TUAW's Daily App: Rayman 2: The Great Escape

For a few different reasons (the recent Verizon iPhone release probably being the primary one), Valentine's Day has become another holiday for big sales on the App Store. We covered quite a few titles on sale last week, and of those, Rayman 2 is the one I'll recommend today. It's a port of an old Ubisoft title, so the controls aren't quite perfect, but it's an excellent platformer, and if you've never played through this game but like the genre, you should definitely give it a shot. There's no Game Center integration or any extra features, but if you just want to explore your way solo through the 45 different levels, the game is great.

Plus, for Valentine's Day, it's only US 99 cents on the App Store, along with a bunch of other EA, Gameloft, Capcom, Sega and other developers' titles. Even if you don't have a big date planned tonight, odds are you'll find something on the App Store that you'll love.

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Pat Hartl

It should probably be mentioned that this is a port of the original Playstation port. The N64, Dreamcast, DS, and PC versions were graphically better, had less clunky physics and controls, and were just a joy to play.

February 14 2011 at 11:28 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Justin

I really enjoyed this game on the N64 back in the day, but I just can't see it translating well to the iPhone. The controls were slightly clunky back then, I can only imagine how difficult they would be on a touchscreen device. Good game, but without physical buttons I don't see this one to be worth it.

February 14 2011 at 9:28 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

sberrier

I snagged this app for free during Gameloft's advent calendar deal and, honestly, that's about what it's worth in my mind. Perhaps the graphics are just too dated, perhaps the controls just aren't precise enough (a common problem with traditional 3rd person or 1st person 3D games on the iPhone).

But ultimately, I just think it's the little things, the polish, that is completely lacking. It fails to hang together, with jarring transitions and loading screens, and poor sign-posting. The strength of the original (according to gamestop ... http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/rayman2thegreatescape/index.html) was inventive gameplay. I think the controls make the gameplay more frustrating than anything. Either that, or the 'inventiveness' is feeling it's age.

February 14 2011 at 8:34 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply