Cake Mania 3 [Download]

by Sandlot Games

Product Features

• Help Jill With Her Own Wedding.
• All New Power-Ups.
• More Than 30 Hilarious New Customers.
• 6 Brand New Bakeries.

Product Details

• Downloading: Currently, this item is available only to customers located in the United States and who have a U.S. billing address.
• Note: Gifting is not available for this item.
• ASIN: B001MIZND8
• Release Date: October 2, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,438 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #22 in Video Games > Game Downloads > Casual Games > Action
  • #31 in Video Games > Game Downloads > Casual Games > Simulation

Product Description

As Jill prepares for her long anticipated wedding day, disaster strikes when a mysterious time bender crashes to the ground and shatters into pieces. As Jill's family and friends rush to pick up the scattered shards, they are suddenly sent hurtling through time! Now, to ensure her wedding goes off without a hitch, Jill herself must travel to remote periods in time and work her cake-making magic on a wide variety of locals in order to get herself and her guests back before the ceremony begins!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm a Cake Man Through and Through, April 27, 2009

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M. Swartz - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Cake Mania 3 [Download] (Software Download)

I have been a hardcore cake sim fan for years, and nothing had prepared me for what was in store with Cake Mania 3. Cake Mania 2, with the advanced frosting physics and over the top batter mixing, was a game for the ages. Cake Mania 3 just blows 2 out of the water, or should I say out of the oven!. This game introduces incredible mechanics from precision slicing to turn-based layering. A must have for any cake sim fan.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best one so far!, April 11, 2009

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Erika Mahoney "Irish Princess" (Ohio) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Cake Mania 3 [Download] (Software Download)

I have all the Cake Mania games and this one is the best so far! They kind of upgraded the game where now all the characters have a voice, even Jill! It begins with Jill preparing for her wedding day when the timebender (from Cake Mania 2 that sends Jill to the future if you make that choice) gets broken and sends Jill's grandma, grandpa, Jill's friend Risha, Agent Bundt (from Cake Mania 2), Tiny (sumo wrestler from Cake Mania 2) and Jill into the past. You can choose whatever ancient past you want from either Prehistoric Age, Medieval England, Ancient Egypt, Ancient China, and France during the times of Marie Antoinette and Napoleon. After all those levels which get harder you're zapped to the future to play another level.

Another great thing is there's mini games and after you finished the future level you get to design Jill's wedding cake. It's great, addicting, and fun to play over and over. Enjoy!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Even Better than CM II, October 31, 2009

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The Beagle - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Cake Mania 3 [Download] (Software Download)

Since I liked Cake Mania II so much, I had to try Cake Mania III and I wasn't disappointed. Everything about it was better - graphics, game play, characters, equipment, etc.

New twists - you get a 'Sugar Rush' - this causes your equipment to work instantly - once you accumulate enough repeating chains. There are mini-games where you can earn speed powerups (not that I ever remember to use them). Each world has a unique power-up, most of which are very useful. The best change, I thought, is that you don't have to buy every level of upgrade. If you are patient enough, you can save your money and get better equipment. So rather than buying the 600 dollar froster, then the 900 dollar one, you can skip right to the 900 one. But you do have to buy some intermediate level upgrades or you won't make goal so it makes you think about strategy, which is always fun to me.

New characters also add to the challenge. Robin Hood will steal money off the counter if you leave it there; a couple characters will change existing customer orders if you don't wait on them fast enough, and a couple will not allow you to wait on anyone else until you serve them. My favorite character is the green dragon who just orders over and over and over again, but he's really patient so the bucks add up when he comes in.

Negatives: the special power-up in the French world is a cake 'defroster'. Not only does this defroster button appear on all your frosters, taking a frosting color away from you, it also doesn't work, at least not for me. So it really makes things harder, not easier. Because of that, the French world should be played early so it won't cause problems later when you need all your frosters. Also, you can replay a level, but once you leave it you cannot go back and replay it. So if you made goal and want to go back and try for 'superstar' goal, you can only do it for the level you just played.

As for replay value, I have to say "so-so". Once you play enough, the game becomes far too easy. I played it again this week and I blew the superstar goal out of the water on almost every level. It wasn't exactly boring, but it wasn't especially challenging either. I played it several times before I got to this point, though, so it gave me many hours of enjoyment and was well worth the money.