Ubisoft’s Rabbids might not be well perceived with the hardcore gamers, but it’s great for the younger audience. Making it one of few games to help keep the kids entertained during Christmas or at parties, best played in groups.
Rabbids Invasion The Interactive TV Show as it suggests in its title is more of a game show than you’re traditional video game, utilizing the Kinect for Xbox owners or the PlayStation Eye for PlayStation owners.
As the title suggests the game plays much like a TV Show, split into episodes the first season plays out atop 20-plus episodes from Rabbids Invasion first Season. Each episode is around ten minutes long, requiring you to only follow the on screen cues such as if a picture of an object appears on the screen first person to find that object wins some points or if the picture freezes and one of the Rabbids is highlighted first person to mimic his pose wins some points.
Very few activities bring players out of the show briefly, like those in which you control a cursor with your hand and move it around to swat flies or collect money floating through the air. Whoever scores the most points per episode wins the game, nice and simple which is ideal for motion games and younger audiences. These points are later added to a running tally that can be used to unlock new episodes and objects used in a little photo booth mini activity.
While technology has come a long way motion detection can sometimes be quite finicky, using the second generation Kinect on Xbox One, Kinect sometimes registered movements that weren’t even happening or failed to detect the movements correctly. That being said these moments were very few and once you got past them it was back to the sniggering and trying to get the correct poses.
That being said the point allocation seems to be pretty much random, while you might get five points for performing one action, then twenty points for performing the next.
Rabbids Invasion The Interactive TV Show is one of those rare games in which players of all skill levels can partake and have a few minutes of a laugh with the kids.