Pac-Mania
Review by DoofyDude
"A Pac-Man game in 3D"
GAMEPLAY: (SCORE: 7) - The same as the original Pac-Man. You have to eat all of the dots on the level and not get eaten by the ghosts. Get big dots to eat the ghosts. Get fruit to get a lot of points. Get a lot of points to get an extra live. The only differences is that there's different music, different sounds, different mazes, different graphics, and more stuff to eat. You can also change the skill level, jump, and have a Pac-Booster. The mazes are real big and scroll on the screen. You can jump over ghosts when your like trapped or something but some ghosts do jump and eat you when you try to jump over them. Also like the original, the levels (or mazes) get tougher. The other stuff Pac-Man can eat besides fruit is stuff that makes Pac-Man go real fast for a period of time and stuff that makes Pac-Man get a lot of points from what he eats. And of course 2 players can play.
GRAPHICS (SCORE: 7) - The graphics aren't that great. The graphics in this game are just like Sonc 3D Blast graphics and Zelda 3 graphics. So it's not really 3D like N64 and PSX games that are in 3D or like the halfpipe levels in Sonic 2.
SOUND AND MUSIC (SCORE: 6) - The music and sounds suck. The music is plain old dumb and boring and the sounds sound like there from a Nintendo game.
CONTROLS (SCORE: 7) - The controls are pretty easy to remember. The Multi-Pad is to move Pac-Man, B is to jump, and you can either pick A or C to make the Pac-Booster turn or you can have the Pac-Booster turn on automaticaly. You can also have no Pac-Booster at all.
CHALLENGE (SCORE: 7)
The challenge, like a lot of things in this game, is basically the same as the original Pac-Man game's. You can also change the skill level in this game which is something you couldn't do in the original. Put the skill level above normal and the game gets pretty fun and challenging.
REPLAY VALUE (SCORE: 7) - The replay value is just the same as the original Pac-Man's replay value, you always try to get a higher score. I suggest that you play this game in a skill level that's higher than normal because below it's pretty boring.
OVERALL (SCORE: 7) - Most people won't like this because it's boring and is not as good as the original Pac-Man game. Maybe a lot of Pac-Man fans would like this game but I wouldn't buy it for $20. It's definetly not worth it! The only way I got this game is because I got it for free.
Reviewer's Score: 7/10, Originally Posted: 02/24/01, Updated 08/11/01
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