Review: PowerSlave Exhumed
I’m somewhat surprised I’ve actually heard of PowerSlave. Best known for its Sega Saturn version, PowerSlave was a 1996 FPS that had a mixed reception. Of course, it was released the same year as first-person heavy-hitters Quake and Duke Nukem 3D, and I feel bad for any shooter that tried to compete with those two.
However, if you’re as obsessed with ‘90s FPS games as I am, eventually you dig past the glowing examples of the genre and find what’s hidden beneath. Does that mean I played it on the Sega Saturn? No. Have you seen the price of it?
Thankfully, the people at Nightdive Studio are experts at excavation. They’ve dug up the console versions of PowerSlave and mashed them together into one definitive edition, PowerSlave Exhumed. This is important because the MS-DOS version was rather deficient in a lot of ways, having been moved to a quasi-3D engine and had a lot of its defining features stripped away. Nightdive knows what it’s doing by sticking to the Saturn/PS1 versions.
PowerSlave Exhumed (PC [Reviewed], Switch, Xbox One, PS4)Developer: Nightdive Studios, Lobotomy SoftwarePublisher: Nightdive Studios, Throwback EntertainmentReleased: February 10, 2022MSRP: $19.99
PowerSlave Exhumed is ‘90s as hell. This big head of King Ramses shows up and is like, “Listen to my awesome, clear voice!” He tells you that the valley of Karnak has been invaded by a group of maybe aliens called Kilmaat. They’ve been up to mischief and have been sucking power out of Ramses’ mummified remains. Or maybe they’re trying to resurrect him to take over the world, I was distracted by how awesome this big floating head looks.
What that basically means is this FPS is Egyptian-themed. Unique among other shooters until maybe 2001’s Serious Sam: The
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