Rabbits are, let's face it, a little whack. Ubisoft knows this from genius predecessors such as Monthy Python. The genius British comedians knew how to capture the humorous talent of fuzzy little rabbits in Monthy Python and the Holy Grail. I'm sure the people of Ubisoft took good notice of them. Rayman Raving Rabbids is without a doubt one of the funniest games I played in years. Those crazy rabbits are immortal characters. We haven't seen the last of them, that's for sure. Simple and effective: two key word to describe the genius about these folks. I could talk about it for hours.

Humour: another keyword of Rayman Raving Rabbids. The kind of irrelevant nonsense you can only invent with a humongous joint. You start wondering what kind of acid the folk of Ubisoft were on. As you might already know, the game exists of various mini games. Our hero has been kidnapped by some strange looking rabbits. Now he has to fight for freedom in an arena of madness. You could compare some mini games with Wario Ware, while other are real original and completely hilarious ideas. I really liked that weird kind of comedy.

Some examples:


Per arena you get some sort of boss mission. This could be a shooter on rails, but also various pig races. The shooters on rails are very well made. They are almost as exiting as a real shooter, sometimes even better. Who cares if you can't move yourself. It's just to bad Ubisoft choses to upgrade the difficulty of earlier mini games, instead of creating new games. Maybe something for the second Raving Rabbids?

The game is divided into 'Story' and 'Score'. You already know what's the meaning of those games. In story you must find a way to escape from the bunnies. Score gives you the opportunity to get higher points to acces hilarious videos and new challenges.

Rayman Raving Rabbids is also for Nintendo Wii. Naturally, because of the enhanced controls, this version got more attention than the PS2 version. That's reasonable, but it's safe to say the PS2 version is a great game on it's own. I just think the Wii version might even be slightly better.