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Post by Khyron1144 on Feb 3, 2004 14:42:48 GMT -5
this review is based on the Gamecube Version: It's got Pac Man, Galaga, Dig Dug, Pole Position, Pole Position 2, Ms. Pac Man, and Galaxian and specially redone versions of Pac Man, Galaga, and Dig Dug to take advantage of the new technology. It also includes two Pac Man-related games that are unlockable if you get a high enough score on Pac Man and Ms. Pac Man.
Pac Man and Ms. Pac Man are about as good as they've ever been and I'm actually starting to develop some skill at them, but not enough to unlock the hidden games.
I think most of what this game has got going for it is the fond memories of the children of the eighties. This is not to say that the games are worse than recent games, just that they are not as slick in most ways.
On the other hand the concepts are orginal and innovative, when you consider these are the games that introduced concepts into the field. Like space-shooters where you can upgrade the beam your ship fires? Thank Galaga. Like those fetch the items to move to a new area quest games? Thank Pac Man's obsessive dot munching.
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Post by Khyron1144 on Feb 4, 2004 17:19:26 GMT -5
Now I've unlocked both hidden games, although I lost one when I forgot to save.
One of the hidden games is Pac Mania, which is like Pac Man with sort of 3D graphics and a jump button. Not bad, but I don't know if it was worth playing Ms. Pac Man for an hour to unlock it.
The other hidden game is Pac Attack. It's a Tetris-style falling object puzzle, which is frankly baffling on the first play. Every block that falls is L-shaped, but differing in how many ghosts, Pac Mans, or normal block pieces make it up (every block being shaped like a capital L is made of three pieces, depending on how you turn it either two vertical and one horizontal or two horizontal and one vertical). When a Pac Man piece lands on top of a stack of ghost pieces he eats his way to the bottom, causing them to disapear and the other parts adjacent to them to fall. When a row of regular blocks fills a horizontal row on the screen, it disapears. Like tetris, the goal is to do that a lot.
It occurs to me that I haven't actually issued a reccomendation regarding this collection of games. Here it is: If you have fond memories of these games from the arcades, it's a three out of five star game at least. For children of the nineties who grew up on the Playstation, this is probably a two out of five stars game at best.
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