Now, players with reading and sight difficulties are catered for somewhat by the ability to increase the text size and change the font to a dyslexic friendly print. Though the DualSense implementation in regards to the haptic feedback and adaptive triggers is pretty neat.Īnother more subtle improvement are the new accessibility options that have been bolted onto the experience. For starters, Overcooked! All You Can Eat supports cross-platform play and voice chat across all of its game content – allowing you to pit your cooking abilities against folks on other platforms greatly widening the pool of potential players as a result.ĭespite the great value offering on display here, Overcooked! All You Can Eat sadly doesn’t bring much in the way of new content and neither does it make the most of the PS5 hardware. It’s hardly ideal to say the least and it also completely cuts out the superb ragey fun you get from when playing with friends and some dolt forgets to wash any dishes in time.īeyond the massively stacked content offering that Overcooked! All You Can Eat brings to the table there are a number of smaller, more easily missed improvements that have been made here too.
Should you be foolish enough to play by yourself, both Overcooked! and Overcooked 2! have you doing everything yourself and then simply tapping the L1 button to switch over to another chef in the kitchen to perform a different task while the first chef is busy doing chopping or whatever. Perhaps the other important thing to mention about Overcooked! All You Can Eat is that the game is pretty much engineered to be played with friends – either locally or online. The hundreds of different levels that you’ll test your culinary skills across never fail to impress with their innovative hazards. As such, the immense satisfaction that you get for completing an especially hard stage is something that cannot really be understated. Ranging from scorching volcanos, to iced islands in the middle of Antarctica to a pair of kitchens suspended atop two separately moving vehicles, every level presents a unique challenge that must be overcome in addition to the usual wealth of more everyday issues that are encountered in the earlier stages of both Overcooked! games. But wait! There’s even more to worry about beyond such seemingly mundane concerns.Īrguably one of the most compelling aspect of both Overcooked! games is the wide variety of distinctly over the top levels in which players will be expected to carry out their culinary duties. That’s just the tip of the iceberg though, as there are a wide range of hazards which must be accounted for and avoided such as burning pots of food which are left on the stove too long (and so require a good old bit of fire extinguisher action) and even just bumping into your fellow chef in the middle of busy kitchen.
Look how happy this little dude is that he’s managed to prepare this lovely meal! Trust me though, there was almost certainly an epic amount of rage and gnashing of teeth to get there though. As such, this requires the sort of micro-management that makes red-faced, screaming Gordon Ramsey level culinary tyrants from even the most meek and amiable members of your friends and family. The problem is however, doing so, especially in the later levels, is anything but simple.Įssentially a masterclass of micro-management and anger management, preparing the required meals in time requires vegetables to be chopped, meat to be seared, ingredients to be cooked and, of course, plates to be cleaned. The more dishes you prepare the more score you get, which in turn is converted into a star rating that lets you proceed on through the game.
As one of a number of different chefs that span everything from ghosts to cats, dogs, crocodiles and just about anything else you can think of in-between, the goal is simple – you must prepare the dishes that the customer wants to eat as quickly as possible.