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Come for the Rabbids stay for the Baseball

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The first thing to know about this game is that it is not a total package (thus the 4 stars). Unless you bought several controllers because you have several players in your house or over to your house often, leave this one on the shelf--it's not at all ripe for single player.

Where the game truly shines is multi-player (for which it should get 5 stars), where you can enjoy with others the completely off-the wall humor in the game. As a case in point: Rabbid baseball. Sure, it's amusing. Watching a poor little Rabbid hustle it's pudgy legs off rounding the bases only to become the business end of a home run derby is fall off the couch funny, but you can only appreciate it fully when you compare trajectories with a few friends.

There is a tremendous amount of potty humor--so beware, but our 9 and 6 year old have regular laughing fits (and ok, so do we). You do get to unlock various outfits for the Rabbids and it's great fun to dress them up (my personal favorite is the crash test dummy) as well as mix and match (crash test dummy with a huge blonde afro). There is not a story per se, but this fits with the sparse nature of the solo game.

There is an ability to create your own sequence of mini games (aka a "trip"--which clearly has more than one meaning in this game). This is nice because as others have pointed out, all of the mini-games are not exactly winners. The music games are great fun to play and perhaps a bit more fun to watch (bunnies dancing/singing to James Brown just makes me smile). The game also has broad age appeal. Many of the visuals and animations pay homage to movies, and the music spans the decades, making for a definite "Sesame Street" experience that will have your kids laughing at one thing and you laughing at another.

The game is quite accessible with two difficulty levels "easy" and "normal." On the easy level our 6 year old can do pretty much everything but the music/rhythm games which he typically sits out on. It's friendly to both new players and repeat offenders, you can let the cutscenes roll for someone who just joined the party or quickly skip past. The idea of the Rabbids showing you how to play the game each time is absolutely brilliant and pretty much flattens the learning curve for new folks. There are just a couple of games where the nuances are not all that clear and you'll find yourself saying "what do you want from me!!!???" but this is by far the exception.

The games are sensitive enough to detect what it is that you're trying to do, and not much feels "contrived" in terms of the motion controls. There are some that do a better job (such as the wii remote as cell phone in which you hear indecipherable babble coming out of the speaker when it's activated) than others (I don't know if we'll ever get away from the ubiquitous pumping of the nunchuck and remote to simulate running/swimming/etc . . . ).

There is dancing in the game, but it's completely passive. You watch the Rabbids and Rayman dance to one of the music tracks that you've unlocked. The upside is you decide how they're dressed and you get to watch them do some nicely choreographed moves. The downside is you don't get to join the fun. I'm hoping Ubisoft comes out with a Rabbids mod for DDR.

If you intend to play with 4 you will need the full meal deal on controllers as some of the games require both a wii remote and a nunchuck although you could tailor your game choice around this limitation pretty easily if you need to make do without (note: you wouldn't be able to do the music rhythm games). With very few exceptions, the games are for four simultaneous players--which means people will not be sitting on their hands for long.

Warning: Our kids have gotten pretty excited playing this game, and generally hop around quite a bit. With the Wii in it's "vertical" position, it's caused the system to crash, we since turned it horizontal and have had no problems.

Not as good...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have read several of the reviews and I think that it has been said right, the first one was better than this one, but there is still plenty of fun and activities to love in this new release. Both fames together are a great look at the sort of games that really only seem possible with the Wii style interface.

Would I recommend this to someone else, sure, as long as they already have the first one. If they do not have the first one, I think that I would recommend that one over this one.

Top-10 Party Game!! (2-4 player only)

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is the kind of product that makes the Wii so much more successful than the 360 or ps3 - it's just plain FUN. It's very simple in terms of gameplay, and each scene is premised upon more and more ridiculous things - roasting a chicken with your fiery burps or plunging a toilet or shooting spitballs at the teacher. You WILL laugh.

The catch is this: it's 0 fun alone. You need at least 1 person to play against, and ideally have 3 friends over. More than 3 friends and you're going to have to make someone sit out.

That said, go for it! Same laughs as the last rabbids game but more of them.

It will get old, but that's ok. Instead of your 3 friends going to the movies for $10 each, have them all chip in and buy this. You'll get much more than 2 hours of fun from it!

Multiplayer Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I am not the lone gamer, so I value most the games that you can play with family and friends. That said, IMO Raving Rabbids 1 and 2 are the best games available for the Wii, together with Mario Party and Mario Strikers. We laugh at each other, young and old alike, and have a good time together.

Raving Rabbids 1 is more linear, there is a definite story and you will unlock the minigames one after another. The greater part of the minigames are turn based, so we don't play together. OK, it is not so much multiplayer. Raving Rabbids 2, on the contrary, is not too linear, you can unlock all the minigames in a couple of sessions, and the greater part of those are really multiplayer.

Other differences between RR1 & RR2: both have music minigames, where you must shake the controllers according to the rhythm. The songs in RR1 are somewhat better, although both soundtracks are great. In RR1, two can play in a split screen. In RR2, up to four can play together in a single screen, each player assigned to a instrument or vocals. If you play poorly, the sound of your instrument will fade.

The rail shooters are superb in RR1, and good in RR2.

In both games, the bunnies are very funny. No other game in any other platform has made me laugh so much as these RR1 & RR2. In this aspect, both are equal. Five/Five Stars.

The long and short of it....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Pros:
-It's Rayman, so it's got a very comical base to it.
-Real video that allows you to experience different countries.
-Most of the mini-games are super creative and different.
-Same concepts as the first Rayman with the shooting game, playing/singing music and games against the rabbids.

Overall the game is fun, but it also has some faults.

Cons:
-I was expecting a progressive game like the first Rayman, but instead R2 is based on mini-games, which we get enough of with Wii.
-The shooting aspect of the shooting game isn't as fun as the first Rayman (I do love the real life backgrounds though). Reloading with the nunchuck was easier and shots seemed more precise with the first edition.
-After you finish a game about 5 screens pop up telling you your score, then that you've beaten the high score, then you have the enter your name, then you see your overall high score, then you won something, etc. I find it annoying to click through them all....not to mention the button is far too close to the internet option and I always manage to hit that by mistake.

The game is fun, it's just missing the same spark that the first game had.

Much better than the first one!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have no idea why anyone would think the first one is better. Maybe it has to do with the order you play the games in, but we got the second one first. The best thing about it is that you can play as a group, which is just hilarious. In the first one, you play by yourself, the games are uninspired, and it just isn't much fun.

Someone said "gee, a game is moving the controller up and down, no fun". Well, the first one has that too, and it is more fun when you are competing.

I'll grant you that the games aren't rocket science, and perhaps not ALL that much different--although they are definitely not all variations on the same theme, as in some games--but it is the group play that really makes the game.

I wanted to add a few more comments:
1) The game won't let you move your save file to another console. Probably not a big deal, but it's the first Wii game that I've encountered this on.
2) The game is a bit on the shorter side, so you might want to rent it, or look for it on sale if you want to have it for parties. I rented it first, then bought it at half off at Best Buy. I know that this amounts to heresy on this site, but...

SOOOO FUN!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: December 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

this game is awesome, i think it's even better than the first. the first was all about unlocking games by yourself before being able to play with others. in this game, you jump right in and can play with your friends. this is definitely a PARTY game and something to play when you have friends over, not so much if you're playing by yourself.

Fun, But Needs More Levels

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Before I start I have to say, this game is fun. It is just too short.
Think of Warioware: smooth moves without all the levels. Some of the controls are also confusing for some of the games. The plunger games are a lot of fun for younger kids. the game has few trips(levels),and all of the trips have six mini games compared to wariowares 20. I beat the game within six hours of purchasing it.

All around this game is fun but needs more levels.

made for kids.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

the game was all right. the first rayman game was significantly better and more challenging. also, it doesn't really have a story line so it's not as fun. what is really cool is that you can pick to be one of the rabbids instead of rayman. oh well, hopefully if they make a 3rd game i hope they can combine the neat things from the second game and the great challenges from the first.

Great Graphics, Boring Gameplay

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If you like the challenge of the First Rayman Raving Rabids for wii, Don't Buy This Game. I'm almost certain after playing a few levels on "Normal" (Which is the hardest setting) That there is no way to lose when playing this game. It's great for younger kids, but if you're a day over maybe 8 or 9 years old, Its a bit boring. But it was made well, they built on the graphics of the 1st rabids title and added some "Live" video and backgrounds, which looks good. I just wish it played more like the first one.

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