![]() ![]() Before attempting a downhill run in Beestie Boarding, you'll calibrate the board by sitting on it and lining up a reticle with the middle of the screen using pressure applied by your cheeks. The developers told us that at least 35 percent of the games in TV Party will include support for the balance board. Who, given the opportunity, wouldn't ride a bare-stomached gnu on its back down a ski slope? Trick names and the ensuing moves are ludicrous and include the "rodeo heel edge," "backside cheesy pogo," "safari two-step," "nosegrind," "da Vinci air," "inverted hairy beast," "halfcow trickflip," and "fakie backwards brown nose." The moves seem inspired by real-world snowboarding moves, as well as the crazy world inhabited by the game's protagonists, and even reminded us of the loony environs of Nickelodeon's Ren & Stimpy. ![]() While on your way down to the, erm, bottom, you'll score points by guiding your beast through checkpoints and, on harder difficulties, by picking up bonus points scattered along the way and by performing midair freestyle tricks off of ramps. Beestie Boarding involves (unsurprisingly, if you've played a Rabbids game before) skiing an upturned wildebeest down a slalom course while sitting your posterior down on the balance board. From what we've been told, Rayman himself will play more of a cameo part in TV Party than in previous games in the series.Īlthough the developers are planning to include over 50 mini (and not so mini) games-as well as bite-sized Warioware-esque games in the form of playable TV ads-in the final version, we were privy to only two games. The game's story mode takes place over the length of one week's TV schedule, and during the course of events you'll disrupt movies, music, fashion, dance, and sports segments, and even the ads themselves.much to Rayman's chagrin. Whereas Wii Fit is designed to use the balance board for fitness purposes, TV Party plans to use it purely to assist in the Rabbids' crazy games, although there could be potential to improve some gluteal muscle tone along the way. We got a chance to meet the development team at Ubisoft's Paris studio and see for ourselves how much fun can be had with the balance board and your buttocks (more on that later). However, this time around, the newly launched Wii Balance Board will be aiding and abetting their evil plans to hijack TV schedules. Those wascally wabbids are back again in another mischief-filled outing on the Nintendo Wii. ![]()
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