![]() ![]() If you can cut off the ghost train’s progress, the camera shifts to a low angle as a winding purple column of ghosts floats in midair and Pac-Man eats his way to the top, score numbers showering the background. Things do take a bit of a turn when you eat a pellet that allows you to turn the tables on the ghosts, especially when you’ve built up a long train by waking up tiny ghosts that are dotted around the maze. ![]() Played in the traditional style, it looks exactly how you would expect with its simple blue walls and yellow pellets, but with moving backgrounds that bring to mind the likes of Tempest with its neon lines and shapes. Score Attack even allows you to customise your gameplay, from choosing the background style and the look of the ghosts (including the original sprites) to which music track will pump through your speakers as you play. Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 may never win any awards for complex graphics with millions of polygons, but it will surely win your heart with its pure arcade aesthetic and nostalgic feel. The higher your score, the higher the ranking you receive for bragging rights on the online leaderboards – not to mention being necessary to unlock trophies/achievements on your chosen console, if those are your thing. Losing a life also loses your score multiplier, which builds as you eat up consecutive pellets and is absolutely essential if you want to get the highest scores. Ghosts no longer automatically kill Pac-Man, instead he can bump into them once without consequence, but repeated bumps will anger the ghost and cause it to chase you down, killing you if it catches up. It’s not quite how you may remember it, but it’s no less fun. Of course, Score Attack is also available for fans of classic Pac-Man. Eating pellets unlocks the exit, or in the case of the bottom level, it releases the pellet needed to end the stage and kill the boss. Exiting drops you down a level and grants you a few precious extra seconds to unlock the next exit, until you reach the bottom and have the chance to kill the boss. These bosses attack the maze once you’ve unlocked the exit to each level, which angers any ghosts into chasing you down. In this mode, you have a limited amount of time to complete a number of stages within a given area, which unlocks a boss stage to round it off. It may sound absurd but it really does work, adding an extra layer of challenge to an already tough Adventure Mode. That’s right, this is a Pac-Man game with boss battles. But it’s okay here in Pac-Man Championship Edition 2, because some of the ghosts are fifty times their normal size and threaten to destroy entire mazes, not just our little spherical hero. But Pac-Man lives in a dog-eat-dog world, where ghosts murder Pac-Men and pellet-addled Pac-Men devour ghosts whole, all in the name of getting the highest score. Everyone loves Pac-Man, right? Wakka-wakka-ing his way through an almost infinite number of mazes, avoiding ghosts and enjoying an all-you-can-eat buffet of yellow pellets. ![]()
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