Following the story from the film loosely, Gameloft took to the side-scrolling action genre and colored it with the tints from the film. But do they swing to the far ledge of success of plummet to their doom?

I have to admit, games based on films generally start out with a negative in my book. Many titles in the past have simply appeared to be money-grabbing extensions and tie-ins without seemingly little thought or effort put into them based on the products we have seen in the past. Yet a few titles have managed to go above and beyond that.

The Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Emperor managed to mind the gap and even clear it with room to spare, but it wasn’t able to keep my attention 100%.

The graphics in the game are pretty good and so there’s no problem here. They are what we have come to expect on the wide range of mobile handsets that are out now. But they could still be so much more I think. Of course the games have to be playable on a wide range of handsets so it’s a case of lowest common denominator but I believe this is about to change.