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Doritos Dash of Destruction proves
that there is a strong connection between Doritos and video games. This title
was chosen the winner of the Doritos Unlock Xbox Contest, the competition
sponsored by the popular tortilla chips maker that challenged people to create
a brand new video game with Xbox Live Arcade potential.
Between late October and November
18, people had the chance to play beta versions of the games that had entered
the final stage of the competition and then to vote for the one they liked
best. And although eating Doritos and playing the games’ beta versions sounds a
little bit silly, it seems that the competition was a tough one: the winning
game was to have a full version developed for Xbox Live Arcade.
Doritos Dash of Destruction’s
idea is simple, as the game features only two characters: a hungry T-Rex
dinosaur and a fast moving truck carrying tons of Doritos. While the dinosaur’s
goal is to eat the Doritos truck, the truck will just try to reach the safety
of a tunnel from the other end of the map. The player could be either the
hungry T-Rex, or the Doritos truck’s driver.
Doritos Dash of Destruction was
developed by a medical software programmer, Mike Borland, who will now see his
game remade and then published for Xbox Live Arcade in the coming months. Borland
and all the other four finalists of the competition won also a trip to
Microsoft, a plasma TV, an Xbox 360 Elite and ten games.
The other four finalists of the
Doritos Unlock Xbox Contest were PB’s Quest for Flavor, Rythum Racing, Monkeys
from Mt. Doritos and Doritos Presents UDC:
Ultimate Dodgeball Champions.
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