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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!!

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.

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.

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!

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.

The Rabbid Invasion was Successful!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: December 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

We loved the first Rayman Raving Rabbids because of the hilarious and imaginative gameplay. The story itself was engaging. The caveat was that it didn't give too many options for free play unless you went through some of the stages in the game, and some of the games did not respond well to the Wiimote. The boss levels where you had to shoot invading rabbids with plungers were the most fun of all.

Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 corrected all that was "wrong" in the first version and added more minigames and a separate special section for the shooting games alone. The controls are better with this newer version: the game is now more sensitive to the minute movements of the Wiimote vs. the first one. As with the first one you have a story mode and free play modes as well as several save files. The story mode lets you go on trips around the world, with each trip having 6 different games/locales (as opposed to 4 in v. 1) and allowing for single or multiplayer modes to play each locale. Four trip destinations come unlocked, while 4 more are unlockable as you go to each destination. Each trip or destination also comes in Easy or Normal mode: kids have fun with the Easy mode because it's easier to score even if you're not so good with the controls. There is hardly no difference in gameplay with the Normal mode except that you have to be more precise in your control movements to score higher.

There are also 5 pre-customized characters at the beginning of Story mode that lets the player(s) choose which Rabbid character to play with. Up to 4 players can play the story mode (compared to just 1 in the previous version). There are more costumes available in the Plaza section of the game, but you have to unlock these as you progress through the game. It's easy to unlock the costumes, though, because I think you get to unlock more than 2 costumes per trip (game) destination. The graphics and characters are seamlessly integrated into realistic-looking locales around the world (I think they're actual pictures of those places) with Rabbids interacting with real people and "terrorizing" them in some scenes. This just means that the Rabbids appear to be a natural part of the locale itself that it's easy to spot and get them while avoiding hurting the humans during the game.

The games themselves are funnier and more hilarious than ever so it doesn't feel like just a remake or better version than version 1, especially as none of the games we have played so far were replays of the original ones. So if you have version 1 and feel that you don't need version 2 because it's just a remake, then let me assure you that the 2 games are so different that you'd want to have the second game, too, just because it's easier to play and allows for multiplayer gaming from the get go. If you loved Rayman Raving Rabbids 1, then you will surely love Rabbids 2 because the fun scale has definitely increased with this second version!

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.

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.

A highly enjoyable game.

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

First off, let me just point out that I didn't buy this product from Amazon, but from a nearby store. I'm putting a review here because it's a good place to do so.

Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 is my second game for the Wii (the first being Wii Sports). I have not played the first Rayman Raving Rabbids, so if you're looking for a comparison between the two games, this isn't your review. However, if you're new to the franchise (or better yet, new to the Wii and looking for games), then hopefully I'll be able to be of help here.

Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 is a collection of 50-something mini-games, all tied around the main character Rayman and the crazy bunnies called Rabbids. Apparently, these Rabbids have invaded Earth via flying yellow submarines, but don't expect any sort of story; there's hardly anything tying together all the individual mini-games to make any sort of sense - but then again, making sense is the last thing this game is trying to do.

Let me explain the layout of the game here. When you load the game, you'll enter the main menu, where you have four options: Trips, Free Play, Trip Customizer, and the Plaza.

* TRIPS: This is where the bulk of gameplay is. All the minigames on Rabbids 2 are divided into one of five regions of the globe: USA, Europe, Asia, South America, and the Tropics (this last one is unlocked only after you play the other four regions first). Each region has around 10 minigames to play. A "trip" is a random collection of 5-6 games out of the collection for that particular region. You have to play these trips so that you can unlock all the individual minigames to play in Free Play.

* FREE PLAY: Here, you can replay the individual minigames you played (and thus, unlocked) in Trips mode.

* TRIP CUSTOMIZER: In this area, you can create your own trip using the available minigames.

* PLAZA: This is mostly for extras you've unlocked during the game. There are four parts to the Plaza:

** SHOOTING GAMES: These are fun. See, after you complete some trips, you'll unlock a shooting game here. The shooting games are essentially real footage of a certain city (New York, Paris, etc.) which have Rabbids digitally inserted which you have to shoot. I find these to be a lot of fun.

** COSTUME CUSTOMIZER: This is a great feature. If you get a high score on any minigame or shooting game (usually at least 12,000 points), you'll unlock a costume for Rayman or a Rabbid. Those costumes are accessed from here, which you can mix and match to create something zany. And better yet, your character's costume actually carries over to other parts of the game, so he'll still be wearing it while you play one of the minigames.

** JUKEBOX: This is a not-so-great feature. What you can do here is play one of the Rabbid songs you might play in one of the levels in Trip mode. While you're playing the song, Rayman and some Rabbids will dance around, but that's it. I had hoped that you could pick a certain song and it would carry over to other parts of the game, but once you leave the jukebox the song stops. So it's okay (it's so funny to hear the Rabbid version of "Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones), but ultimately somewhat useless.

** CREDITS: Pretty self-explanatory.

Now for the minigames. Of course, each minigame is at least somewhat unique, so it'd be impossible to properly review them all. There are a few sets of games which tend to follow a specific formula (such as the music ones or anything that involves twisting the Wii remote), but in general they're all fairly different. There were some real gems, like the Burp, a few games where you cause havoc when someone isn't looking, and a hilarious game where a bunch of Rabbid kids are jumping up and down in the back seat of a car and you have to slap the ones that are misbehaving. Of course, with so many minigames there's bound to be a few duds, but in general most are pretty fun and, if you like the Rabbids, very funny.

Any self-respecting gamer will be able to breeze through all the minigames in a short period of time - you don't even need to win to get through them, just finish them. For a single player, the replayability factor of this game rests solely on it's wealth of unlockable items. But even that won't last for very long. What really keeps this game entertaining for a long period of time is how fun it is to play with other people. Let's be frank: this is a party game. After a few times of playing by yourself, it's going to get just plain boring. But with other people you'll still be playing this game for a very long time.

In summary, if you're a hard-core serious gamer looking for a great challenge or engaging storyline, this game is not for you. But if you're just in this to have some fun, then by all means pick up Rayman Raving Rabbids 2.

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