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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor | 
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| From: Sierra Entertainment
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $8.90
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Rating:  2 reviews
Platform: Playstation2
Genre: Action Games
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Playstation 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 72795
UPC: 020626727952
EAN: 0020626727952
Release Date: July 22, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Two Playable Characters: Play as both Rick and his son Alex at appropriate times, each with unique combat style, animations and period-authentic weapons | | • | Intense combat and fast/fluid gunplay: Experience intense combat with seamless switching between hand-to-hand attacks and action packed gunplay. | | • | Big bosses/enemies: Battle supernatural creatures from the film such as the three-headed Gorgon, and Terracotta warriors. | | • | Unlock mysterious chambers and hidden treasures through puzzle solving and hieroglyphic decoding. | | • | Movie Authenticity: Talent likeness of all the key cast members. |
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Product Description
Travel across exotic locations from the catacombs of ancient China to spectacular Himalayan peaks in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, a third-person action-adventure video game. You will take on the heroic roles of Rick O'Connell and his son, Alex (played by Brendan Fraser and Luke Ford, respectively, in the film). Follow the explorers on their harrowing journey to defeat the vicious Dragon Emperor (Jet Li) and his reawakened terracotta servants.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Leave your PS2 on.... September 21, 2008
T. Vance (El Paso, TX)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
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.
 Not Bad For A Game Based On Movie August 9, 2008
Christopher Schulz (Mountain View CA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
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.
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