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DS Wii News by Robert Purchese
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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HiddenAway
09/08/07 @ 14:49
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I hope they get rid of the annoying speaker of the Wii version. That really annoyed me...
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Der_tolle_Emil
09/08/07 @ 15:09
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If you mean the 'someone' who pushed the game in the top 10 selling games for the week a couple of times, then yes.
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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.
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afghan_jones
09/08/07 @ 17:02
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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' |
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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?
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afghan_jones
09/08/07 @ 17:34
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"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. |
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el_pollo_diablo
09/08/07 @ 19:27
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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. |
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