If you’re a stickler for retro games, then the Pac-Man Championship Edition ought to whet your appetites. This retro inspired game will be available to all Xbox 360 owners, and is touted to be the honest to goodness sequel of the original Pac-Man that saw action more than two and a half decades ago. Are there actually ways to make that classic game better? Apparently, the answer is in the affirmative as the Joystiq crew check out the game. There are several interesting additions to the classic arcade gameplay that warrant more than a passing mention, and we’ll check those out after the jump.

Pac-Man Championship Edition is no high definition remake as it brings you widescreen action on your spanking new HDTV. The premise remains pretty much the same, where you try to avoid ghosts while gobbling up those pellets, but a wider field of play certainly adds more depth into gameplay. The maze has been made all the more complex as it is now separated into a couple of distinct halves, where each maze boasts an infinite amount of dots as well as frequent shape-shifting. Whenever a designated number of pellets on one side of the field have been consumed, a random fruit will appear for you to collect. Eating that fruit will trigger a shockwave toward the other half of the field, replenishing all dots while changing the entire look of the maze as well.

I don’t know about you, but that alone sounds sure as heck challenging to me. If you’re interested in giving Pac-Man Championship Edition a go, it ought to have been available for download for the past five hours already.

Source: Joystiq

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