The Food Network's first mainstream video game — Cook Or Be Cooked ($39.99), for the Wii — is almost out. Just a glance at the title might make you think that it's a cooking game, likely with a nasty cannibalistic undertone probably injected by Rachael Ray's know predilection for "long pig". But no, it's both more and less than that.
Hitting stores on Nov. 3 — you have yours pre-ordered, I assume — Cook Or Be Cooked "is designed to teach players real, practical cooking skills using their Wii Remote and Nunchuk." That means it will have a number of Wii-style mini-games where you flail your arms about attempting to
This article appears in Oct 22-28, 2009.