Ashley Davis and I played Rabbids Go Home with only one expectation: it would be odd.

In this sense, our expectations were met.

Though we didn't really know what genre the game would be, or what its premise was, or how it'd play, we (after watching another player grab a Rabbid's head in what appeared to be a character customization menu, contort it using screws, and inflate one of his eyes using an air pump) played through what can only be described as Jackass...with bunnies.

Hit the jump for our impressions.

Ashley:  And I had always assumed it was a platformer. I think we were both quite a bit wrong.

Anthony:  Yeah. So, according to the dude at the booth, the plot is that the Rabbids believe they are from the moon (for some reason), and are now determined to build a tower of garbage to reach it.

Ashley:  That makes me a bit sad, but I like the Rabbids enough as characters to give a game starring them a shot. Because they are such strange creatures, there was sure to be interesting gameplay to compliment them.

Anthony:  Yeah, I love em. Fuck Rayman.

Ashley:  The booth guy told us that each level would play very differently than the last. The demo level that we played felt a lot like Katamari Damacy, except you are controlling two Rabbids in a shopping cart to collect random junk.

Anthony:  Yeah. You just sort of run into stuff using the analog stick to collect it, though you can't collect as much of the environment as you could in KD.

Ashley:  The booth guy liked that comment.

Anthony:  Pervo Katamari.

Ashley:  You can also knock smaall enemies, like dogs, into your cart after attacking them.

Anthony:  If you combined this game with the Milo demo from Lionhead, you'd have the ultimate To Catch a Predator dream game.

Ashley:  Well, the booth guy was French, so I couldn't quite understand what he was telling me to do through the loud music on the show floor. But from what I could understand, I really liked the controls.

Anthony:  It felt about as fluid as a game where one Rabbid pushes another around on a shopping cart could be.

Ashley:  I also found it a little dull after a while, but the level didn't last too long, and with the promises of each level playing differently, the game probably never wears out its welcome. Rabbids Go Home is about as close to its minigameish roots as it can be without actually being a minigame compilation.

Anthony:  And I really wanna know what the hell that guy was doing who kept contorting that Rabbid's face.

Ashley:  I believe that's the game's character creation mode that we saw. He was inflating and deflating the Rabbid's face to make him appear different in-game.

Anthony:  Right, because he looked like that in the cut scene we saw midway through where the Rabbid found a doll and started dancing and freaking the fuck out.

Ashley:  That's what I want to know the hell about. That was weird.

Anthony:  I guess the game reached its intended goal, then. It sufficiently confused me.

Ashley:  I wasn't initially very interested in the game, but I think it's going to stay up on my radar for now. It looks like it could be another great Wii game.

Anthony:  One of those few.

Ashley:  After three party games, I like that Ubisoft is taking the Rabbids in this direction.

Anthony:  Good enough.

Ashley:  Did you notice that one of the Rabbids is wearing nothing but a thong?

Anthony:  I didn't.

But thanks for putting that in my head.