Rayman Raving Rabbid Views

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Rayman Raving Rabbids, known in French as Rayman contre les Lapins Crétins (literally Rayman against the Moronic Rabbits ), is a spinoff in the Rayman series released by the French company Ubisoft as a Wii launch title. The game consists of over 70 minigames. The game is primarily designed with the Wii Remote in mind, but is also available on PC, PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, and Xbox 360. Ubisoft released a sequel to the game, Rayman Raving Rabbids 2, in November 2007, and released the third game in the series, Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party in November 2008. The fourth game in the series, Rabbids Go Home was released in 2009, though only on the Wii and DS systems, and a the fifth game Raving Rabbids: Travel in Time was released in 2010.

The Rabbids are the common enemy in this game. Their technology varies from advanced giant robots to close combat tools such as plungers and feather dusters. Characters do not have the voice acting that was first used in Rayman 2. Instead, the voices become regular gibberish, except for a few words like Hey , Wow , or Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! (in Rayman Raving Rabbids Making of they said Action ). Besides the Rabbids, there are also warthogs, seen in the game's warthog races, and various other animals (such as sheep, cows and pigs). One of the minigames actually requires the player to point the members of the same species out.

The Wii version of Rayman Raving Rabbids was well received, but the Nintendo DS version was not. GameSpot gave the DS version a 5.9/10 and commented that the game had unsightly graphics and it was too short.[7] IGN gave the DS version a 6.5/10, and wondered why Rayman Raving Rabbids played so well, but looked so awful.[8]

One style of game that seems like it won't be underrepresented on the Wii is the party game, if the Wii's launch lineup is any indication. In Rayman Raving Rabbids, Ubisoft has taken its popular Rayman platformer franchise and turned it into a party game. There is a major single-player component to Raving Rabbids; however, this single-player game doesn't use any of the traditional Rayman gameplay. The entire package consists of different minigames, with many layered throughout the single-player game and also built out into multiplayer. Fortunately, this structure works just fine. The bulk of the game' ... Expand full review