Imhotep a wimp in Atlantica Online
April 5, 2009 by Joel Tan
Filed under Asian MMO, Asian MMO Players, Atlantica Online, MMORPG, My World
Got your attention, eh? We all know and hate or love Imhotep, our bald and made-up thousands-year-old dead guy in the popular The Mummy films. After watching the two movies—The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, what do you think of this lascivious Egyptian priest?
In the first movie, he’s your quintessential bad guy. With his appetite for destruction and the flesh of foolish gunslingers, Imhotep is up in the ranks of baddies with the likes of Dracula, Lex Luthor and Mojo Jojo.
The sequel’s Imhotep is, in my opinion, a bit lame, considering that near the end of the movie, he is seen groveling before a computer-generated image of Dwayne Johnson, also known as The Rock. Weird.
What’s even weirder and infinitely more lame is Imhotep in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Atlantica Online. In the virtual parallel Earth of Atlantica, Imhotep is an NPC (non-player character) and what’s worse is, he’s rooted to a spot in the middle of the Egyptian desert.
He does have a role, though. Imhotep charges your Atlantica Online character and his or her band of misfits with the Oracle Recruitment Quest, in conjunction with those assigned by two other NPCs, Nefertiti and Horus.
But that’s as far as Imhotep goes. Of course, he lets your character and mercenaries do the dirty work, such as bringing him 30 drops of eagle blood, 35 stinking bodily fluid (ewww!) from cursed camels, 40 discolored manes of bipedal desert lions, and 40 rotten bandages from ancient mummies. Talk about gross.
More on Atlantica Online quests in a later posting.
Imhotep in all his wimpy glory.
Oh, before I forget, here’s a brief description of Imhotep from the Atlantica Online in-game quest log:
A doctor. A timid character who has a hard time starting conversations with others. However, he is very smart, and has an excellent command of medicine.
Really? In the movies, he just bit the heads off of rowdy tombraiders.
Screenshot taken by Joyce from the online game Atlantica Online, copyright NDOORS.
