Top Chef
Action & Arcade Games, Time Management Games November 17th, 2008
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The Top Chef game is a casual game rendition of the famous reality TV show of the same name, where you are pit against other chefs vying for the title of being the best chef of the bunch. We all know that the TV series has garnered quite a following, but will it be the same for the game too? I guess we’ll just see in this review.
The game starts with a story of you joining the TV show Top Chef. You are a newly graduated chef of some cooking school, and in spite of being the top student of your graduating class, you still have no experience in running a restaurant or even getting challenged about your skills. However, all of that is about to change, because now, you are one of the many vying for the ultimate title of being the best chef, and you must survive all the challenges to remain one of the top contenders of the game.
The objective of each level is for you to survive the week and earn the right to keep contending for the Top Chef position. Just like the TV show, you are given a theme to start with on each level, mostly concerning the food’s flavors, texture and visual presentation. Your character in the game will summarize what ingredients will best satisfy the level’s theme and what ingredients go nicely with each other. Afterwards, you’re off to the actual time management game where it is a race against time to cook all of your theme-specific culinary creations.
In the actual game, you prepare ingredients in your preparation table depending on what their themes ask for. An example would be to prepare a white vegetable, a red meat and a spicy add-on to put on your dish. What’s important here is that you’ll need to know what each ingredient’s properties are, and pick the correct ingredient from the counter choices to collect stars for your ending meal.
More stars mean more points, and obviously, that’s where the judges will base on how they rate your food. Earn even more points by achieving time combos and ingredient matches, and basically just go with the flow of the game and you’ll soon realize how irrelevant the game clock is. In fact, I bet you’ll finish this game with no sweat at all, without relying on any skill other than basic knowledge of how food taste and look like.
The graphics of Top Chef is also not at par with other games of this type. The characters act like they are cut from carton boards and there’s not much variety in the judge’s dialogues. The storyline is however adequate to the game’s theme of a young girl wanting to reach her destiny. And the music is very well adapted from the TV series too, just like all of its segments like the Quickfire and Elimination challenges.
All in all, the game is really not worth the buy because there are numbers of better time management games to put into your library of casual titles. Please do try if you really have to, but if you’re like me, I’d better put my time into something else more useful.
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