This is Pac-Man at his most kinetic and frantic, but it’s also Pac-Man at his most exciting. Both Pac-Man and the ghosts gain speed with each successive board, so the last minute or so of each run is a white-knuckle battle for survival and glory, as you chomp your way to a hopefully higher score. Most boards don’t even require you to clear out all the dots, and in many cases, it’s in your best interests to get to the next board as soon as possible. Scouring every maze for every dot would slow things down, so an easily followed path of dots is usually in place that ensures you’ll fill the gauge as quickly as possible.
Touching ghosts would prove to be a problem at the speeds you’re playing at, so you’re allowed to bump into them a couple times before they get 'angry' and actually do you harm. Every element of the Pac-Man formula has been examined and retooled to flow seamlessly together, capturing everything great about that unique gameplay. This all combines to make an experience that’s hard to look away from and hard to put down. Once you intercept a train, Pac-Man tears through all the ghosts, racking up a massive score boost in the process. Once the pellet is grabbed, the ghost trains run away at blazing speeds, but lines will appear on the maze that indicate the paths the ghosts are taking. As you move through boards, the ghost trains continue to grow, but they’re sharply cut down in size when you get to a power pellet board. This creates a ghost train that extends in front of the ghost, telegraphing where it will turn next. See, each board has 'sleeping' ghosts scattered about, and going near them causes them to wake up and fly to the nearest ghost chasing you.
All of this happens in the span of about ten seconds (or less), and repeats until you run out of time.Įvery few boards, a power pellet will spawn instead of a fruit, and this is where things get really interesting. Once filled, a bonus fruit appears, and grabbing this sends Pac-Man and his ghost assailants to a new board with a different layout, filled with more dots. Pac-Man drops into a maze and usually can follow a linear dot path that traces around the stage, with each dot contributing to a gauge at the bottom of the screen. PCE2 mainly revolves around its Score Attack mode, which challenges you to blast your way through as many boards as you possibly can within a five-minute window. It takes some getting used to, but once you’ve worked out the rhythm of careening around corners and consuming countless ghosts, this becomes a Pac-Man experience like no other, perfecting the idea that its predecessor introduced. The key difference here is that this game is fast, taking that simple concept and elevating it to a heart pounding, adrenaline pumping sugar rush of pure arcade bliss.
Gameplay in PCE2 aims to go back to the roots of the franchise and recapture that simple, yet addictive arcade gameplay where you guide Pac-Man through mazes in a never-ending quest to eat more dots, all the while being pursued by four ghosts. The end result is what could be seen as one of the very best versions of Pac-Man available
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Now, Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 Plus aims to continue that legacy set by the original, iterating on the classic formula in notable ways, but still leaving the core of it intact. The titular pill muncher went on to become a universally recognised icon of gaming, while also spawning numerous sequels and spinoffs to the inaugural debut over the decades that followed. In 1980, Pac-Man took the world by storm, introducing arcade players to an entirely new kind of gameplay style.
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