Pac-Man Museum
Pac-Man Museum
Pac-Man Museum, développé par Bandai Namco Studios et édité par Bandai Namco Entertainment, est sorti le 25 février 2014 sur PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC via Steam, Wii U et Nintendo 3DS. Cette compilation de genre arcade et réflexion regroupe plusieurs titres de la série, parmi lesquels Pac-Man, Super Pac-Man, Pac & Pal, Pac-Land, Pac-Mania, Pac-Attack, Pac-Man Arrangement, Pac-Man Championship Edition et Pac-Man Battle Royale, permettant de suivre l'évolution du personnage depuis 1980. Le jeu propose un système de navigation aidant à trouver les meilleurs itinéraires dans les labyrinthes, une fonction de sauvegarde de progression entre les niveaux, un mode multijoueur avec Pac-Man Battle Royale et des classements internationaux en ligne.
L'accueil critique a été mitigé avec une note moyenne de 67. Hardcore Gamer a salué une représentation aboutie de la carrière du personnage, tandis que Game Informer a apprécié la présentation via un Pac Room personnalisable et un album de stickers. Du côté des joueurs, certains sur Metacritic ont regretté l'absence de portage sur Wii U ou 3DS, et d'autres ont souligné la difficulté de juger une collection de jeux anciens. Sur Steam, des avis positifs recommandent le titre aux fans tout en jugeant l'aspect musée pauvre et l'intérêt porté surtout à Battle Royale, tandis que certains se contentent de qualifier le jeu d'excellent.
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Avis des critiques et joueurs
Critiques de la Presse (Metacritic)
« In short, Pac-Man Museum is the best representation of what has been a truly illustrious video game career. »
« The overall presentation is cute, with a virtual Pac Room that you can deck out with unlockable items, and a sticker album that you fill up by completing challenges. Namco missed a critical opportunity, however, in putting all the games into a greater context. »
« If you've never played Championship Edition before and thus do not have DX to compare it to, it's a perfect way to re-acclimate yourself to the franchise, while you use Royale to spice up your next local gathering. Everyone else who lacks friends on-hand or has already played CE should wait for a sale, or pass this one up entirely. »
« Pac-Man is a classic game in everyone’s opinion. Therefore, it's really nice to play some old Pac-Man games. Although the price is quit expensive for what you get. Four or maybe five Pac-man games are really worth it, the rest is simply too outdated. »
« You cannot help but think that a more fitting tribute to the little yellow fella would have been a standalone version of the top-drawer Battle Royale, with the inclusion of online play that they have bafflingly ignored. »
« A disorienting mix of the classic, the needless and the forgotten. [Apr 2014, p.89] »
« An okay celebration of 30 years of Pac-Man's furious assault on the four unluckiest ghosts ever. There are better Pac-related options though. [Issue#110, p.78] »
« The world's first bona fide videogame mascot deserved better than to have five failures trotted out alongside four dirt-simple classics, and the inflated price of admission doesn't do his flawed exhibition any favors. [May 2014, p.83] »
Avis des Joueurs (Metacritic)
« This game is useless it is not ported on Wii U, &/or Nintendo 3DS! Maybe because the creator/Namco hates Nintendo. »
« The difficulty in rating a game like this is that it is a collection of aged games, albeit that some of the collection has not yet appeared on consoles. As a whole, this collection could stand from including the history of the more obscure games and xbox live support for more than just leaderboards, but this seems to be a hastily put together compilation. Pac-man Battle Royale would have saved this collection from being a money grab, but the exclusion of xbox live support (local player only) basically limits this to a party game. Pac-man, Super pac-man, mrs. pac-man, etc. are all faithfully emulated, so much so that the emulation causes the screen to be letterboxed (cannot be adjusted). This game would have been disappointing at $10 and is a travesty at $20. »
