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Rabbids Go Home

ESRB Rating:
ESRB Rating Summary
E10+ Cartoon Violence
Crude Humor
Mild Language
Mild Suggestive Themes
Tobacco Reference
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Game System: Wii
Publisher: Ubisoft
Players: 2
Family Friendly Video Games Approved
Family Friendliness: Rabbids Go Home is a fun game, and it can be enjoyed by a family, but not in the traditional sense.  If you’re okay with the third-grade level humor, then feel free to gather the family around to watch each other play their way through.  Unlike other Rabbid games which were more of a party-style affair, Rabbids Go Home puts one player as the main focus, while a second player can go along for the ride as a helper.

Highlights:
-- The songs and style of this game are very unique, and are sort of comparable to a catchy tune that gets stuck in your head.  If you start playing through this game, you may find yourself thinking about the rabbids even when you’re not playing.

-- Shaking the Wii-mote to get the Rabbids to yell is really fun

-- This is a really fun single player game, and great for watch-over-the-shoulder gameplay where a parent could watch their older kids (or take on the second player “helper” role)
Lowlights:
-- Even though the box says it’s two player, this really is a one-player game with an opportunity for a second player to help.  That doesn’t mean it’s not still entertaining to play together, but you’ll need to make sure that the person in the “helper” role is okay with that.
-- Lack of in-level saves is frustrating.  You might find yourself playing for 10 minutes and need to step away, and will end up having to go way back to a checkpoint.  Make sure you’ve got 10-15 minutes before starting a new level.

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Game Details:

Rabbids Go Home is a wacky game, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing.  These silly rabbids are endearingly obnoxious, with their grunts, groans, screams and affinity for bathroom humor.  The premise of the game is that the Rabbids are quickly wheeling their grocery cart around to gather as many “things” as possible to build a tower to the moon.  And “things” is really just as random as that may sound, because they may pick up remote control cars, soda cans, people’s clothing or whatever else they can find laying around.

Ultimately, Rabbids Go Home is a single-player-game.  The opportunities for playing the game together involve a two-player mode, which is really nothing more than a player with a second Wii-mote pointing their cursor at the screen to help pick up more “things” for the Rabbids.  This game can still be enjoyed together, but not in the traditional sense of a family gathering around the TV to play at the same time, but rather where a parent and/or sibling may watch another one play the game and laugh along with what’s happening onscreen.

The Rabbids don’t really speak English, but rather communicate with big gestures, loud screams or funny grunts.  They also have a seven-year-old boy’s level of bathroom humor, which actually most dads (and some moms) probably do, too.  But if that kind of thing is offputting for your family, you probably won’t enjoy this game.

Rabbids Go Home is a fun game, and it can be enjoyed by a family, but not in the traditional sense .  If you’re okay with the third-grade level humor, then feel free to gather the family around to watch each other play their way through.  Unlike other Rabbid games which were more of a party-style affair, Rabbids Go Home puts one player as the main focus, while a second player can go along for the ride as a helper.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM COMPANY'S FACT SHEET
The Rabbids’ first comedy-adventure will take them to the moon or bust!  As usual, they have an infallible plan:  collect all the human Stuff they can find, heap it onto a giant Pile and climb to the moon… Not so fast! The Humans revolt and become Verminators to exterminate the Rabbid varmints and defend their precious Stuff:  ‘Rabbids Go Home!’

Key Features

• The Rabbids’ First Comedy-Adventure
Control two Raving Rabbids pushing a shopping cart and cause mayhem in a world full of uptight humans with shopping on the brain. Collect varying sizes ofstuff needed to reach the moon.

• Make a huge mess and provoke hilarious situations in over 15 striking game environments
Scour through supermarkets, race across rooftops, jet past airports and boost through the Bayou, visiting the game’s unique take on everyday places.

• Play over 40 missions
Race, chase, boost and generally run amok, while scaring the humans right down to their undies - literally! Ridicule reams of relentless enemies and their nasty pooches in an increasingly paranoid world of Rabbid-haters.

• Unique Art Direction
Encounter a cast of colorful, oddball characters and explore a remarkable parody of the modern world as if you were living inside an interactive cartoon!

• Variety of Gameplay
Soup-up your shopping cart with a Jet Ski, an airplane reactor, ora hospital Bubble Bed, to wreak MORE havoc everywhere you turn! Learn to pilot your cart while boosting, jumping, gliding, floating and flying.

• In Ze Remote
Gobble-up Rabbids inside your Wii Remote and customize your very own Rabbid avatars to play with instantaneously in-game!

• Talented and highly creative team
Rabbids Go Home is being developed by the Ubisoft Montpellier Studio who was responsible for high-profile games like “Beyond Good & Evil”, “King Kong, the official game of the movie”, and the first “Rayman Raving Rabbids.”

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