Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy

Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy is an adventure game developed by Eurocom Entertainment Software and released in 2003. It was published by THQ. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on EngineX.

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 34 achievements to unlock.

Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy holds a critic score of 71 out of 100. That places it above 41% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 2 points above the year average.

The minimum specification calls for Intel or AMD 1.5 GHz supporting SSE2 instructions, 1 GB RAM and OpenGL 3.0 Core Profile compatible like GeForce 8600. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy launched on 10 November 2003, within three weeks of Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom.

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