While it looks and sounds good and is a solid-playing game, it is not without a few annoying quirks that pop up at moments when you least need or want them. The addition of being able to play as a villain is a welcome change.

The actual gameplay is unlikely to impress serious gamers and may, to some, the game may be found seriously wanting.

It’s not awful, and is in fact a solid platform game, but it can be annoying, and even worse, pretty boring at times.

Just about every aspect of the game seems a half-hearted effort...Twenty hours with this game is ten hours too many.

Won't win any awards for originality, but as a movie adaptation it does a good job at translating the content of the film into a workable game without any major defects.

There's honestly no reason to buy this game. If you're a fan of the movie just go buy the DVD, because this game really isn't worth playing.

Although it does have some neat elements, such as being able to play as the bad guy and several spell elements, it doesn't make up for the lack of texture quality, as well as the shaky framerate and bad camera.

It's always interesting to have the option of being the bad guy, but truly bland gameplay and a relatively short quest sap the fun and make this a rental at best.

Talking of light, there are several periods playing as Rick that you'll be inching forward down rocky tunnels with virtually no illumination to help you and the 3D map that you can cut to when you're feeling lost is worse than useless.

A terrible game.

A year ago this would have been a slight-step above "Army Men"-like badness, but in late 2001 it just doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of justifying its existence as stand-alone PS2 software.

Through unresponsive controls, poorly designed worlds, and atrocious animations, it would seem this title was created with the specific purpose of torturing those who play.

Save your money for something less painful, like a bikini wax or unanaesthetized dental surgery.