Chef Ramsay watches your every move and judges you as you progress – yelling, praising or shutting down the kitchen if your skills don’t meet his expectations.Just like the contestants on the TV show, players must master all aspects of cooking: preparation, cooking and service.The game is published by Ubisoft and will retail in New Zealand for $29.95 on PC and Mac, with a $69.95 Nintendo version due out at a later date. Push your luck too far, and he will shut down the kitchen!' says the game's website. 'For every ruined meal or impatient customer, Chef Ramsay's mood deteriorates. Hell's Kitchen requires players to cook and serve meals, with a 3-D version of chef Ramsay scoring the meal out of a rating of five. so who knows, there might be a future in these video games after all.' The polytechnic was already using technology in the kitchen, with cooking lessons filmed and then uploaded to a website, allowing students to download the lessons to their iPods. We know he loses a lot of staff because of his outbursts.' 'You just couldn't keep staff talking like that. Mr Heptinstall said having the celebrity chef's tirades cut out in the game was not a bad thing as it did not really reflect what was going on in the industry. 'Chefs don't usually want to cook when they go home, so I don't imagine they will be playing this.'

Otago Polytechnic cookery programme manager Tony Heptinstall said it was unlikely the game would be used in the classroom - or even at home by budding chefs. The Office of Film and Literature Classification confirmed the computer game had not been submitted for classification, and it was likely to retain the PG mild course language rating it received in Australia. 'It doesn't really appeal to the hardcore gamer.' 'I was hoping there would be an adult version with some swearing in it, but it looks like they are marketing it to everyone,' Gameplanet Store NZ owner Simon Barton, of Auckland, said.Ĭooking games were not very common, and whether chef Ramsay's television success would translate to a successful computer game was unclear, he said. Foul-mouthed chef Gordon Ramsay is about to add a new four-letter word to his vocabulary - beep - when a computer game version of Hell's Kitchen is released later this month.Ī spokesman for a computer game retailer said Hells's Kitchen would be released on September 26 and it 'was pitched for a mass market'.

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