Difficulty:

Just Right

Time Spent:

10 to 20 Hours

The Bottom Line:

"Amazing"

Back in the arcade days, Pac-Man was king. Besides Mario, it's hard to think of a more iconic video game character, in fact he was the first true video game "character" his predecessors were nameless ships or blips. But after the original arcade classic, it seemed as Pac-Man's subsequent sequels failed to capture the same magic and at one point he started trying to be like Mario with platformers, kart racers and party games and most of these....well..sucked.

Then came Pac-Man Championship edition DX. Now I'll admit that I simply thought this was just the arcade original with leaderboards and an HD coat of paint. I was wrong. This is not just a port of Pac-Man. This is Pac-Man on steroids.

Instead of simply clearing out the dots in the maze, you'll eat a string of dots followed bya fruit, then another string of dots appears and you'll eat that, eat the fruit and repeat. Each time, Pacy gets faster and more ghosts spawn. Many ghosts will be asleep and when you pass them, they wake up and start chasing you and next thing you know a rainbow army is on your tail, then you get a power pellet and chomp through the string of buggers for maximum points which is oh so satisfying.

On top of this, you get a variety of time modes and challenges and online leaderboards to compete for high scores.

And for extra flair you can choose from a variety of character models, background designs and music. You can even use the ugly Atari design.

Seriously, any old school gamer needs to play this. It is an adrenaline rush that will leave your fingers sore in a good way. And it's free for Playstation Plus users so you have no excuse.