I guess you get what you pay for, though, in a free-to-play game. ![]() This new game is just a fraction of what the original Diner Dash was. Diner Dash Rush pales in comparison because it doesn’t incorporate any of those aspects. You continually improved your hotel or restaurant by choosing new carpets, equipment, etc. I enjoyed the personalization of the previous games. I have played many of the Diner Dash franchise games in the past - the original Diner Dash, Wedding Dash, Cooking Dash, Hotel Dash - the whole shebang. So Diner Dash Rush is designed to be played as fast game in shorter bursts of time. DeMiroz said the game fits with the rapid gameplay styles of arcade-like titles such as Bejeweled Blitz, which is a time-based, fast version of the old Bejeweled game. Their aim was to do something different with a franchise that has been downloaded more than 700 million times since it first debuted on the PC in 2004. My dad and I got to talk with Marco DeMiroz, the chief executive of San Francisco-based PlayFirst, and the vice president Becky Ann Hughes. The fast-paced gameplay gives the new Diner Dash game a, well, rushed feeling. The customers eat in a flash, and the cook produces dishes in under 2 seconds. Though this new Diner Dash Rush still contains the core concepts of the original game - seating, feeding, and cleaning up after the customers - you do all these things at a much faster pace. If you connect the game to your Facebook account, you can compete with your friends to get the best score. The overall objective of the game is to get to the top of the leaderboard with the most amount of points. Diner Dash Rush, however, focused more on earning as many points as you can in the allotted time rather than meeting a set goal. ![]() In no time I was serving up customers in a way that felt very familiar to previous Diner Dash games. Because it only consists of one never-ending level, I got the hang of it pretty quickly. But I found Diner Dash Rush incredibly one-note, and the game failed to provide enough incentive for me to keep playingĭiner Dash Rush (iPhone, iPad, iPad Mini and iPod Touch) launches you right into gameplay with a quick tutorial that sets the pace for the rest of the game. ![]() Playfirst claimed this free-to-play iPhone game would strip the much-loved original down to its core elements and add some new features to make it a fresh spinoff of the old game. Diner Dash Rush came out last week as the latest edition in PlayFirst‘s Diner Dash franchise. The next DDR has arrived - and no, it’s not Dance Dance Revolution (I was disappointed, too).
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