The days of the Restaurant Empires are one of my favourite historical periods. Napoleon, the soux-chef-slaughterer dominating most of Europe with his innovative French cuisine. Wellington’s boot-like beef really couldn’t compare for the longest period. And oh! the meaty-chaos which Blucher wrought in the kitchen. Anyway, following on from other great games in the period like Empire: Totally Stuffed and Age of Omelettes III comes Restaurant Empire 2, which has a just-under-500Mb demo available for you to download and play. You’ll find an old trailer from about a year ago below to give you a – aha! – taste. Remember: When life gives you cannons, make cannonade.
Okay. It’s a management game.
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Sounds tasty.
Restaurants: Total War?
All the generals would be celebrity chefs. Conquer Gaul with a restaurant chain lead by Gordon Ramsey!
Iron Wok Jan is the best Manga ever. Endless scenes of the old mentor chef gaping at the supremely arrogant Jan; “he’s using… pigeon blood in the dessert?!”
Careful how you use the word ‘gaping’ there, especially around Manga. And Keiron.
Surely Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse were known for being famous Sioux-chefs?
this is what i wanted to happen when the Sims went to work in the Sims 3…
Cannonade LMAO, I pee myself.
I award this article Puntasticiest Article of the Day.
@Gap Gen
Maybe the best pun I’ve heard this decade. Applause.
LMAO, I missed Gap Gen’s Pun, thanks Marshall ^_^ Yes that is fantastic. I’m surprised I’ve never heard that before (maybe I did hear it but didn’t know what a soux-chief was until I saw Hell’s Kitchen ;P)
@ Gap Gen
Bravo :D
I was aided by the mis-spelling of sous chef in the original article.
I find it funny how a tycoon game demo has me way more excited than batman asylum.
oh well.
I could totally go for some Age of Omelettes III right about now.
I couldn’t help but notice on the download page that Restaurant Empire 2 is immediately followed by:
Order of War
Hearts of Iron 3
Are these add-ons, or DLC?
Somehow these newer build-up sims aren’t as fun as they used to be. I loved Pizza Tycoon, where you could literally make a whole pizza from scratch and things like that. But since then, sims got grayer, more streamlined and less self-ironic. Less fun, basically. Oh, the good old times.
Might give this a try. Maybe it’s a little more fun than the first part. After all, I’m glad that games like this are still made at all, so I probably should support them…