These neurotic misshapen rabbits are back at it again, this time returning to the familiar minigame compilation formula after a break with Rabbids Go Home, which was a platforming adventure released last year. Raving Rabbids: Travel in Time once again stars these screaming rabbids, but they've now taken over a museum and can use a time washing machine to go back in time to change history. At a Ubisoft press event, we explored the rabbids' museum hub world and checked out a couple of wacky minigames on display.

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　　Before launching into the minigames, we walked around the red carpeted museum that acts as a hub for jumping into various minigame types. More than 25 minigames are included, and they are divided into categories such as cooperative games, flying games, and games that use the Wii MotionPlus. Up to four players can run around this area, chained together with a roll of toilet paper so that no one can run off alone. There is a staging area in the museum where you'll see a display of silhouettes of recognizable historical figures. By shaking the remote and banging your head against one of the silhouetted panels, you'll steal the silhouette's outfit. There are more than 30 different costumes to choose from, ranging from Spartan wear, to an Egyptian headdress, to a cowboy getup. This feature is obviously there to add a little flavor to your otherwise naked rabbid.

　　The first minigame we played involved time-traveling back to 1929 when the market crashed. Through a short, animated cutscene, the rabbids can change history as though there had never been a crash, and depending on how you complete the minigame that follows the cutscene, you'll see the real ending (which is the historically accurate one) or the silly rabbid version. This is a cooperative minigame where you're tethered to your partner with toilet paper and must work together to collect boxes around the level and dump them off at the counter. You can shake the remote to sabotage the other team and steal their boxes, or try to coordinate the best you can with your partner to get as many points as possible. You can't jump in this level, but you can climb onto your partner's head, which lets you grab the harder-to-reach boxes as well as get to higher platforms. It's frantic and crazy, but it's what the rabbids are known for. The build we played was still early, so we encountered quite a few bugs and glitches, which sometimes made it difficult to see where we were going.

　　What is new in Travel in Time is that you can now play online with up to four people. There's a matchmaking system that will help set up a game for you, so you don't have to go through the hassle of grabbing everyone's friend code (but you still can if you want to play with friends only).

　　Traveling through time via washing machine.

　　The other minigame that we played took us back in time to where Leonardo da Vinci was trying to capture the famous Mona Lisa on canvass. In the rabbids version, they manage to get her to crack a smile, at the expense of tearing up the famous painter's room. The minigame that ensued involved flying through what we assume are the streets of Italy, racing against the other rabbids to get to the finish line. As in other arcade racers, we could pick up objects to hinder our opponents as well as fly through hoops for bursts of speed.

　　These lovable creatures don't exactly have the best table manners, so there is a burp button assigned to the D pad. By pressing down, you can have these guys burp on command, but an even better use for the button is to get them to sing. In another area of the museum, you can have your rabbids line up in a row and "sing" along to pieces like "Blue Danube." The demo room was noisy, so it was difficult to hear how we sounded, but we can't imagine we sounded very good. Colored bars in different columns flowed downward onscreen, and we had to tilt the remote and nunchuk to move a small cursor around to catch the bars while holding down on the D pad to sing.

　　Even though it doesn't come as a surprise that the rabbids have gone back to the minigame formula, we were secretly hoping that it would be another adventure game that took place in exotic places and time periods throughout history. It looks as though Raving Rabbids: Travel in Time will be providing much entertainment for you and some friends in your living room, or online, when it ships exclusively for the Wii on November 9.