Rainbow Islands Evolution
Rainbow Islands Evolution is a game in the Bubble Bobble series. The game follows the same vertical-scrolling system from the original, but it expands to a third dimension as there are platforms in the…
Rainbow Islands Evolution is a platform, released 24 February 2008 on PlayStation Portable.
What Rainbow Islands Evolution is
Rainbow Islands Evolution was released in 2008. It is available on PlayStation Portable only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Bub and Bob, the two main characters in the series, are against an evil recording company that seeks to pollute the Rainbow Islands' atmosphere by creating constant musical noise, therefore wilting the flora and mutating the fauna. In this game, Bub and Bob use a hurdy-gurdy (an old European musical instrument) as a weapon to create the rainbows.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Bubble Bobble series
Rainbow Islands Evolution is the 68th of 95 entries we hold in the Bubble Bobble series. It arrived 9 months after Bust a Move Online. The next entry was Space Bust-A-Move in 2008. Its critic score of 40 is 28 points below the series average of 68. The highest-rated entry is Space Bust-A-Move at 100.
How it was received
Rainbow Islands Evolution holds a critic score of 40 out of 100. That places it above 3% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 25 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Rainbow Islands Evolution launched on 24 February 2008, within three weeks of God of War: Chains of Olympus, Audiosurf, Bully: Scholarship Edition and Sins of a Solar Empire. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: God of War: Chains of Olympus, Audiosurf, Bully: Scholarship Edition, Sins of a Solar Empire.
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