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Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy Help Files By John T Burt - April 2004 Video Games help menu SciFiOne main menu Complete Quick Referenc Walkthrough, Maps, Advice Developed from the Playstation version but should apply to other platforms.

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• Walk Through
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• Map - Heliopolis
• Map - Castle Uruk visit 3
• Map - Castle Uruk visit 4
• Map - Castle Uruk visit 6

REVIEW

This is a very enjoyable grade A- game. It is worth more than it cost and I will play it again. The game hooked me very early and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I loved playing the areas in the game with the Cursed Mummy character. Buy yourself a copy.

At its heart, the game is a classic exploration based Adventure game in 3D format. It has traditional adventure game features like exploring, secondary objectives, talking with people to find things out, and visiting areas more than once for new purposes. In addition the game has a health bar and enough fighting and dangerous moves to earn a solid Action game rating. It has almost all the features of a good Tomb Raider game lacking only the complex gamepad control requirements of Tomb Raider.

The only drawback the game has is a very poor save procedure (see below). Normally, I like to play without cheat codes as much as I can. But the save structure meant I had to repeat areas so many times when I died, that I gave up and bought a Game Shark and used the infinite health cheat. The game was worth the combined price. Next time I will play more without the cheat and I will complete the secondary objectives.

The scenery is excellent and easy to see. Conversations are done via text, which usually stays on the screen until you press the action button to move on. Movement using the gamepad is smooth, steady, accurate and easy to master. The puzzles are primarily exploration based instead of intellectual and are very enjoyable. Most of the time the game is pretty linear - you know where to go next with minimal problems. Check the notes in your inventory menu or talk to Imhotep who is usually in the Sun Shrine if you don't know what to do.

SAVES:

• Only one save slot is used so every save writes over the previous one. If you save a damaged game, there is no way to go back to a previous save. So be careful. If you have 2 memory cards, you might copy the current file to the second card once and a while as backup.
• During play, you can only save at Save Points. Many of these points can be reused repeatedly. Those work pretty well. But enough are point-to-point in nature to be a problem. In those areas, you must play all the way to the next save point before you can save again.
• The save points are not always positioned in the best place. Sometimes there is quite a distance to travel from the save to a difficult area or battle and you have to watch the video again.
• When playing as Sphinx you will come back to life close to where you died if you have enough health in the ankh bar. Playing as the Mummy, you are immortal, and always come back to life. It can still be annoying to repeat an area though.
• Overall, the save structure is tolerable. There are only a few levels that are too far between saves.
• This walkthrough is broken up by Save points and the type of save is explained for each area.