Cook or Be Cooked -- quite an ominous subtitle to a Food Network game for Wii, no? Fortunately, the only thing potentially dangerous we spotted in our hands-off demo of Food Network: Cook or Be Cooked was a scolding by silly-looking caricatures of the network's personalities.
To be honest, it wasn't the thought of learning to prepare food properly via a video game that intrigued us. We just had to check out a cooking game by Red Fly, developer of Mushroom Men and the upcoming Wii version of Ghostbusters: The Video Game. That and the title is slated to utilize Wii MotionPlus -- but it wasn't doing so at the event.
The brief demo we watched took place inside a nicely realized virtual kitchen, with the demoer following steps on a recipe card to make steak and mashed potatoes. The former required the proper oven temperature (turn the Wiimote to twist the knob, naturally) and frying pan handling. The steak was left in the oven too long, causing the kitchen to fill with smoke. Potatoes had to be cut with small chopping motions and, later, pulverized by holding the Wiimote vertically and mashing away.
More of a simulation than the arcade fun of Cooking Mama, Food Network: Cook or Be Cooked could easily be renamed "Learning to Cook Without Ruining Real Ingredients." Now, if you'll excuse us, we have some bacon to waggle.
Reader Comments (17)
Posted: Apr 30th 2009 6:52AM squeehunter said
For how little is actually going on on screen at once, I would turn up the graphics up to "bitchin' " for this if I made it. Graphics definetly don't matter in this kind of game but I mean, you could totally go to town if you wanted to.
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Posted: Apr 30th 2009 8:28AM AntiVillian said
"pulverized by holding the Wiimote vertically and mashing away."
It's not what it looks like mum I was mashing virtual potatoes i swear!
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It's not what it looks like mum I was mashing virtual potatoes i swear!
Posted: Apr 30th 2009 9:32AM RobS the 3rd said
This could revolutionize the Cooking School world.
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Posted: Apr 30th 2009 9:42AM (Unverified) said
yea between this and mvc2 for the psn, im selling my wii today
byebye nintendo im done with you
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byebye nintendo im done with you
Posted: Apr 30th 2009 10:46AM (Unverified) said
That's real smart, considering that it's illegal to own more than one console. Oh, wait...
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Posted: Apr 30th 2009 3:29PM (Unverified) said
Enjoy your console loss and I WANNA TAKE YOU FOR A RIDE.
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Posted: Apr 30th 2009 10:48AM mr nimblewick said
But they still follow the cooking mama formula of "choose recipe, follow steps." I really wish I could play a cooking game that is "choose ingredients, here's a kitchen, do what you want."
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Posted: Apr 30th 2009 4:33PM Betogalado said
another crap made for nintendo
way to go nintendooo
woohooo
keep retard!
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way to go nintendooo
woohooo
keep retard!
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