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E3 08: What's Cooking? with Jamie Oliver photo

While the DS elves are busy tinkering away to satisfy the hardcore gamer, Atari has got you covered in the kitchen with their upcoming game What's Cooking? with Jamie Oliver. Featuring the celebrity cook of Naked Chef fame, the game has dual properties for both the gamer and the food fanatic. Players will be able to sift through 100 of Oliver's original recipes and practice virtually cooking them á la Cooking Mama style with a more realistic twist.

Where What's Cooking gets kind of neat is the interactive cookbook and shopping list. If a meal in the game tempts you enough to try and cook it in real life, you can convert the recipe into a shopping list that you can tote along with you in the supermarket. Once you get home and you get down and dirty with the ingredients, the interactive cookbook will deliver you the recipe steps hands-free, with voice activation used to get you to the next step.

In the original spirit of Oliver's creative cooking style, the game also allows you to add your own recipes or change the ones already provided. What's Cooking? With Jamie Oliver is expected to be released this fall in October.
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Char Aznable's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2008 13:13
Char Aznable
This sounds like an incredibly niche game, but there are some cool features with the cookbook if you're into this sort of thing.

Gordon Ramsay would beat the fuck out of Jamie Oliver, though.
-PL-'s Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2008 13:30
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As much as I hate to say it, this actually seems pretty neat. I love cooking (as long as I get to reap the rewards, i.e. eating it), and have always felt that I needed to increase my repertoire beyond pasta and hamburgers, so this might assist me in finding something new to cook. Or maybe I'll just throw in some Totino's Pizza Rolls™ and play some FFTA2 instead.
superflossy's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2008 13:31
superflossy
Gordon Ramsay cooking game would be amazing... think of it... "YOU FUCKING TWAT YOU FORGOT TO STIR THE RISOTTO!!!"

I'm glad that this game actually sounds, OMG, practical!!?? I love to cook and Jamie Oliver's recipes are pretty good. Also, the shopping list for when you go to the store sounds like a great idea. And the hands free recipe instructions... shit I'm gonna have to buy this damn thing.
Pedro Blandino's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2008 13:42
Pedro Blandino
"Cooking Guide: Can't Decide What to Eat?"
That one to me is much better, it dose a step by step guide on the food you wanna make/eat :p
Char Aznable's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2008 14:06
Char Aznable
@Superflossy

You've heard of this, right?
ScreamingScarab's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2008 16:31
ScreamingScarab
If they made an Emeril game, you'd probably have to yell "BAM!" into the microphone everytime you put an ingredient in.
Android8675's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/17/2008 14:45
Android8675
I'll just say I agree with the above, great idea for a DS title. If they added a oven timer to the game when needed, that'd be primo cool, and as superflossy said, practical.
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