![]() ![]() Questionably, World Rally's PSP version is the one that sports the full roster of 16 tracks while the other versions of the game just have 15. Races have a varied number of laps between them with shorter races having more laps than the longer lapped ones. Pac-Man World Rally has four cups of four races each, save for the final cup which is a cup that features every race in the game in one lap form. Early tracks in World Rally sport one shortcut that uses this tactic, but later ones have multiple shortcuts blocked by gates that need you to collect a specific fruit to use them. If you have a certain fruit in your collection, you're able to enter into an area blocked by that fruit's gate, giving you an edge over the competition. Shortcuts are mostly found through collecting fruit. Though that's not totally fair, as Pac-Man World Rally does take its influence from the Pac-Man series to its tracks as well. The Pac-Mobile isn't a turkey, but it will still gobble, gobble, gobble. ![]() It makes for an innovative Pac-Man-like contribution to an otherwise bog standard kart racer. In this limited timed form, every other racer is turned into a helpless ghost, able to be gobbled up by the Pac-Mobile player. ![]() Once it is totally full, the player can hit a button and turn into a Pac-Mobile. Collecting these fills up a circular meter. Along the various tracks of the game, there are power pellets that players can collect. How does one gobble up opponents, though? Well, an intriguing and totally Pac-Man take on the kart racer is implemented in World Rally. Though there are some more interesting items like snowmen that freeze enemies upon contact and unlockable items won through gobbling up a particular number of racers in a given cup. Really, every item in the game has a Mario Kart equivalent, whether it's green bombs that run along the track, bouncing off walls until they hit a target red bombs that home in on whoever is ahead of the player red item boxes that are hazards and so forth. Items in Pac-Man World Rally don't deviate too far from what is expected from kart racers of this style. ![]() The longer you hold the drift, the better the ending boost you get from it will be.ĭrift longer to get a bigger boost when you let go of the shoulder button. Rather than wiggling the analog stick back and forth during a drift to build a boost, you simply hold your drift as long as possible. Drifting is handled wonderfully and actually seems to have beat Mario Kart to the punch in how building up a boost is handled. No matter the racer's vehicle, that has each possessing different stats depending on the character, I always felt in control. The feel of each kart in Pac-Man World Rally is rather pleasant. Pac-Man and company speed through the first track of the game, Cloud Garden. Pac-Man World Rally may not be the freshest kart racer around, nor the most challenging, but it does offer a good deal of enjoyment for players, especially for younger ones and those young at heart. That was the case with Crash Bandicoot, it was the case with Sonic the Hedgehog, and in the mid-2000s it was the case with Namco Bandai's Pac-Man. It's pretty much a guarantee that if you are a major video game mascot that you're bound to be a part of a racing game of some type, usually modeled after Mario Kart, the king of arcade kart racers. ![]()
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