Ubi Soft’s internationally renowned action/adventure platform video game hero, Rayman, is making a return to the games arena with "Rayman 2: The Great Escape" released on 29th October for Nintendo 64 and on 22nd October on PC CD-ROM. Millions of fans have been anxiously awaiting the follow up to the best selling original including Steven Spielberg and his children who were recently seen at the Electronic Entertainment Expo computer trade show sneaking a peak at the sequel!
The popularity of the Rayman character has now been developed into a multi-million dollar computer animated TV series. "Rayman: The Animated Series" is scheduled for airing next year, and it looks like there is no stopping the loveable freedom fighter from world-wide domination! The series will include 13 episodes where viewers can share in the hilarious exploits of the multi-talented hero. These episodes contain the acclaimed graphics and detailed 3D modelling which are already included in the game Rayman 2: The Great Escape.
Rayman 2 is the long-awaited follow-up to 1995’s 2D-platform action/adventure game, Rayman. The character’s success is demonstrated by consistent appearance in the games charts for almost 4 years and sales of over 4 ¼ million. Building on this, Rayman has gone fully 3D and is set to compete against the likes of other popular platform videogame heroes including Crash Bandicoot, Sonic the Hedgehog and Spyro the Dragon.
In Rayman 2: The Great Escape, the invincible Rayman hails from another galaxy that’s under attack from renegade space pirates who’ve kidnapped and enslaved his friends. The objective is to help Rayman free his friends by any means possible. The game is played from both a third-person and first-person perspective (giving an infinite number of camera angles positioned around Rayman).
Whilst original Rayman was originally aimed at young children who were avid PlayStation aficionados, the forthcoming Nintendo sequel is designed to appeal to audiences who are already familiar with the likes of Nintendo’s biggest star Super Mario. Cleverly, the PC release is targeted to the older gamer where the metamorphosis from 2D to 3D platform game complete with 3D accelerated graphics, cinematic camera angles and lightning speed gameplay can be showed off to best effect.
"Back in 1995 we really didn’t have any idea what kind of impact the Rayman brand would have on youth culture," says Ubi Soft’s Managing Director, Graham Chambers, "but when we began to see the appeal the character had on PlayStation, that’s when we began to consider its wider potential. Inevitably we came to the realisation that we could adapt the Rayman character into a full-fledged computer animated TV series."
Young or old, over the next four months there will be no escaping the loveable cartoon video game character that continues to entertain and charm video-gamers around the globe. In short, Rayman is going mass market. Ubi Soft is tipping Rayman as a household computer game icon that will be up there fighting it out for shelf space in the high street.
The popularity of the Rayman character has now been developed into a multi-million dollar computer animated TV series. "Rayman: The Animated Series" is scheduled for airing next year, and it looks like there is no stopping the loveable freedom fighter from world-wide domination! The series will include 13 episodes where viewers can share in the hilarious exploits of the multi-talented hero. These episodes contain the acclaimed graphics and detailed 3D modelling which are already included in the game Rayman 2: The Great Escape.
Rayman 2 is the long-awaited follow-up to 1995’s 2D-platform action/adventure game, Rayman. The character’s success is demonstrated by consistent appearance in the games charts for almost 4 years and sales of over 4 ¼ million. Building on this, Rayman has gone fully 3D and is set to compete against the likes of other popular platform videogame heroes including Crash Bandicoot, Sonic the Hedgehog and Spyro the Dragon.
In Rayman 2: The Great Escape, the invincible Rayman hails from another galaxy that’s under attack from renegade space pirates who’ve kidnapped and enslaved his friends. The objective is to help Rayman free his friends by any means possible. The game is played from both a third-person and first-person perspective (giving an infinite number of camera angles positioned around Rayman).
Whilst original Rayman was originally aimed at young children who were avid PlayStation aficionados, the forthcoming Nintendo sequel is designed to appeal to audiences who are already familiar with the likes of Nintendo’s biggest star Super Mario. Cleverly, the PC release is targeted to the older gamer where the metamorphosis from 2D to 3D platform game complete with 3D accelerated graphics, cinematic camera angles and lightning speed gameplay can be showed off to best effect.
"Back in 1995 we really didn’t have any idea what kind of impact the Rayman brand would have on youth culture," says Ubi Soft’s Managing Director, Graham Chambers, "but when we began to see the appeal the character had on PlayStation, that’s when we began to consider its wider potential. Inevitably we came to the realisation that we could adapt the Rayman character into a full-fledged computer animated TV series."
Young or old, over the next four months there will be no escaping the loveable cartoon video game character that continues to entertain and charm video-gamers around the globe. In short, Rayman is going mass market. Ubi Soft is tipping Rayman as a household computer game icon that will be up there fighting it out for shelf space in the high street.
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