Hell's Kitchen getting game reduction

  • By Tim Surette, TV.com, GameSpot
  • Posted Oct 26, 2007 12:05 pm PT

Ludia to fry, sauté, julienne Fox's abuse-driven cooking reality show for multiple gaming platforms.

Oh, to be one of those poor saps on the wrong end of one of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay's fiery tirades! Don't fret, soon anyone with some extra cash to drop can be one of those helpless culinary novices getting a verbal beatdown from the famous chef...in their own living rooms.

This stuff's made in...New York City?!?!

Montreal-based gamemaker Ludia today announced that it has signed a deal with television production company Granada America and is taking Fox's reality show Hell's Kitchen interactive. The video game will be available next year on "all major platforms including PC, console and mobile." Ludia is targeting the premiere of the fourth season of Hell's Kitchen for the game's debut.

Ramsay will be lending his voice and likeness to the game, which should give gamers a good target to throw their controller at when he tells them their soufflé tastes like cow excrement. The game will also have some of Ramsay's favorite recipes, which can be printed out (presumably only in the PC version).

Hell's Kitchen is a reality show which pits up-and-coming chefs against one another in a cooking competition. Presiding over the show is Ramsay, a former soccer phenom and hotheaded, expletive-spewing maniac who just happens to be one of the UK's most popular men in the kitchen. Ramsay has leveraged his fame into other shows, including the new Kitchen Nightmares.

126 Comments

  • Lord_Tigger

    Posted Oct 27, 2007 6:16 am PT

    This is either going to be a crappy "Diner Dash" re-make with Gordon's ranting voice-over or a crappy "Sims/Restaurant Tycoon" remake with Gordon's ranting voice-over.

    I remember how pissed I got playing SWAT from Sierra when the FMV characters would yell at me for not following their crappy instructions. Ramsay would push me over the edge.

  • DiscGuru101

    Posted Oct 27, 2007 4:55 am PT

    -I think I just threw up a little bit.

  • GrimBee

    Posted Oct 27, 2007 2:50 am PT

    Ramseys outbursts are not actually planned, its more about the "heat of the moment", its funny to watch then.
    But if he plans out the curses, its just going to be silly.

    I would love to have a hells kitchen game where you assemble a group of chefs, and you have to insult them to victory!!

    You use a microphone (like the singstar one ) and you basically use all the nastiest replies known to man to win!

    "Thats not soup, thats vomit!" won't be enough for you to beat the game, do YOU have the vocabulary (or lack of) to make it as the top chef in the world? Get hells kitchen the game! lol

  • peacenutman

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 11:45 pm PT

    ghey

  • LuminosityBlaze

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 11:08 pm PT

    You spoke too soon GS. Don't forget, the PS3 has a printer function... that has gone completely unused until now since the update. Maybe this could finally be some sort of use for it... still the fact that you can is kinda cool. The 360 can't use printers, right? (being made by Microsoft, that makes no sense, but whatever.) This could be mildly amuseing with Gordon's ranting but we'll see... What's up with all the ////////////////////////////////////// slashes in the title?

  • wolf96champion

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 10:49 pm PT

    Does it have the Miis in it.

  • godzillavskong

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 10:03 pm PT

    The only way you could get me to buy that game is if it has a mini-game where you can punch him over and over! I can't stand that rat.I've heard that on his British version of the show that he isn't that much of a prick.They say he was told to spruce it up for the American audiences?? Lets just put his face on that Cookin Mama game for the Wii and get it over with.

  • stziggy

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 8:35 pm PT

    I don't need Gordan Ramsey spewing expletives at me on my computer. I'm married, that's enough abuse for one man right there. I do love Gordon though. I'd love for him to do my job for one week.

  • CodingGenius Site moderator

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 7:53 pm PT

    I would rather play a "Kitchen Nightmares" sim where we had to solve problems with a kitchen and try to turn it around, but I will definitely watch this game.

  • Joe_Combat

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 7:50 pm PT

    what has the world come to? the show is stupid. why would anybody think that a game of the show would be any good? please shoot me now....

  • westsidejedi360

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 7:32 pm PT

    Awesome show, terrible game. It's gonna be a poor ripoff of cooking mama and the ratatouille minigames

  • stafax

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 7:05 pm PT

    First Bob Ross Painting confirmed, now this! I CAN'T WAIT!!! WOOOOO!!!

  • Jab7604

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 6:49 pm PT

    I am an aspiring chef but also an advid gamer and i have 1 response

    Y ON EARTH WOULD THIS BE A GAME WTF

  • dgbiker1

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 6:28 pm PT

    ohhh why????

  • darknferno12

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 6:21 pm PT

    I wonder if Gordon Ramsay or "G-RAMS" as i call him will cuss you out or knock you out if you make a really bad Soufflé. Seriously this game looks like it will a pretty good

  • MasterChief725

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 5:53 pm PT

    idk..there are a lot of good games coming out for nintendo wii!!

  • rockstar_88

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 5:44 pm PT

    Well it would be interesting to see how the rating system would work. An even bigger plus is not matter how well you cook, he'll still rip you a new one. Gordon Ramsey's da man.

  • Bull_Of_Mors

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 5:37 pm PT

    god damn how pathetic

  • clawboy

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 5:33 pm PT

    I'm gonna be sick.

  • CharmedGamer

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 5:07 pm PT

    I forsee lame-ness. like those american idol games

  • wiz4ha

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 4:41 pm PT

    "THAT'S WHY THEY CALL IT NON-STIIIICK!"

    I love Ramsay. I hope they actually do him justice.

  • Shamasheen

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 4:38 pm PT

    Hell's Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares are must see tv for me and the lady. No so sure about the game tho.

  • Von-Dozier

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 4:21 pm PT

    Hell\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s Kitchen will be GOTY.

  • Lord__Darkstorn

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 4:18 pm PT

    this can't work without Gordon Ramsey screaming insults in your ear, so he HASTA do the voice acting for it...good.

  • Stoo2k

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 3:58 pm PT

    Cooking Mamma, Cake Mania, Imgine Happy Cooking and now this crap... what's that coming over the hill, is it a really shoddy bandwagon?

    This cash cow is gonna have sore udders by the time they finish milking it!

  • I_Want_A_Name

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 3:54 pm PT

    Ya know, isn't gonna be rated M for all the language?

  • benjaminjoel

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 3:51 pm PT

    Anyone remember Survivor: The Interactive Game?

  • TheKretinousQ

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 3:34 pm PT

    sounds ok, wii? 360 cook offs over live? gordon ramsay is a very good cook and a very determined man. perfection and nothing else.

  • greenpyro33

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 2:44 pm PT

    sounds funny

  • Strike_Zer0

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 2:41 pm PT

    Odd. I can now imagine a Cooking Mama clone except when you lose the game swears angrily at you. I can see this being fun on the Wii or DS assuming it uses their features but on the PS2? or 360? etc.

  • darklord_2002

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 2:27 pm PT

    They should be making two versions. One rated T with some stuff censored, and a full uncensored M rated version!!! Let the expletives fly Ramsay!!!!

  • MoeSyslak

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 2:22 pm PT

    Whats next big brother the game!!!!! Ohh no thats ps3 home. Instead of getting evicted you're getting diconnected from PSN.

  • carljohnson3456

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 2:21 pm PT

    I like the show, but a game? What?

  • thekirby45

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 2:12 pm PT

    Hell\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s Kitchen ftw xDDD

  • Tomdogg

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 2:07 pm PT

    No no no!!! Not this one too!!! PLEASE NO!!!

  • wiidominance

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 2:06 pm PT

    note to Tim Surette: the last paragraph ought to be the first, not many know what the h*** is h***'s kitchen. it can happen on the Wii, seems that's the cooking-sim-games developers' choice platform.

  • joey4uncw

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 1:59 pm PT

    I think he's funny to watch but I don't see how it's going to translate into a good game. Good luck but I just don't see a full priced game heck even a reduced priced 39.99 game being any good for the money.

  • DonutTrooper

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 1:56 pm PT

    Every time the writer looks at this page, he'll be laughing his ass off at "Hell\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\s" kitchen, while whispering "Riiidddgggeee Raccer" to himself

  • SmArTaLeC1321

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 1:53 pm PT

    LOL that was a good one, but i think ill pass on this game. Sorry Chef Ramsay.

  • Hawk456

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 1:52 pm PT

    So it's a rude Cooking Mama

  • jdknight21

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 1:51 pm PT

    My girlfriend will want to get this one once it settles in I'm actually not joking, they really are making the game.
    Great thing is people that only see Gordon on commercials yelling don't really get insight into his methods, which work really well in the kitchen. The guys actually a culinary genius, probably works harder than 99% of the people on this thread (including myself) and just trying to improve American food and other countries views of American food. Which we really need.

  • JDaniels48

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 1:50 pm PT

    good show

  • defpoet715

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 1:48 pm PT

    Hey! Thats great, that means I that I have a way to teach my mother- in -law how to cook!!!!

  • bulletsword

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 1:47 pm PT

    Now where the hell is my risotto? Hells Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares are actually both good shows, too

  • game_king999

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 1:46 pm PT

    Why do they even think that this game will sell? I wont buy it unless a slice of pizza or whatever i'm cooking pops out of my disc tray when i'm done with the level

  • RudeYeT1

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 1:46 pm PT

    Hell\'s Kitchen (PS3)
    Hell\\\'s Kitchen (PS2)
    Hell\\\\\\\'s Kitchen (PSP)
    Hell\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s Kitchen (X360)
    Hell\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s Kitchen (DS)
    Hell\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s Kitchen (WII)


    It is so extreme

  • Anthony9000

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 1:42 pm PT

    RAMSEY OWNZ! i'm buying this game on launch date =)

  • Ryir554

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 1:41 pm PT

    Next up, a game about the life and times of Emeril

  • RaiKageRyu

    Posted Oct 26, 2007 1:41 pm PT

    I bet the voice will be messed up like these games tend to do.

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