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| Rayman: Raving Rabbids (Wii) | 
 enlarge | From: Ubisoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: £39.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (41 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1822
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Media: Video Game
Age: 11 - 18 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 3307210218643
ASIN: B000GIFOIY
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Amazon.co.uk Review:
In a nutshell:
Rayman steps back into the limelight as he's brought in to protect the world from evil alien? rabbits? One of gaming's most beloved platform stars returns in a mini-game collection that makes Wario Ware seem sane.The lowdown:
Apart from Mario, most other attempts from platform heroes to branch out into other genres has usually ended up in abject failure. Overseen by the series' creator though this features 80 of the weirdest party games ever conceived, including hammer throwing with cows and squirting rabbids with water to keep the door shut on them while they're in the toilet. Not all of the games are as short and simple as that though as this also includes various racing missions, a fully fledge flight game and ten different first person shoot 'em-up levels. Although each mini-game is introduced with a frequently amusing cut scene there's also a fully fleshed out multiplayer mode for most of them, including the shoot 'em-up levels where you get to play as either Rayman or one of the Rabbids. Most exciting moment:
Whenever you complete a game in the story mode you can replay it any time via the replay mode. When playing the game like this you also get to dress Rayman up in an unlikely range of clothing, from afro wig to flared jeans and winged collars. It's not just for show either as it increases the likelihood you'll get a love letter from the Rabbids in the audience of each game! Since you ask:
The Rayman series was created by Michel Ancel, France's most celebrated game designer. As well as the first two Rayman games he was also responsible for Tonic Trouble, the award winning Beyond Good & Evil and celebrated movie tie-in Peter Jackson's King Kong. The bottom line:
Rayman's jump from platforms to mini-games is no misstep.-HARRISON DENT
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| Customer Reviews: Read 36 more reviews...
 Prepare for your wrists to ache! July 3, 2008
If ever there was a game on the Wii that would ache your wrists - this is it!. Some of the mini games like the dancing can be so frustrating when you have spent ages shaking the nunchuck only to fail! but then again there is something about it, that will make you think 'just one more try' even though your arms are killing you!. The rabbits are very cute and funny and keep you entertained and the range of games is pretty good but a little repetative at times. I think this game is best played taking turns with someone else. Great fun!
A great party game! April 13, 2008
This is the sort of game that is superb fun if you have friends round, the mini-games are great fun to play and have the right balance between playability and challenge, many are absolutely hilarious, great party game.
 Does not deserve the name Rayman. April 4, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
When this game was first announced and right up till I brought it, I thought this game would be a great platformer, or at least a game that's good enough to live up to the series of Rayman games.
I was wrong.
Instead, Rayman Raving Rabbids is a collection of minigames with some sort of badly thought out plot and none of the magic and beautiful level designs of the previous games.
The basic idea is that Rayman has been captured (having apparently lost all his powers, not explained) and is forced to do random tasks for the weird creatures called Rabbids.
Rayman is barely invovled with the game, the Rabbids take the main roles.
These weird tasks are minigames and the game is split up into days. Each day you their are four small minigames and one large one. You have to do at least three small minigames per 'day' and the large one to complete a day.
Still, despite not being a decent platformer, this could still be a good game if the minigames were done well, but they're not. There's one or two good ones, ones that would be fun for a party game but these are very rare and do not often pop up. The bad minigames are more common.
Many of the minigames are fiddly, need too many buttons and last far too long. I give it one star for fun because you're never having fun in the minigames, it's always a long, boring slog to try to get to the next day. Some games require you to earn a ridiculous amount of points in a very short space of time, and some may actually be impossible to complete.
The control systems on the minigames are very flawed, you can't play 'left-handed' with the remote in your left hand and nunchuck in your right as in most other games (which is annoying for me as I'm left handed and used to holding it that way round) and for some reason, the sensor is poor with this game.
You can sit at the same distance away from the sensor bar as with all other Wii games, but RRR has a message on the screen to say that the remote is too far back, move forward please.
The minigames are far too complicated for a two player game, one minigame has enough controls for a full 30 game and lasts two minutes, that is not a fun game to play with mates.
The tiring trek through to see what happens when the game is completed ends in such a pathetic ending you begin to wish you'd never began to play.
Leave this insult to Rayman and get a better party game, such as Super Monkey Ball.
Hilarious! Great multiplayer mode! March 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Rayman Raving Rabbids is one of those games that does not tell you anything and will not convince you to purchase it just by the cover. I first played this game at a friends' house with 3 other people. There are hundreds of multiplayer games, all of which can be played with 4 people (and using control + nunchuck which is not common).
This game, alongside Wario Smooth Moves (read my review on this game) is the most enjoyable multiplayer game you can have for 4 players (I'll cheekily included wii sports, tennis on that list). The games you play involve these white, hyperactive, delirious, rabid rabbits where, most of the time, you have to hit them or throw them around. The reactions you get from these little bunnies are unbelievably funny and will make you crack up EVERY TIME.
Another laugh-out-loud factor is the energy the players must put into the minigame in order to win it. One of the games that I prefer involves using the nunchuck as a hammer and the remote as a pointer and you have to smash your bunny's head as many times as you can in a given time (30 seconds I think it was). When the time is up, each of the bunnies start growing a massive lump on the heads from the hits you've given them with the hammer, and whoever's bunny has the biggest lump wins!!! (LOL!!) The funny bit is seeing your friends trying to hold a steady pose whilst aiming at their bunny's head with the remote whilst making the "hammering" gesture with the nunchuck as fast as they can - the winner tends to be the person who can restrain from cracking up as it is actually quite tricky to hit the bunny on the head!
Another game that is worth mentioning is one where you take in turns to feed a bunny... the game itself consists on drawing out the edges of an item with the remote. Once you have completed drawing the item (when you have surrounded the item with your line drawing) the item becomes solid and the bunny eats it in a spectacularly aggressive fashion, making the funniest noises and faces you can't even imagine!!! You get more points the more accurate the drawing is.
I can't help but provide you with another example of an enjoyable game: you see 4 empty wooden cabin-toilets on a beautiful sunny beach. 4 raving "rabbids" run towards the toilets and occupy one each, closing the door behind them and making the sort of noises that suggest they're making the most of their time in there!!! There is a countdown from 3 and when the word GO appears rabbit after rabbit slowly try to open the doors as they're done doing their business. The objective of this game is to shut the doors before they open, and keep the bunnies stuck in the loo for as long as you can! They get temperamental and aggressive as the time goes by, and the longer they stay the more impatient they become, trying to open the doors quickly and aggressively. You aim at the door with your remote and you close them by swinging the nunchuck. By the time a minute has passed (my record) you will be facing 4 rabid bunnies that are constantly trying to kick the doors open, and very soon you'll find one has finally managed to swing the door open and throws the PLUNGER at you!!!! this indicates the game is over. The winner is the person who holds the bunnies locked in the longest!!!
The reason for which I have put 4 stars is the graphics.
Like most games, give it a go before purchasing it, but rest assured: Laughter is guaranteed! Furthermore if you have 4 people willing to have a laugh this is it!
Lost interest over time February 11, 2008
This game will have more appeal to young kids -than hardened gamers.
I only play games when i find something i really like - and although this is good fun - i have only played on and off and since getting resident evil 2 months a go i haven't touched it.
The dancing bunnies are great - and the plunger shooting is good fun - but there is a lack of depth - so it can get tiring quite easily.
some of the game are just so frustrating they get beyond entertainment and you just end up avoiding them when you can.
Although there is a 2 player option - I feel this could have been developed a bit more.
Probably has more longievity for younger kids - i feel it wears thin a bit too quick - it can be good fun though!!!!
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