New Pac-Man Is Actually Like Battle Royale
March 15, 2010 2:00 PM | Eric Caoili
Namco Bandai's teaser trailer for Pac-Man Battle Royale several weeks ago gave us very little to go on with this 30th Anniversary arcade revival -- is it a remix of Pac-Man CE with Pac-Man Vs.-style multiplayer matches?
Maybe it's a game in which boisterous Junior High Pac-Man students are trapped on a dangerous island and forced to fight against each other to the death? Or perhaps it's just Pac-Man with all the fruit sprites replaced with quarter pounders from McDonalds?
Arcade Heroes captured new footage of Pac-Man Battle Royale at Amusement Expo 2010, and it looks like the game takes a few ideas from those first two predictions (no cheeseburgers, unfortunately); its graphics and changing stages are similar to Pac-Man CE, but the focus is on eating/murdering other players (Pac-Man Vs. was more about ghosts chasing Pac-Man).
These cocktail cabinets are running prototype versions and Namco Bandai won't release the game until September, so it's likely Pac-Man Battle Royale will receive a lot of changes before it's sent to arcades.
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I like that Beat Takeshi, of Takeshi's Challege fame, was in the Battle Royale movie.
Tim | March 15, 2010 5:46 PM
Oh man, please put this on XBLA.
Tony | March 16, 2010 10:39 AM
What Tony said.
Though I certainly wouldn't mind the actual machine at home. I especially like how the cup holders are handled.
Though I also hope (and expect) that the game goes through some revisions. A Pac-Man game without scoring is... I can't even make an appropriate analogy!
fort90 | March 16, 2010 1:11 PM
@fort90: Analogies are never appropriate compared to saying exactly what you mean. In this case, A Pac-Man game without scoring defies my idea of what a traditional Pac-Man game is. Luckily, this game seems to be anything but traditional!
Arrogance | March 16, 2010 1:54 PM
I see this actually being a huge hit in bars/pubs.
Imagine taking on every single one of your drunk, rowdy friends in a Pac-Man "duel to the death..." all at the same time, instead of having to alternate turns.
But since arcades are dead and buried here in the states, these machines only have two options: Bars and homes.
Mike M. | March 16, 2010 4:53 PM