Pac Man Championship Edition - XBox Live Arcade
I’m feeling a little cheated here. I played the demo, which times out after 3 minutes. I liked it, I bought it.
And then I find out that there’s one critical flaw - Microsoft has deliberately made a controller that sucks ass so that I’ll go insane!
I mean, I knew about 3 seconds into DoA4 that the d-pad on the default XBox360 controller was total crap. It will go in any direction, just not often the one you thought you pushed.
But there’s a little twist in Pac Man CE: it gets faster at about 4 minutes. So fast, in fact, that the analog stick on the 360 controller is no longer adequate to the task of actually making Pac Man go where he’s told.
I mean, I dig the concept. It’s fun to play when you aren’t cursing out the controller.
But it ought to come with a warning: “Due to the fact that our controllers suck like a Shop-Vac, you might want to consider a real controller in the price of this game.”