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THE game to own on Wii

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 171 / 178
Date: November 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I picked up a wii with this game on launch day after much research. Let me just say that I own NES (i got used), N64, Dreamcast, GC, and now Wii. I was getting tired of gaming. I am definitely not a hardcore gamer, and in my precious free hours when I come home from work I don't want to sit around and get fat (that's what TV is for).

Anyway, this game really gets you moving. The mini games are often hilarious (you WILL randomly LOL while playing) and fun. The shooting levels that end each set of mini games utilize the wii controller in the most natural way, and it is immersive and intuitive. I played this game to about 33% completion the first day I had it. This is unusual for me. I figure I'll get about ten hours of gameplay out of story mode if things continue at the present pace. The game gives you an objective early on, and this motivates you to progress through the mini games. I like them so much that I have gone back and beaten the optional 4th mini game in each level I've passed.

I can't speak for any of the other launch titles, but I haven't had this much fun in single player gaming on a console...ever. And all of the mini games and shooting games (you shoot plungers by the way) are available for multiplayer after they have been beaten, although some of them cannot be played concurrently by multiple players.

On a final note, some of the mini games will physically wear you out. Some of the games involving rapid movement (running, cow milking, cow tossing, carrot juice pumping) may require you to catch your breath. If you can't handle this, then you'll be glad to know you can skip one of the mini games in each level. But this physical exertion makes beating a mini game much more gratifying.

I cannot recommend this strongly enough. Get this game.

Tons of fun with friends. A lighthearted game you can simply pick up.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 113 / 117
Date: November 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I am not much of a gamer. The Wii has been my first game console since the Playstation a LOOOONG time ago. In fact, games usually bore me. Not this one.

The experience with the wii-mote is awesome. This game should come packaged with the Wii because it shows off just how wll the wii-mote can immerse the player into the game! Something like this would be utterly boring with a regular controller. But when you're swinging the remote over your head like a lasso, or holding a hose in your right hand and pumping with your left... or tippy toeing with your arms close to your body... or jumping rope or slapping bunnies with your backhand... YOU GET THE PICTURE. They really did this game well. It's so much fun. Tons of laughs.

We played the game ALL DAY yesterday and all night today and finally passed the 1-player story-mode game (unlocking all the multiplayer games). It was fun. We were very loud. Certain levels were very challenging and required many rounds with the controller being passed from hand to hand between the 5 of us.

The game has an excellent soundtrack. Graphics, I don't know, they looked pretty good. The bunnies were cute! The game is great for kids of all ages because there is no killing. You just shoot bunnies with plungers and they cry and go away! Hilarious. That's one thing about this game that will catch you off guard.. It's FUNNY. You will find certain stages, animations, games instantly hilarious. Fat bunnies running all over your screen, what more can you ask for?

I would like to highly recommend this game to anyone who wants to play Wii games with a party-type atmosphere. In all honesty, playing this game alone will be fun but might get old after a while. That's why single player games (like Zelda) have things like puzzles and mysteries to keep you occupied. This game is just pure fun with the controllers and reflexes and skills. I have a hard time paying attention to any game that takes more than 5-10 minutes per level. I don't feel like my games should stress me out like my job.

This game is mindless fun. We all loved it. Get it. Here is a breakdown of our diverse little party group over the past 2 days:
Aged 17M, 19F, 19M, 23M-s/w consultant, 23F-banking, 27M-engineer, 28F-project mgr, 34M-educator). This game really is for everybody. I think kids (<13) would get a freaking kick out of it.

Fun, Fun, Fun, For The Whole Family

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 19 / 21
Date: November 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I picked-up this game, Rayman Raving Rabbids, on Wii launch day along with Excite Truck, Zelda, and Call of Duty 3.

This game is very hilarious and fun to play. It is very crazy, silly, and yet good, clean fun for the whole family.

The mini games are addictive. You just want to keep coming back. And you'll want to get through the objective.

The challenges are tough enough to be interesting but easy enough to keep you coming back to try again.

And just wait until you are able to fire the plungers.

This game will keep you and your family busy for hours upon hours. I highly recommend this game. Get this game.

Bunny's Dont Dissapoint

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 19 / 22
Date: November 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is simply amazing. The mini games are addictive and hilarious. This was my first game for the wii, and its been sitting patiently next to me FOREVER (really only 1 day). If you are a fan of comedy adventures (if there were ever any before) you have GOT to pick this game up. Its not a quick fix, this game will keep you busy for a great while. Its simply hilarious and fun to play, simple as that. The life is extended through multiplayer.

Deffiantly Buy this Game

It will own you.

AaarrrghhhhhH!

What a fun family game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: November 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I haven't played video games for a very long time. I have a PS2 that I used primarily for playing dvds. I was so excited to get the Wii because I wanted something my whole family could play including my 3 1/2 year old daughter.

The mini games got us all hooked. I had my daughter help when I couldn't do it my first time. She would help me shake the nunchuk to help close the door on the bunnies using the bathroom. She would dance along with the music in the rhythm test and when "we" passed a test, she would say "You win!" I even got my husband to participate when my arms were too tired to shake and control the wii remote and nunchuks.

The game is lots of fun and something that the whole family can enjoy.

A True Party Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: December 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Did you ever sit around with some friends and play party games? Twister anyone? Bingo? Card games? Well, the games/mini-games in Rayman Raving Rabbids are more fun than any of those games could ever hope to be.

Strange, dorky, entertainment!

I agree that this is THE party game to own. If you want to have fun with friends, then this game alone could justify the purchase of a Wii.

If you don't mind doing stupid things, but laughing all the while, then this game is for you.

Get out your video camera...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 12
Date: December 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game was the biggest suprise I bought. The reviews said it was good, but it looked a bit silly. Anyhow, I bought it along with Zelda and Red Steel. This game is an absolute blast to play...especially with someone else. It has occupied more of my time (and my girlfriends) than all the others combined. You will laugh and you will be challenged and you will be wow'ed by the effort that went into this game. The art direction and creative team that came up with these games and designs needs to be recognized. It's sooo much fun and well yes...you will probably either want to film someone playing it or someone will film you because the game demands acting like a maniac with the Wiimote...and this is a welcome demand. Enjoy.

Mini games galore!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: May 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is great! especially for people who don't go for the games with long, drawn out story lines and complicated controls.

Just the opposite here with Rayman. Tons of mini games, each having an intro in which a "rabbid" (an outrageously cute cartoonish rabbit) demonstrates the motions needed to play the mini game; there is also a text box explaining in words how to play the game for when you just can't understand what the bunny is doing.

Games vary a lot: racing on warthogs (the animals, not the Halo ATVs); dancing to the beat of music; hunting rabbids with a plunger gun; "sports" like running (imagine running motions with your hands, up and down), memory games, and precision skill games with the wii remote. Most of these last at most 5 minutes.

The game has a weak storyline -- Rayman is having a picnic with little frog-like friends, when the rabbids come and kidnap everyone present at the picnic. The rabbids then put Rayman into an arena with 4 mini games to play. Once at least 3 are successfully completed, a rabbid hunt level opens up. Each time a hunt is finished, the "day" is over, and Rayman is allowed to go back to his holding cell and he is given a plunger.

What are you supposed to do with a plunger you ask? Play the game, you'll have to figure that one out.

And why would anyone play all four mini games when you only need three to pass the level? Each day that you complete all games of the level, you get to go back to the cell and have a new prize. Sometimes you get new outfits for Rayman, sometimes you get decorations for the cell, or even some music.

If you complete a day and return to the cell, you can replay the day's games, as well as any previous days' games. Just sit on the toilet (I know, weird, huh?).

Once you beat the story mode of the game, the score mode opens. In this, you can play all the mini games that are in the game. By gaining points for each mini game, you accumulate a total that earns you rewards. Most of these rewards are the television commercials for the Rayman game, but they can be entertaining to see nonetheless.

It's a fun game, great for a kid with a short attention span and for people who don't like to put a lot of time into figuring out how a game is played. Like the wii sports, Rayman: Raving Rabbids is an excellent example of how the wii system works and is easy enough to let kids of any age play.

This game requires the nunchuck.

Great Motion Game but Might be Tough for Small Kids

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: December 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Rayman Raving Rabbids is in essence a collection of fun mini-games which involve both the Wii controller and nunchuck. Make sure you've got a lot of energy for this one!

Ignore the plot, it really doesn't matter. The key is that you have to win 3 out of 4 mini-games, go through a boss level, then do another 3 out of 4 mini-games to progress, and so on. Each of the mini-games is different, and many are quite inventive. There are the classic "marble in maze" games where you tilt the controller to guide the marble. There are drawing puzzles where you have to trace, with the controller, lines on the screen. There are shooting games where you're "run along a rail" and all you do is point and shoot. You're shooting plungers, so this is very kid-friendly.

There are numerous in-jokes in this game. For example, on one of the shooting levels, some of the rabbits that come after you are wearing the three-green-light Splinter Cell headsets. There are a set of music games where you move to the beat along with "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" and other pop songs.

There's a few costumes to unlock and a few songs for your "jukebox", but the game is really about getting all of the mini-games unlocked so you can play them in standalone mode by yourself or with others. That really turns this into a great party game, especially with some of the humor involved.

While this is clearly aimed at kids with its non-violence and cute humor, many of the younger set will find themselves frustrated with the gameplay. The "bunnies in the outhouse" stands out as a mission that requires a lot of work to get through, as you have to both shake the nunchuck wildly and point carefully with the controller. It does best if you have a friend to help you out.

Many of the games here require so much arm movement that you can easily wear yourself out if you have to replay them too many times. The restriction on playing this all day long might not be others who want the tv - it might be that your arms give out even though you want to keep playing!

I suppose in one way that helps to ensure that kids don't play it for hours on end. Their arms won't last that long :) But that being said, I do feel a few games here are just too tough for their target audience. They'll need mom or dad to help out to get through those levels. Which is fine if mom and dad are the caring, game playing types - but could be really frustrating if they are told to just get through it on their own.

You arent out of your seat, but you arent sitting still!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: November 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

My husband and I (both of us are 24) bought a wii last week. We've played a lot of tennis and bowling and all of the wonderful stuff on Wii sports, but this game we got just for me. I'll admit right off that there are certain parts I dont like - i.e. slamming doors on rabbits using outhouses & pulling worms out of rabbits rotting teeth before they burrough into their jaws. Ewww! However, the variety of games and challenges and the ability to go back and replay previous challenges over and over again is wonderful. I have been very impressed with the controls and am thrilled that we bought this game.

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