{"id":18239,"date":"2018-09-07T00:01:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T00:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=18239"},"modified":"2018-09-07T02:40:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T02:40:17","slug":"overcooked-2-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/07\/overcooked-2-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Overcooked 2 (PS4, Switch, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Last year I reviewed Overcooked<\/strong><\/a>, an action game where you and a bunch of chefs try to prepare food and fill orders in kitchen mazes as fast as possible.\u00a0 It was pretty popular, and definitely one of the better recent indie titles.\u00a0 And now you can have a second helping of culinary fun with Overcooked 2.\u00a0 It features different kitchen mazes and new ways to team up.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on most current game consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

Just as in the first game, you run around 2-D top-down viewed kitchens.\u00a0 Play control is easy.\u00a0 Just use the stick to move and one button for carrying food and another for chopping it.\u00a0 There are two new moves in the sequel.\u00a0 Dash with a burst of speed with the circle button and toss food to another chef with the square button.\u00a0 On certain cabinet tiles are stations where you can do things like pick up ingredients, chop food, cook it in a pot or pan, a place for sending out completed orders, and a sink.\u00a0 Chopping food requires a bit of time, so while one chef does that, another could be doing something else.\u00a0 Cooking food in a pot or pan also takes time, but you have to watch it so that it doesn\u2019t burn.\u00a0 You must also make sure you have plenty of plates to place cooked food on, otherwise you\u2019ll need to take dirty dishes to the sink and wash them.\u00a0 Completed orders will boost your score, and if you can make them fast enough, you\u2019ll earn more points with tips.\u00a0 To pass a stage, you\u2019ll need to earn a certain score to get a star.\u00a0 There are three stars to get in each stage, and you\u2019ll want to collect as many as you can because you must have a certain number of stars to unlock new stages.\u00a0 Each kitchen has a different layout with new obstacles for you to watch out for.\u00a0 In the sequel, you might have to cook on a hot air balloon during a storm, or on a rocking ship, which can change the playfield.\u00a0 And there are many more different obstacles as well!\u00a0 Completed stages will also unlock new playable chefs and other goodies.<\/p>\n

You can play the game single player, and you\u2019ll control two chefs one at a time.\u00a0 So you can take one chef and have him chop food for a while, and then switch to the other chef to do something else.\u00a0 But it\u2019s really hard to earn multiple stars that way.\u00a0 The best way to play is with more people.\u00a0 Up to four can play the main Story Mode, but I was only able to play with one other person because it\u2019s hard for me to get four people at once to come over and play games anymore, and also because I only have one pair of PS4 controllers.\u00a0 With two players, you can divvy out the duties, throw and catch ingredients better, and it\u2019s a bit easier to earn stars on certain stages.\u00a0 But it\u2019s not too easy!\u00a0 There is also an arcade mode, which acts as a quick play where you choose a stage to play one round.\u00a0 There is also a versus mode where up to four players compete to cook the most food.<\/p>\n

Overcooked 2 is extremely fun, but it does have one glaring problem.\u00a0 The game is nearly impossible to play with just one person.\u00a0\u00a0 Especially since in the sequel, you can throw and catch food to each chef.\u00a0 Plus the game is just more of the same (which isn\u2019t always a bad thing).\u00a0 So I can really only recommend this game if you have a lot of family and friends to play it with you.<\/p>\n

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Nothing too violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 The story mode has zombie sliced bread (called Unbread) but it\u2019s more silly than anything. You can fall off ledges and in water in certain kitchen stages, but you just have to wait a few seconds for your chef to respawn.\u00a0 You can also set the kitchen on fire and must use an extinguisher to put out the flames, but it just keeps you from preparing food.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the text, and younger gamers may find it a bit too challenging.\u00a0 But the game does encourage teamwork and multitasking skills. Overcooked 2 is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year I reviewed Overcooked, an action game where you and a bunch of chefs try to prepare food and fill orders in kitchen mazes as fast as possible.\u00a0 It was pretty popular, and definitely one of the better recent indie titles.\u00a0 And now you can have a second helping of culinary fun with Overcooked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18239"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18255,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18239\/revisions\/18255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}