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Rayman Legends for Xbox One, PS4 kills loading times thanks to power of new consoles

Ubisoft says technical ability of new consoles affords a "seamless experience"; release date brought forward to February 18.

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The Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions of Ubisoft's colorful platformer Rayman Legends will launch on February 18 in North America, one week ahead of their previously scheduled February 25 release dates, Ubisoft announced today on its blog. The game now launches in Europe on February 20.

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Rayman Legends was originally announced as a Wii U exclusive, but has since seen release on a multitude of platforms, including the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, and PlayStation Vita.

It is a sequel to 2011's Rayman Origins, which was widely praised by critics.

Rayman Legends for the Xbox One and PS4 will include numerous features and content not found in the other versions, including new Far Cry, Assassin's Creed, and Splinter Cell-inspired playable characters available to players in the Heroes Gallery.

In addition, both new versions of the game feature "even sharper" visuals thanks to the power of the Xbox One and PS4. The enhanced power of the new machines has also allowed Ubisoft to do away with loading times when players enter or exit a level, lead designer Emile Morel said.

"Jumping in and out of a level has never been faster and it's a great feeling to have such a seamless experience," Morel said. "Navigating in the game now feels smoother and your gaming experience is never stopped by loading transitions."

On the Xbox One, you'll be able to earn 10 time-limited achievements by completing a set of challenges in a limited amount of time, in this case one week. These are in addition to the existing standard achievements carried forward from the Xbox 360 version.

Meanwhile, the PS4 version of Rayman Legends uses the DualShock 4's touchpad to enable an all-new camera mode that players can use to snap screenshots and share them with friends. The game also employs the touchpad as a means to allow you to virtually scratch in-game tickets. A scratching sound will even emit from the DualShock 4.

Finally, the PS4 version of Rayman Legends includes Remote Play support, allowing users to play the full game on their PS Vita. For more on Rayman Legends, check out GameSpot's review.

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I've never played a Rayman game and faster loading times is no reason for me to try it for the first time.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> You never even played it when you were a kid....sad childhood.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> sad sad strange little man.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Well it was released in 1995 on PS1 (thanks wikipedia), I was 7. I at least played Crash Bandicoot and Mario 64, and later Sonic Adventure...

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I'd pay $500 to not wait 5 seconds for a loading screen. That's worth going next gen

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<< LINK REMOVED >> There are many, many, many other reasons. Faster loading times is just one of them.

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This game is maybe the only good thing to have ever been associated with the WiiU.

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My SNES games had no loading times. It was wonderful.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Yeah people seem to forget that.

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the wiiu version is far much better due to tablet the co op is more fun then any other console second i prefer vita version since rayman is the best game on the hand held

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Damn MS.. The amount of XB1 achievement overkill is just mind boggling. In many ways it's a tedious thing just to bring up, let alone follow it.. Holy shit I just unlocked another XB1 achievement for writing this shit.

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lol... went from a Wii U exclusive to out on ever thing imaginable lol.

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This probably isn't going to help overall game sales much. Ubisoft should have released it in February on Wii U and released the ports later on. It had NOTHING to compete with that month(lol Aliens) and the levels added with additional development time could have been released in an update(as they did with the Vita version). Pitting it against the likes of GTAV and other highly anticipated games was suicidal. These versions will probably play out like NFS:MW on Wii U - everyone who wanted to play it, already did on another system.

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All hail the mighty cloud.

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Great! Now just sell the game for $20 and you have yourselves a sale.

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I've played this with my nieces on PC and it works flawlessly with no load times. My PC is like a big powerful tablet that isn't portable these days. It uses a large SSD, and has no mechanical parts (similar to a tablet). It does have some large fans to keep things cool, but they are whisper quiet.

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So you can make loading times faster on these two but not on Wii U which is not as powerful as the others and can still load faster? wow.....


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@Artwark Agreed. Nintendo must have really ticked off these developers because they sure do treat the Wii U like garbage.


I like mine though.

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I love this game, however, Im pretty sure they could also kill loading times on the pc if they worked on it. But its ok really, the fact that they released it alongside consoles back in september makes up for it.

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I've been trying to Platinum Rayman Legends for about 2 months now. Only 500 points (about 3 weeks of daily challenges) left. Might be the hardest game I've ever platinumed, just because of the months of once-a-day grinding it requires...

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remember when cartridge consoles never had a loading time whatsoever…? if only making them were cheaper then blu-rays…

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Remember when cartridge games looked like blurry crap, and half the time had awful controls. I sure do, and don't miss it at all.

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They are probably fairly cheap now. I believe they are similar to USB Flash Drive and Solid State Drive memory. 4 to 8 GB might be feasible. I'm not sure about 30+ GB though. Nintendo still uses them for DS and 3DS.

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feel zie powah of dah next gen


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Shitty headline, stop feeding the "console wars", you are starting to make all articles sound like they are extensions of comment sections, rather then merit within the story itself. Both consoles have no loading time but PS4 is isolated as the powerhouse which "kills loading times"... because?


PS4 has added features, or PS4 allows more ways to play, valid reasons to have in headlines and they mention it in a article, PS4TW!!! kills loading time bestest eva! not so much in article. Besides it is an article about Rayman:Legends. why even make headlines about which console is better... weaker and weaker.

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I always thought it was funny how people limit themselves to one or two consoles for some silly, arbitrary reason. Such suffering they must endure to miss out on some amazing games. It is no wonder they come onto internet forums to bash platforms that they do not own.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Errmm... I don't think it was meant that way... "kills loading times thanks to power of new CONSOLES".... The fact console is plural should make you aware of this..

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@KidsNDad I think you are reading that wrong...Instead of the comma between XB1, PS4 "and" should have been used. The comma isnt used in this instance to convey 2 different thoughts.

Its just your typical Eddy cut/paste job anyway.

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well know they should bring all old games to ps4,xbox1.

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so I buyed this game digitally on psn, will it be able to cross buy or do I need to pay extra for ps4 ver ?

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I wonder if they'll add it do the PS3->PS4 program for only $10 if you've bought the PS3 version, unless they make it cross-buy.... unlikely

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MORE MUSIC STAGES PLZ ------DLC------- hint, hint, make more money!

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"The game also employs the touchpad as a means to allow you to virtually scratch in-game tickets"

they didn't think to, oh I don't know, make the touchpad work like touchscreen features on the Wii U version?

also how can the game look sharper, it was already running 1080p and 60fps on xbox 360 and ps3

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lol my phone could run this seamlessly.

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Does it also kill those stupid ass daily/weekly challenges that no one in their mind wants to do every day for 6 months?

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@tinynameGood luck on that. My only gripe with this game. A trophy taking over 6 months to complete playing challenges. The only way to do it fast it to get Diamond, which is no easy task. Your talking about scoring in the top 20 out of an average of 10,000 weekly players submitting scores. And some of them by looking at their game stats got the trophy long ago and continue to play 24/7 because they want to be ranked #1 overall, making it almost impossible for someone with a life and a job to compete. One of the worst trophies ever forcing people to play their game for six or more months.

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You could just pretend that trophies don't exist. Trophies are pointless, after all.

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