Game: First person AND Third person viewpoints. 33 levels (21 single player) of nonstop game play through an ancient Egyptian city and the tomb of the pharaoh Ramses.   Unique Stacked Sector Technology� allows you to move between multiple floors WITHIN a single level.   3D environment lets you look up, look down, jump, squat and swim.   Cross bridges, crawl through tunnels and swim through underwater grottos.   With just a Machete to start, search for 6 other weapons including Hand Grenades, A Flame Thrower, An M-60 Machine gun, and a magical cobra staff.   Brilliantly made Dynamic Lighting creates stunning visual effects. Fully IPX-compatible networkable for up to 4 players, possible 8 players (under IPX), however network play over 4 players is not recommended. For network play Powerslave contains 12 levels for playing verses other players (levels 21 through 32 are for network play only-death match). These levels are not populated with creatures, or an exit to other levels. During a network game players receive armor when starting out, this is not a resource the player can replenish, unless the player dies.   Automap overlay. Use the TAB key to display the un textured map, - and = to zoom in and out.   SVGA, maximum resolution is 640x400, if you can get it. Otherwise use the command line flag /h to get 640x400. (SETUP.EXE/MENU.EXE doesn't seem to correctly write to the SETUP.CFG file correctly, nor does the game seem to read video ScreenHeight settings at all from SETUP.CFG.)

Sound: Miles Sound System, Stereo. Although the sounds are 8 bit, the sound quality is outstanding.

Art: Detailed and fully animated sprite characters derived from Egyptian mythology and original alien creations.   All of the enemies were built with clay and other materials and then digitized.   Enemies, objects and weapon art animation is very well done. If you enlarge the screen during play to remove the status bar you can see and enjoy more of the weapon animations.

More Details: Recommend; To play with the Exhumed exe and game data as it is a more recent version of the game, by several months.   F7 and F8 modifies the mouse horizontal sensitivity in game (side to side movement only). The game uses Auto-Aim rather than mouse look, therefore no crosshairs.   F11 modifies the engines visibility; brightness/light from 1 to 5, 3 is the default value. (Note this is not gamma correction.)   There is no auto-run feature, you must hold down SHIFT. (If you setup the "run" key as "capslock", you can actually have auto-running. No need to hold that shift key all the time anymore!)   Strafing is a bit slow to be effective. (If you use that capslock auto-running; you can strafe super fast! The superfast strafing doesn't work with the 'strafe left' and 'strafe right' keys, however it works if you use 'strafekey + left' or 'strafekey + right' (again only if you use the auto-running capslock). So, by setting the A and D keys to 'left' and 'right' (rather than strafe left/right in a normal WASD setting) and use a key like LSHIFT or LCTRL as "strafe" key; and hold that key anytime you want to strafe, you can use that as superfast strafing.)   In this game you have to hold a key to be able to look up/down with the mouse. (Well, if you set that key to a mouse-button like RMB or MMB, it makes mouse-look much more convenient.) Apparently it's also possible to have toggle mouselook by setting the mouselook key to numlock or scroll-lock.   The save game mechanism requires you to finish a level in it's entirety, in one game session in order to be able to quite the game and then load the saved position. Otherwise loading a game from saved will require you to start at the beginning of which ever level you where last on, painful indeed.   The game incorporates lighting and SOS. The lighting effects raise and lower the brightness, not texture swapping as I believe was in Witchaven.   Depending on the way the player dies, you'll see body parts spawn off of you.   No difficulty level selection options, difficulty increase each level by design.   The A.I. is decent and can predict your position when your moving, they will throw or attack ahead of you. Enemies will attack each other if they shoot one another by accident.   You can push a block to gain access to higher areas or other areas of the level. There are traps to be set off and areas of the levels need to be jumped preciously.

(weapon 1) Machete - You start with this weapon, a simple blade.

(weapon 2) .357 Magnum Revolver - Good damage, slow R.O.F.

(weapon 3) M-60 Machine Gun - Heavy damage, try to use bursts to conserve ammo.

(weapon 4) Hand Grenade - Press fire to pull the pin and hold down fire longer to toss it farther away. Grenades will bounce off ceilings and other objects.

(weapon 5) Flame Thrower - Close range weapon, be careful not to burn yourself. Fuel is used quickly. Auto-aim only locks on the vertical, you have to aim left to right.

(weapon 6) Cobra Staff - A long range weapon that destroys most enemies with one hit. Do not use at close range or you will toast yourself. Make sure you have a clear field of fire as the Cobra will detonate on stairs, ledges and walls. Do not shoot unless you have a target, the Cobra may turn on you.

(weapon 7) Eye of Rah Gauntlet - Used to summon the wrath of the gods. Produces a cloud over your target and shoots them with lightning. You must have the target "locked" at all times while you hold down fire.

Mummy Staff - If your transformed by a mummy into a mummy this staff is yours to use.
 

ITEMS

 

Ammo Items
 

Six Shot Speed Loader - for the .357 Revolver.

M-60 Ammo Belt (Ammo) - A long ammo belt.

Grenades - single grenades.

Fuel Canister (Fuel) - for the Flame Thrower.

Golden Cobras - Add to the Cobra staff.

Raw Energy (Magic) - Eye of Ra, Magic.

Magical Spheres - Found from the dead, hovering over their bodies.

 

Normal Items
 

Berry Twig (Life) - Adds health, 5%.

Blood Bowl (Life Blood) - Add more health, 20%.

Magical Essence (Magic) - Purple chalice of Magic.

Cobra Venom Bowl - Green chalice. Reduces life by 20%.

Bubble Nest (Air) - Used while underwater, if your lungs fill with water then you need to move to a bubble nest to replenish air. If you don't, you loose health and eventually loose a life.

Map - Find this item and the current level will be mapped out for you.

Keys - Power, Time, War and Earth keys. Find these golden keys to unlock doors with the same symbol on them.

Scarab Beetles - Touch this and it preserves your progress only while the game is running and only if you have an Extra Life for this save function to work. You start the game with 3 lives.

Golden Sarcophagus - Find this item to end the level. This will save your progress as completed level and you won't have to restart the entire level over again when you load your saved game.

An Extra Life - Adds 1 extra life, loose them all and you must start at the beginning of the level. With lives remaining, use the spacebar to come back to life.

 

Magical Items

Use the [ or ] keys on the keyboard to select your item, then hit ENTER to activate it.
You can combine items at the same time if you have enough Magic.

There is a notice across the top of the screen when an item is about to expire, along with a reminder sound.

Still Beating Heart - Activating it will give you full health, one use. You can actually hear this item beating as you approach it.

Unseen Eye (Invisibility) - Makes you invisible for a short while, even removes the player sprite.

Scarab Amulet (Invincibility) - Makes you immune to attacks and impervious to lava.

Sobek Mask - Magical Egyptian underwater breathing gear. SoundFX of scuba gear.

Severed Slave Hand (Increased Weapon Power) - Doubles the damage for all weapons. Weapons flash Red when activated.

Torch - Lights darkened areas.
 

 

ENEMIES

 

Rat - They are harmless unless they get in the way of your shooting. Many times auto-aim will lock onto them causing you to "miss" your intended target.

Terrainian (Spider) - Spiders that hop around and bite you. They can walk on ceilings. You can step on them.

Giant Piranha - Large fish that gnaw you.

Anubis Zombie - They throw magical spheres at you and claw you up close.

Am-mit - A large four legged Rex creature with crushing jaws. It can fling you around. Has tuff armor but has a weak spot underneath.

Omen Wasp - Giant Wasps that sting you, hard to target.

Mummy - Slow moving. They use their staff to fire phantom skulls. Mummies can be resurrected by the staff attack. Red phantom skulls transform you into a Mummy giving you their staff, your movement becomes sluggish.

Bastet - She is extremely fast and has razor-sharp claws. She can teleport at will.

Magmantis - A large lava type of serpent. Rises out of lava and attacks by shooting high-speed fire balls.

Kilmaat Sentry - The 'Alien worker' attacks with a laser pistol. He seeks you out rather fast.

Set - Huge ape-like god. Smashes you and at a distance shoots energy skeletons from it's eye at you.

Selkis - Women/crab/robot like creature. Shoots auto-laser and claws you. Spawns a bunch of Terrainian's when she dies.

Kilmaatikahn (Kilmaat Queen) - The final boss, she shoots yellow charges at you.

CHEAT CODES

 

Powerslave and Exhumed. (note that these where the only PC versions, 1999 was a console release)

Welcome To The Nightmare Of Ramses' Tomb

Destination: The ancient Egyptian city of Karnak. Alien forces possessing horrifying powers have sealed off the once thriving community from all outside contact. As a covert operations specialist, you have been trained for all forms of contingencies. Nothing can prepare you, however, for the nightmare you are about to enter...

Features:

• Fully networkable up to 4 players (12 maps inc.).
• First person and Third person viewpoints.
• 21 levels of nonstop gameplay through an ancient Egyptian city and the Tomb of the Pharaoh Ramses.
• Unique stack sector technology� allows you to move between multiple floors WITHIN a single level.
• Cross bridges, crawl through tunnels and swim through underwater grottos.
• With just a Machete to start, search for 7 other weapons including hand grenades, a flame thrower, an M-60 machine gun, and a magical cobra staff.
• Dynamic lighting creates stunning visual effects.