Keep in mind when Pac-Man received its personal battle royale sport the place 64 Pac-Folks 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 a minimum of medium-ly) multiplayer spin on the arcade basic. With Stadia lifeless and buried, Mega Tunnel Battle is chewing its means 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 linked map for its dozens of gamers to waka-waka their means round. Like regular Pac-Man, you’ll be able to wolf down dots, fruit and ghosts (aided by energy pellets), however may cannibalise your fellow Pac-Of us 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’ll be able to gather that will help you enhance your rating and wipe out the competitors. Different gadgets will show you how to flip the ghosts in your opponents, too. Consistent with the battle royale really feel, mazes will steadily disappear over the course of a match, requiring the gamers to tunnel their means into different gamers’ screens to outlive.
There’ll be a number of totally different modes, together with elimination and ranked, with on-line leaderboards and the prospect to earn tokens by way of each enjoying generally 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 components, 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 immediately into matches along with your Pac-Buddies through a devoted buddies system.
Chomp Champs will land on Steam on Could eighth, with its commonplace 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.