Free Pacman or Pac's Venture

The name of the game to review today is Pac's Venture. It’s one of the representatives of classic genre of Pacman. This game is brand advertising by MicroSMARTS LLC company. You will realize why it's free and distributed publicly by this company if you read carefully terms and conditions during game installation, though at company’s web-site (http://www.microsmartsllc.com/) the game is not advertised. After installation process started the game will offer to replace your browser’s homepage and even if you refuse it, the game will try to replace your browser’s default search system. This trojan manners seem to be harmful, but it’s only on the surface: all actions are legal and are mentioned in term and conditions, so a user is considered to be warned. The game was developed in Peru by CHECHESOFT in 2000, but became adopted just now.

Adventures ahead!
So where does the game begin? At the beginning of the action the main hero Pacman with his her girlfriend Miss Pacman are walking outdoor. Suddenly a ghost on the balloon appeared and kidnapped Miss Pacman to hide her in his castle. And the main hero has nothing to do, but rescue his sweetheart. But to do this he has to surmount a plenty of obstacles and difficulties. And Pac rushes to his princess’ help devouring a kind of blue balls resembling pills.

Controls
We can say, that there are some disadvantages of controls in this game: isometric game is designed to look like 3D, but it caused awkward arrangement of player and keyboard. To make it more convenient you should to rotate the keyboard to an angle of 45 degree to orient the direction of the arrow on the “Up” key to the upper left part of screen. Try it and you will see it works! To orient yourself became easier. Note, that if you want to change a moving direction quickly, it's not easy. Keyboard handler operates little slower than the one in similar arcade games. But if Pac's Venture is positioned as quest game such remarks seem to be knocks.

Playability or quality of gameplay
You can adapt to and play Pac's Venture for a long time, but a majority of my friends told me that they only frayed their nerves playing this game. They hate me because I showed them the game. Who knows, maybe, they hate me in an amicable way, but maybe vice versa.
It’s up to you, how to think of it. Just download, try, play.


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