Cooking Mama

Cooking Mama returns to the gaming wilds in a cooking contest where players prepare international dishes with a skilled hand, a chef's eye, and the ever-versatile Wiimote controller. As an all-around kitchen worker in addition to a cook, players cut ingredients, open cans, crack eggs, roll dough, boil vegetables, slice luncheon meats, and sautée morsels. If you're into seafood, you'll get to chop the pincers and legs off of an upside-down crab to prepare it for the oven. Various tools of the trade may also be used to prepare assorted foods including a meatball maker which squeezes ground beef into compact spheres of beef. A total of 300 dishes from 10 different countries may be prepared and created for true international flavor and diversity.

Some dishes take more preparation time than others. For example, a cake requires the mixing of flour and eggs, forming the cake, and then applying a layer of frosting on top and on the sides. All of the tasks may be accomplished with steady Wiimote manipulation within the time limit provided. The Wii version of Cooking Mama features a cook-off mode where two players compete against each other for the title of top chef. He who cooks the fastest and with the fewest mistakes, wins.