A spokesman for a computer game retailer said Hells's Kitchen would be released on September 26 and it "was pitched for a mass market".
"I was hoping there would be an adult version with some swearing in it, but it looks like they are marketing it to everyone," Gameplanet Store NZ owner Simon Barton, of Auckland, said.
Cooking games were not very common, and whether chef Ramsay's television success would translate to a successful computer game was unclear, he said.
"It doesn't really appeal to the hardcore gamer."
The Office of Film and Literature Classification confirmed the computer game had not been submitted for classification, and it was likely to retain the PG mild course language rating it received in Australia.
Otago Polytechnic cookery programme manager Tony Heptinstall said it was unlikely the game would be used in the classroom - or even at home by budding chefs.
"Chefs don't usually want to cook when they go home, so I don't imagine they will be playing this."
Mr Heptinstall said having the celebrity chef's tirades cut out in the game was not a bad thing as it did not really reflect what was going on in the industry.
"You just couldn't keep staff talking like that. We know he loses a lot of staff because of his outbursts."
The polytechnic was already using technology in the kitchen, with cooking lessons filmed and then uploaded to a website, allowing students to download the lessons to their iPods.
"They respond well to visual learning . . . so who knows, there might be a future in these video games after all."
Hell's Kitchen requires players to cook and serve meals, with a 3-D version of chef Ramsay scoring the meal out of a rating of five.
"For every ruined meal or impatient customer, Chef Ramsay's mood deteriorates. Push your luck too far, and he will shut down the kitchen!" says the game's website.
The game is published by Ubisoft and will retail in New Zealand for $29.95 on PC and Mac, with a $69.95 Nintendo version due out at a later date.
