Game Review by Cynthia Heard
Game Rating = 4/5 Balls
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Ready for more high speed cake decorating? Then hold on to your chef’s hat, because Cake Mania 3 is here!
The Time Bender has flung Jill’s family back in time, and it’s your job to find and rescue them. Bake cakes to please the people in each era and retrieve your lost loved ones.
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Game play for this third installment of Cake Mania is identical to the first two games: take the orders and then bake, frost, and decorate the cakes as quickly as possible. Keep your customers happy and they’ll pay you well, but if you’re too slow they’ll leave and take their money with them.
Although basic game play remains the same, the producers of Cake Mania 3 (Sandlot Games) have added a few innovative elements to set this game apart from the others. Three bonus mini games can be found on each stage. There are also two new items to help you serve your customers better: a phone for taking to go orders and a drink machine so your customers can buy coffee, tea, and hot cocoa.
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The most creative (and maddening) change to the game has to do with how the customers relate to each other. Certain customers can forbid you to serve other customers until you have completed their order first and some will even cause the other customers’ orders to change if you don’t serve them fast enough. This can leave you scrambling to redo orders and trying to figure out what to do with the cakes you’ve already started. These elements ramp up the difficulty of Cake Mania 3, making it quite a bit more challenging than the previous versions of the game.
The sounds in Cake Mania 3 aren’t anything spectacular, but they are very fitting for the game. Most of them are intended to alert you to something (a train whistle sound means a customer is tired of waiting, a “ting” means a cake is ready, etc.), so it’s a good idea to memorize what each sound means.
Each level in the game has different background music. It’s fairly pleasant, but for some reason the initial volume is noticeably louder than most video games I’ve played. It startled me the first time I played the game.
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The graphics in Cake Mania 3 are sharper and clearer than the graphics in the other Cake Mania games. You’re travelling through time, so you’ll come across many new and interesting characters, all of which are drawn very well. The rich colors, attention to detail, and the characters’ fun animations really enhance the game’s visual appeal.
I give Cake Mania 3 a 4/5. I have the full game, and I think it was worth the money. It’s a lot of fun, and much more challenging than the former versions. Honestly, I’ve found myself failing levels more than I’d care to admit. Losing makes me sour sometimes, but I still think Cake Mania 3 is pretty sweet.
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System Requirements
OS: Windows XP Windows Vista
Memory: 512 MB
DirectX: 10.0 or later
CPU: P 1.0GHz
Sandlot Game created The Cake Mania series including this game.
