Hell's Kitchen (DS)

This review is for the Nintendo DS game, Hell's Kitchen, developed by Ludia Incorporated and published by Ubisoft. The game is based on the television show starring Gordon Ramsay. The aim of this game is similar to the television show, and aims to show that there are three essential parts of a successful restaurant, the preparation of the ingredients, the cooking of the food and impeccable service of the food to the customer. When you've created and served your food, at the end of the night, Gordon Ramsay will give you a mark for your overall efforts. You can play the game in either arcade mode, or in career mode. If you opt for career mode, you ...  Read the complete review

I absolutely love Gordon Ramsey, I can't get enough of all his shows, have a collection of his books and was once fortunate enough to meet the cooking god, but for some reason I was quite sceptical of this game! I mean cooking and video games don't mix, Right? Wrong!! This game, although simplistic, is very addictive!! And to be honest, it is only very loosely based on cooking. The action is split between the Kitchen and the dining room - In the dining Room you have to seat diners, take their orders and clear their plates, and in the kitchen you have to click on pots to prepare them, and then cook them at a variety of start times so that they are all ready to ...  Read the complete review

Yes, there is a Gordon Ramsay video game. That's right... video games and cooking shows are now THAT popular that the notorious foul-mouthed angry chef has his own game on a DS near you. Remember 'Can't Cook Won't Cook' on the Gameboy Advance? How about 'Ready Steady Cook' on the Playstation? Delia Smith's classic SNES outing? No...these games didn't exist. This one does. Getting over this initial shock of seeing this game in the shop, I just had to pick it up, to see what kind of awesome gameplay experience Mr Ramsay could offer me. Weirdly, although I was expecting something awful, I was pleasantly surprised. Have you ever played 'Diner Dash'? ...  Read the complete review

A more grown up version of Diner Dash, this combines running both the dining room and the kitchen sides of a restaurant - all with Gordon Ramsey overseeing you. This game, consisting of you clicking where you want the waiter to go, or which foods you want prepared is based on an extremely simple concept and a very addictive one. The objective in career mode is to run the restaurant for a full night, before you get fired, switching between dining room and kitchen. Each level becomes progressively harder (word of warning, when the oven becomes available remember to check if food needs to go in there I kept just doing the stovetop foods and forgot the oven ...  Read the complete review