[Chernabog]

Originally Posted by Nephythys

Have you heard or seen any of the supposed uproar that the zombies are black- so claims of racism are starting up.

Are you serious?? So we can have Spanish villains (Re4), German villains, South American Villains but somehow African villains are off-limits? Video games can't be set in Africa? (And, if Re4 continues on the theme of the not-zombies that are create by infestation with the Las Plagas parasite or by other means, the villagers are actually victims controlled by another entity).

But to play devil's advocate, if there was a parasite/zombie infestation of a Jewish settlement and you ran around killing zombies there, I might not look at it the same way.

I'm Christian, not offended- could care less. People are idiots- doesn't change what I believe.

haha ok cool, I just saw that and went.. woah! So wrong!

Oh good I am not the only one who thinks that.

There's a Ray Harryhausen flick called "20 Million Miles to Earth" where there's a group of Italian villagers who stumble upon a creature brought to earth from Venus -- and they all have that ridiculously stereotypical Italian accent. I just wanted to strangle them.

Look-a ata da ting-a we-a found-a inna da watah!

Cripes.

My game playing has suffered lately-been spending most of my time playing Mario Party DS. Last thing I played on the Wii was a Mario Party 8 game with the kids-have not picked up Galaxy for weeks

I am hoping for more play time with the holidays coming up.

I was thinking of getting Mario Party 8 because I don't really have any good party games per se. I popped in Rayman's Raving Rabbids 2 last night and while I haven't checked out the multiplayer mode yet, it is definitely not as good as the first one. I mean, the rabbids are there, and they are funny as heck, but they made some missteps as far as how the game is set up and the quality of the minigames. Honestly, there are too many minigames where you cannot pay attention to what is happening on the rest of the screen with the rabbids, because you're staring at a corner trying to match your Wiimote/nunchuck motions to little icons. That didn't happen in the first one... and a lot of the mini games arent satisfying as a result.

Also, they basically took out the storyline. So far it is all just series of mini games, which the first one was too, but at least it seemed like you were working towards a goal. AND they took out stuff like, even the titles aren't as good -- something in RRR1 which would be titled "Bunnies don't like to drive cars" would be titled "Car Race" in RRR2. Descriptive, yes, but not cutesy.

There are "rail shooter" sequences like in the first one, except that before it was moving thru CG sets with quick reloads, and you could grab and throw bunnies that got too close. Now, you have rail shooter sequences thru real video settings, with the bunnies jumping out at all directions, it takes a few seconds to do each reload, and you can't grab the bunnies. It is more difficult, less cute, and less fun.

Maybe the party game stuff will be fun, but honestly, the single player mode isn't recommended (whereas I would definitely recommend RRR1). Worth a rental, perhaps, but not a purchase.