Where I got mine: Oberon Media’s Gamecenter
Developer: Oberon Media
To own: $19.95 (free trial for 60 mins available at Big Fish)
Size: 20.9MB
Score: 6 slices out of 10
Just when you think casual gamers have had enough of restaurant/food/clickandstack games, another one hits the arcade and you’re hooked.
Oberon’s Turbo Pizza, which is slightly reminiscent of Sprout Games’ Pizza Frenzy, is your true-to-formula, run-of-the-mill Diner Dash clone – with better graphics.
While I do like these restaurant games tremendously, I just wish that these game companies could innovate just a little more. In every new food game, the graphics seem to be the only component that is improved, because you’ve still got the terrible tinny cabaret music, the same old game mechs, the same old Help Us Build Our Pizza Empire Before The Evil Pizza Empire Puts Us Out Of Business!!!111!! storyline, the same old Improve Your Restaurant elements. So much so if you’ve played Diner Dash and Snowy Lunch Rush and Delicious Deluxe, you can pretty much ace Turbo Pizza without even batting an eye lid.
I understand that these are casual games, in that they are mostly nothing more than finger exercises to kill the last 15 mins of your lunch hour, but it does not hurt to just offer a little more. The build a pizza mini-game (lifted right off Pizza Frenzy) is nice and everything but what else?
I’m sure Turbo Pizza will not be the last DD clone. In fact, I’m looking forward to a bigger (and not just more stages/locations), better restaurant game that includes all the wonderful things we love about running a make-believe restaurant – and then some.
Filed under: Casual games
Not bad.
i love you pizza frenzy
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