Customer Rating:  
Summary: Fantastic
Comment: Rayman is,with SuperMario and Crash,the most important charachter of platforms.After a good game,"Rayman",he returns with a new episode,"Rayman The Great Escape".Fantastic!An incredible story,probably the best for a platform,not just for kids.Ray must defeat pirates and free every creature of his world.C'mon.Like Redman said,Time 4 sum aksion!This time our hero can swim,drive missiles,fly...he can boost his powers,praticate water skiing... an incredible evolution if we see "Rayman".Other force ponts of "The Great Escape" are certanly the musics,very suggestive and with a secret,strange flavor.For temples,for marshes...there are often good sounds created just for the atmosphere. The control is very easy,Rayman's movements can be ontrolled with the anaolgic joystick (L3) and with the good old arrows.Why haven't I give 5 stars to "overall"?It's simply.For the graphic.very good for a PS1's product,but if you want taste real "Great Escape"'s flava you better buy "Rayman Revolution",the same game for PS2.The graphic is fantastic and there are a lot of minigames.But we better remain on PS1."Rayman The Great Escape" is a really good game.The player can't be bored,action freedom is huge.Places are infinite,so how could you say "It's too easy"?There are a lot of levels,everyone has got a particularity.Every game's charachter has got an own personality,and there are lots of enemies and friends!
Amazing.To all the players.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great graphics, simple gameplay, frustrating as hell...
Comment: This game is exellent, graphics-wise. In fact, it could easily be mistaken for a Playstation 2 title. The controls are very simple, involving few buttons. Most of the gameplay of this platform Mario/Sonic the Hedgehog game is very easy to get into and get used to and there are many visual pleasures to look at while working through the various levels. While not as simple as titles in the Crash Bandicoot series (which are overall more satisfying), this PSOne title has a helluva lot going for it.
First, the positives. There is never really a time in this game when the graphics and visuals really disappoint, even to PS2 and X-Box/Gamecube/PC folks. Of most PSOne games, it seems the creators of this really squeezed the BEST graphic possibilities of the Playstation One within this. The controls are extremely simple and oftentimes boil down to 2 or 3 buttons really, along with a sometimes heavy dose of D-Pad button-thumbkilling masher functions. There are also many levels in several comprehensive sections that should keep the platform gamer happy for a long time.
All of that being said, there are a couple of BIG downsides. The first and foremost is the SAVE feature. Throughout the various levels, one must COMPLETE the entire section/level BEFORE being able to SAVE. This becomes a major problem because within the various stages of the game, there are several mini-sections which MUST be completed before one is allowed to proceed to the next level. Therefore, one oftentimes finds that one has completed several sections of a given level, only to be thrown back (upon incompletion) to the very beginning of that level. This causes a problem of annoying (and unnecessary) replaying of the entire level in order to complete the "world" one is attempting to complete to move on to the next level. Needless to say, if, after NEARLY completing a "world" or "level," one doesn't throw the controller at the TV screen in utter frustration, one is clearly ahead of the game.
In other words, some of the levels are so hard and so repetitive, that one can easily give up and say, forget it, and reluctantly pop the CD out and go on to a different game. Within these levels, there seems to always be one or two particular TASKS to complete to move on, that seem nearly impossible. Only with dogmatic persistence (and lack of anything better to waste one's time with), will one FINALLY complete a level and move on.
This feature to me is completely unnecessary and makes the generally wonderfully experience of playing the game ridiculously hard. Some may call it "challenging," but I would call it "frustrating."
There are also problems with camera movement, when in various levels, the camera/point of view takes a mind of its own, and certain tasks to perform in order to move on, become difficult and tax one's patience. Most of all however, is the SAVE feature. Whereas one can spend a long, long, long time trying to complete a level, only to find that damned "TRY AGAIN!" shot, where the game will send you back to various sections where you have already mastered, but MUST (in order to progress) complete again.
Still, if one has the patience, and some experience with platform games, this is a PSOne game that is AS GOOD as any PS2 game, and is well worth whatever the going price is, these days.
Rayman2: The Great Escape is without doubt one of the best games ever released on the aging Playstation One platform, and is still heads over hills above many PS2 games. Even PS2 veterans will find little to complain with here in the graphics, as again, they are almost if not as good as most PS2 games. Just be prepared for a BATTLE, and a frustrating as hell at times challenge in order to progress with the game.
This is a must-buy/try for any platform-loving gamer however, and frustrations and shortcomings aside, it is one of the best games of all time and is much more a BUY than an RENTAL.
Customer Rating:
Summary: the music reminds me of something
Comment: If you can remember the music in the last levels and the last boss, go on cd or music and search Bizzy Bone... on the album Heaven'z movie click on the samples "the roof is on fire" and "social studies" and the musics sounds like it.
I prefer the 2D version(when you walk sideways)called Rayman 1.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Rayman 2 ~ The Great Escape
Comment: A pleasant platform experience from the best of your dreams...
Plot:
Pirate robots have invaded Rayman's rain forest world, and destroyed its core. It is your job to gather the fragments of that core and restore it. All of the villains and most of the locales are pirate-themed.
Graphics:
This game was released on both the N64 & PSX. The N64 version supported the expansion pack, so the graphics looked much smoother and better quality than on PSX. The severely polygonal, retrograde graphics in the PSX version are terribly disappointing.
Otherwise, the graphics are something you might make up in one of your fondest dreams, and there is extreme attention to detail, in lighting and shadowing, like little fire flies flitting about and what-have-you. The water even looks nice and ripply, like you can see every ripple.
Machines are depicted in all of their smoke-spewing, oil-dripping horror, every grate made to look like a set of prison bars...of course, it is all supposed to be from a rain forest inhabitant's perspective.
Sound:
Dreamy and foreboding environments are backed with appropriate music. Most of the music is ambient, battle themes are reasonably upbeat, and they squeeze some chillin' jazz in there, too.
Voiceovers are done in whatever selection you make, English, French, or German. The French voice-overs are the best, and as a matter of fact, they are backed by English subtitles on the N64 version, by default.
Again, the sound quality is MUCH better on the N64 version than on the PSX version.
Gameplay:
Pretty simple, you have your walk, run, jump, hover jump...you attack by shooting or throwing spheres of light, Dragon Ball Z style...and you can lock onto enemy targets. The 3D aspects of the game add little to it, however, as the three dimensions are only useful in dodging attacks left and right, otherwise, the levels are linear and could easily have been done as a 2D side scroller without sacrificing any graphical prettiness.
Also, the level designs between the N64 and PSX versions differ...the N64 version has better level designs. For example, in the N64 version, the residence of the Water Deity is in The Temple of Ice and Water; however, in the PSX version, you find the Water Deity at Whale Bay...Whale !@#$ Bay! (How LAME is that?!)
Overall:
A nice platformer, especially if you can still get your hands on the N64 version. All of this game's qualities are best on the N64.
Customer Rating:
Summary: RAYMAN 2- A SURE FIRE A+ FOR UBISOFT
Comment: Ok so Rayman is captured and taken to a Robo Pirate prison ground where you escape only to find you are on a quest to get 800 lums and free the slaves which are in Razorbeard's-Rayman's most hated enemy- ship.Along the way you encounter dangerous obstacles and gain cool abilities such as charge up your energy fists or flying with your ears.Though a little dark and frustrating at times, I nonetheless rate this game 5 stars!
|
