Iron Chef America/Supreme Cuisine

by Destineer

• Square off in the Kitchen Stadium to battle towards a final showdown
• Enjoy celebrity talent with Mario Batali, Cat Cora, Masahuru Morimoto and more
• Use the Wii remote to chop, stir, mince and fry your way through lighting-paced culinary challenges
• 15 different theme ingredients and hundreds of exotic dishes for endless variety
• Add a family member or friend for a head-to-head cook-off, or cooperative play

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000SH3XI6
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: December 2, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,165 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #49 in Video Games > Wii > Games > Simulation > Life
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: Nintendo Wii

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You better start preparing for battle now if you want to stand a chance in Destineer's new Iron Chef America: Supreme Cuisine for the Nintendo Wii. Recreating all the blistering speed and intense action of the Food Network's hit television show, players will be faced with epic culinary battles centered around special theme ingredients and hundreds of exotic dish variations.

Play as world-famous chefs or create your own avatar. View larger.

You'll face epic culinary battles centered around theme ingredients and exotic dish variations. View larger.

Make your way through the gauntlet of master chefs and impress the discriminating judges. View larger.

Square off in the Kitchen Stadium and battle through a series of lighting-paced culinary challenges. View larger.

Take Up the Role of Master Chef
In Iron Chef America: Supreme Cuisine players square off in the Kitchen Stadium and battle through a series of lighting-paced culinary challenges. Victory won't be easy, but each one advances players towards a final showdown that will ultimately take place to determine who will reign supreme as the next Iron Chef America. But to get there you must make your way through the gauntlet of master chefs and impress the discriminating judges with their discerning and sometimes downright harsh judgement.

Enjoy the Amazing Talent
Celebrity chefs Mario Batali, Cat Cora, and Masahuru Morimoto have loaned not only their likenesses to the game, but their voices as well. Under the watchful eye of The Chairman and Alton Brown, players can play as these world-famous chefs but eventually must face off against them. Either way, your contest will be narrated by the host, and martial arts master, Mark Dacascos himself.

Participate in Awesome Culinary Battles
You may be used to grandma calmly whipping up a family dinner, but anybody who has seen the show knows that this won't be a lazy day in the kitchen. Iron Chef America: Supreme Cuisine challenges players to complete several dishes simultaneously using the Wii remote as your cooking tools. Be ready to chop, stir, mince, fry and more, sometimes frantically trying to do several things at once, all while keeping your eye on that all-important clock! Featuring 15 different theme ingredients, gamers will have to create and combine from three to six separate, mouth-watering dishes from hundreds of possible combinations to move onward in competition.

Users can even move beyond the game's chefs to play with their friends and family. Add another player and challenge them in a head-to-head cook-off, or decide to work together for a true melding of two culinary masters! No matter how you slice it, Iron Chef America: Supreme Cuisine will provide you with challenges and fun for hour after hour.

Iron Chef America: Supreme Challenge features likeness of Cat Cora, Masahuru Morimoto, Mark Dacascos, Alton Brown, and Mario Batali. View larger.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

74 of 76 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Cooking Games - and Iron Chef America December 14, 2008

By Biographical_Book_Lover

Platform for Display:Nintendo Wii

Fun: 2.0 out of 5 stars   

I am a middle aged tech savvy woman who has fun with cooking games for the Wii (along with Wii Fit, Wii Sports, etc etc.)

In my view, Order Up! is the best cooking game because it remains more interesting due to the various levels you attain over time and earning "coin" to buy better restaurants. The spicing up of dishes keeps your brain busy. And the various characters you serve are picky, choosy and sophoricially hilarious. Don't make one vomit! Seriously.

Cooking Mama is way too cartoonish...the voice of Mama will drive you to drink. It is a fun game on a certain level as you get to work with a variety of base foods from all types of countries (squid, shrimp, meats, veggies, etc) but the graphics would give a dead person a seizure. Really, really crazy graphics. Lots of pinks and greens and blues and yellows...yikes! But I think it has it's niche.

I preordered Iron Chef America - Supreme Cuisine and received it very quickly via amazon.com. Graphics are pretty cool (like when you filet a fish or chop shrimp or grind Kobe beef or chop onions). Also, there are 15 "base foods" that you work with, and then roughly 10 "menu items" for each base food (like Kobe beef - and then you can make a Kobe Beef burger) What is weak about the game (unless I'm just not finding it yet) is:

1) There appears to be no rhyme or reason for the competitions and judging. The plating of the food, for example...vague at best.

2) Little control over what you can do with the food. You basically chop, slice, flatten, grind, boil, grate, pressure cook, saute, etc. and nothing else. It's very elementary. Really elementary. Yawn.

3) No spicing of foods from a bank of spices you choose from (as with Order Up!).

4) No way to control how you plate your food. The base foods are basically laid on the plate and then you get two different "flair herbs/foods" (olives, mint, parsley, lemon) to place on the plate to finish up your play. Boring.

5) It can be fun to play with another person, but when you play with the various colorful pre-programmed chefs, they have virtually no interaction with you while you are banging out your dishes. Yawn.

5b) The judges just repeat themselves.

This game is fun if you want to just interact with the nicely done graphics and maybe have an alternate to reading or watching a movie, but I would say they could have done a heck of a lot more to make this far more interesting, and I hope they will in the future.

Not worth the price.

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing... December 28, 2008

By M. Gregory

Platform for Display:Nintendo Wii

Fun: 1.0 out of 5 stars   

I had waited with much anticipation for this game. My boyfriend and I are fans of the tv show so I thought this would make a great holiday gift for us. Although there were no reviews posted when I purchased it, I reviewed the graphics and the descritpion and thought it sounded great! Now, I did not expect the reincarnation of the tv show, but it is NOTHING like I had expected.

The graphics and sound effects are great. I like the secret ingredients and menu choices-true to the show. Thats where the positives end for me. The motions involved in preparing the dishes are repetitive and so boring- as are the judges!! There is no skill involved. When you are plating the food, you are not even given the option of how to do so as they have it maped out for you and the console will not allow you to do so otherwise. The only items you are allowed to plate yourself are any garnishes the dish has. Whoopie!

I thought that the game would require a little bit a skill and creativity. I was very wrong and very disappointed. Definitely not worth the money.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Do not buy this game January 19, 2009

By R. lee

Platform for Display:Nintendo Wii

Fun: 1.0 out of 5 stars   

My credentials: I'm a casual gamer, a graphic designer, and a home chef. My girlfriend and I bought this on a whim at Best Buy today because we thought it would be fun for both of us and we could do it together. 10 minutes into playing the game it became very clear that we had done everything that the game offered and we were right. It was the same boring thing over and over and over and over and over. To make things worse, the extreme amateur aspect of game development came screaming through in the fact that there is no animation. Still frames of poorly rendered characters fade into each other in ways that don't even really match the dialog.

I feel bad that Alton Brown actually did the "commentary" on the game but he seems to have been shilling himself out pretty hard lately. So if you ever watch the show and thought that the way the chairman yells "alle cuisine" is the best part of the show (every step is preceeded by the chairman yelling the action you're about to attempt)you still might even get tired of it.

This game has no replay value, I've seen better flash games online.