Pac-Man World 3 (GameCube)

Pac-Man! Where did it go wrong?

Advantages: Simple enough to play, quite a big adventure.
Disadvantages: Controls and graphics are muddled and fiddly.

Pacman is an institution and a classic video game character. This of course means that he will be reincarnated as many times as possible in about a million games that slowly become more and more disastrous and destroy the essence of what made him great in the first place. Pac-Man World 3 is the little round yellow guy's third venture into the increasingly over saturated 3D platforming market. The levels involve collecting items, pushing switches to raise platforms, pushing more switches to open doors, pushing switches to reveal more switches. I found the experience pretty soul destroying. The graphics are very glitchy and buggy. Also there are barely any colours, usually only purple and grey with a big fat yellow dot running around them, so the whole journey through the game seems to merge into one unsatisfyingly long bore ...

Rob_Sharona 15.02.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Pac-Man World 3 (Nintendo DS)

PAC MAN's eaten more than pellets.

Advantages: EASY to get a good score
Disadvantages: Sometimes 360 controller doesn't work that well

This is pac man for the next generation of gamers. Its all about staying alive for the time limit. Each time you eat the pellets on one half of the screen a fruit appears, if you can keep eating the ghosts in quick sucession you can carry on getting 3200 points which is the maximum points per ghost. There are 8 levels altogether. Some are five minutes and some are ten minutes long. If you can stay alive till the end you will gain an achivement. This game comes free with the xbox live arcade compilation, and it is pac man, just pac man on speed. The joy pad can be quite tricky for turning corners though so I'd personally recomend using the big grey button underneath. I have also found that if I stick to eating the pellets on one side my score goes up a lot quicker. The key is the highest fruit you can get and is worth 7650 points ...

johnnyhaupt 26.11.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Pac-Man: Championship Edition (Xbox Live Arcade)

DragonBall Z Budokai Finally On The GameCube!

Advantages: Different graphics to its sequels
Disadvantages: Japanese | Subtitles are annoying to read | Sequels are better

for this game. The game is not too long, but when you have completed the Dragon Universe, you will still have to get all the Skill capsules, and play the world tournament, and get all the secret characters, so there still is some fun after Dragon Universe after all! My Opinion ---------------- This game is very entertaining, but it is not the best that I have played, it can be quite disappointing to hardcore DragonBall Z fans. It does not compare to the likes of DragonBall Z Budokai 2 (came out on GC a week ago or so) or Budokai 3 (Not on GC yet, but on PS2), as they have much better graphics, in English and have more characters for you to play with. I shall give this game a 3 star * * *, as I found it entertaining at start, then the fun kind of just slowly died, then I found myself playing other games. Before I leave it how it is ...

DBZKing 27.03.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Dragon Ball Z: Budokai (GameCube)