Metacritic Games

Rainbow Islands Evolution (Sony PSP)

Set in the Rainbow Islands, Bub and Bob are now under the shadow of an evil record company who is polluting the ecosystem with a constant, mass-produced musical dirge. With this cacophony causing the flora to wilt and the fauna to mutate into aggressive enemies, only Bub and Bob have the experience to take on the record company and its seven bosses, setting the stage for an entirely new adventure. The game environment has received a major overhaul. The strict vertical ascents of the original have been expanded and extrapolated into three dimensions, with each level's building-block platforms now following perspective and disappearing into the distance. As Bub and Bob negotiate the levels, these platforms will scroll to the forefront as they become accessible. This literally opens up a new dimension for the classic Rainbow Islands gameplay. [Amazon UK]

Rising Star Games
Platform
Players: 2
E (Everyone)
Developer: Digital Whip - Taito
Released January 24, 2008

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

47 / 100

Critic Reviews

60 GameZone
It's just a really strange, weird game that probably should have been redone with more care.
50 IGN
An overly cutesy attempt at improving things that ends up throwing in weird things that were never really needed.
45 Game Chronicles
The whole time I was playing this game I was thinking of ways to destroy it.
45 GameSpot
Rainbow Islands Evolution is the perfect example of how not to remake a popular franchise.
40 EuroGamer
Absolute masochists might be able to sift through the pointless junk crudely glued onto the Rainbow Islands concept, and manage to find enough of the original's appeal to justify the time and expense but in a world where Taito Legends is readily available, offering the rather wonderful untouched arcade classic along with many others worthy of your attention for a fraction of the price, why would you even want to bother with this garish mockery?
40 Playstation Official Magazine UK
Everything's been needlessly fiddled with so that it no longer makes sense. [March 2007, p.120]
40 VideoGamer
Rainbow Islands Evolution is a disappointment, and more of a devolution than its title would have you believe. It will likely only succeed in frustrating fans of the classic retro game, and confusing newcomers to the once joyous world of Bub and Bob.

CLOSE THIS WINDOW

©2008 CNET Networks Inc. All rights reserved.