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Everything is rounded out nicely with new playable chefs and skins, new accessibility options, including colour-blind friendly indicators, dyslexia-friendly text, and a scalable UI. New and less experienced players are also well catered to with an Assist Mode that helps lessen the stress of the gameplay with increased round timers and scoring, which is an awesome feature for added inclusivity.

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There’s also an Arcade mode to play a randomized level from a set of kitchen themes, as either a traditional co-operative match (achieve the highest score as a team) or a Versus match (against each other), with full local and online support.

Speaking of modes, Overcooked! All You Can Eat lets you tackle each game’s campaigns and DLC in traditional Story mode (traverse through world maps each with their own levels and hidden stages), Survival (each dish served adds more time) and Practice (play as much as you want with no time limit). All of this added sharpness and snappiness is brought together with a unified menu that makes accessing modes, changing chefs and settings super easy. The overhaul of the first game’s humorous apocalyptic opening and once budget-looking worlds, in particular, looks far more vibrant. Highly stylised party games like Overcooked aren’t typically the kind of titles you tend to obsess over areas like graphics or performance, but I was quite impressed with the visual spectacle and smoothness of gameplay while playing co-op with my friends. I reloaded numerous levels after a disastrous start to a cook, jumped into several random arcade rounds, and tested online matches – all loaded in a breeze.

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There’s a jump to 60fps gameplay at crispy 4K resolution for those with the televisions to enjoy it, and the game wisely leverages the snappy SSDs of the PlayStation 5 (and Xbox Series X) to load everything in a few seconds. There are less new additions or changes made for the sequel in this next-gen re-packaging, but it’s honestly not needed compared to its predecessor, as the only area it arguably required a spruce up in was the graphics department.Īppropriately, the presentation and visual enhancements made for both games is top-notch. The second game is just over two years old, but it still holds up incredibly well across gameplay, content and aesthetic (and is my personal favourite). It also brings all-new online functionality the first game lacked online co-op completely, making this a welcome addition for players who can’t always make the usual couch co-op session (which is still the best) a reality.

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Now to the changes: Overcooked! All You Can Eat overhauls the first Overcooked completely using the second game’s more robust game engine, which brings a considerable graphical upgrade that looks far more colourful and full of personality than the original offering. The DLC (for Overcooked 2 in particular) is where the gameplay shines most, as it offers tons of extra variety by continuously introducing new concepts the Night of the Hangry Horde tasks you with feeding monstrous Unbread (heh) who bash down on the kitchen walls similar to a tower defense level, while Campfire Cook Off mixes camping capers with new mechanics like chopping food for the fire and wearable backpacks that hold ingredients – and make for particularly entertaining co-op shenanigans. The kitchens (levels) and the orders start simple, but soon you’ll be cooking and serving lavish food in flying ships, across moving rivers and amongst pedestrian-filled streets all of these obstacles keep gameplay fresh, challenging and fun across a few hundred levels worth of crazy kitchens to master, organized into colourful, themed worlds – think pirate ships, jungles, and haunted mansions. It’s a simple concept that’s made addictive by its emphasis on steady teamwork and communication between the players, and amplified by increasingly complex and wacky scenarios you’ll face.

The aim is to score as high a rank as possible out of three (and later, four) stars, which isn’t always easy. Each order requires a few steps to get right, like cutting vegetables, boiling rice and rolling them all together into a nori wrap to serve tasty sushi, before they can be plated and served. For those unfamiliar with the series, Overcooked puts up to four players in the role of a chef who is tasked with preparing, cooking and serving a series of meal orders as fast as possible.

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