Cooking Mama: Cook off is the second game in the series. In this game, all you do is prepare dishes (55 in-total) in a somewhat fun, fast warioware style manner. Instead of using the stylus in the DS version, you use the Wii remote creatively as your cooking utensils. You can slice and dice vegetables, grate with a side to side motion, pointing it downwards and stirring, use it as a pin roller and the list keeps going on. If you've played the DS version, Cook Off is somewhat similar game with different food you can make from different regions of the world. There are 3 modes in Cook Off, they are: "Lets Cook" which you basically make and prepare dishes by choosing it from a recipe book. There are 55 different recipes, however, in the beginning of the game, there are only a few recipes to choose from but as you progress along the game completing each dish, you will unlock more dishes. In this mode, all there is to it is that you just make the dish as well as you can to achieve medals. The higher the points, the better. The points are calculated by how fast and how well you finish each step. The second mode is called "Food and Friends of the World" This mode is basically a challenge mode where you face off against Mama's international friends at their own recipes. However, the opponent AI is usually very cheap and does movements faster than any player can hope to do. In the end, You'll get a plate where you can place in your kitchen for display. The last and final mode is "Food and Friends" This is the multi-player mode and adds a decent replay value if you have some friends over to try to see who can make the dish with the most points. However, Cook Off has many flaws. The mini-games are often repetitive and boring if you've played this for a long time (around 30 minutes). The game still hasn't improved from it's predecessor, there isn't a story/career mode, there's just a random bunch of recipes. The graphics of the game are quite simple but once again, nowhere pushes the Wii's capabilities and the voice acting of Mama is horrendous and gets annoying sometimes. The game is $50/$60 and that is over priced where it should have been a budget title just like the DS version. Nonetheless, Cook Off delivers with creative and fun use of the Wii remote controls/motions but falls with many flaws but is worth a good rental.
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