It’s a Pac-Man’s World
We're more excited about this than we should be.
Published: November 15, 2005
The Pac-Man World games have been surprisingly good for a franchise revival, giving the pellet-chomper and honest-to-goodness update into three dimensions without abandoning all the core gameplay bits that made the original games so fun. Now, a third game has hit the PS2, and brings with it a bit more story, and, we're betting, a lot more in the way of the familiar 2.5D gameplay the previous games offered.
"Pac-Man is celebrating his silver anniversary this year, but he gets a gold star for his performance in Pac-Man World 3," professed Jeff Lujan, Business Director at Namco Hometek Inc. "As if it wasn't enough that his newest game is one of his best platform adventures yet with its incredible action, challenging puzzles and unique new features like the Power Ribbon and the Super Stomp--but for the first time in one of his games he also speaks!"
Right you are, Jeff! Gold stars all around! Pac's third outing has him up against the most terrifyingly named villain in all of Pac-Man history, he with the name that calls down streaks of lighting and the most guttural of nature's thunderclaps, he that is known as... uh, Erwin. Ol' Er (we call him that because we're buddies) has found a way to tap into the Spectral Realm, home to all those ghosts that delight in slowly chasing Pac-Man until he surprisingly but inevitably turns the tables and devours them. Messin' with the Other Side is never a good idea, and it falls to Pac to save the day.
And hey, as if that weren't enough, Namco is milking the 25th Anniversary for all its worth, and that means an interview with PM creator Toru Iwatani and a trailer for next year's Pac-Man World Rally in addition to a little historical write-up. Hooray cross-selling! Now stop reading and go pick up a copy, you know there's only one cure for the fever, and this time it isn't more cowbell.
"Pac-Man is celebrating his silver anniversary this year, but he gets a gold star for his performance in Pac-Man World 3," professed Jeff Lujan, Business Director at Namco Hometek Inc. "As if it wasn't enough that his newest game is one of his best platform adventures yet with its incredible action, challenging puzzles and unique new features like the Power Ribbon and the Super Stomp--but for the first time in one of his games he also speaks!"
Right you are, Jeff! Gold stars all around! Pac's third outing has him up against the most terrifyingly named villain in all of Pac-Man history, he with the name that calls down streaks of lighting and the most guttural of nature's thunderclaps, he that is known as... uh, Erwin. Ol' Er (we call him that because we're buddies) has found a way to tap into the Spectral Realm, home to all those ghosts that delight in slowly chasing Pac-Man until he surprisingly but inevitably turns the tables and devours them. Messin' with the Other Side is never a good idea, and it falls to Pac to save the day.
And hey, as if that weren't enough, Namco is milking the 25th Anniversary for all its worth, and that means an interview with PM creator Toru Iwatani and a trailer for next year's Pac-Man World Rally in addition to a little historical write-up. Hooray cross-selling! Now stop reading and go pick up a copy, you know there's only one cure for the fever, and this time it isn't more cowbell.
