It's a pretty neat way of tying in one of Pac-Man's trademark gameplay elements while not having it be a mandatory element to the races. All of the other racers will change to blue ghosts, allowing you to gobble up anyone in your way for a short time. In Pac-Man World Rally, you'll find pellets scattered around the track, and once you collect enough of them you'll essentially earn a Power Pellet, which automatically switches you to control over a Super Pac-Mobile. Aside from ghosts, the other major elements that make Pac-Man what it is are its pellets and Power Pellets. One catch here is that towers of hot lava can shoot up between these jumps, knocking you out of commission for a few seconds. The track winds around the outside of a giant lake of lava, with some jumps that connect pieces of the track and launch you over rivers of lava. YES NO A second track we saw was located in some sort of cavern filled with lava.
The track follows a pretty good art style that somewhat resembles that of the castles in Super Mario 64 mostly cartoonish with a throw back to the old-school days of 8-bit gaming in some of its simplistic (but cool) designs. This particular track has a few 180+ degree turns inside the castle, including one that's big enough that it's easy to get turned around on. We were able to check out a couple tracks during our first look at the game, one of them being some sort of haunted castle with a graveyard just outside of it. The game will contain 15 different race tracks, each with its own unique theme, in addition to six battle arenas for multiplayer action.
There are certainly more jumps than many other kart racing games, and we haven't seen many of the game's later levels, which will likely be packed with more jumps than you can throw at Evel Knievel.
The game's tracks are designed to contain a whole lot of jumps and such to keep racers on their toes. While we haven't seen any other classic Namco characters yet, there should be a nice set of them, each with their own kart that matches the style and setting of the game they originally appeared in. Fitting well with his Dig-Dug roots, he drives a driller kart. One of the characters we saw with our time with the game was Pooka from Dig-Dug, the circular guy with goggles who you so often inflated to his demise back in the '80s. While the game includes all of the classic Pac-Man characters that you'd assume to find in the game, it also brings in other classic Namco characters to race with. Pac-Man World Rally attempts to take the greatest aspects of classic kart racers like Super Mario Kart and place them in the world of Pac-Man while expanding upon its basic design in a few ways.
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