![]() ![]() McDowell is front and center for most of the game - they got their actor and they were going to get their money's worth I guess not that I'm complaining. One of them dies almost immediately after meeting them and the others disappear for the vast majority of the playtime. Unfortunately, the story does little with most of these characters for the majority of the game. ![]() You meet a few other characters as well including a former girlfriend. Stuart Davenport (McDowell) is the site manager and he doesn't seem thrilled to have you butting in. The game starts with Michael Cameron (the player) arriving in Egypt to help settle a labor stoppage caused by the discovery of a supposedly cursed hieroglyph-covered box. Alas, Frankenstein and The Mummy are all we’re going to get. I wish they’d made a third one with Christopher Plummer or Jürgen Prochnow as Dracula. I guess they figured “We did one Universal monster already… let’s do another!” I’m fine with that, actually. The game is a sortof-sequel to Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster. The game underneath that is a mostly serviceable if unexceptional adventure that’s pretty uneven. McDowell, on the other hand, is genuinely pretty great. He doesn’t have a ton of screen time but what’s there is all gold (if you like your schlock that is) and it’s almost impossible not to laugh through every second of it. He’s basically a cartoon character and a particularly bad one at that. Simhotep, in particular, is hilariously awful. ![]() Thankfully, unlike some FMV games that have “This is our one famous actor!” but can only afford to pay them for about 30 seconds of screen time, McDowell actually has a significant amount of dialogue and appears throughout the entire game, lending a certain amount of gravitas… something the game desperately needs because let’s just say not all the actors are on the same level. Two years after appearing as Admiral Tolwyn in Wing Commander III (and the same year as his return in Wing Commander IV) Malcolm McDowell starred in this point-and-click adventure by Amazing Media. The genre has the tendency to be rather… well… silly, and Mummy: Tomb of the Pharaoh is certainly no exception. This site is no stranger to FMV adventure games. ![]()
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