Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 is real and it's coming this September to PS4, Xbox One and PC.
Like the brilliant Pac-Man Championship Edition DX, this sequel will allow players to chain together pursuing ghosts in a conga line before devouring the whole lot of them in one fell swoop.
In addition to the tried and true timed score attack mode, Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 features an all new Adventure mode that includes moving fruit and boss battles.
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Roads become pathways for Pac-Man and the Ghosts, which then wrap around edges of the screen.
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Back in 2010 Bandai Namco reinvented its flagship pie chart-looking mascot with Pac-Man Championship Edition DX, a game so good that former Eurogamer editor Kristan Reed awarded it a coveted 10/10. Now, that game is coming to iOS.
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Well this certainly caught us by surprise. Remember how the original Pac-Man Championship Edition turned everyone into bug-eyed crazies for about four months of 2007? Remember how it got people into Pac-Man that didn't even like the flappy-jawed yellow blob? Well, this DX edition has the audacity to improve everything we loved about the first one tenfold, and not even warn us about it in advance.
As usual, it's all about clocking the best possible high score, but Namco Bandai gets around the repetition by not only upping the maze count from two to nine, but also by layering on new mechanics and new modes that twist the formula in a frantic and relentlessly exciting new direction.
The most obvious change, initially, is the presence of stationary green ghosts, snoozing at various points around the maze. If Pac-Man moves past them, they wake up and give chase, allowing you to build up a huge, snaking conga line of ghosts if you can hold off from eating a power pill for long enough. The payback is that you can turn the tables in spectacular style, chowing down on literally dozens of them and clocking up a massive score in the process. Some ghosts will even top up your time bar, so eking out your feast becomes a strategic balancing act as you weave your way along the most effective route to score-based glory.
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Microsoft has been busily updating the Xbox Live Marketplace these past 24 hours with treats including a redux of Pac-Man Championship Edition, the third Alien Breed episode and a demo for CSI: Fatal Conspiracy.
