Order Up! is better than you think!
Order Up!
PLATFORM (Wii)
PUBLISHER (ZOO Games)
PRICE $40 (Wii)
ESRB RATING (E for Everyone)
PLAYERS (1)
PUBLISHER (ZOO Games)
PRICE $40 (Wii)
ESRB RATING (E for Everyone)
PLAYERS (1)
WAIT! I know you want to skip this article, but just give me a second. Sure, you probably have taken one look at the title of this game and decided that you would have no interest in it, but there is a great deal about Order Up! that will entertain even the most jaded of gamers.
Many of you have probably been burned by cheap-o Wii titles that were rushed to market just to steal your money by offering a product that looked like inexpensive fun, but ended up just being cheaply made. Order Up! is not one of those games.
It is a cooking game, which would be extremely pedestrian if it was not designed with such flair. Rather than have you use the motions of cooking to simply prepare one dish at a time and then boorishly moving on to the next dish, Order Up! has you strategizing the cooking of entire restaurant's worth of food orders. By making the preparation of each dish a combination of a few simple activities, and by giving you two assistants that you can use to help prepare the meals, Order Up! becomes a manic exercise requiring both strategic planning, and flair in your preparation.
You start out at a lowly fast food chain, them move your way up all the way to fine dining establishments. You earn money by serving as many people as popular, but you always have to keep an eye on how enjoyable the food you are preparing is to eat. More reputation brings in more customers which brings in more money, and when you have enough money you buy a new restaurant and start the whole process over.
With a visual style that mimics a Nickelodeon cartoon, and a multitude of things going on at one time, Order Up! ends up being an ADD adrenalin rush.
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