The Mummy Demastered Is Due This Fall
Although the Brendan Fraser-less The Mummy film didn’t commercially flop this summer, I can’t say there’s a legion of fans eager to see the next installment in the film series. Despite the 2017 film’s baggage, WayForward’s upcoming game doesn’t just look decent for a licensed game, but rather, the retro game has the heart to be a sleeper hit this fall.
While everyone should be pleasantly surprised how fun the movie tie-in game looks, its devs, WayForward, has established itself as a studio with a solid grasp on retro gaming fun. Their games like the Shantae series or the surprise hit, Aliens Infestation, are proof that they’re more capable of making a solid old school game loosely based on the Tom Cruise Mummy film.
In the teaser trailer above, it almost looks like Contra gunplay (including hanging from the ceiling while shooting) with Metroidvania map progression that unlocks with new subweapons and abilities. In an interview with Polygon, the devs also worked on making death to be important for the game. In the game, you play as anonymous Prodigium agents who are like the Dark Universe’s “Knights of Templars”. When you die, another agent replaces the old one. However, the fallen agent is corrupted and must be taken down. While they retain your weapon loadout before death, but the zombie Prodigium have less health to make retrieving your old loot more feasible.
The Mummy Demastered comes out this fall on PS4, Switch, Xbox One, and PC.
Source: Polygon