Cooking Academy 2 World Cuisine follows in the footsteps of its predecessor, Cooking Academy, and is the game for the individual who loves to cook new things in the kitchen. Cooking Academy 2 is a great collection of cooking mini-games that can really help you spice things up in your own kitchen. The concept has been done before, but this game is so much fun to play.

The game continues from the last installment of Cooking Academy where you are a budding chef and you are very lucky to attend the Annual World Culinary Workshop. There is the incentive that once you are the best student at the end of the workshop, you are given 1 million dollars to set up your own restaurant.

The cooking tasks in Cooking Academy 2 World Cuisine are quite similar to the original game. The mouse is used for all actions in this game, with the mouse being used to mince garlic and stir sauces. The recipes are from many different ethnic backgrounds and are organized accordingly. Once you complete a batch, enter the cooking exams and complete special tasks to advance. You can remake recipes and practice as many times as you want and replay levels to get better scores in the game.

Some add-ons from the previous installment include the ability to play hidden object games in the refrigerator raid sections where you search for the particular ingredients you need for a particular recipe. Washing items is also new to Cooking Academy 2. You can wash items by filling a pot with water and moving the water and the item with your mouse and then emptying the water. Other fun mini-games include making citrus fruit juice where you cut the fruit then squeeze it with your mouse and the stuffing game where the donuts are filled with cream.

In Cooking Academy 2 World Cuisine, compared to other cooking games, the gameplay is much more relaxed. You can complete tasks much more easily. There were paring tasks and many others that required a lot of precision in other games, but here they are much more easily achieved with speed as the focal point. Cutting dough was a dreaded task but here it is much better and easier to complete. The game has many clock tasks to reinforce the need for speed. There’s the typical cracking of eggs on the edge of a bowl that needs the right speed and plenty more to keep you busy for days.

The most challenging tasks available in Cooking Academy 2 include baking and frying. When baking, the oven temperature should be set correctly and then turned off when the meter is in the green area. This is not a stationary target and is quite difficult to time. Frying requires flipping some ingredients and this is also difficult as it could result in burns if not done on time and there are multiple tasks to be done at the same time.