Video game review: 'Order Up!' good for a while, then grows stale

GAME TITLE: "Order Up!"

PLATFORM: Nintendo Wii

STUDIO: Zoo Games

RATING: E for Everyone

SCORE: 6/10

THE REVIEW

Play the chef in Port A'Bello, one of the most demanding food towns around. Can you please everyone?

In this game, you buy restaurants and cook meals to customers' demanding tastes. Don't burn the fries, make sure that taco's scorching hot, and be sure to wake up that assistant chef!

This game is geared toward the kids (it comes with a cool paper "Burger Face" hat!) with challenges that strangely sucked me into this game. Then I got bored.

Game play: Multitasking is the trick to winning this game, but it takes forever to figure out what people want. They keep asking for spices or sweeteners, but it took me too long to figure out how to do that. The game requires you to move the Wii-mote up and down, turn it side to side, etc., to complete tasks, taking full advantage of the Wii's unique features.

Graphics: The graphics are pretty cool. The characters look like something out of an "Invader Zim" episode.

Audio: Sadly, the soundtrack will drive you slowly insane. The music's the same, the characters' comments are the same. The longer the game goes on, the more grating they become.

THE WRAP-UP

Parent's take: It's a good game that you can give a little kid for a birthday and not feel bad about it. Just don't expect them to scream "AWESOME" and jump up and down.

FINAL WORD: Fun for a while.

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