Charlotte Griffin, a nursing senior, plays a new Wii video game, Raving Rabbits, at the Video Game College Tour of the Year Tuesday afternoon in the Oklahoma Memorial Union. Michelle Gray/The Daily

Students dining in the Oklahoma Memorial Union Tuesday night were likely surprised to find fellow classmates trying out a new video game they could play with their bottom.

The game, “Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party,” was developed by Ubisoft and was designed for the Nintendo Wii. It was brought to the Will Rogers Room behind the Union food court through Best Buy’s Game U College Tour. The game will be released Nov. 18.

Although many students were wary of the unusual game, those brave enough to give it a shot admitted it was addicting.

“I love it. It’s really interactive; you’re not just sitting on the couch playing a game. You’re moving your body and getting into it,” Charlotte Griffin, nursing senior, said.

In the game, you sit on a balance board and use your weight distribution to control a toboggan on screen. The board is a Wii accessory designed to get players moving.

“It’s the first game you can play with your butt — that’s the tagline. Wherever you put your weight determines how you turn, and if you lean back, it goes faster,” said Mike Cavi, Game U coordinator.

A large crowd was also drawn to the Xbox 360 game “Gears of War 2,” which will see a Nov. 7 release. Students packed around the televisions to get a taste of what the sequel would be like.

Jacob Ryan, history freshman, saw the group gathered and came over specifically to see if “Gears of War 2” was available to play. After playing it for a while, he concluded that it was better than the original.

“It’s amazing,” he said. “A lot of the lag issues from the last game were fixed. It’s more fluid.”

Although “Gears” was intended to be the main draw of the event, several other popular video games were set up for students to try, including “Rock Band 2” and “Saints Row 2.”

The Game U tour aims to “showcase new games and technologies,” Cavi said.

OU was the ninth stop on the campus tour. The tour has never set up on the OU campus before, said Teara Flagg, graduate assistant to the Union Programming Board.

“It’s a new place for them to go, and it’s something new that we can bring to the campus,” Flagg said.