Rayman 2: The Great Escape
A late-90s platformer that still feels snappy after 25 years, with a bizarre premise and some genuinely clever level design buried under janky camera controls.
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Solid 90s platformer that outshines its age-related quirks if you approach it on its own terms.
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About Rayman 2: The Great Escape
I booted Rayman 2 expecting a forgettable relic, but the core platforming is surprisingly solid. You're bouncing through hand-painted worlds as a limbless cartoon guy, collecting power-ups that transform your abilities (heavy fist, missile launcher, helicpoter hair) to solve environmental puzzles. Each world has real verticality and secret paths, and the movement feels responsive once you accept the awkward fixed camera angles that shift between perspectives mid-level. The catch: that camera is the game's biggest enemy. It swings without warning, angles get claustrophobic in tight passages, and targeting during combat becomes a guessing game. The 1999 design shows its age in how generous the platforming checkpoints are (you'll rarely lose more than 30 seconds to a mistake). If you loved Crash Bandicoot or Spyro and can tolerate a finicky camera for solid level design and personality, Rayman 2 is worth a Saturday afternoon. Just don't expect modern-era polish.
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Minimum
- Processor
- 1 GHz
- Memory
- 256 MB RAM
- Graphics
- 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (compatible with DirectX 9 recommended)
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- Developer
- Ubisoft
- Publisher
- Ubisoft
- Release Date
- Oct 31, 1999