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Mama proves she knows her place:Cooking Mama 3: Shop & Chop photo

At a glance it may look like Mama is doing more of the same in Cooking Mama 3: Shop & Chop, but Majesco promises that the latest installment in the popular series offers more than just rinse and repeat. In addition to 80 new recipes, two new modes called "Let's Shop" and "Combine and Create" will allow you to actually shop at the grocery for items and make your own concoctions (can't promise they will be any good, though).

Cooking Mama 3: Shop & Chop will be out this November and will retail for $29.99. Looks cute as usual, but I'm not sure the new features will attract me to buy it just yet. Do you consider this series more geared at kids, or do you really get into your time in Mama's virtual kitchen?


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phantomile's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/13/2009 12:25
phantomile
I've only ever played the first Wii title and thought it was terrible. I don't get how they made a series out of this.
coffeesash's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/13/2009 12:27
coffeesash
Cooking Mama has taken to stealing cars, dismantling them and selling them on? o_O
wanderingpixel's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/13/2009 12:39
wanderingpixel
I always thought cooking mama was a little sexist. Not intentionaly, but there has always been something about it that made me feel uncomftorable.
Elsa's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/13/2009 12:43
Elsa
Don't kids have easybake ovens anymore?... or did I just live dangerously as a kid baking food under a lightbulb and then actually eating it...
D-503's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/13/2009 12:49
D-503
I thought that the food you made in an easybake oven was usually fine to eat raw.

Cooking Moma isn't really my thing...maybe if I were a girl. But, I prefer manly things like Katamari, LittleBigPlanet, and grunting.
bluemeep's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/13/2009 12:56
bluemeep
I'm man enough to admit that Mama has taught me a few things about the Cookery.
Elsa's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/13/2009 12:57
Elsa
D-503... yeah, but the special food packs that made cake only lasted for so long... after that, we stuck all kinds of things in there. I once fed my younger brother "easybake dogfood"... no idea if that's fine to eat raw!

(though I do remember some burnt fingers... but that was the price to pay for "easybake melted chocolate bars"! :)
FatherChesz's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/13/2009 12:58
FatherChesz
Having no easy bake oven as a young boy, I resorted to cooking bologna on a lamp. Science!

I failed miserably at Gardening Mama, and I have shied from the series since.
The-Excel's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/13/2009 13:55
The-Excel
Til You Drop?
Mabui's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/13/2009 14:12
Mabui
I think it would only be worth while if those 80 recipes were available for you to actually make it 4reels should you feel so inclined.
Rammstein's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/13/2009 14:50
Rammstein
@Collette: y u gotta be a bich? MAMMA AINT SEXIST ITS FUN. GET BACK TO DA KITCHEN.

@phantomile: The first Cooking Mama(on DS), undoubtedly the best version(mostly because i never played any of the followups XD) but the reason why it became a series is because it actually taught you how to cook real-world dishes, and for someone who maybe isn't completely cullinarily versed in he ways of edible alchemy, this game proves more than a fun diversion. And with this generation of parents wanting to keep their children sanitarily safe, so they wont get boo-boo's, cooking mama is even more popular.

Finally, this:
@bluemeep: I'm man enough to admit that Mama has taught me a few things about the Cookery.

(me too!)
Pariah's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/13/2009 15:07
Pariah
Science Papa proves that women can not perform well in a scientific field. Kidding.
Colette Bennett's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/13/2009 15:08
Colette Bennett
@Rammstein - Enjoy your ban.
TheDreadHawk's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/13/2009 15:27
TheDreadHawk
Is it bad that I like Cooking Mama? <_<
ikiryou's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/13/2009 17:03
ikiryou
This game is a very dangerous thing. The first one gave me the delusion that I could actually make some of those recipes. Ah, the joy of having your stomach pumped by emergency room attendants o_0
kingtobo's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/13/2009 18:46
kingtobo
I don't understand this "game". I played it with my sister, who is a casual gamer, and neither of us thought it was any fun. There was no challenge in it, the game directs you on exactly what to do and then you follow it's lead as fast as you can. After a couple minutes it seemed like we had experienced all the game had to offer, I'm not sure how there's people still coming back for more.
Tye The Czar's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/13/2009 19:25
Tye The Czar
Since that Julie and Julia is coming out/is out, they should make a Cooking Julie[Child]. Just having a similar voice to hers would sell the game even more! Oh, and as a bonus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32ZjSDJUV0U&feature=rec-HM-r2
p_rosky's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2009 09:11
p_rosky
Yea Colette, drop the ban hammer!
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