Product Description

In this version of Mama's kitchen, kids can learn to make 50 all new recipes, including potato salad, California rolls, parfait, shrimp au gratin, fruit jello and many more! Compete in cook-offs with friends and earn gold, silver or bronze medals from Mama for your cooking. Wii, Majesco, RP.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #426 in Video Games
• Brand: Majesco
• Model: 1506
• Published on: 2008-11
• Released on: 2008-11-18
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .56" h x 5.41" w x 7.55" l, .36 pounds

Features

• Cooking Mama World Kitchen from Majesco brings a lot more to the table with this sequel for the Wii
• Delivers all new 3D graphics, new recipes, comedic kitchen mini-games, and new gameplay modes
• The Wii remote acts as your universal cooking utensil as you chop, grate, slice, stir, roll, and more
• 50 all new recipes include parfait, French fries/onion rings, chocolate chip cookies, ratatouille, pancakes, and more
• Hilarious mini-games add a surprise, comedic element to the game

Amazon.com Product Description
Mama's back and she's still cookin' with her next installment, Cooking Mama World Kitchen. Video game publisher Majesco brings a lot more to the table with this sequel for the Wii, including all new 3D graphics, new recipes, comedic kitchen mini-games, new gameplay modes and a whole lot more.

Mama returns to the Wii with the sequel, Cooking Mama World Kitchen. View larger.

Games include "Cook with Mama," and the new game modes "Let's Cook" and "Cooking Contest." View larger.

Hilarious mini-games add a surprise, comedic element to the game. View larger.

50 all new recipes include parfait, French fries, and more. View larger.

Intuitive Cooking Movements and Improved Graphics
With the Wii remote as your universal cooking utensil, you'll be placed in total control of the cooking action as you chop, grate, slice, stir, roll, and much more. Hold and point the remote in many different ways (depending on the task) to get the real sensation of cooking in the kitchen. You'll need to be quick on your feet and precise in your movements, otherwise the meal might be ruined!

Looking better than ever with all new 3D graphics, Mama and her friends are ready to tackle 50 all new recipes. The delicious, new dishes include parfait, French fries/onion rings, Nestle Toll House chocolate chip cookies, ratatouille, pancakes, boiled flounder, and loads of other tasty creations. The updated gameplay mechanics integrate the Wii Remote utensil play with additional rhythmic movements that makes cooking easier and more enjoyable.

Kitchen Game Modes are Loads of Fun
Cooking Mama World Kitchen has three gameplay modes: Cook with Mama, and the new additions, Let's Cook and Cooking Contest. If you've cooked with Mama before you'll remember the first game mode where you learn the kitchen basics under Mama's watchful eye. Do well and you'll earn gold, silver and bronze medals based on your culinary skills. When you play the new game mode, Let's Cook, you'll share your prepared meals with Mama's finicky friends who will judge the quality of your cooking. And with Cooking Contest you can team up with a real or in-game friend to prepare ingredients in the new cooperative play mode.

Hilarity and Surprises Abound
Interlaced in the gameplay are a host of new kitchen surprises that take shape as comedic mini-games. For example, you might flip a burger up in the air and Mama's dog will run by and snatch it away, or toss a pancake and then control Mama as she runs in to save it with her hilarious apron catch.

Another cool feature allows you to take a snapshot of these funny moments so you can review them after gameplay, or you can choose to replay kitchen mini-games in their entirety. Cooking Mama World Kitchen uses real-time effects that make you feel like you're actually cooking. You can adjust your timing and make decisions about your next course of action based on what you see happening on the screen -- if food is starting to look burned, you can make a snap decision and remove it quickly from the burner. The intuitive gameplay, 3D graphics, new game modes, and hilarious mini-games work together to create a fun, interactive game.

Customer Reviews

Better graphics...worse controls!
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Maybe I'll get used to it
I have never played any other version of Cooking Mama, so I can't say how it compares with previous titles. I have 9 year old twin boys, one of whom has spent many hours with the neighborhood girls creating recipes in WebKinz. They have had so much fun with that, that Cooking Mama World Kitchen (CMWK) seemed like an obvious choice for us.

A little about the game: There are three game scenarios, the first of which is "Cook with Mama" in which Mama is the cooking instructor and you are the cook-in-training. It starts with eight recipes which Mama oversees as you cook. The steps in the recipes are well defined and visually represented, with about five to ten steps per recipe, at least in the beginning. You always know where you are in the recipe and Mama gives you feedback on each step. When you have completed the recipe, you get a final overall score which results in one of four medals - bronze, silver, gold or lead. If you get a lead medal, expect to hang your head in shame and Mama will join with you. When you successfully complete a recipe in this scenario a new recipe is unlocked. Sometimes when you make a mistake a mini-game pops up to give you a chance to recover from the mistake.

The second scenario is "Let's Cook" in which you cook alone without Mama's help and serve the food to "friends" that come with the game. The visual instructions are the same as in "Cook with Mama" but you don't get rated on each step and you don't have Mama's help.

The third scenario is a competition with dual player, single player and surprise modes. This is supposed to be fast-paced and I have not tried it for reasons you will soon understand.

There is also an "Album" feature that captures your cooking mistakes for you to relive and which allows you to replay any of the mini-games you have unlocked. The mini-games aren't that exciting, lasting only a few seconds. They are a little bit more fun when they come up as a surprise in game play when you make a cooking mistake. The surprise element makes them more entertaining and the fact that they last only a few seconds makes them bearable if you get one you don't like. You don't have a choice about whether or not to play.

The first thing I noticed about CMWK is that it comes with a coupon for Nestle Toll House morsels and four of the thirteen pages in the instruction booklet are dedicated solely to real-life Nestle Toll House recipes. But that's product placement for you. There is also a Toll House cookie recipe in the game. I wouldn't really care about this except that there is one very important element missing from the instruction booklet -- instruction on using the Wii remote with this game. That's not completely fair - there is one page dedicated to "Control Icons" that gives a general description of what to do with the remote when those icons appear on the screen. But it is completely inadequate and not even printed in color. In the game, icons appear on the screen that tell you two things 1) how to hold the wii remote - normal, vertical and two horizontal positions; 2) what motion to make with the remote in that position.

Sounds easy, right? Maybe I'll figure it out on my own, but I sure wish there were better descriptions in the instruction booklet or at least on the game site. I can't find any. With seven different motions and four positions, there are twenty eight possible actions to take which represent at least twenty eight different cooking skills. It's not clear how some of them differ or exactly what they require. "Move back and forth in vertical position" differs from "tilt in vertical position" how? Perhaps the most frustrating thing about this is that the actions that do work work pretty well. Breaking an egg requires tapping it not too gently and not too hard. Cool. Forming hamburger patties means tossing them back and forth in your hands. Go too slow and you'll drop the patty, too fast and it splats on the screen. You have to find the rhythm and once you do you feel like you've got the "knack".

So far, as the title to this review states, I'm just hoping I'll catch on and get used to the movements. But for me this takes a lot of fun out of discovering the game. Instead of getting better, I'm just getting frustrated. So many other Wii games do such a nice job of coaching the player through the controls that this feels like an insult. Would it have been so hard to use four pages of the instruction booklet to describe the controls and what actions they represent and maybe only one page on printing recipes I can find on any bag of Nestle chocolate morsels anyway?

Buy Cooking Mama - Cook Off instead!
Being a fan of Cooking Mama, I was excited to purchase this game the other day. However, upon playing it I wish I had never seen it to begin with. Yes, the graphics are better, but the steps involved in recipes are either ridiculously easy or incredibly hard. The game is also extremely sensitive to the motions of the Wii-mote, and if not done exactly right- won't respond at all. The directions on how to use the Wii-mote are vague at best. The time limit for each task is also extremely short- and basically if you mess up even once you can easily fail that step. There is no margin for error.

Coming from someone who has spent a lot of time playing Cooking Mama - Cook Off, this game was incredibly frustrating and not worth the effort. Adding insult to injury, Mama has sold out to Nestle so included is a Nestle coupon and many Nestle "trademark" recipes. Half the fun of Cooking Mama is the insanely weird recipes like "Spaghetti in Squid Ink" to begin with.

Do yourself a favor and buy Cooking Mama Cook Off instead!