Hell’s Kitchen to me, in many ways, is a bit of a “guilty pleasure”. It’s low-brow, it’s about humiliation. Screaming chefs and morons who think they’re chefs. It’s in many ways a bit sick — and I have to admit I just so love it.

Want to have that “good time” feeling all year round? Now you can with the soon-to-be-launched Hell’s Kitchen game for the Nintendo Wii and DS! We’ve known about this game since last July, but honestly when it was scheduled to come out at the same time or right before HK hit the airwaves this year, and then didn’t, and with zero word anywhere on the Net about it for seven months, we thought this must be another case of vaporware.

Now that it has a site up and has just been linked off the Hell’s Kitchen’s Fox website itself, it’s obviously coming out soon for real. That’s two now. You’ll recall we already told you about the Iron Chef America game due out for the Ninetendo as well. At this point the question is with no Top Chef game anywhere on the radar, how long before we see one on the horizon?

But back to this game. There’s an Arcade Mode where you sever as many diners as possible before Chef Ramsay closes you down. and Career Mode where you work up from s one to five star establishment. As you progress through the game you actually get real Gordon Ramsay recipes. And, naturally, along the way you get screamed at in that real Geordie accent.

One question though …. Why is it every reinterpration of Ramsay seems to purposely make him look uglier? Ok, surely ol’ craggly face ‘ere isn’t exactly the prettiest boy on the block. (At a net worth of about $120 million does he need to be?) But, that said he’s not that fugly a mug either. But note how on the Hell’s Kitchen website they make him look meanier and scowlier, and in the computer game version of him he gets still gnarlier looking. I swear the game one looks to me to be part Ramsay, part Sting (after a five-day hangover) and part blowfish.

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{04 May 2008}