Diner Dash

7.0 (2)

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ESRB Rating	E (Everyone)
Price	$10 (800 Points)
Release Date	November 18, 2009

Ditch your desk job and serve up some grub! Help Flo™ grow her fledgling diner into a five-star restaurant in this game of skill, speed and savvy.

Features

Diner Dash®, the number one PC time-management game has landed onto Xbox LIVE®! Guide Flo, a former office-worker turned restaurateur, as she builds up her diner empire. Go online and face players in head to head matches to see who's the best Flo. Join up with a friend or another player online for a Team Dash game where your team takes on six other players to see whose diner is the best in town.

Fresh look: Fresh looks are the special of the day, as Flo, her customers, and her restaurants come to life in three dimensions and in high definition graphics.
Fast action: Take on all the different diners with 10 levels in each. Seat patrons, take their order, deliver their food, take their payment, and bus their table as efficiently as possible within the time limit allowed. Your customers will lose patience and leave if they aren't satisfied. Remember, service with a smile!
Pick up and play: Two all-new control schemes are designed specifically for your controller, a point and click style with hotkeys, and an arcade style where you directly control Flo as she runs around.
Multiplayer: Hop online for some brand-new eight-person multiplayer in Team Dash Mode, and 1-on-1 in Head to Head Mode!

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Reviewed by bdavid81
March 03, 2010
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Diner Dash has always been fun, so it wasn't even a doubt that I'd get the Xbox Live release. In Diner Dash, you control Flo, a young waitress working towards a 5 star restaurant.

The game starts out simple with customers entering your diner at a slow pace, allowing you to casually take their orders, deliver to the cook, deliver the food, clear the table, and repeat the process. However, the game quickly progresses to the point where you deal with multiple customers waiting in line, and they're not patient people.

Using various upgrades, you can improve your restaurant to keep people slightly more patient, and keep the tips high. Seats in the restaurants are colored, as are the patrons. Matching these people on specific tables allows you to score higher points to progress in the game. Also, the patrons enter in groups of 2, 3, 4, and sometimes alone. Tables also match this, so if your time management skills are good, you might be able to really rack up the points.

Diner Dash has 4 restaurants in total, and there's a good 10+ hours of play time in the single player. Once you're done with that, or even prior, feel free to jump on Xbox Live and wage tip wars against other players. For 800pts, Diner Dash offers a decent amount of content and a steep challenge to newcomers to the DD series.

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Reviewed by VanIslePimp
December 11, 2009
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I've always been a fan of Diner Dash. Maybe a handful of odd jobs in the past made me think that taking orders, clearing tables, and collecting money for a meaningless job was a lot faster and rewarding if I didn't have to leave my couch. And now I get to earn achievements.

Now I have to say that I would like to apologize for any comments I made about people working in the service business who actually like their job. Before Diner Dash launched for the Xbox LIVE Arcade, I had a chance play the game at the Penny Arcade Expo this past September.

The game plays really well and progressively get harder. The real fun I found was playing the game with a friend or few. It can be a bit frustrating at times, but once you figure out what you are doing, you'll be moving up quickly. Unfortunately, the game is very repetitive and the small changes throughout the game only make it mildly enjoyable in single player.