Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1624 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: UBI Soft
• Released on: 2006-12-08
• Platform: Nintendo Wii

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

Manufacturer's Description
Developed by acclaimed game designer Michel Ancel, This new Rayman game features the funniest, zaniest, wackiest antics ever when the world of Rayman is threatened by a devastating invasion of demonic rabbits! With the help of magical creatures, Rayman must battle to save his world from the bunnies.

Tame various creatures such as Sharks, Eagles, Rhinos, Spiders, and Angelfish. Each has their own unique capabilities that Rayman will be able to use to battle against the evil rabbits. Help Rayman save his world from the demonic bunny rabbits. They are nasty, mischievous, insane, and completely out of control. There are several types of rabbits and each has their own whacked-out characteristics.

With huge free-roaming environments and epic landscapes that mix real and cartoon style.

Customer Reviews

Prepare for your wrists to ache!
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!
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.
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.