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Pac-Man: Championship Edition DX

PAC-MAN Championship Edition DX continues to uphold NAMCO BANDAI's tradition of enhancing a classic franchise for today's gamer. Building upon PAC-MAN Championship Edition’s original six courses, the new game…

98 17 November 2010

Pac-Man: Championship Edition DX is an arcade developed by Namco Bandai Games, released 17 November 2010 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Android and iOS.

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What Pac-Man: Championship Edition DX is

Pac-Man: Championship Edition DX is an arcade game developed by Namco Bandai Games and released in 2010. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Android, iOS and Windows Phone.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Pac-Man Championship Edition DX is a 2010 maze video game developed by Chinese studio Mine Loader Software and published by Namco Bandai Games for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, later ported to Steam, Android and iOS. It is the sequel to the 2007 game Pac-Man Championship Edition, which was the last game developed by series creator Toru Iwatani. The player controls Pac-Man as he must eat all of the dots in the maze while avoiding colored ghosts that pursue him. A bonus item will appear once the player has eaten all dots on one side of the maze, causing the layout to change. Several additions were made over the original, such as bombs that send all ghosts to the regeneration box and…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 12 achievements to unlock.

Where it sits in the Pac-Man series

Pac-Man: Championship Edition DX is the 169th of 282 entries we hold in the Pac-Man series. The next entry was Pac-Mania in 2010. Its critic score of 98 is 28 points above the series average of 70. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.

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How it was received

Pac-Man: Championship Edition DX holds a critic score of 98 out of 100. That places it above 99% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 28 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor, 1 GB RAM and DirectX 9 graphics device. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.

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What it launched against

Pac-Man: Championship Edition DX launched on 17 November 2010, within three weeks of Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Call of Duty: Black Ops and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. It reviewed better than all of them.

Released around the same time: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit.

Cheats and codes

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Pac-Man: Championship Edition DX yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

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Pac-Man: Championship Edition DX — frequently asked questions

When did Pac-Man: Championship Edition DX come out?
Pac-Man: Championship Edition DX was released on 17 November 2010 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Android, iOS and Windows Phone.
What are the minimum PC requirements for Pac-Man: Championship Edition DX?
At minimum, Pac-Man: Championship Edition DX needs 1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor, 1 GB RAM, DirectX 9 graphics device graphics, 500 MB available space of storage.
How many GB is Pac-Man: Championship Edition DX?
The PC version needs about 0.5 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("500 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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