Cooking Mama 2 on menu

By Robert Purchese Published 9 August, 2007

Fresh Wii and DS dishes.

505 Games has announced it will be bringing two more Cooking Mama games to Europe.

It's the sequel to the culinary concoction from earlier in the year, which challenges you to create increasingly difficult dishes from scratch. This means chopping and preparing your ingredients as well as seasoning them correctly and generally cooking a meal.

The new version will have more recipes, twice as many mini-games, and a new multiplayer mode where you can challenge your friends to a "cook off". Although there's no food to eat at the end, unless you gobble-up your controller.

The DS version came first in late 2006, with the Wii version following in May this year. But while Cooking Mama sounded fantastic as a concept, in practice it was a little shallow, short and clumsy. If Japanese developer Office Create can polish up on its weak points this time, it could be the cook book you've been waiting for.

Head over to our Cooking Mama DS and Wii reviews for more information.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (15) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • robg #1 5 years ago

    No comment.

  • HiddenAway #2 5 years ago

    I hope they get rid of the annoying speaker of the Wii version. That really annoyed me...

  • bengray66 #3 5 years ago

    Wow that means someone actually purchased the original.........

  • Der_tolle_Emil #4 5 years ago

    If you mean the 'someone' who pushed the game in the top 10 selling games for the week a couple of times, then yes.

  • consignia #5 5 years ago

    The original was a nice idea, but so poorly executed (at least the DS version). The controls were quite restrictive to exactly what you had to for each task. If this games offers a bit more freedom, it may be worth a play.

  • Arnold__ #6 5 years ago

    This reminds me why I have stopped reading any DS or Wii news coverage, however I couldnt resist the title 'cooking mama'. It boggles the mind how one can get excited about this. What age bracket is this aimed at? Expanding the market by moving the focus from kids to toddlers? This is not a game, and this is not 'expanding the market'. I still believe that gaming is getting dumbed down and pretty soon this will be all thats available. Gears of War this certainly aint.

  • rock27gr #7 5 years ago

    "Gears of War this certainly aint."

    No shit, Sherlock!

  • sniglet #8 5 years ago

    Are you called Gears gaming Shakespeare then? Oh dear, the standards of some people ...

    Couldn't you think of a better example of quality "next-gen" (heh) gaming than that (admittedly great fun and well-made) generic shooter?

    ;)

  • indian23 #9 5 years ago

    LOL WII IS SHIT

  • afghan_jones #10 5 years ago

    its certainly not shakespeare but neither is it generic.

    Its got a very nice cover mechanic, funky reloads, lots of close quarters combat and a tight little multiplayer that relies hevily on communication and teamwork.

    Most 'generic shooters' are FPS, have no cover, have lots of mid-long range shooting plus 16 man deathmatch or if it is team based, its rarely necessary to talk to win.

    Id say a generic shooter would be something more like 'Prey'

  • Wyrm #11 5 years ago

    It was fun on the DS when I had a Japanese version, purely for the huge WTF!?!?! factor.

  • sniglet #12 5 years ago

    Ok, let's not get into this then, because I considered Prey to have one or two quite clever concepts that steered it away from generic status.

    There are certainly not that many games like Cooking Mama though, so I'm pretty sure they're not taking over the industry!

    There will be more party style games in the future, but probably mainly on the Wii as the console seems very capable at doing these (just as it's capable of doing non-party titles like Zelda and the upcoming selection of tasty looking titles like Metroid etc. - no, I'm not doing a list!).

    Variety is a good thing is it not?
    Edited by 1 at 09/08/07 @ 18:22

  • afghan_jones #13 5 years ago

    "Variety is a good thing is it not?"


    No.


    It makes me fearful and enraged.

    If games dont involve burly men shooting people in the face then Im afraid its probably witchcraft of the worst kind. Or at the very least, voodoo.

  • rudedudejude #14 5 years ago

    Is the original rubbish then?

    /In need of a funky new quirky Wii game

  • el_pollo_diablo #15 5 years ago

    The original DS game was great for a week or so, but didn't sustain my interest much beyond that.

    I shall skip this one and spend the £20 on a huge lump of cheese instead.

  • indian23 #16 5 years ago

    THESE 505 LOT HAVE FUCKING LOST IT

    WE NEEDS MORE GAMES LIKE ZELDA

  • gorf #17 5 years ago

    you kinda get used to the cute Japanese accent in this game. Im waiting for when a UK studio does Jamie Olivers Cooking Papa...i wonder if the japanese translaters can say 'Corriander' with a lisp in Japanese