Minecraft has become a dominant force in the gaming world, and today Mojang Studios has introduced a new game mode called Minecraft Pac-Man. Pac-Man recently had his 40th anniversary, and he's still chomping away. Minecraft players can unlock the DLC for 1340 minecoins, or about $7.80.
Today, Nintendo released footage that at first looked like classic Pac-Man, but when the camera pans down to reveal a darkened hallway, it becomes clear this wasn't a typical maze runner. Glowing Tron-esque walls box in the hungry hero, while above a classic view of the playing field updates in real time. The ghosts are blocky and intimidatingly enormous. Now, Pac-Man will have to outrun Blinky, Inky, Pinky, Clyde, and newcomer Creepy, who has the classic creeper grimace, and blows up when it gets close.
In this new 3D experience, players choose from several different characters, including a level-headed cowboy and a professor with a bushy white mustache. There is a store to buy power-ups, such as a stick of TNT the player can drop to take out one or two ghosts. The footage also shows some sort of lightning bolt object, perhaps something with a chaining effect, as is common with electric items in other games, or perhaps it will be more like a stun effect, like the Remote Electrical Charge in Batman: Arkham City.
Fans love creating Pac-Man mazes, so just like Twitch's version of Pac-Man, there is a maze editor, which looks fairly simple. Footage shows the main character placing down blue cubes in a smaller version of the map, so when the map is imported to the game the cubes are blown up to roughly 50-100x their size.
The only thing that might give players pause at this point is the fact that the 3D Pac-Man character is not a round, floating yellow pie, but instead is a cube with boxing gloves and shoes. It's difficult to translate traditionally 2D characters like the Smurfs or Pac-Man into 3D, especially when the game's style is cubic to begin with. It was a tough decision, and it's up to players to decide of Mojang Studios made the right call.
Minecraft Dungeons was released on May 26th, 2020.