Following releases of party mini-game insanity, it seems Ubisoft is now taking another approach. Rabbids Go Home follows the happenings after the Rabbids’ amazing wild party in Television Party, as the window’s curtains open and the Rabbids discover that there’s a complete world outside to discover. Moreover, after all the fun, their initial instinct is to go home. Where is home? Well, they don’t exactly understand, but their decided instict is the moon. This leads the game’s heroes to begin dragging around a grocery cart, tossing stuff within to collect for a tall pile that should eventually make a towerthat arrives at the moon. In theory.
So that’s Rabbids Go Home sense for you. Anyway, many of us will be pleased to grasp that not like past games in the series, Rabbids Go Home is not a party game. Rather, it is a linear adventure. A “comedy adventure”, as Ubisoft has advertised it, which is quite fitting thinking the gameplay itself is positively hysterical. To describe it, it’s essentially a pair of Rabbids running throughout each level on some form of vehicle. Most of the time it’s the grocery cart, but often certain bizarre incidents will show up, like when the Rabbids snap off an airplane turbine and end up steering it round the stage.
Regarding the controls, movement is handled with the nunchuk’s analog. The A command is held to maintain high speed and B is held to make a small but speedy dash forward. Fighting itself is nearly non-existent, and it is usually more about manipulating the level rigorously and defeating those that confront you. Another methodto keep folk back is by waggling the Wii remote, which makes the Rabbids in and on the cart to yell and flap in a slightly horrifying manner.
So, what is the big excitement around Rabbids Go Home? Well, nearly each part of the graphical presentation is aimed toward making the player laugh. People walk and run about some stages, and when Rabbids flail and yell near them they often jump so severely that their clothes come off, and it’s feasible for the Rabbids to then pick them up and add them in the cart. When the Rabbids go hurtling over ramps and slides their faces are secured in a weird smile, but during being pursued by a formidable enemy, such as a dog with giant teeth, their faces produce a sheer apprehension that you cannot help but giggle at. One stage is almost entirely based on a powerful competition with a cow. You get the sense.
