Raymond Raving Rabbids 2: 60%

Well I guess I'm finished with Rayman: Raving Rabbids 2, at least as finished as one can be with a game that has no story and no concrete end. The most only thing left for me to do is get the high score on every minigame but I'm not a completionist. I have to start off by saying that Rayman: Raving Rabbids did so much right the first time, that it's fairly disappointing to see the sequel just add a few more games and marginally improve multiplayer while skimping out on the rest.

The graphics in Raving Rabbids don't seem to be improved much over the previous title, meaning they remain about adequate. There are still jaggies around the Rabbid's bulbous heads and the menus are fairly bare bones. Besides that there's no slow down, no clipping, nothing really to say about the visuals.

There's not too much to say about the sound either. Raving Rabbids 2 really doesn't raise the bar from the first game. The music, noises and sounds effect remain at an appropriate quality level. Nothing too fancy here.

The story in this game is that the Rabbids decide on surfacing, taking over the world and… well I don't know where the story goes from there. It just seems a bunch of minigames that have themes from around the world with really no solid reason. There's more emphasis on co-operative play this time but it seems that plot took a back seat.

The slapstick and humorous antics that the Rabbids pull are still founds in spades throughout this game but gone, unfortunately, gone is the Ren & Stimpy-ish grotesque humor found in the first one. Besides more cooperative gameplay and simply more games, the only other improvement is that the Rabbids seem to be spoofing characters from recent movies, and games. As for the minigames themselves, they make good and somewhat original use of the Wii remote and much of the favorites from the first game remain. It seems the only reason to play the single player game is to unlock more costumes for Rayman and the Rabbids.

Well this review seems pretty bare but that's pretty much because the game itself is pretty bare. Rayman seems to have struck gold the first time but adding more games and more coop chances while skimping out on almost everything doesn't seem the correct formula to improve the series.

Review by Smerlus

Nometet.com says: 60%