You couldn’t say the same about some of the athletic events in the original RRR, which had your relatively fit correspondent collapsing on the sofa.Īnd the series style and sense of humour remains a major selling point. Ageing relatives might have to remove a jumper after the dancing competition, but they’re probably not going to have a coronary halfway through it. A few of the mini-games still suffer from over-complicated or over/under-sensitive controls, but in most cases they’re easy to pick up and play and the difficulty level is just about right for the average, not particularly athletic Wii owner. Ubisoft has also sorted out one of my biggest complaints about the first Raving Rabbids game by providing clear, step-by-step instructions on what you’re meant to be doing with the Wii remote and nunchuck. The game even has the sense to vary the pace a little, with less action-oriented games like Pimp My Rabbid, where you choose a costume to fulfil a set of odd requirements, offering a change from the frantic norm. A couple of the racing games are mediocre, but a downhill slalom on an upturned yak – beastie boarding, as the rabbids call it – is an entertaining skit on the SSX-style stunt racer. There’s some reasonably and familiar music, and if the versions aren’t original, they’re at least performed with a certain Raving Rabbid energy. New dancing and rhythm action games also work well, the latter involving some hectic waving of remote and nunchuk to simulate the moves being shown onscreen, and being probably as much fun to watch as humiliating to play. The shooting gallery games have always been highpoints of the series, and the ones included here are probably the best the Raving Rabbids have thrown up. We get a few duffers, with a series of mini-games reliant on rapidly drawing lines and symbols on the screen being particularly irritating, but also a few crackers. Well, as with any party game, the mini-games are a bit of a mixed bunch, but generally the strike rate is much higher than your average compilation. Really, that’s all there is to it.īut then, what more do you need? As long as the mini-games come thick and fast and provide enough entertainment, that’s really all you ask for from a game in this genre. Fill up enough of the timeslots and you unlock a new day, and so a new set of programmes and mini-games. Fourth – and this is going to be one of its biggest selling points for a lot of Wii owners – it’s one of the few games out there that makes use of the Wii Fit Balance Board (you know, that thing that’s been under your bed since the middle of May).įorget what semblance there is of a plotline all you need to know is that the Rabbids have now taken over TV, and that the single-player mode is all about working your way through a week of Rabbid-related TV madness, choosing a different channel – and so a different mini-game – for each of the timeslots in a day. Thirdly, it has its own distinctive style and quirky character. Secondly, it’s actually playable as a single-player game, meaning you won’t necessarily put it away as soon as January 1st rolls around. First, it’s a follow-up to one of the original Wii party games, and so has a certain amount of pedigree. Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party, however, has a lot more to recommend it than most entries in the genre. Unfortunately, the vast majority just aren’t any good, being personality-free mini-game collections which play like the video-gaming equivalent of a tin of cheap Christmas chocolates: for every tasty morcel there’s another that gums up your teeth or makes you grimace with mild disgust. Well, if there’s anything the Wii has no shortage of, it’s party games. But what do you do if you’re tired of Wii Sports, bored with Wii Play and not keen on the sound of Wii Music? Is there another game out there that might keep you and your guests entertained? With mates and relatives around there’s suddenly a good reason to get Nintendo’s little box hooked up again, replace the batteries in the remotes, and have a little fun. The Christmas/New Year holiday is the time of year when you feel glad to have a Wii.
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