Powerslave

PowerSlave, known as Exhumed in Europe and Seireki 1999: Pharaoh no Fukkatsu in Japan, is a first-person shooter developed by Lobotomy Software and published by Playmates Interactive Entertainment. It was released in North America, Europe and Japan, for the Sega Saturn, PlayStation, and MS-DOS over the course of a year from late 1996 to late 1997.

Plot
PowerSlave is set in and around the ancient Egyptian city of Karnak in the late 20th century. The city has been seized by unknown forces, with a special crack team of hardened soldiers sent to the valley of Karnak, to uncover the source of this trouble. However, on the journey there, the player's helicopter is shot down and the player barely escapes. The player is sent in to the valley as the hero to save Karnak and the World.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) The idea of making a 3D Ancient Egypt game is pretty cool concept.
 * 2) The game uses the SlaveDriver engine, which will use another Saturn ports like Quake and Duke Nukem 3D.
 * 3) Instead of Doom or Quake clone. The developers did a great job mixing Doom elements and Metroid elements with 3D platforming and power ups, making the game the first 3D metroidvania game.
 * 4) Instead of med kits, armor, and ammo boxes, the game uses a blue and red orb. The blue orb is ammo count and the red orb is health count. The small/big red/blue orb drops at destroying Egyptian vases or killing enemies.
 * 5) Awesome and relaxing ancient Egyptian soundtracks composed by Scott Branston. Some of soundtracks may give a vibe of Metroid.
 * 6) Don LaFontaine did a great job a role of narrator.
 * 7) You can revisit levels to find a power ups, new areas and secrets, an interesting feature that most FPS games didn't have at the time.
 * 8) Fun and creative weapons like, the M-60 which is a good weapon for the entire game, the fictional Egyptian grenade bomb that can deal heavy damage, a Cobra staff that can shoot heat seaking snakes, the Ring of Ra that shoots a devastator bouncing fire balls, manancle that can charge a many lightning thunders that kills enemies with 1 hit and many more!
 * 9) The game has two different endings depending on if you found all the transmitter pieces.
 * 10) *Good Ending: If the player found all 8 transmitter pieces, he would become an immortal and he would became "The King of The World!".
 * 11) *Bad Ending: If the player didn't find all 8 transmitter pieces or missed some of pieces, he would become a mortal and Kilmaat alien will returned to wipe out the humanity.
 * 12) The EX port created by Samuel Villarreal is an amazing unofficial remastered port. Which adds a crosshair, better textures quality, and mouse and keyboard support.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The DOS port is inferior to the console port.
 * 2) *Same goes to the PlayStation port, some of levels and objects are redesigned or removed one of them and replacing red spider to blue scorpion due to limitation of SlaveDriver engine.
 * 3) The game is short, you beat it in 2-3 hours.
 * 4) Only 3 bosses to fight which is less than most metroidvanias.

Trivia

 * It was originally going to be called Ruins: Return of the Gods and it was going to published by Apogee Software (known as 3D Realms). This project was cancelled and Apogee dropped the game. Ironically, the project was revived.
 * The game's name is a reference to Iron Maiden's 1984 album Powerslave, which features ancient Egyptian imagery on its cover.
 * There was originally going to have a prequel but it was cancelled because other developer went out of business.

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