![]() "Hasbro Family Game Night" (Electronic Arts, for the Wii, $39.95 PlayStation 2, $29.95): Hard to believe, but there was once a time when people played games that weren't connected to a TV set. The problem is that the camera doesn't do a very good job of separating players from background objects, so you usually end up with disconnected body parts floating around the screen.Įven if you have the patience to sort out the technical issues, the games in "Movies" are slow-paced, repetitive and just not much fun. ![]() The premise here is that you're performing in a B-movie, so you need to obey the director's demands, perhaps swatting at monsters or running from villains. This one builds on a gimmick: the Xbox Live Vision Camera, which lets you insert video of yourself into the game. "You're in the Movies" (Codemasters, for the Xbox 360, $69.99): Minigame anthologies are less common on the Xbox. Yes, at long last you can control a game - say, tobogganing down a mountain on a wildebeest - with your rear end. Some of them use the Wii Balance Board, which you may be asked to sit on. This time, the bunnies have invaded Rayman's TV set, careening through an assortment of TV parodies, from trashy reality shows to music videos to dramas like "Prison Fake." There are a few duds, like an uninspired "Project Runway" knockoff, but about 90 percent of the minigames are keepers. Like too many other Wii products, the "Rabbids" titles are collections of minigames, but they bring welcome doses of character and chaos to the increasingly stale genre. "Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party" (Ubisoft, for the Wii, $49.99): Ubisoft's screaming, madcap rabbits have become regulars on the Wii over the last three years. While "Fallout 3," for example, is rooted in post-apocalyptic science fiction, it also draws from 1940s music, splatter movies and "Dungeons & Dragons." The less ambitious games reviewed here display their influences right in their titles. Literature, music, art and film all get jumbled together in this relatively new medium, but even that isn't enough: Designers have to figure out how to make the whole package interactive as well. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Like so many American creations - baseball, comic books, rock 'n' roll - the video game is a mongrel art form. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content. ![]()
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