I always saw Rayman 2 as a "playstation type " platformer. I felt like N64 game were games you needed to play months on end (well a huge amount of time and effort) to see everything. It had these huge worlds, with lots of stuff to find and do. That were games like banjo, mario, donkey kong,... basicly the ones you are referring to.

Then you had the playstation ones. Those were a lot less complex a lot smaller and a lot more linear. Like crash, jak, sly, ratchet, pandemonium,... (i know some are ps2)... I am not saying one is better then the other but they were clearly different and almost console specific. Even spyro, even though it has the same set up like n64 platformers felt a bit more restrictive then then let's say banjo.

Rayman 2 falls in the "playstation genre" even though it came out on n64 too. BUT it is one of the best linear 3d platformers out there and it feels like a big world even though it has as map set up like super mario bros 3

Thanks, Indy. Those aren't my favorite kind, but it sounds fun and this game would be a blast on my netbook.

yess! i'm waiting for rayman 3 now!

This game is awesome. Instant buy. :D

Very unforgiving. I beat it, but not without effort - took me one whole week before I finally managed to complete it lol

Great game though. Just very difficult.

Played this on Dreamcast using the French dialogue with English subtitles, and the game simply oozed charm. Still one of my favorite 3D platformers up there alongside Mario 64.

Bought this on PS1 classics, but there's some sort of bug in the game where it crashes through the whale bubble section, so I might pick this up of GOG.

I've never really played many 3D-platformers, except for a couple of the Mario games. I'll probably try this out, but I do hope to see even more 2D-platformers here :)

Well, actually, as much as I love 2D-platformers, I'm not too upset if there aren't many that find their way here. I love the good old games, but when it comes to great old-fashioned 2D-games like traditional platformers, that's one area where I'm actually sated by modern games - simply because there are so many nice little indie-developers making great 2D-games still.

And I guess there weren't that many great platformers for the PC in the old days anyway. But still, would be nice to see a few more of the few old PC-platformers here. My memory isn't good enough to say which ones are missing, but I know there are at least some that I haven't seen here yet :)

As far as the controls go, you can't change them. With the keyboard, the arrow keys move, A jumps, space attacks, q and w rotate the camera, and with a gamepad, whichever button is "Button 1" is jump, Button 2 is attack, buttons 3 and 4 rotate the camera, and so forth. It could be worse, but it's a shame that they made such a major oversight in thinking people wouldn't want to set their own controls.

Ha wow good thing this didn't come out a week ago. I was searching around and found my ps1 and n64 so i'd rather just play this again on my n64. Highly recommend getting this if you don't already have it.

Is there a german version configurable (with german texts)?

If anyone is interested in good bargains, you can find (in France) the 10th Anniversary Edition of Rayman.

By Anniversary Edition you must understand a cheap and style-less box but with Rayman M, Rayman 2, Rayman 3 (!!) (and Rayman Print Studio) for 5€

And it is compatible with XP/Vista/7 (at least, that's what they say on the box)

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Not quite what I meant, but I see now just how stupid what I said is. :P

Stop right here! Rayman and Rayman 2 are brillant, afterwards the series took a huge step down. That would more be "a bit above average but not really good old games" and last time I looked the website was not named abaabnrgog.com but only gog.com :-)

Rayman 3 was great what are you talking about!

I'm with Protoss... Rayman 3 was fun but it was self-parody. I much preferred the atmosphere and gameplay of 2. The cages with lums inside was much better than how the teensies turned into stooges.