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Cooking Academy |  | From: Mumbo Jumbo
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $5.39
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Seller: Oliver-Ann-Books
Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 18715
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows XP
Genre: artificial_life_simulation_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 1.1
MPN: 10529
Model: 1047-10529
UPC: 811930105297
EAN: 0811930105297
ASIN: B001BOA0KE
Release Date: September 2, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Over 50 unique recipes | | • | 5 courses to master: Appetizers, Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Desert | | • | 38 different mini games | | • | 8 trophies with 4 different rankings to unlock |
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Product Description
How can you be a top chef at a cooking school? Just play Cooking Academy and find out. This game places you in the kitchen of a prestigious culinary school. From Pancakes to Creme Brulee, prepare over 50 different recipes. Learn interesting trivia about food while mastering the skills of chopping, mashing, flipping, frying, and more. Unlock new recipes and trophies by passing your cooking courses and exams. Are you ready to be a Master Chef?
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| Customer Reviews:
Cooking Academy December 8, 2009
rhege36 (Mocksville, NC)
It is a good game for those who a young and wish to test the luck at beating the chiefs. Does test the hand and eye cordination and sometimes the reflexes. All - in - All it is a good game for ages 11 and up.
 Great game! January 25, 2009
Jennifer R. Ewing (The Woodlands, TX United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love to cook, so I found this game to be very entertaining. I've had some minor problems with the game, but I think they have less to do with the game itself than with my own manual dexterity and my computer's processing speed.
For example, there's a section of the game where you have to have to flip shishkebabs on a grill very quickly. There's a time limit. You're really supposed to flip three at a time. I can only manage to do two at a time without "burning" them. If you burn them they don't count towards your score, so I'm never able to do it fast enough to be able to successfully go to the next level of the game. I'm neurologically handicapped, so my visual acuity, and my own "processing speed", isn't the best, and I have a five year old computer, so that's probably an issue as well.
However, I still give this game very high marks, and I think anyone who likes to cook, or who wants to learn how, will really enjoy it.
 Fun but a bit short. October 6, 2008
Tina (Tampa, FL)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Having played Cooking Mama on the Nintendo DS and throughly enjoying it, I thought Cooking Academy would be just as good so I decided to give it a play. Although it's almost exactly like Cooking Mama, it's a bit short and replayability isn't all that great.
So what's the game about? You play as a new chef at a culinary school. You must chop, dice, slice, and mix your way through breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert. It's a timed game so you must quickly perform each task to receive a good grade. Upon completing each food dish with a decent grade, you move on to new recipes in order to complete the game.
Let's talk about the positives first. If you've played Cooking Mama before, you'll like this game. It's almost exactly the same game only there are added bonuses. For example, when you complete all of the recipes in each category, you have to complete 5 exams in order to begin the next category. Also, you earn different trophies based on how many recipes you complete and how well you do on all of the recipes.
And now for the negatives. Although there quite a few recipes to choose from, this game is a bit short. You can complete it in a couple of hours easily. Also, replayability isn't all that high. Yes, you can try to ace every recipe but there's not much else to do once you've done that.
Overall, this game is fun and smaller kids will love it. However, the few flaws I mentioned make this game just OK. I would not recommend it.
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