Product Description: Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness takes the original formula and updates it for the new millennium. The most striking change is the game's new 3-D orientation. The play is expanded, but it is largely based on the original. Maze Madness involves a weird story of gems being scattered throughout Pac-Land. A witch is after the gems, so you must find them all before she does.
Maze Madness is a bit of a misleading title, because while the game does involve mazes, it's the puzzles that will stop your progress. Most of the puzzles aren't that hard, but a few will stump you for a bit. There are blocks to push, TNT to explode, and springboards that propel you upward.
Players are awarded stars for completing different tasks, such as finding all the fruit in a level, munching all the pellets in a level, or beating the level in time-trial mode. Initially, earning one star per level will get you to the next stage, but you must go back and earn more stars to unlock later levels.
Maze Madness' graphics are smooth and crisp, but they aren't very detailed. The game has the look and feel of a cartoon's minimal lighting effects. Ms. Pac-Man herself is just a round polygonal sphere with some textures, arms, and legs glued on.
Where this game excels is in the level design. A puzzle game like this is made or broken on the ingenuity of the levels. Also, Maze Madness features some multiplayer options, which, combined with its simple, family-friendly gameplay, makes it an excellent choice for a party game. --Todd Mowatt--This text refers to the Sega Dreamcast edition of this game
Amazon.com Review: Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness takes the original formula and updates it for the new millennium. The most striking change is the game's new 3-D orientation. The play is expanded, but it is largely based on the original. Maze Madness involves a weird story of gems being scattered throughout Pac-Land. A witch is after the gems, so you must find them all before she does.
Maze Madness is a bit of a misleading title, because while the game does involve mazes, it's the puzzles that will stop your progress. Most of the puzzles aren't that hard, but a few will stump you for a bit. There are blocks to push, TNT to explode, and springboards that propel you upward.
Players are awarded stars for completing different tasks, such as finding all the fruit in a level, munching all the pellets in a level, or beating the level in time-trial mode. Initially, earning one star per level will get you to the next stage, but you must go back and earn more stars to unlock later levels.
Maze Madness' graphics are smooth and crisp, but they aren't very detailed. The game has the look and feel of a cartoon's minimal lighting effects. Ms. Pac-Man herself is just a round polygonal sphere with some textures, arms, and legs glued on.
Where this game excels is in the level design. A puzzle game like this is made or broken on the ingenuity of the levels. Also, Maze Madness features some multiplayer options, which, combined with its simple, family-friendly gameplay, makes it an excellent choice for a party game. --Todd Mowatt--This text refers to the Sega Dreamcast edition of this game
Amazon.com Product Description: Ms. Pac-Man makes her return to the screen in Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness. Explore 180 mazes throughout four worlds. While the environment has moved from 2-D to 3-D, the game controls have remained true to the original arcade game--only the directional pad is used. Pick up power pellets to chomp on ghosts and new enemies, such as centipedes, Neander-Pacs, and baby dragons. Up to four players can engage in a variety of games, which include Ghost Tag, in which three players are ghosts, and one player is Ms. Pac-Man; and Dot Mania, in which players compete to eat the most dots in a maze.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Challenging and fun!
Play as Ms.Pacman. Solving puzzles and getting points, going through 180 mazes! This 3-d adventure is addicting! Just like the classic, you fight your way through monsters, get fruits and jumping across different things may sound boring but get this. Trying to find objects, places, and fighting monsters is fun and trust me! There is multiplayer where you can fight against you friends. Levels are where whoever has the bomb last looses, the one who is alive wins, etc! Classic is on here too!
Rating: - Awesome game
Ms. Pacman and Pacman are a couple of my very few favorite video games. Every time I get the chance to play it I do, and if I see that they have it at the bowling alley or somewhere I will play it, but I rarely see it in places, even arcades. If you are reconsidering to not buy this game you're missing out on a great offer, because I highly doubt you'll ever find this in a store brand new, or even used for some game systems, especially N64. Plus, if you did find it in a store the prices would run from 40-60 dollars anyway. I hope you get the chance to enjoy this game just as thousands of other people did too.
Rating: - great entertainment
I bought this game for my five year old and he loves it. I even played a couple of times with him and I enjoy it myself. It is a great game for the whole family. There are lots of different mazes and obsticles to go through. If you like the arcade version of ms. pac-man you will love this one as well.
Rating: - This Game is sooo EXCITING!!
The game is pretty cool. It has cool graphics plus 3D mini games. You have to beat one master and it has 4 levels to defeat. It's extremely fun. The mini games are fast and wild! When I play this game, I beat all the levels and I also got up to the master...I beat all the mini games and I say "EVERYBODY GET THIS GAME!!" done.
Rating: - Great game for all ages
My 5 year old received Ms. Pacman Maze Madness for Christmas. He loves it. It's simple enough for him, yet complex enough to keep the interest of my 9 year old and my husband. Even Mom is a little addicted.
As a mother, I like it because it's not violent and it requires a lot of reasoning to figure out the puzzles to get through the mazes.
The multi-player feature is fun for our whole family, too.
