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Pac man world rally11/7/2022 ![]() ![]() So you run over the cherry, try to aim the cherry-missile at your opponents, and that's about it. All of the weapons are fruit-based and basically work like guns. Of course, since Mario Kart has battle modes, so does this. Does an alien play into one of the earlier Pac-Man World games? I wouldn't know, as I tried to steer clear of most of those. It was even a challenge to stretch the Pac-Man world into having enough characters for a game like this: there is Pac-Man, Ms. This feels tacked on, as does the hunt for fruit to unlock short cuts. The main concession to Pac-Man are the power pellets that are scattered around the tracks grab enough of them and everyone else turns into scared blued ghosts and your kart turns into a chomping Pac-Man that eats everything you run into. Even the weapons are pretty much blatant Mario Kart knockoffs, you run over little boxes and grab weapons that freeze or knock out your opponents. It was as if Namco took all the tracks from the Mario Kart franchise, made one or two subtle changes to them to avoid a lawsuit, and then added the Pac-Man family. The whole thing reeks of deja-vu: you have the slippery winter track, the haunted house track, and the molten lava track. The longer I played it the more I was convinced that while I wasn't hating the game, I also wasn't having much fun. ![]() I think the main question you have to ask yourself is: who this game is for?ĭo people love kart racing games enough to need a clone of Mario Kart, which is arguably the absolute best in the genre? Do people like Pac-Man enough that they'd be willing to put up with carbon copies of Mario Kart tracks but with Namco characters? I don't know, this seems like a game without an audience. When we played this game at E3 it was clear that it was nothing but a Mario Kart rip off, but at least it rips off Mario Kart pretty well. I'm glad we've gotten past the point in the industry where every major franchise has to be turned into a kart racer at some point, but apparently no one told Namco that we were over that particular cliché. It does what it sets out to do pretty well, but it also doesn't have a single original idea. Reviewing PacMan World Rally is kind of a challenge, because the game itself isn't bad, but it's also not very good. ![]()
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