'Doritos Dash of Destruction' coming to XBLA (unfortunately)

by Scott Jon Siegel { Nov 19th 2007 at 3:30PM }

The finalists were played, the votes were tallied, and only one of the five weaksauce Doritos flash titles would be turned into an actual, factual Xbox Live Arcade title, thanks to Doritos' Unlock Xbox Competition. Announced today was the official winner: Mike Borland will be taking his game concept, Doritos Dash of Destruction, to Ninjabee Studios to be turned into a fully-working XBLA game.

Dash of Destruction has players taking on the role of either a T-Rex or a Doritos truck, in a race around a city to see who can win: the Doritos truck (by making it safely out of the city) or the T-Rex (by eating the Doritos truck). The concept is cute, but the execution on the Unlock Xbox website is practically unplayable.

Like the other four finalists, the Flash-based demo of the game was developed by advergame studio Blockdot. Clearly Blockdot had a lot on its plate while developing these demos, as they all suffer from numerous glitches and other results of rushed coding. It's clear that voting must have been based more on the concepts than the final games. Here's hoping Ninjabee -- whose previous titles include Outpost Kaloki X, Eets, and Band of Bugs -- can turn Doritos Dash of Destruction into something a bit more polished.

Tags: advergaming, blockdot, doritos, microsoft, ninjabee, xbla

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

FrankTheCrank @ Nov 19th 2007 3:42PM

Isn't LIVE something you pay for?

Microsoft is making money on the subscribers and advertising folks. Nice.

no @ Nov 19th 2007 4:31PM

Xbox Live silver is free and would enable you to download this game, along with game demos.

Synner @ Nov 19th 2007 4:31PM

Yeah, it's amazing how businesses work. Magazines do this too OMFG it's a conspiracy!!!!!

Douche bag

Princess Skittles @ Nov 19th 2007 3:45PM

Yaris, Shrek and now this. Wow.

Xbox Live Arcade, R.I.P.

*ports a forty for the departed*

Sam406 @ Nov 19th 2007 3:55PM

God forbid any console/game service gets more than 3 bad games then they automaticaly become complete suck! /sarcasm

What ARE you talking about?

Does newgrounds start sucking if it gets more than 3 bad games? does the wii? or the PS3?

I really hope you comment wasn't serious, because if it was, then boy are you miss informed.

BlackBeltJones @ Nov 19th 2007 3:43PM

I played all 5 games, none of them were that great. Aegis Wing is a much more fun example of XNA in action than any of those 5 were.

samfish @ Nov 19th 2007 3:45PM

Man, between this, the Yaris advergame and M&Ms Kart Racing, I have to many games to play!

rTwelve @ Nov 19th 2007 3:54PM

Live free, snack strong!

Sam406 @ Nov 19th 2007 3:57PM

Your comment should have been called "Snack strong 4" anyways

gonk @ Nov 19th 2007 7:26PM

a colbert nacho cheesier game would've been awesome

StarFoxA @ Nov 20th 2007 9:23PM

Wow, that's really hard to control.

MD/V @ Nov 19th 2007 3:58PM

Look. A nut.

Sam406 @ Nov 19th 2007 4:00PM

But is it a nut you can play OUTSIDE?

Nick the Hero of Canton @ Nov 19th 2007 3:59PM

Hail to the Cheese Stephen Colbert's Nacho Cheese Doritos 2008 Presidential Campaign... Coverage

xXFenixKnightXx @ Nov 19th 2007 4:08PM

This is poop I tell ya!
100% grade A poop!
Uhhhh yea, so are there any easy achievements? lolz!

Kidding BTW

Ranko @ Nov 19th 2007 4:17PM

Stop dodging the bullet and make me a game about Dinosaurs with lasers.

Dracula Jones @ Nov 19th 2007 4:25PM

Ninjabee's made some pretty great XBLA games. Cloning Clyde was one of my favorite games of 2006. As terrible as any game based on nachos should be, maybe they can turn into something decent.

Truckondo @ Nov 19th 2007 4:33PM

I hope it has the Blazing Buffalo Ranch Doritos. Those are tasty.

Synner @ Nov 19th 2007 4:37PM

Come on guys, maybe this was more of a way to try to get people interested in the idea of making games for XBLA. Just think, maybe they figured attaching a contest to it (albeit a dumb one) would get people out there Thinking about XNA.

For instance, maybe one of those places like digipen would use it as a learning tool, home coders might use it, the game designer that can't get published because he's not making an average FPS, or Tomb Raider clone, who knows?

Although really, MS is doing some stupid advertising shit, but edison had hundreds of failures no one remembers before making a light bulb, maybe they'll hit upon something cool.

mr nimblewick (SegaDF - Jogurt Ring) @ Nov 19th 2007 4:52PM

The only people this is going to encourage is more advertisers. Advergamers?

Deck @ Nov 19th 2007 4:48PM

Approaching SOUND BARRIER!

WiNG @ Nov 19th 2007 5:01PM

LOOK, A NUT!

Grant @ Nov 19th 2007 4:57PM

Advergames FTW!!!

this sucked.
we can pretend it's because we tried it with a keyboard and not a joypad... but no.
just terrible.

Shockgamer @ Nov 19th 2007 5:14PM

If Advergames kept advertisements out of the games I wanted to play, I'd be totally fine with this; except that don't. They just give me more crappy games to avoid on top of games I want to play with ads in them.

It's sad that you can't even turn to videogames anymore to get away from this junk. If it isn't some super fantasy land where pimping Burger King doesn't make sense, you can be prepared to hear about Scions and Doritos at ever street turn.