Having it my way.

A few years ago Burger Team teamed up with Microsoft and came up with three Burger King themed games for the XBox 360. At BK you could get a combo and for an addition $5 you could one of these games. Two trips ago in Cranbrook I picked up Big Bumpin', the bumper car game, from Giant Tiger and ended up ordering Sneak King, the ultimate stealth game, from Giant Tiger online. Since I'm part OCD I had to get the third game to complete my collection, that and the final game PocketBike Racer was supposed to be the best one.

The first BK game I got was Big Bumpin' and I hate it! I totally sucked at this game and played it for 15 minutes max. I bought it for $5 and thought I'd give it a try for the achievements, but after my 15 mins with it I gave up without unlocking a single achievement. A lot of the achievements are online and nobody plays it online...at all! I also had major problems with the controls and my bumper car not going where I wanted it to go. I won maybe one race and that's only because I got lucky. The rest of the time I just lost very badly. Onto the shelf!

My second BK game which is like Metal Gear Solid where instead of Solid Snake you are the King and instead of killing people you sneak around surprising hungry people with delicious Burger King meals. People have a blue cone of vision in front of them which you have to stay out of it. You can simply sneak up on people and hide in barrels, piles of leaves, or the back of trucks and jump out to surprise hungry people for more points. Once you present a meal you can present with a flourish meter and the high the flourish the more points you score. I played Sneak King for probably 20 minutes and actually managed to unlock a couple achievements. Still it requires a lot time to complete all the missions and achievements. Hiding and waiting for hungry people to walk by and sneaking around requires too much patience and that is something I don't have.

Finally, there is PocketBike Racer and this one I actually played and put a few hours on time into. I ended up getting this on eBay and about week after I ordered it I saw it a HMV. Damn! Anyway, what's not to like about a game that involves racing pocket bikes with The King and Whopper Jr? You also get to race as BK mascots Subservient Chicken and Brooke Burke. Brooke Burke is a BK mascot? Who is Brooke Burke? You can pick from 50 cc, 100 cc and 150 cc bikes and race them through four different game modes on five different tracks. It is similar to Mario Kart as you can fill up a weapon gauge/boost bar to use weapons on other racers. Of course it's nowhere as good as Mario Kart, but for what it is (cheap!), it's fun. Although it can be frustrating to get hung up on things like traffic cones. Since when are traffic cones immovable objects? I hung in with the game long enough to unlock all offline achievements. You can play online, but NOBODY is on there, so it's pretty useless.

I just picked up these games just for the cheese factor and the hopes of boosting my gamer score a little bit. I wouldn't recommend Big Bumpin' or Sneak King, but I found PocketBike Racer fun enough. Although, Cody laughs at these games and wouldn't even think about tarnishing his gamer score with any of them. Now that these are out of the way, it's on to another advergame, Doritos Dash of Destruction. It's got dinosaurs and monster trucks, so I'm loving it already. Plus it's free! Cam I know you love Burger King and Doritos, so you need to XBox 360. Also, I need someone to play PocketBike Racer online with, I'll even give you Cody's old one. Thanks buddy!