Iron Chef America: Supreme Cuisine

by Destineer

Product Features

• Face off against celebrity chefs Mario Batali, Cat Cora and Masahuru Marimoto under the watchful eye of The Chairman and Alton Brown.
• Featuring 15 theme ingredients and hundreds of dish variations, Supreme Cuisine challenges players to create three to six dishes per battle.
• Step into Kitchen Stadium, compete against world-famous chefs and prepare hundreds of mouth watering food items.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000SH3XHM
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 6, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,175 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: Nintendo DS

Prepare for battle—chop, mix, stir and dice against the greatest chefs the world has ever known in a lightning-paced cooking competition. Iron Chef America: Supreme Cuisine challenges players to take up the role of a master chef in the midst of a battle for culinary supremacy. Recreating the blistering speed of the Food Network's television show, players are presented with epic culinary battles centered on 15 theme ingredients and hundreds of dish variations.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not Much Fun, December 21, 2008

By 

Michelle Strait "gadget lover" (Birmingham, AL) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Iron Chef America/Supreme Cuisine (Video Game)

If you want a fun cooking game DO NOT buy Iron Chef America. This is one of the most repetitive and boring cooking games I've ever played. I rank it at the bottom of the cooking game genre.

It seems like every dish has the exact same steps. If you've completed one dish, you've completed them all. There's no variety. And there's no explanation as to how the judges make their decision. They just either like a dish or hate it. How do they make their decision? Who knows. There's no logic to it at all.

Then when you finish cooking, you have to plate your dishes. But this seems to have no effect at all on your score. It's just another pointless part of the game.

This game is a big disappointment. It received 2 stars because of the good graphics. Too bad the developers put more care into the graphics than into gameplay.

I enjoy the original Iron Chef, and hoped this game would live up to its name. But no. I should have left this one where it was. It was fun for about 30 minutes, but then I realized it was a waste of money. I collect Nintendo DS cooking games, but this one is getting traded-in at Gamestop.

I repeat: If you want a fun cooking game DO NOT buy Iron Chef America.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars worst cooking game ever, March 31, 2009

By 

Mandi (Virginia) - See all my reviews

= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Iron Chef America/Supreme Cuisine (Video Game)

I am one of Cooking Mama's biggest fans, and on an impulse I purchased Iron Chef Supreme Cuisine for DS to take with me on a long road trip. I was hoping for similar entertainment to Cooking Mama, and I did indeed get the same game concept out of this game, just not near the same enjoyment...or any enjoyment...at all.

In Iron Chef you can compete on a career level or quick challenges. You start by selecting your competition (based on difficulty) and then a secret ingredient (in the career mode the secret ingredient is selected for you). Next you create your menu by choosing which dishes you're going to do. Then the challenge begins and you're off performing various cooking tasks such as chopping, grinding, frying, etc...to compose your dishes.

Now, how is this different from Cooking Mama you say? Well, first off, while in the challenge you have no indication whatsoever of what dish you're on. All tasks for each dish are thrown at you in one long sequence. So once you're done chopping onion, you go on to chop more onion, and you may do that two or three times before you get a different task.

Also, the dishes are all the same no matter which secret ingredient you do. I had assumed that each secret ingredient would introduce new dishes, but nope, the dishes are mostly repeated from previous challenges, and they just incorporate the new secret ingredient. For example, in the venison challenge you'll have "venison hamburgers" whereas in the boar challenge you'll have "boar hamburgers". Same dish, same tasks, different secret ingredient. The game almost seems deceiving stating that there are hundreds of dish variations, but in all actuality the dishes are repeated and it's up to the player to choose which dishes to put on their menu. Within the first three theme ingredients you will have already made the majority of the dishes that the game has to offer.

One thing that drove me crazy about this game was that the movements that you make with your stylus to perform the tasks is never consistent. You could slice perfectly in one task, and do it EXACTLY the same way in the next slicing task and the game tells you you've failed. It's either not calibrated right or the game just randomly selects your achievement of performance. I think it's most likely the prior.

The game does offer goals for which you can earn awards and medals for various achievements, such as performing 50 boiling tasks, or beating the top three career chefs. But I got about halfway through this game and sold it because I was too frustrated with how erratic the game was at scoring my performance.

I really think this game is not worth the money and is a waist of time. There are so many other good cooking-style games for the DS, I encourage anyone considering purchasing this game to select something else.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Too Easy., December 28, 2008

By 

Danielle Bray "Zerataku" (McMinnville, TN USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Iron Chef America/Supreme Cuisine (Video Game)

This is, by far, my favorite DS game so far, but it's too easy. I beat all challengers in just one day, except for the chairman of course, whom I have failed to still not beat yet.

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