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and then other devices can join the game. In Multiplayer, one device hosts, selecting the track, options, etc. Why such a basic feature took more than a year to show up, we’ll never know.

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PKR made Windows Phone history by being the first Live title to feature local Wi-Fi multiplayer for 2-4 players. There’s no incentive to play them as they don’t apply toward any Achievements, but more tracks are always appreciated. The game also includes five bonus tracks (two exclusive to Windows Phone) that reuse the other cups’ themes but with slightly more creative designs. Getting back to the track design, the courses are actually fairly wide and not overly-dense with obstacles (again, unlike Cro-Mag Rally), making them well-suited for mobile play. That’s the area where the designers really dropped the ball, as the tracks would definitely benefit from some game-themed set pieces.Įach cup does at least feature music from its series, with the Katamari and Mr. Frankly, the only set of tracks that resembles its source game in any way is the Katamari cup with its angular cows and mushrooms. The main Tournament mode offers four themed cups, each consisting of three tracks: the Pac-Man Cup, Ghost Cup, Katamari Cup, and Dig Dug cup. I’ve already touched upon the power-ups, which do a so-so job of tying in to Pac-Man and other Namco games. I’ll take Pac-Man and 9 of his friends over Cro-Mag Rally’s two hideous cave people any day of the week! Pac-Man or Mappy wouldn’t have hurt, but it’s not a bad roster.

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Driller, two from the Katamari Damacy series (which has previously appeared as a decent Windows Phone game), and the fighter from Galaga for some reason.

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So how well does PKR capitalize on the Pac-Man and/or Namco brands? Character-wise, we have 10 racers to choose from: Pac-Man and all four ghosts, plus two from Dig Dug/ Mr. The latter don’t excel at anything, but don’t offend much either.

Then you have perfunctory ones like Konami Krazy Racers and this game, PKR. The best ones include the beautiful Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed (which we played at E3), Crash Tag Team Racing, and a handful of others.

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Mascots and kart racers go hand-in-hand and tend to run the full gamut of quality. In truth, Nintendo’s first Mario racer actually kick-started a new and enduring genre: the kart racer. I’ve seen readers mistakenly label PKR a clone of the 16-bit Super Mario Kart. Holding onto collected items prevents you from getting new ones, so you basically have to use the drills you get, like it or not. Computer players virtually never hit it, causing you to either run into it yourself or dodge it on subsequent laps. In practice, the drill might as well be a power-down, though. Driller works like a Mario Kart banana peel, dropping behind you and knocking off-course anyone who touches it.

Last and definitely least, the Drill from Dig Dug/ Mr. Power pellets provide mushroom-like speed boosts Katamari balls can be held as shields (very useful) or fired like turtle shells the Pac-Man symbol provides temporary invincibility like a Starman and Cherries initiate auto-pilot for a brief time. Each item comes from one of Namco’s games, but in practice they function identically to Mario Kart items. Some question box items offer protection from wrecks as well. Still, catch enough of a lead on the other racers and collisions stop being an issue – for that race, anyway. Unfortunately the enemies do not lose dots when hit, making for an imbalanced system. The more dots you have, the faster you go, up to a maximum of 10 dots. Players start with five dots you lose one each time you bump into an opponent. The pac-dot system is kind of wonky and seems to be a way of discouraging contact with other racers more than anything else. Those elusive pickups come in two varieties: pac-dots and question boxes (random items).

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