There are several games that I have played in the last part of the year that I haven't had a chance to discuss the are certainly worthy of mentioning.
The first one that comes to mind is Pac-Man Championship Edition DX. This little downloadable gem takes a classic tweaks everything to make a new classic. The idea is that while you are gobbling up the little white dots you WANT the ghosts to start chasing you. The white dots are placed throughout the board in a direct path near sleeping ghosts. As you move past them they wake up and begin to chase you. Collecting all of the dots and fruit on one side of the board makes the opposite side of the board change the shape of the maze and puts down a new series of dots and sleeping ghosts. The payoff comes when you have a nice long chain of ghosts behind you and hit the power pellet. Suddenly that train of ghosts becomes a smorgasbord of edible delights for Pac-Man, chaining bonus points together for a huge scoring run. There are several different visual styles that are available as well as new maze patterns that unlock. The one thing I don't care for entirely is the way the leader board is implemented. Sure it lets you view global stats, your position in the global standings, and the leader board lets you see how well your friends are doing in the game. The friend leader board doesn't include your own points, so you have to switch back and forth between your global view and the friend view in order to see how you are ranked among friends. In game music is a collection of trance grooves that help set the tone and adjusts as the timer on each board counts down. This is definitely a must have game.
