Pac-Man World 3 (2005) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Pac-Man World 3

The classic gaming character Pac-Man is back for the third iteration of the Pac-Man World series. The game features the classic Pac-Man powers and adds a few new abilities--such as superstomp and electric…

59 15 November 2005

What Pac-Man World 3 is

Pac-Man World 3 is a platform game developed by Blitz Games and released in 2005. It was published by Electronic Arts, Inc.. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

The classic gaming character Pac-Man is back for the third iteration of the Pac-Man World series. The game features the classic Pac-Man powers and adds a few new abilities--such as superstomp and electric shock--to assist the yellow-ball-like hero against his ghost foes.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Pac-Man series

Pac-Man World 3 is the 137th of 282 entries we hold in the Pac-Man series. The next entry was Pac-Man World 3 in 2005. Its critic score of 59 is 11 points below the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is Pac-Man: Championship Edition DX at 98.

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How it was received

Pac-Man World 3 holds a critic score of 59 out of 100. That places it above 14% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 8 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Pac-Man World 3 launched on 15 November 2005, within three weeks of Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Call of Duty 2, Sid Meier's Civilization IV and Mario Kart DS. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Call of Duty 2, Sid Meier's Civilization IV, Mario Kart DS.

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