Ghost busters A bit of wall climbing action for Pac-Man here. But all too often this just serves to remind you how small and poorly designed the environments are. True, there are special devices which can take you back to previous points in the level by sending you soaring through the air, chomping a long line of pills along the way.
It doesn't help that there's too much backtracking, either. You're only likely to die because you missed a jump, or because the incredibly stupid camera decided to go all spatty again so you end up just going through the same old motions over and over. So what's wrong with Pac-Man World 3, exactly? Well, for starters, there's an awful lot of repetition, to the extent that the game starts to feel like work. Not a bad selection of power-ups or combat moves, then, and enough collectables to keep hardcore platform fans happy. The chrome pellet makes Pac-Man invincible, and the ribbon loop pellet lets him draw a circle of light which destroys any enemies caught in the middle. Then there are the various pill power-ups - the classic power pellet enables our hero to eat ghosts, while the electro-shock pellet allows him to fire off an electrical charge. He can also do a butt bounce, which comes in handy for activating switches and jumping off trampolines as well as taking out baddies. There's a bit of combat to be done, obviously - Pac-Man can pull off punches, spin attacks and rev rolls, which see him careering into enemies at speed. Fighting talk Hello, old chum! You're looking. There you can compete for more points and extra power-ups, and be thankful that videogames have come so far. The most exciting pick-up is probably the Galaxian icon, which transports you to a classic 2D Pac-Man maze.
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Once again your mission is to fight your way through a series of brightly coloured and often bizarrely lit environments, jumping across gaps, swinging on tree branches, hopping off floating platforms before they disappear and that sort of thing.Īnd once again, you need to collect all sorts of stuff along the way, from pills, pieces of fruit and health power-ups to keys, crystals and silver Pac-Man trophies. Not the most original plot in the history of videogames, then, and sadly there's very little else that's remotely innovative about Pac-Man World 3. Naturally it's up to Pac-Man to sort it out, but in order to do so, he'll have to join forces with a couple of old enemies.
Unfortunately, this has caused a bit of a problem - the Spectral Realm is collapsing into the real world, resulting in all sorts of chaos and mayhem that it's difficult to care about.
And that is why we could do without any more Pac-Man games, frankly.īut that hasn't stopped you churning out another one, has it? Ah, though - there's a new storyline! This time evil genius Erwin has created a machine that can enter the Spectral Realm, where the ghosts reside. That is why we no longer have VHS tapes or Kenny Loggins or slavery. Uncle Namco, if you're reading this, please take note: no one cares about rubbish old stuff. Pac-Man World 3 has been released to celebrate his 25th birthday, which doesn't really make us feel any better about the whole thing. Yes, it's time for another substandard 3D platforming adventure from our old yellow friend with the big cheeky grin and the soulless eyes that burn with the fire of a thousand nightmares. Oh, and you can take that joke about pill popping in darkened rooms to the sound of repetitive beats with you, thanks very much. It's time for you to be packed off to Namco's Shady Pines Retirement Home for Rubbish Old Game Characters, where you can spend the rest of your days playing Bridge with the blokes out of Time Crisis and knocking back all the pills you like for all we care.
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