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By Marc Saltzman
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Fun slicing arcade game is like Fruit Ninja with a twist.
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Food Processing
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What's It About?
Kids slice fruits and vegetables, crack nuts, and pop peas as food moves down a conveyer belt. Each food must be handled in a specific manner -- tapping once to pop out beans or twice to crack nuts; slicing eggplant just under the stem, and cutting corn in equal segments. Players must be careful to avoid rotten or moldy food, and higher scores reward speed. Players can unlock more advanced levels, and the game tracks high scores.
Is It Any Good?
In the aptly named Food Processing (and Food Processing HD for iPad) players cut fruits, vegetables, and nuts using their fingertips as the food whizzes by on a conveyor belt. It's similar in concept to the popular Fruit Ninja game, except each item must be handled in a specific way – such as quartering a squash, slicing an eggplant near its stem, breaking open a walnut, or quickly tapping three peas in a pod. Leave the rotten food, create combos for extra points, and unlock new foods and conveyor belts for an added challenge (and have your scores posted to an online leaderboard to show off your prepping skills to the world). The unlockable Hell's Kitchen mode is super fast and intense for "seasoned" players. What it lacks in originality it makes up for in frantic, fruity fun.
App Details
- Devices : iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad
- Subjects : Hobbies : cooking
- Skills : Health & Fitness : fine motor skills
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- Release date : February 24, 2011
- Genre : Arcade Games
- Publisher : Chillingo Ltd.
- Version : 1.0
- Minimum software requirements : iOS 3.0 or later
- Last updated : November 11, 2020
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