Pac-Man: Championship Edition 2
About the Game
Pac-Man: Championship Edition 2 is the sequel to Pac-Man: Championship Edition and the reworked version Pac-Man: Championship Edition DX . The idea of a fast-paced and hectic sequel to the original arcade game is still the main concept, but now with entirely different gameplay mechanics. Pac-Man still navigates mazes, eats dots, collects fruits and avoids ghosts. The game offers three modes: an interactive Tutorial, the main Score Attack mode and additional challenges in the Adventure mode.
Gameplay & Core Systems
Controls consists of movement in four directions with an additional action to brake quickly. In a single Score Attack game multiple mazes are completed in succession until time runs out, always as variants of each other with different lay-outs for dots, ghosts and navigation. To move on to a new maze, which is done almost instantly with a quick motion, a piece of fruit needs to be picked up at a central location. It however only appears after having eaten a number of dots until the 'next stage' gauge is full, and not necessarily all of them. There is only a limited amount of them and instead of pushing back all ghosts as in the previous games, they now make Pac-Man jump and return to the central position.
Standout Features
- Bombs help with this, but in a new way.
- It helps him to get out of difficult situations, but also allows him to pick up the fruit quickly when it spawns.
- There are sleeping ghosts that can be woken up and for most of them it is possible to bump into multiple times without harm as they only block the way.
- Pac-Man: A power pill allows Pac-Man to eat the ghosts including entire trains for large amount of points by starting from the leader.
- Pac-Man: The main ghosts are the only ones that can harm Pac-Man.
- There is no slowdown but the main ghosts can be hit multiple times without penalty.
- Scores can be compared worldwide on leaderboards.
Modes & Ways to Play
In the Single Train variant there is only a single train, but in the Regular mode there are up to four. The Adventure mode has gameplay similar to Score Attack, but offers very specific challenges with a limited amount of time and different difficulty levels.
Presentation & Atmosphere
For each game the player can choose and unlock different maze visuals, backgrounds, character sets, camera viewpoints and background music. Scores can be compared worldwide on leaderboards.
