All rested up from his past adventures, Rayman is ready for action in a new dimension! Ruthless pirates have invaded the Glades of Dreams to capture and enslave Rayman’s friends. Will he save them? Only you can find out!
To free Rayman’s friends and reap the reward of their magical powers, defeat b...
All rested up from his past adventures, Rayman is ready for action in a new dimension! Ruthless pirates have invaded the Glades of Dreams to capture and enslave Rayman’s friends. Will he save them? Only you can find out!
To free Rayman’s friends and reap the reward of their magical powers, defeat barbaric pirates and gather the 4 masks of Polokus.
Send shock waves through your senses as you run, jump, fly, ride, water-ski and puzzle your way through 20 fantastical worlds and more than 40 hours of sheer fun and exhilaration.
The matchless French 2D platformer goes 3D in its astounding sequel
Amazing and well-polished gameplay mechanics assure a smooth and enjoyable experience throughout the entire game
One of the few really good platformers on the PC with diverse levels, colorful graphics, and catchy music
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Compatibility notice: Rayman 2: The Great Escape does not support Nvidia 7XX series of cards and requires version 310.70 or older drivers.
Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility
Recommended system requirements:
Compatibility notice: Rayman 2: The Great Escape does not support Nvidia 7XX series of cards and requires version 310.70 or older drivers.
Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility
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A classic plateformer game from the PS1/N64 Era, the game is really good, not too hard, not too easy with some moment that will require all your attention.
It's as classic as it get, jump around in different levels, find all the cage and destroy them, find all the lums, and defeat the pirate along the way.
Some minor point can be annoying, sometime the camera can get stuck in a corner and cannot move out. It's impossible to remap the control, so for French keyboard user it can be annoying and the newest controler (Xbox one for me) doesn't work for the game and I had to play throught only using keyboard (which is annoying, but far from being impossible, I finished the game 100% only using the keyboard)
Would recommend 100%
Could be an awesome, maybe one of the best games ever, if it was not for:
- terrible controls, keyboard mapping that cannot be changed in the game options, and placed in very uncomfortable way;
- treacherous camera that lives its own live and changes the angles whenever it like, making you fall to your death all the time.
- .... and the most of all, freaking levels with the freaking running rockets, each running with different speed so you cannot pick the correct timing, blowing up even if you landed successfully after your jump... On another rockets level, after like millions of attempts to beat it just dropped the game.
So, what could I mean by that? I wonder...
Rayman 2 is an old game. And it's cheaply priced. Which apparently means that the devs at Ubi Soft did the bare minimum for this re-release. (Assuming they did anything besides handing it to GOG.)
This means: It runs. Usually. But that's it. No fancy enhancements, and a lot of things just don't snap anymore like they used to be - like controller support.
Luckily, these things can be sorted out by a google search (or just looking into the forums here directly).
It's not difficult in the slightest and bam - the game runs in wider resolutions and regognizes my controller. So that makes it better by a longshot and it can even adjusted further apparently.
With that out of the way, what could I say about this game?
It's the first one I bought here, a second time now. It's my childhood and in many ways a very unique platformer - albeit a bit short. It basically puts you in a level and throws one awesome idea after another at you until it's done. For multiple levels - until you see the credits. Finishing everything to completion usually takes less than 5 hours. But I like it, it fits a nice evening and has a high replay value because of it. (I actually wanted to boot it up right now before I remembered that I wanted to write some reviews).
So all in all: Good artistic choices and well optimized (back in the day). But in classic Ubi manner, the game is more about working and less in polishing it through the end (litterally, the end). The final levels can get a bit disappointing, but only if you have too high standards and bitterness for the Rayman franchise.
So, gladly 5 stars. Again, port could be better, but at least they're not charging much. I would say it's still the best official version out there except the dreamcast one.
Rayman 2: The Great Escape more than earns the great, even though there is actually very little escape happening.
Colorful, stylized graphics that allow the game to stand the test of time, responsive controls (though I wish it had some custom keybindings support), a memorable soundtrack... the game is just as good as I remember it being back when I was a little boy.
together with a few mods,
-ray2fix
-remove pirate head drm
- hd textures
(using the rayman control panel program, run as admin)
the game runs great on windows 11 and looks awsome.
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