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Raving Rabbids Travel in Time to Feature Online Play, MotionPlus

by Neal Ronaghan - June 29, 2010, 10:57 am EDT
Total comments: 21 Source: (Press Release)

The Rabbids are traveling back in time to when their games were mini-game collections.

Ubisoft Paris is developing the next Rabbids game, called Raving Rabbids Travel in Time, which is apparently a mini-game collection like the first three games in the series.

Revealed at E3 2010, Travel in Time is adding online play and MotionPlus support to the series. Players can compete in more than 20 games with five gameplay types with up-to-four players on one console or online. Additionally, MotionPlus support is optional for several games, promising more precision. Travel in Time can also be linked to a Facebook profile so players can compare scores with their friends.

The main menu is an interactive museum where you can play mini-games in which the Rabbids dance and sing. There are also more than 30 different costumed Rabbids to play with.

The game's hook is that the Rabbids are traveling through time, and players might be able to decide how the rascally creatures change the past. It will feature events such as the discovery of fire, the breaking of the Sphinx's nose, and the first step on the moon.

Raving Rabbids Travel in Time is set for a November 11 release.

Talkback

Mop it upJune 29, 2010

Huh, that's weird. I thought this would be another platforming game like Rabbids Go Home. There's already been three party games, and I don't think Motion Plus support and an online mode is enough to get me interested. I guess we'll see.

PeachylalaJune 30, 2010

UBI, what the frack. Rabbids Go Home had me in stitches, and then you do this?

Stop trolling, please. Beyond Good and Evil 2 shouldn't get funded by crappy Wii projects despite the fact we haven't heard anything about it in two years.

KDR_11kJune 30, 2010

Quote from: Peachylala

despite the fact we haven't heard anything about it in two years.

Pay some attention!

BlackNMild2k1June 30, 2010

Quote from: KDR_11k

Quote from: Peachylala

despite the fact we haven't heard anything about it in two years.

Pay some attention!

You have to excuse him. No one posted that news in the forum and I only PM'd to an interested mod on the site several days ago, so he might not've known about it if he gets most of his gaming news from this forum.

PeachylalaJune 30, 2010

Black hit the nail on the head.

TJ SpykeJune 30, 2010

Peach, the Rabbids games have been pretty good. Why do you assume a game that was just announced a week or so ago will be bad?

BlackNMild2k1June 30, 2010

Quote from: TJ

Peach, the Rabbids games have been pretty good. Why do you assume a game that was just announced a week or so ago will be bad?

Because it will be their 4th or 5th Rabbids mini-game fiesta and we don't want another sub-par party game. We have enough of those. Another platformer in the Go Home series would have been better.

TJ SpykeJune 30, 2010

That has nothing to do with quality though. Peach assumes the game will be crappy.

BlackNMild2k1June 30, 2010

Quote from: TJ

That has nothing to do with quality though. Peach assumes the game will be crappy.

Have you played the last 3 or 4 Rabbids party games?

I own 2 or 3 of them (I only bought the 1st, the rest was a gift) and another party game is nothing to look forward to.

PeachylalaJune 30, 2010

I didn't assume anything, this is just typical UBI BS that we've sat through for the last three years. I can imagine the meeting for this game being announced going like this:

Guy: Say Boss, can we make another Rabbids Go Home type game with the Rabbids?
Boss: No, I'd rather have you make another mini-game package with the Rabbids.
Guy: But we made four of them already...
Boss: But it will be different this time! It will use the Wii MotionPlus!
Guy: How will that make it better then Rabbids Go Home?
Boss: It won't! Casual gamers can't tell the difference! Now then, should we make a Red Steel game on rails?

broodwarsJune 30, 2010

Ok, this is getting sad with regards to Motion+.  After this game releases, Ubisoft will have used it in as many games as Nintendo (Wii Sports Resort and Zelda: Skyward Sword).  That's how sad the state of Motion+ is, when we can say Ubisoft has given it as much support as Nintendo.

Mop it upJune 30, 2010

To put that into context, Ubisoft has published more than twice as many Wii games as Nintendo. So, what is your point? That support = effort? Ubisoft is a better publisher than Nintendo?

BlackNMild2k1June 30, 2010

EA has more support with TW 10/11 & GST

broodwarsJuly 01, 2010

Quote from: Mop

To put that into context, Ubisoft has published more than twice as many Wii games as Nintendo. So, what is your point? That support = effort? Ubisoft is a better publisher than Nintendo?


That the worst publisher on Wii has put just as much effort into supporting Motion+ as Nintendo has.  That's just sad.

Academy of terrible disappointment Champions and Avatar also used MotionPlus. Ubisoft > Nintendo = confirmed.

I can't imagine the use of MotionPlus being any more than a throwaway effort. Ubisoft puts in DSi camera bullshit, MotionPlus support, Balance Board support, etc. in whatever games they can so they can the stupid logo on the box.

The Tetris Party people were actually seeing how many of those logos they could get on the box.

Mop it upJuly 01, 2010

Quote from: broodwars

Quote from: Mop

To put that into context, Ubisoft has published more than twice as many Wii games as Nintendo. So, what is your point? That support = effort? Ubisoft is a better publisher than Nintendo?


That the worst publisher on Wii has put just as much effort into supporting Motion+ as Nintendo has.  That's just sad.

I disagree with several points. Firstlly, Ubisoft isn't the worst publisher on Wii, something like Zoo Games probably takes that. Secondly, none of Ubisoft's Motion Plus games match the quality of Nintendo's two games, so they haven't put in more effort.

Also, FlingSmash is from Nintendo and uses Motion Plus. Yeah, 3 isn't much of a bigger number than 2... but it's something.

Yo! Remember when I said Ubisoft had a bunch games that supported MotionPlus?

Quote from: NWR_Neal

Academy of terrible disappointment Champions and Avatar also used MotionPlus. Ubisoft > Nintendo = confirmed.

I can't imagine the use of MotionPlus being any more than a throwaway effort. Ubisoft puts in DSi camera bullshit, MotionPlus support, Balance Board support, etc. in whatever games they can so they can the stupid logo on the box.

Red Steel 2 and Rabbids Return to Mini-Game Land aren't the only two MotionPlus games made by them.

Mop it upJuly 01, 2010

I don't know if that post was directed at me, but if it was, I'm not saying anything about the amount of games Ubisoft has released. I know they've released more Motion Plus games than Nintendo, and they've also released more than twice as many Wii games overall. What I am saying, is that the quality of Wii Sports Resort is higher than any of the Motion Plus games Ubisoft has published, and Zelda and FlingSmash both appear to be top-notch games, also superior to Ubisoft. So, because of that, I don't think Ubisoft has put in more effort simply because they have released more games.

It kind of was, but I misinterpreted what you said. My bad for being a jerk. I thought you were saying that 3 (the amount of Nintendo WMP games) is higher than 2 (the amount of Ubisoft games).

Regardless, Ubisoft has one MotionPlus game with "effort" put into it, and that is Red Steel 2.

Mop it upJuly 03, 2010

That's all right mate, what I said was kind of vague, I can see how it could be misinterpreted.

Red Steel 2 does look good, I will have to try it out.

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