Hugely disappointing
The problem is that it is too short, too obvious, and far too predictable. It is pretty obvious what will happen from the very beginning, and it simply feels unoriginal. While stories involving ancient Egyptian Mummy's tend to be reasonably similar, this game really takes the biscuit with the clichéd settings and story. A mining company that has accidentally stumbled on a tomb during excavations, WW2 Nazi links, an obvious bad guy with a hidden agenda in charge of the operation, the coincidence of meeting a former girlfriend on the mining site, ...I could go on. It's all very clichéd and predictable and sadly its all been done much better before.
The puzzles in Mummy are very obvious too. Now while I loathe the ridiculously hard puzzles that require impossible leaps of logic and make no real sense that are commonplace in many games of this genre, Mummy annoys me by going in completely the opposite direction. Everything is so obvious that there is no challenge to it. Yes, it is logical, and I applaud it for that, but come on, I need some challenge!
The acting is average, with none of the (remarkably small) cast doing a particularly bad job. All the performances lack any real life though, - it seems that the cast realised that the script was dud and so couldn't really motivate themselves to give it their all. In terms of sound, Mummy is quite good - the effects are all realistic, and there is some good background music at times that adds atmosphere to the game.
Graphically Mummy is pretty good, considering that it was made in 1996. The effects all look pretty convincing, and the computer-rendered environments and objects look believable. Indeed, I'd say that the graphics are Mummy's strongest point...it is just a shame that the plot and gameplay aren't up to the same standard.
In all, this is an incredibly short and easy adventure. It proved to be no real challenge to me, and thus was ultimately disappointing. The premise of the story is good, though plays out very obviously and feels like a tired rehash of something that has been done many times before. Blissfully you will probably be able to pick this game up very cheap nowadays, but still I'd only recommend it to hardcore fans of the genre. There are a lot of adverts in the packaging for Mummy's predecessor "Frankenstein", starring Tim Curry, however based on my experience with Mummy there is no way in Hell I'm getting another point and click game made by these people. Mummy: Tomb of the Pharaoh promises so much, but sadly delivers so little.