Review - Rayman Raving Rabbids
Rayman Raving Rabbids takes place when the well known armless hero Rayman is taken captive by Raving Rabbids (Rabbits). If you are looking for a typical Rayman adventure here, this isn’t it. Rayman Raving Rabbids is a series of minigames, presented as some sort of arena challenge that the evil rabbits are forcing Rayman to compete in.
Rayman Raving Rabbids has been released for a ton of platforms and has had average reviews around 75%. Most people say that it is a good
light and easy game. Nothing to get into, just start and go. One nice thing, is that the games was designed with Wii controls in mind. The game features a lot of motion and excitement, just like the Wii should. In fact, some critics have complained that the controls seem ‘tacked on’ for the other consoles. How is that for putting the shoe on the other foot.
After a successful fun through the arena, Rayman is awarded a plunger as a trophy. Rayman gets the idea to use the plungers to reach a very, very high window in his cell, so your task is to win him enough plungers to reach. In this quest for plungers you will be faces with a variety of minigames, all of which are pretty fun (although some are obviously fillers with no real content).
Throughout the game, very few of the minigames are repeated, except for a rhythm and song game which is quite fun and vaguely similar to DDR or guitar hero. The ‘boss’ minigame is often a shooter or a racing game. But aside from those, there is an amazing variety of games. Enough that the task of collecting 20 plungers isn’t all that tedious and stays quite fun.
One thing to criticize is the minigame setup as a whole. Why more minigames? Why not a full game. It looks like they put a good but of work into everything, so I’m just not sure about the format. In any case, I suppose it is fun enough, although I miss the old Rayman platform games.
In the games there is a good bit of content to unlock — including music and costumes — and the story and feel is a bit whimsical and comical. Many of the games boarder on the rude, which I guess is in style now a days so I guess I won’t complain. In any case, I enjoyed it, and got through it all.
Unfortunatenly, the games is solidly one player (something that Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 fixes). Me and my sisters still had fun passing around the remote. Come to think of it, all those minigames would have been thoroughly boring and mindless alone. In any case, if you need a ‘light’ game that you can pop in and play with friends, I would recommend Rayman, but like I said, it is only one player.
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