Iron Chef America grills Wii, DS

By Tom Magrino, GameSpotPosted Mar 10, 2008 1:07 pm PT

Destineer and Black Lantern Studios adapting hit Food Network culinary competition for Nintendo's platforms this summer.

In October, Montreal-based Ludia dropped invective chef extraordinaire Gordon Ramsey into its cooker for a gaming adaptation of the popular Fox reality series Hell's Kitchen, due out in tandem with the fourth season of the show later this year on a range of platforms. But as Ramsey would surely agree, what good is a chef without a little friendly competition to sharpen the old blades?

Bang a gong, we are on!

Stepping up to that challenge is none other than United Media's Iron Chef America. Destineer announced today that it would be bringing Iron Chef America: Supreme Cuisine to the Wii and Nintendo DS. Slated for release this summer, Supreme Cuisine is in development at Black Lantern Studios, which recently adapted Rogue Pictures' Christopher Walken-led comedy Balls of Fury for the Wii and DS.

Running with the recipe popularized by Fuji Television's classic master chef throw-down Iron Chef, Iron Chef America brings the culinary coliseum stateside, pitting a number of Food Networks' top chefs against challengers from across the country following a particular theme.

Like the show, the game will be hosted by Mark Dacascos (Brotherhood of the Wolf, Double Dragon), and Destineer promises that additional cameos from the show will be named in the future. Current Iron Chef America master chefs include Mario Batali, Bobby Flay, Masaharu Morimoto, and Cat Cora.

Black Lantern hopes to re-create the intensity of the show, and scullions will attempt to earn the title of master chef by taking 15 theme ingredients, stirring in "hundreds of dish variations," and sautéing with 300 various minigame challenges. The game will also feature a variety of modes, including competitive and cooperative multiplayer options for both Wii and DS gamers.

70 Comments

  • Buck

    Posted Oct 10, 2008 8:15 am PT

    Man, they'll make a video game out of anything nowadays.

    Pass.

  • bshaw84

    Posted Mar 13, 2008 5:39 pm PT

    getchyo cook on!

  • spiredcrescent

    Posted Mar 12, 2008 9:37 am PT

    Can't be any worse than cooking mama.

  • retrofraction12

    Posted Mar 12, 2008 9:28 am PT

    why?

  • kca89

    Posted Mar 11, 2008 8:41 pm PT

    Sounds interesting. I just hope it turns out to be a fun game and if so I might pick it up. Same goes for the Deadliest Catch.

  • BulletBrigade

    Posted Mar 11, 2008 7:33 pm PT

    Thats gnarly!

  • zedizdead

    Posted Mar 11, 2008 6:02 pm PT

    Between this and Deadliest Catch, I don't know how to contain my excitement.

  • willripyouanew1

    Posted Mar 11, 2008 4:06 pm PT

    Lamest Idea ever!

  • 09231991

    Posted Mar 11, 2008 3:38 pm PT

    @ gr8jedimaster,

    I agree man, Its games like this that make me feel excellent that I didn't buy a Wii.

  • dmfreak

    Posted Mar 11, 2008 12:42 pm PT

    ALLEZ CUISINE!

  • FallenOneX

    Posted Mar 11, 2008 12:11 pm PT

    KamuiFei :

    Amen to that brother. If anyone knows where to find the originals on DVD, hit me. But really, if there has to be an Iron Chef game, I'd rather play one with the original announcers, just like the show, american voice overs with the original language in the background.......

  • KamuiFei

    Posted Mar 11, 2008 11:04 am PT

    Original Iron Chef was leagues better than Food Network's imitation. I like Alton Brown though, only guy on Food Network worth watching.

  • vamroc

    Posted Mar 11, 2008 9:50 am PT

    They just added a new Iron Chef who name escapes me at the moment. He's the winner of a show called The Next Iron Chef what I would love to see is a cross promotion where the winner of Top Chef takes on an Iron Chef .

  • Mr_Doom212

    Posted Mar 11, 2008 7:45 am PT

    Awesome

  • asuryan2

    Posted Mar 11, 2008 7:02 am PT

    The chairman, Mark Dacascos, is not the fake nephew of Kaga. He is the son of Kaga's sister, Moriko McVey.

    I love Iron Chef (especially the good old Japanese stuff) but any game based on it would suck...

  • gr8jedimaster

    Posted Mar 11, 2008 6:28 am PT

    And people wonder why the Wii isn't taken seriously anymore...

    Oh, did you know that the "chairman" on ICA is Kaga's fake nephew? LOL

  • qaz88aof

    Posted Mar 11, 2008 3:37 am PT

    the original is waaay better... i hope that comes out

  • sun_spirit

    Posted Mar 11, 2008 3:17 am PT

    Now Tekeshi's Castle would be a good gameshow video game!

  • kavadias1981

    Posted Mar 11, 2008 1:24 am PT

    I would love a really deep and realistic cooking sim.

  • Zeus-Guy

    Posted Mar 11, 2008 1:10 am PT

    First Hell's Kitchen, now this. I said it before and I'll say it again, "they just HAVE to make a game out of everything".

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