Fully narrative Rabbids spin-off, abandoning mini-games for a platforming adventure. Rabbids want to return to the Moon by stacking objects up to it, so they collect everything from a rolling cart. Wacky art direction, signature absurd humor, zany atmosphere. Wiimote for cart driving, varied exploration. More inventive than usual Rabbids, worth discovering for its originality. Fun and creative.
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Party / Minigame4 players7+
Description
Adventure game by Ubisoft Paris and Ubisoft, Europe November 2009. The Raving Rabbids are bored in the human world and decide to go home. Their absurd and noisy journey through a supermarket and American countryside to find a rocket pits them against exasperated humans. Surrealist and chaotic Rabbids humor, Wiimote action sequences and devastated American pop culture settings. First story-driven Rabbids game.
Rabbids Go Home review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
4/5
Music
★★★★★
"Excellent"
3/5
Story
★★★★★
"Solid"
Everything is drawn at shopping-trolley height. Ubisoft Paris builds its sets out of enlarged supermarket objects, toothbrushes, tins, shoes, and treats humans as slumped giants seen from below, reduced to legs and chins. The pop palette, blunt and flat, finishes turning the world into one immense aisle waiting to be stripped.
Screams stand in for singing. The Rabbids cover well-known tunes by bawling them on a single syllable, backed by deliberately kitsch lounge arrangements, accordion, electric organ, pinched brass. The device could have been a mere joke, but the writing takes care over the transitions and ends up producing a real album, funny and oddly catchy.
An Ubisoft spin-off dropping the mini-game collection for a real adventure, Rabbids Go Home follows the wacky rabbits pushing a shopping cart through town to pile up a heap of objects all the way to the Moon. The absurd humour, the unbridled energy and the inventive pace driven by the Wiimote make it the most accomplished and funniest of the Rabbids games. The slightly uneven production and the short length remain its limits. A joyful title for fans of offbeat humour and energetic family games.
