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Invasion Earth: A Rabbid Fan's Review!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 49 / 51
Date: November 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Our first game for the Wii was Rayman Raving Rabbids. It was the perfect game to introduce the Wii to America. Now the Rabbid's are not only invading your Wii, but also Planet Earth. The result is comic and fun!

Wii've eagerly been waiting for the sequel for the past year and rushed to buy it as soon as it was available. For the most part, we are not disappointed. This game was created ENTIRELY with the Wii in mind. The game is more complex than the original and the story is not as linear. But, there is much more to do and more control over the gameplay to take advantage of the unique nature of the Wii. It is still incredibly funny and enjoyable.

Overall, the graphics look superior to the original game, probably because the game was optimized specifically for the Wii platform. Unlike the first game, the current rendition has been designed with multi-player use at the forefront. Many players will prefer this game as a multi-player game rather than single-player.

Why didn't I give it 5 stars? I really enjoyed the dancing Rabbids in the original game and was looking forward to having them back in the sequel. However, in this version you play musical instruments in a variety of bands instead of dancing. You still move the wii controllers in rhythm with great musical tracks, but you must monitor a control panel display to time your movements. The result: you can't enjoy the Rabbid/Rayman animations on the screen if you want to time your controller motions correctly. Obviously, they did it to create a multi-player experience, but it's a much less immersive game than in the original. Still, it's fun. But, why did they have to change the most successful shtick in the original game? Boo Ubisoft! Fortunately, the rest of the mini-games are just as much fun as in the original with superior graphic quality.

This is a great game and we are enjoying it immensely. It's fun to be able to play both Rayman and/or the Rabbids and overall the quality is an improvement over the original. Let's just have those dancing Rabbid's back for Rayman Raving Rabbids 3!!

Very Disappointed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 48
Date: November 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

We were anxiously awaiting the follow on release for the original Rabbids, anticipating play similar to the first release. Instead of a story line treat, we were tricked with a bunch of mini games. While the graphics are better, the play is poor, the mini games not nearly as fun. If you like disjoint mini games, you might like this one. If you like a story line, no matter how weak, then this will definitely disappoint.

5-star party game, 3-star solo game, 4-star overall

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: November 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have changed my initial rating adding a star. We had a party, and it was a great party game for adults. Still as a solo-player the first game was more fun. This game is much prettier than the first. Someone said that the game was less cruel than the first. --slapping baby rabbits and shocking rabbits until they "fall to sleep" is not cruel enough?

Summary prettier than first game, controls more percise, 5 star party game, 3 star solo game, 4 star overall.

My 8 year old and my husband love playing this game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 13
Date: November 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is my son's favorite game! My husband loves to play it too. It is perfect for kids...the guys at the video game store told me that they were hooked on it too! The rabbits go around the world and participate in different challenges. This game is really more fun with 2 players but my son is happy to play it alone as well. If you love super silliness, this game is for you!

The best party game out there

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 18
Date: November 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I can see how people expecting to play this alone are giving it lower ratings but I bought this purely as a 'party game' and there isn't another out there that is better. It edges out Rabbids 1 and blows Mario Party 8 out of the water (MP can learn from this and start changing the minigames up between editions).

Its basically the same style as RR1 (so if you own that then this may be a rental only) but most of the games can play all players at once and there are more motions used on the Wiimote. The 'instrument' thing that you do at the end of every level is MUCH better than the dancing one in the original and more involved. There are few minigames that are boring and most are great with some competition involved. If you play solo and have Wi-Fi than you can compete to get your score compared against everyone on te net.

The graphics are better but, hey, its the Wii.

It could be improved by bringing back some of those sadistic games like throwing cows or seeing how big of a lump you can beat into a rabbid (most of the games are 'cleaner') and making the minigames harder and longer, but this game is still the best party game out right now so I couldn't give it anything lower than 5...but don't get it if you have no one to play with.

Great Adult Party Game but Kind of a Bummer for Solo Play

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 14 / 17
Date: November 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I agree with what a lot of the other reviewers are saying about this game. As a solo game you could quickly work through this and it just wasn't as entertaining and indepth as the story mode in the first game. The multiplayer mode however made the game TOTALLY worth it. We had stages that we were able to help a 4 yr old through but mainly the adults were playing and LOVING this game.

Personally, I found the rock band portion of the new game more fun than the dancing one on the other game because the controls are less likely to give you a "hit" when you didn't actually move as the first game did (this wasn't just me other players said the same thing) but I wasn't as sure about the new shooting portion. The new shooting game looks much better than the first but I found the gameplay a bit boring.

Overall though I am really glad I had purchased this before Thanksgiving as we had a ton of fun. Will I ever play it by myself? Probably not.

Disappointing for this fan of the original Wii version

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: December 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I LOVED the first version of Rayman for the Wii, but this one is not nearly as entertaining. The cheekiness of the first just seems to be missing. The graphics look worse to me. The story is non-existant. I am so disappointed, but I will continue to play Rabbids The First until my arms fall off from cow-tossing.

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.

A huge disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 19 / 31
Date: December 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The original Rayman Raving Rabbids for the Wii was a wonderful game, with mini-games ranging in quality from good to great that were made even better by the sly, twisted sense of humor that ran through the entire effort. It's a 5-star game, and it easily makes the short list of games I'd recommend that anyone should own for the Wii.

Yet despite that lineage, Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 not only fails to live up to the original, it even manages to get everything wrong that it borrows from the first. The mini-games themselves are almost all tedious and fun-free; half of them boil down to shaking the Wii remote for a while and stopping momentarily. Does that sound boring? You're right, it is! And they seem to go on forever. Only a few of the mini-games would have made the cut in the original game, like bumper cars or food delivery--and even then they wouldn't have been among the best. But in this game they seem like masterpieces compared to the others.

And Ubisoft somehow even managed to mess up the best part of the original: the shooting games. Instead of the playful, interactive backgrounds filled with jokes for the observant player, they made the baffling decision to set these shooters against filmed live-action backgrounds. As a result the rabbids are just "pasted" over the background without really interacting with it. Sound more fun? You're right, it's not! And the pacing is all wrong; you'll move along through a nondescript city scene doing nothing, even being locked out from shooting at random, and then the camera will stop and a bunch of rabbids will come pouring out. Finally, the shooting is sluggish--presumably due to the graphic power required to display the boring-yet-detailed live backgrounds--and reloading takes forever, which sucks the last bit of enjoyment out of these levels.

The music levels have suffered as well, with poorly-chosen songs that punish you for picking the wrong role (i.e. you end up singing a song that doesn't have enough vocal parts), rhythms that are too repetitive, and a new method of tracking the song that prevents you from watching much of what's going on in the background. Some of the songs are still fairly entertaining, but when you compare them to the original there's just no comparison at all.

Finally: this game is extremely short. I finished it with a friend in just a few sittings--and as you've probably figured out, we had no desire to play almost any of it again. We kept waiting to feel any of the sense of joy and wonder we had with the original, but it never came. I get the sense that the game was just rushed out in time for Christmas, since it has nowhere near the variety of play of the original.

If you played and loved the first RRR, do yourself a favor and avoid this game. Or if you've never played the first RRR, do yourself a favor and get it immediately, and avoid this game. But either way: AVOID THIS GAME. Sadly, it squanders everything that was good about the original.

And for Ubisoft: if you do put out a RRR3, please, please, please go back to the original game and remember what you did right.

Bittersweet..

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: December 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

To me this game is bittersweet. If you compare it side by side to the original there is a drastic difference most of which have been covered in previous posts. Anyhow....

We purchased this game because, quite simply, the first one was overly addictive. In my great anticipation I popped in the game and expected to be able to blast through some single player semi-story, not so. Though you can play single player the game play is exactly the same as the multiplayer, you pick a "trip" (a series of mini-games that take place in a region of the world) and play through 6 of them and then you're done. You can however unlock new mini-games which are then randomly playable in each trip.

There are about 6 trips and as you play through each one you can unlock new character accessories/outfits so you can personalize the look of your Rabid or Rayman. You can also customize and save your own trips, allowing you to pick and play the mini-games that you enjoy the most.

Luckily they still have the shooter games but they are separate from the trips and very different than those in RR1. Now you have to press the 1 button to reload instead of shaking the wiimote, you don't have any info displayed on the screen other than the points earned and your cross-hairs, and your ammo is displayed on the cross-hair itself as 5 small red dots. The one thing I really enjoyed about the shooter though is that the scenery is all filmed in live action, filmed it would seem by a man with a camera walking through the locations. I about gaged laughing when 2 hotel attendants were jumped by Rabids. They did take care in creating this area of the game as even though it is live action the interaction between the game play and the scenery are great if you shoot a road sign the plunger will stick, if you shoot a tree leaves will fall.

Lastly the thing that made me cry deep down inside is the fact that they didn't add a dancing Rabids game and instead you can play a part in a band and keep with the beat of the instrument you choose, yes its fun but why scrap the dancing Rabids all together?

If this was not a sequel and a game of it's own I would rated it a star higher but when you don't follow up an original piece of art with something just as great you are not doing the fans any justice.

Would I buy it again? Yes, though I wish that the lack of content would have prompted a slightly lower price.

This game, for me is a 3 out of 5.

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