A weird little world with a weird little hero. What more can you ask for?
User Rating: 9.7 | Rayman 2: The Great Escape PC
My first Playstation game was Rayman 1 and I personally didn't like it. It was just way too hard. Then, I heard of the N64's version of Rayman 2: The Great Escape. Since I heard Rayman 2, I had a feeling I was in for something good. At the first level, it was mindblowing to see how perfect the game was as a platformer. Seeing the new characters and how much darker Rayman's world has become, I was soon addicted to the game to the fact where my cousin was trying to get me off his N64 to play some other game. I then got the game for the Playstation and continued the adventure. I was a kid and even now, I think the game is just amazing. You don't get much platformers that are actually GOOD. The game's graphics really make it stick out from all the other platformers available. The controls are simple and the voice acting and the music really fits the characters and the all-out game process. Boss battles are fun, never annoying, and enemies become hard enough that it takes strategy to take them down. The storyline connects the player to Rayman's world so that it will become more addicting than the first game ever was. There are no more puny little enemies that look as though they were taken from Barney and Friends, these enemies are fully armored Robot Pirates that will go to any risk to take the limb-less wonder down. Throughout the game, you will explore fantasy-filled forests, haunting crypts, and hazardous volcanoes in order to save the world from Captain Razorbeard. The game first starts with Rayman on a mission to save his loyal friend, Globox, who has been taken captive by the pirates, but as you progress through the game, you will see there is a even more dastardly plot. Rayman 2: The Great Escape is an instant classic, and there is no platformer alive that can bring this masterpiece down.
