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Review Score: 4/5 Stars. "A heaping portion of content, noticeably keen attention to detail, and overall polished feel combine to create a tasty and satisfying time management entrée from PlayFirst. My compliments to the devs." -iPhone Game of the Day
Review Score: 8/10. "Like all PlayFirst titles, Cooking Dash is a highly polished game. Unlike too many other PC games which have basically been dumped on to the iPhone and iPod, it’s clear this version of Cooking Dash has been specially tailored for the platform." - News Shopper
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The kitchen is heating up! One of PlayFirst’s top selling casual games is now enhanced and available for the iPhone and iPod Touch! With millions of PC/MAC downloads to date, Cooking Dash offers fast paced action and innovative gameplay in quick bursts of on-the-go entertainment. This version of Cooking Dash offers a tailor-made experience for the iPhone and iPod Touch that has intuitive controls, sharp graphics, large text, and optimal performance.
When Cookie the Chef leaves Flo's Diner to pursue a career on a popular cooking reality TV show, he creates a shortage of chefs in DinerTown by inviting them all to appear as guest stars. It's up to Flo to pick up the slack with a whole new set of food service skills! Help Flo and Grandma Florence keep five DinerTown restaurants up and running... if you can stand the heat!
OVER 50 LEVELS OF GAMEPLAY
Keep a wide variety of customer happy as you receive bonus points for chaining actions together, seating customers in their preferred seats, and perfectly timing when you pull the food off the stove. The happier your customers, the higher your score – can you get Expert Score on every level?
FIVE UNIQUE RESTAURANTS
Master the art of perfectly prepared meals in each uniquely themed kitchen. Each is outfitted with a variety of stoves and deep fryers, sandwich stations, smoothie and ice cream machines, as well as various dessert and condiment trays.
LISTEN TO YOUR iPod MUSIC (SDK 3.0)
Cooking Dash takes advantage of Apple’s new SDK 3.0 in allowing users to create their own game soundtrack by listening to their iPod music while playing the game. Select your song line-up and then easily pause, play, and change songs from inside the game.
EXCITING UPGRADES
Purchase upgrades for each restaurant to enhance the aesthetics of your restaurant or improve the speed at which you can prepare the food.
TUTORIAL & HELP
First time players can take advantage of an iPhone-specific tutorial to learn the gameplay and a detailed Help Section.
Watch the Video Trailer at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDeEfCXaZhA
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What's New in Version 1.4
PlayFirst is pleased to give you this latest update to the hit game Cooking Dash to address your ongoing feedback.
Included in this version:
*New* “Challenge” game mode! Serve an endless stream of customers in this ultimate cooking challenge. Each restaurant in Challenge Mode is unlocked as you progress through Story Mode. Get a high score in all five!
- If you were stuck on a level before, now you can turn on “Easy Mode" and try again.
- The check request bubbles are now smaller so you can see which customers have plates.
Customer Reviews
Delivers time management with a heavy serving of strategy
Time management games are prevalent in the iTunes store so it takes something different in gameplay to stand out. Cooking Dash is a game that goes beyond simply delivering items to customers, but gets you involved in the cooking process. If you think this is just another time management game, you’d be wrong. That added element in the gameplay brings a different yet fun challenge and more importantly, the frenzied intensity and strategy missing in most games in the category.
The story follows Flo and her grandmother who are suddenly thrown into running their diner because Chef Cookie has left to host his own cooking reality show. For many time management gaming veterans, Flo is a familiar character having appeared in other Dash games. Instead of just seating and serving customers, the difference in Cooking Dash is Flo and her grandmother must also do everything else from cooking and clean up to customer satisfaction and profitability.
The first thing you notice is that this game is predominantly focused on the kitchen and less so on the dining area which is more of a diner counter set-up with limited seating. The graphics in Cooking Dash are polished and what you’d expect from the devs at PlayFirst. The animation runs smoothly on my iPod Touch 2g 3.0.
The game follows the storyline which is presented in a comic book format and has 50 levels presented through 5 different restaurants each with different cooking appliances and menus. As I mentioned, the game involves more of the cooking process so rather than just assembling something and delivering it, time management and strategy is more crucial. Cooking a steak, for example, requires selecting the meat, putting it into the oven, and allowing it to cook before serving which takes a few seconds. In addition, you also need to take it out of the oven quickly after it’s done cooking because leaving it in the oven too long will burn and ruin it. Once ruined, not only does Flo have to begin again, it also impacts the daily revenue since ruined food counts a monetary loss. The cooking process is illustrated by a green circle when cooking and turns red when the food is on the verge of burning.
Besides the cooking, the other elements are in play including seating and serving customers, and then clearing the counter of plates before the process of seating and serving new customers can continue. Other food items actually require giving Flo’s grandmother the order to make such as sandwiches and hamburgers for example, and of course all of this takes time.
The entire game is controlled via tap controls which work extremely well, although in this game, you’ll need to be careful of where and what you tap. It’s relatively easy to accidentally tap on the wrong items and in that case, you’ll have to trash it resulting in a monetary loss.
Each level requires meeting a minimum scoring requirement before progressing to the next level. While the initial levels are easy, the game does offers a balanced increase in difficulty and builds on skills learned in previous levels. Diners are color coded and placing diners at seats that match their color provides bonus points. And just because no customers are lost due to bad service doesn’t necessarily mean advancement to the next level. In fact, perfection and even planning ahead will increase the ability to earn additional points needed to move on.
In-game play has a lot going on, and as you move to other restaurants since Flo and her grandmother will be asked to babysit other restaurants while their owners are away, different foods and appliances add to the challenge. Foods are varied from burgers and submarines to sushi and salads in later stages, but there is plenty of variety involving different cooking steps and processes. Even something as simple as a fruit smoothie involves a few steps from choosing the fruit to bringing it to the blender before it can be served. Other dishes incorporate multiple foods such as steak and fries for example so cooking them in the right order and picking those up before they burn are essential. Flo can also handle two items at a time, and she’s intelligent enough to know which item goes to which customer.
Cooking Dash also has upgrades that can be purchased. Upgrades can be purchased in between levels for each restaurant that span the spectrum from practical to cosmetic. On the practical side, higher-quality and faster cooking appliances can be purchased to serve more customers. From a cosmetic perspective, you can upgrade the look of the restaurant such as better tiles, counters, and brighter paint. Honestly, I choose the better appliances whenever possible because they improve performance while the cosmetic improvements really don’t impact performance in any way. In many ways, it would have been nice to include more performance-enhancing upgrades rather than cosmetic ones, but this is subjective of course.
While the customers aren’t the most varied, another nice touch is that they can impact each other. Especially in the later stages, customers will lose their patience quicker when seated next to the wrong type of customer. As I mentioned, customers are color coded, but if you seat older customers next to younger ones, there is a tendency for tempers to be shorter and thus require faster service.
Cooking Dash isn’t your typical time management game because it involves strategic thinking. Going beyond the tap to serve concept, the cooking component makes this one of the more difficult time management games and adds significantly to the challenge. The fun gameplay is addictive and should provide time management novices and advanced players enough to keep them engaged.
Really good concentration game
If you really concentrate you can beat all 50 levels. I found that if my mind starts to wander for just a bit I lose focus and have to start over. There were some levels that seemed impossible to beat, but once I finished the last level, it was easy to get into a groove about how you go about serving the customers.
Hint: build up your multipliers with color coding the customers. I realized this after I finished a level without losing anyone, but I still couldn't pass it.
Dear PlayFirst: Please add more levels!!!!!!
Cooking Dash 2
Calling all Cooking Dash addicts... Let's all scream for COOKING DASH 2...
- $2.99
- Category: Games
- Updated: Dec 28, 2009
- Current Version: 1.4
- 1.4 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested)
- 22.2 MB
- Languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish
- Seller: PlayFirst, Inc.
- © Copyright (c) 2009, PlayFirst Inc. All rights reserved.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 2.0 or later.
