This game, standing on its own, can be fun most of the time. It's a minigame collection, some are quite good and playable, and others are simply just frustrating. The major flaw with this game, is the controls. Released as a launch title for the Wii [citation needed], or an early title anyway, playing the game, you can clearly see that most of the game was made with motion controls in mind. There's nothing wrong with this, but playing on the PC, with a keyboard and mouse, some minigames just feel awkward and strange to play and usually lead to frustration. To counter this, you can use an Xbox 360 controller and it works well. But there was a fatal flaw while including the controller support, due to how the game is set out. You play as Rayman, having been captured by the zany Rabbids. Each day, you go out of your cell to a colosseum, where you can go through one of four paths, each leading to a unique minigame. You can complete 3 to progress, but completing all 4 will get you a bonus item, whether it be a costume for Rayman to wear, or a piece of music to listen to in your cell. Once the day is over, the game autosaves. Remember that fatal flaw I mentioned? This is what I'm talking about. When you plug in a controller, you have to go to the main menu and change a setting to change your input to the controller. Essentially what this means is that for each day you have to decide whether to use a KB+M or a controller, as it only autosaves at the end of a day, and this can be awful if there are minigames in the day that are difficult for one input, and another minigame is difficult for the other. I am slightly biased as this game is very nostalgic for me, hence the four star review, but without the nostalgia, this game would probably get a 3 star review. If you look past the control issues and the fact it kind of obliterated the Rayman franchise into a pit of eternal darkness (oops), you might have a nice game on your hands.
While in my opinion, Fallout 3 isn't nearly as good as Fallout: New Vegas by a long shot, it is still a fantastic game and should be played without a doubt. I would say if you're looking to get into the Fallout franchise, I would get Fallout 1, 2, 3 and New Vegas. But regardless, if you're thinking of getting this game on PC, the GOG version is definitely the way to go. It has several features missing from the other versions which make the game less painful to play. For example, the original versions of this game only allowed you to use 1 core of your CPU at any time, meaning you could have far greater performance locked away because of a single line in an ini file, and this version fixes this. Another great reason to get it is that it's the only version of the game that is completely DRM free, meaning you can finally play the game without GFWL, praise the gods, and the only remnant of its existence is a "LIVE" button on the main menu that does absolutely nothing. It's also surprisingly stable, the only times its crashed (after 8 hours of playtime as of review) is when I've installed mods, probably just me though, as I seem to never get mods to work, and whenever I alt-tab, which is sad, but I guess I have to deal with it. Overall, great game and great version, definitely would recommend along with New Vegas.
