Product Description

The mischievous bunnies are back in a hilarious sequel that is guaranteed to be even crazier and funnier than the first – and with even more wacky games! They've invaded the world of Rayman®, and now the insane Rabbids have a new objective: invade planet Earth! They have established their base at a shopping mall and begun training for their nastiest scheme yet. As part of this training, the Rabbids must carry out several missions around the globe to help them in an attempt to dominate the world. The Rabbids will also try to study human behavior by mimicking everything we do…but in the Rabbid sort of way, with no logic…of course. Back to battle the Rabbids and stop the invasion is Rayman, who will infiltrate the Rabbids by disguising himself as one of them.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #422 in Video Games
• Brand: UBI Soft
• Model: 17383
• Released on: 2007-11-13
• ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Dimensions: .55" h x 5.41" w x 7.50" l, .36 pounds

Features

• New wacky games : 60 brand-new games that spoof popular culture and are even wackier and crazier than those featured in the first Rayman Raving Rabbids.
• All-new party mode : Play co-op or battle your friends simultaneously with up to four players!
• Unique use of the Wii Remote™ : Discover new and innovative ways to play with eight types of gameplay, including shaking, precision, dexterity, and balance.
• Rock Out with the Rabbids : Use the Wii Remote as your guitar, drums, or mic as you create and listen to music from the most popular bands around.
• Customize Rayman and the Rabbids : Use more than 110 items including skins, hats, accessories, and clothes to dress Rayman, and to create your own Rabbid. Unleash your creativity with over 540K customization combinations.

Customer Reviews

Invasion Earth: A Rabbid Fan's Review!
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!!

Bittersweet..
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.

The best party game out there
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.