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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.

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.

What a let down

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is a total let down. After the first game which had at least some kind of point to it, this game just seems to be a gathering of mini games where you cannot lose. What is the point of that???

Boring as heck. I loved the first one. If you did, don't bother with this one. It is terrible.

Glad I didn't buy it!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: February 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I thought this game was lame. There was no story at all. In trip mode, all you do is play a series of 6 or 8 games. That is it. At least with games like mario party 8 they have the board game element and the ability to purchase things from cards you collect form winning board games, you feel like you are actually trying to achieve something. With this game you hit a rabbit in the head with a carrot, shoot a few with a plunger...and that is it. Not very entertaining at all.

Disappointing game!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

There are very few good games, most of them may appeal more to kids. Personally I thought the noises made by the rabbids were disgusting like they were throwing up. I liked some of the shooting games, they were kinda fun but overall this game is a huge disappointment & we ended up selling it to a video game store.

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.

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.

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.

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.

So Sad

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I loved the first Raving Rabbids game, and when the 2nd came out I was chomping at the bit to buy it. Boy was that a waste of chomping.

I didnt like much of anything about this game really. The layout's completely different, the short games are extremely short and easy...there's no score to beat to move on to the next round. So even if you get 0 for your score it still progresses you in the story. Something else that was really disappointing with the short games was that if you found a one you really liked you didn't have the option to replay it right then. Instead you had to keep moving through the story line. That was just pathetic to me.

The dance portion is also completely different from the 1st one and is not nearly as much fun....not to me anyways. The shooting games are moved to the plaza section and have to be unlocked. I did think they were kind of fun at least AND you had the option of replaying them.

All-in-all I was pretty let down with this follow up game and am planning to get rid of this one to go back to playing the first game.

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