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This platforming video game was Rayman's first venture into 3D. It is
considered a classic game, as it raised standards regarding 3D, level design and game
play, and it had a unique storyline, in which the player could go back to earlier
levels of the game and finish certain tasks. Not long after Polokus - god and spirit
of a newly created planet where the game takes place - departs, an army of Robo-Pirates
led by Admiral Razorbeard takes over and enslaves the planet, holding the captured
inhabitants in the pirate prison ship, "The Buccaneer". Eventually Rayman and his
friends are captured, but with some help from his best friend Globox they escape, but
get separated in the process. As he progresses along in search of help from Ly the
Fairy, he learns that the pirates have broken the Heart of the World, the world's core,
into 1000 lums that have then been scattered all over the planet, weakening the world
as a result. It's up to him and whatever help he can get to collect these lums but
more importantly, retrieve the 4 legendary Masks that are said to awaken the Great
Pokolus, the planet's greatest hope to exterminate the Robo-Pirates and once again
liberate the World. After escaping and not being able to find Globox, he meets the
teensies who have forgotten which one of them is the teensie king and squabble over
it. Rayman later meets Clark who has a bellyache from chewing a robo pirate in battle
and must go to The Cave of Bad Dreams to get the elixer to heal him. The worlds are
huge, giving the impression of a fairytale, magic landscape. In Rayman 2, the player
can duck, float, fly, jump, strafe, and shoot in order to defeat Razorbeard and his
Henchmen. |