(4'1'12) The Mummy

In Thebes, Egypt, 1290 BC, high priest Imhotep has an affair with Anck-su-namun, the mistress of Pharaoh Seti I. They kill the Pharaoh after he discovers their relationship. Imhotep flees, while Anck-su-namun kills herself. Believing he can resurrect her, Imhotep and his priests steal her corpse and travel to Hamunaptra, the City of the Dead. The resurrection ritual is stopped by Pharaoh's bodyguards, the Medjai. Imhotep's priests are mummified alive, while Imhotep himself is tortured, cursed and buried alive with flesh-eating scarabs at the feet of a statue of the god Anubis. The Medjai are sworn to prevent Imhotep's return.

In 1926 Cairo, Jonathan Carnahan presents his sister Evelyn—a librarian and aspiring Egyptologist working for museum curator Dr. Terence Bey—with an intricate box and map that lead to Hamunaptra.

## The Videogame

The videogame events are slightly different and concentrate exclusively on Hamunaptra, both the movie and videogame are canon with the exception of the latter with elusive cutscenes to piece together the segments, Rick did fight that many Mummies, the Army of Imhotep.

Scroll below to check just how about the gameplay segments fits into the whole story-line arch!

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## ***The Videogame***

### Developer

Rebellion Developments (PC, PS)Konami (GBC)

### Platform

Microsoft Windows PlayStationGame Boy Color

### Release date

PlayStationNA: November 16, 2000EU: December 8, 2000JP: January 25, 2001WindowsNA: November 17, 2000EU: December 15, 2000Game Boy ColorJP: November 30, 2000NA: December 6, 2000EU: December 15, 2000

### Mode

Single-Player

The Mummy, known in Japan as Hamunaptra: Ushinawareta Sabaku no Miyako is a single-player video game for Game Boy Color, PlayStation and Microsoft Windows. Set in Hamunaptra, there are 15 stages. There is also a bonus stage called "Cairo". The storyline is slightly different based exclusively on the cutscenes themselves, their sole purpose were to fit together the gameplay segments which concentrated inside Hamunaptra, where the majority of Rick's fighting took place.

## *Hamunaptra*

It begins as Evelyn Carnahan is reading the book's passages, the ancient Egyptian book of the dead. Shortly after translating one of its ancient texts something is awoken deep within the tombs, a monstrous roar is heard echoing through the abandoned sepulchres. At the time only Evelyn and Rick O'Connell were still awake at night, soon after Jonathan Carnahan and Allen Chamberlain would wake up at the spook of the roar.
Everyone decided to investigate, Rick and Evelyn walked towards the direction of the road, reaching upon a doorway leading deep within the ancient tombs.

As Rick was gathering his arsenal of weapons, Evelyn reached for an ancient tabled inscribed in the stones adjacent to the doorway, a tabled of the god Ra, these tablets reacted to light and apparently they could grant a second chance in life. Moments later further roars mixed with screams echoed once again from the Tomb's Halls, the workers were still inside and its at that moment that Rick decided to rush inside and investigate.

The Halls were poorly lit and filled with ancient dust and sand, the workers were scattered deep within and further away from the encampments and something was wrong, they looked completely deranged and attacking anyone at first sight, something close to zombies, puppets. What could possibly be happening here? The very air was filled with a potent and overwhelming feeling, something dark and obscure was awoken that night and Rick could feel it upon his own flesh and blood, even breathing was becoming a struggle and the dust was not helping. Deciding to push further on he kept being attacked by those puppeteered Workers.

The Dark hallways were Labyrinthic in nature and every corner and locked door revealed even more ancient treasure and pottery, the walls were inscribed with antique texts and drawings sculpted into the very stone often describing of tales and stories of Ancient Gods.

As Rick dwelled further deep inside the corridors and halls of the lost Tomb soon he would stumble upon a greater enemy, god-forsaken mummies, the Army of Imhotep. Although seemingly immortal their bodies could be so much damaged to stop them momentarily, could this be the Ancient Curse everybody was talking of? Already deep within, the only course of actions would have been to pushing on, where were they all coming from? Was there a way to stop them? What powerful magic to be Bestowed? Could Evelyn know something much more and perhaps a way of stopping them?

And so Rick kept pushing deep inside within the Ancient Tomb, fighting all of the mummies that arose from the sands, that bursted from walls and tombs. All the others were starting to feel worried as no shot or roar could be further heard from inside, wondering what could have he been up to. There was no shortage of ammunition, neither of mummies.

Reaching the furthest end he would stumble upon a sarcophagus, a stone coffin decorated as so someone really important was once buried inside, upon pushing the lid no body were to be found inside but a sword and a piece of a stone tablet.

## *The Tablets*

The pieces of the tablets were stored away from one another and hidden in different sarcophagus, finding each one was not going to be easy, the mummies were not making it any easier to explore the labyrinths of the tombs. As Rick dwelled further on each and everyone in the camp started getting worried about these "mummies" and joined in exploration, soon finding out the curse to be true. Evelyn and Allen began immediately translating the remaining texts of the ancient book of the dead, all but not all described rituals of resurrection in different forms as a way of asking the gods the mean to perform them. The more they kept translating the more Evelyn got convinced the only way to stop this curse was to find the powers of Ra. This search lead to a closed door near the encampment, the temple of Ra. Upon finding all the pieces a second curse was cast.

A flood of crickets. As the door was opening the earth could be felt shaking violently almost as an earthquake was to come.

In the distance an approaching terrifying sound, almost indescribable and everyone shook to look for the source of the sound. A dark cloud was approaching the encampment and soon they would realize it was no storm but a flock. A flock of crickets soon to flood them like waves of the sea. In a panic, everyone present rapidly and decisively fled rushing inside the lost temple through the door just opened, they would split up and find themselves lost into the seeminglessly endless labyrinths of the Tomb.

The groups were split between each others and everyone would take different turns, taking halls and corridors that would open to even more halls and corridors, deep within they would not find the safety they had sook, the temple was not dead and abandoned as they had hoped, the seek for treasures had to wait. Amongst the many traps to and flesh eating scarabs guardians, a powerful priest from the past had resurrected and this one had kept his intellect and thirst for vengeance, he would bring his priests back to life but not before that they would run up against him and be forced to battle and not before that someone would meet a terrible fate, Bernard Burns. He would survive but not unscathed the encounter with Imhotep, this would happen once he found himself privy of his glasses lost moments before and it's there that it happened, reached upon and attacked by the Ancient Priest as he was wondering aimlessly stuck and lost.

Imhotep was in dire need of eyes to see and a tongue to speak, not yet complete he further needed the vital organs preserved in the Ancient burial urns.

## *Lost Tempe and Escape*

* Differences between the Videogame and movie.

The videogame originally would follow the movie side by side, this was changed for two reasons, mainly: Technical difficulties and fight scenes.

The game being built for the original system of PlayStation 1 and was due to have some technical difficulties; The movie stretches from the very first time Rick O'Connell sets foot on Hamunaptra's soils, and follows him till the very end at Imhotep's defeat. Complex cutscenes to match movie's scenes would have not been easy to replicate, not only that but fight scenes were far and between. With the Exception of the assault on the boat, and Imhotep's Slaves roaming the streets of Cairo, the most of fighting happened in Hamunaptra.

* The Movie

The movie skips the part of the tablets altogether, making Imhotep the first mummy to be encountered by the whole group.

Not any workers enslaved by Imhotep inside the Tombs were found.

Not any mummy is fought with the exception of Imhotep.

Rick, Eveline and Jonathan will not find the treasures room until much later.

Once returned, the movie skips the part about finding the Mirrors altogether.

* The Videogame

The part about Beni's attempt to steal the book did not happen, plot shoe-in.

The other members of the group are nowhere to be seen.

The group does not escape the temple and travel back to Cairo, instead the first part and return to Hamunaptra are combined together.

Rick, Evelyne and Johnathan would be the first ones to find the Halls of Treasures, they would do so by following a tunnel of a cave-in on the floor, it would lead to lower levels of the Tomb ( The location in the videogame is shown at Beni's pursue ), without any way back they would push forward and continue they descent until finding the Halls, where every statue nick and penny was made of pure gold, a sight to behold if not for the lack of lighting. The whole room would lit with a trick of mirrors which were at the time missing, despite firm complaints Johnathan would not listen and upon reaching one treasure would lock the 3 of them inside the chambers.

Seemingly locked inside, everyone would start looking for an exit. As Johnathan sat quietly near the Treasure that had locked them, Evelyn quickly inspected the Mirror holders, arriving at the conclusion that the whole Chamber could be lit with light. Rick however wanted to get out of the Tombs and the whole situation all together. There were a couple of doors that would lead further deep inside the Halls of Treasures.

Each door they would take would lead them to more corridors and contraption, the Temple despite being thousand of years old was still up and running, almost as if there were mysterious forces at work. Within each Chamber more mummies were await to assault them by surprise, bursting out of the sands and weak walls, in-between they would face deadly traps to overcome. still active due the contraptions.
They kept moving forward as time felt passing by quickly, too quickly, feeling almost as days went over. After a short while and one too many corridors, they would stumble upon the flesh eating Scarabs, they were so many they started to look like a flood.

They would run away and barely escape the Scarabs once reaching a slope, Rick and Johnathan would jump on adjacent platforms as for Evelyn she would flatten against a wall turning to be a trap door.

She would slide down to a further lower level and wonder aimlessly in the dark.. It's here she would encounter with Bernard Burns after a short while, wounded as his eyes and tongue ripped apart, the perpetrator would soon be clear as day. Imhotep.
One floor upwards, everyone would meet up once again at the Danger of the Scarabs in pursuit, running away once again but in the opposite direction. In the Haste no one had the time to stop and Gaze at the Halls of Treasures, running without any clue between corridors and halls they would find Evelyn and Bernard. She was flattened against a wall and him agonized on the floor, Imhotep in between.

Everyone shook, this one was different, highly intelligent but it did not stop Rick from trying.

A blast from the shotgun was enough to stop him for a few second, that allowed everyone to flee from the scene, leaving Bernard to his destiny as one one had noticed him lying on the ground, having fainted from the agony. After an hour or so everyone was able to find an exit through the endless maze, awaiting outside, a familiar face and a reminded of a warning not taken dear to life.

## *Retreat to Cairo*

The Medjai would find themselves busy the whole night fighting back the Undead Mummies. They would succeed in holding them back into the catacombs and not without losses of lives but would fail to find but one, Imhotep.

Back in Cario the whole crew were resting and thinking over about what happened, but not before waters ran red with blood and the sky began falling down to the earth, only one conclusion, The Priest was Close-By. The Book, the Canopic jars and Anck-su-namun, he would not leave without. Night fell as he kept hunting the crew and most of them would have not made it to the next day, failing to protect the Jars and their lives, Bernard Burns, Isaac Henderson and David Daniels would perish as their souls and bodies consumed by the priest. Evelyn kidnapped along the book itself and the Populous befallen as slaves of Imhotep.

## *Return to Hamunaptra*

Time was at no wasting, Imhotep had the head-start and would soon resurrect Anck-su-namun, Evelyn and the book lost forever as the world in danger.

Winston Havelock, a nostalgic British fighter pilot would fly them over the desert back to Hamunaptra but not before losing his life.

* Differences between the Videogame and movie.

Reaching Imhotep would have not been as easy as it would appear.

* The Movie

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