Customer Reviews

Iron Chef America/Supreme Cuisine

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(8)

 

 

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.

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.

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.

Stupid game. So disappointing that Iron Chef has lent it's name to this game. It is terrible. Remedial at best. Perhaps OK for a very young child. Don't waste your $40.

Good game. We have spent many afternoons cooking with the Iron Chefs. Would like to have more than just two players, but still lots of fun. Always competitive to try to get the highest score. Does have limitations, but if you know that it is fun for Wii cooking.

This game is a lot of fun! I purchased it today and have played it for the past couple of hours with my girlfriend. We are both Iron Chef America fans, watching the show whenever it is on TV. This game provides hours of amusing fun preparing various dishes with hilarious announcing from Alton Brown and "The Chairman".

If you enjoy the show and like the wii, then you will love playing this game!

I bought this game for my 50 year old daughter who likes to cook. She found it to be loads of fun, multi-faceted, and addictive. You really have to physically work hard to perform the tasks in creating the dishes. It is very well conceived and she is enjoying it.

I bought this game the day after Christmas and it's fun to play but there isn't much to it. It's the same chop, grill etc. Also no matter what the secret ingriedient is it's always the same dishes with each one. it's ok, I wouldn't say I love or hate it.

My 10 year old daughter received this game for Xmas. She has a real interest in cooking and we though she'd enjoy the "competition". She loves to watch the show & this game allows her to compete with her dad. Both of which like to cook. If you have an interest in doing real cooking, this could be a game for you. If you just like to watch the show, then this game may not be worth the money

I bought this game for my husband for Christmas. We're big fans of Iron Chef and Iron Chef America, but the game was very disappointing. There seems to be no strategy and no choices to make to get ahead. It's on line with a child's game you could play at some website. How fast can you swing the remote to "chop"? It might entertain a child for a few hours, but that's about it.