Hell's Kitchen

"Hell Kitchen can't compare with this game. Famous Gordon Ramsey goes Handheld?"

Hello and welcome to an review from InsanityZero, where I meet up to Gordon standards. For those who know HK show, I love the show a lot. For those who haven't watch it, watch it, its not going waste your time at all. Sure there is lots of cussing but its so worth it to laugh. Oh yeah, the review.

Gameplay: 4/5 Stars (Good)
Well, if you ever played Diner Dash Flo and enjoyed it, you should enjoy this as well. I find it a tad more difficult than the Diner Dash. In order to impress Gordon, your standard must be high so we have a countdown which makes players think when to put it. That is a great idea. You play as a waiter and the chef, where you have to bounce back and forward to prep and cook. That's hard work, have to see if the customers are getting mad, putting food on the hot plate etc. Overall, I think its great to see some of Ramsey recipes once you clear a stage. The gameplay is great, but it can be intensive once you get more tables and prep works.

Graphic: 2/5 Stars (Donkey)
Once I start the game it looks promising, seeing Gordon and the usual profile stats. Once you start the game, the people on the bottom screen you would be like "What's that?". At first, I thought it was my imagination because the PC version looks awesome. The animation of sliding papers is so choppy. People eating the food, when a risotto they eat it in like 4-5 seconds. The kitchen looks okay, I guess that is my reason it got itself a 2. I hope that Ubisoft should push the line of graphic on DS. I seriously didn't like it, but don't judge a game by the graphics. All great games have bad graphics. Gordon surprisingly looks great, but his evil stare looks lame. But when he gets mad, man that looks very impressive.

Sounds: 1/5 Stars (Taste it again!)
Well, there is rarely NO SOUNDS other than Gordon talking. Playing this for a day, reaching up to Senior Chef, means something. The title menu music is great, after that I just turn off my sound. I always hear the same thing during my run through of the game. The only part I like is when Gordon cuss at you and the worst part, beep. Yeah you heard me, you will hear the word beep. I didn't really want to go to in-depth of the sound, but I heard the same music for my first time. So I had to ignore the music and listen to some of Hell's Kitchen TV show or Iron Chef. No, not Iron Chef America, but Iron Chef.

Difficulty: 5/5 (I am a very proud man)
This game is nothing but pure hell. This game is ridiculous hard once you have more tables and more ingredients. Holy Batman, most of the time, my customers leave over frustration. The worst part, you don't have a sous chef! You can only prep one ingredient at a time. The PC version lets you do all of them at the same time. This tells me PC version has sous chefs. Getting Perfects on start of the game is very easy, but you end up screwing up so many times like getting 80%s now. I always get that number, its tough to get 100%s on Senior Chef.

Replay Value: 5/5 (Finally, I taste something delicious)
As a replayer, you want 100%s all the time. I think this game doesn't really want you to have 100%s on mid-game. This is proven more insanity I ever taken in my life. I think Gordon had put his awesome crazy standards. So, this would take a very long time to ace all of his trial by fire. its so hard, its giving my friends a hard time. Sigh.

Buy or Rent: Can't say. (Get off the section and leave.)
I bought it, enjoyed it. But I think renting the game is the same as buying the game. Buying this game, you really won't invest lots of time in to it but as renting you will invest a lot. Because there is a due date so you end up rushing the game. The cussing are censored (sigh), that is my let down to this game. So buying it isn't a great opinion but if you are a fan of this game, please buy the PC version. Considering that you have a CD-Key for Hell's Kitchen and you can share it to your friends and relatives.

Insanity gives it an 6.9/10 Rounding it 7/10.
Final notes: All of these parentheses are quotes from Gordon Ramsey himself. Man I love that show. I would have prefer it to be a rated "M" game, since the TV show is very brutal. Most of the board members had agree about this issue. Oh well.

Reviewer's Score: 7/10, Originally Posted: 09/16/08

Game Release: Hell's Kitchen (US, 09/09/08)