Keep in mind when Pac-Man bought its personal battle royale sport the place 64 Pac-Individuals competed to eat one another and be the ‘Chomp Champ’? Me neither! However Pac-Man Mega Tunnel Battle apparently got here out on Google Stadia – ah, that’d be why – again in 2020, and served up a massively (or no less than medium-ly) multiplayer spin on the arcade traditional. With Stadia useless and buried, Mega Tunnel Battle is chewing its method out of the streaming console’s grave with a brand new subtitle and a contemporary Steam launch subsequent month.
Pac-Man Mega Tunnel Battle: Chomp Champs places a load of Pac-Man mazes subsequent to one another to kind a single related map for its dozens of gamers to waka-waka their method round. Like regular Pac-Man, you possibly can wolf down dots, fruit and ghosts (aided by energy pellets), however also can cannibalise your fellow Pac-People to be the final Pac standing. Or, er, no matter it’s that Pac-Man does, anyway.
Across the map shall be quite a lot of useful gadgets – from shields to hurry boosts – you possibly can acquire that will help you enhance your rating and wipe out the competitors. Different gadgets will allow you to flip the ghosts in your opponents, too. In line with the battle royale really feel, mazes will steadily disappear over the course of a match, requiring the gamers to tunnel their method into different gamers’ screens to outlive.
There’ll be a choice of totally different modes, together with elimination and ranked, with on-line leaderboards and the prospect to earn tokens by each taking part in usually and finishing missions. These tokens may be spent on cosmetics – sure, actually – to your personalised Pac, together with the choice to modify up their physique, head and face. I’m genuinely amazed {that a} yellow circle with eyes can have so many distinct physique elements, however there we go.
Chomp Champs received’t be precisely the identical because the Stadia launch, including some new soundtrack music and visible upgrades. You’ll be capable of play cross-platform with these on consoles, and spectate or hop straight into matches together with your Pac-Buddies through a devoted buddies system.
Chomp Champs will land on Steam on May 8th, with its normal version costing £16 and a deluxe version with the usual beauty bonuses (together with lunar animals and Namco-inspired costumes) and one-week early entry priced at £25.