Growing up as a kid, I had Rayman 2: The Great Escape for my Nintendo 64 and played it a lot. After playing this for a little bit (Rayman 2: The Great Escape for the iPhone and iPod Touch), it brings back great memories playing it as a kid on my Nintendo 64. Now, Rayman 2: The Great Escape for the iPhone still has the same authenticity and experience as the one for the Nintendo 64.

Like I said earlier, it brings back great memories when I was growing up as a kid playing Rayman 2: The Great Escape for the Nintendo 64. If you have played Rayman 2: The Great Escape for the Nintendo 64, I HIGHY recommend picking Rayman 2: The Great Escape for the iPhone up. Now, the game does have its flaws, however, the game is still great non-the-less. One of the flaws is that Rayman 2: The Great Escape has no check pointsin levels, some of the levels can be long and if you have to answer a phone call orsomething else you will have to quit the app. Closing the app then reopening it will make you start at the beginning of that level. But Rayman 2: The Great Escape is worth every cent and still has the same authenticity and experience as the one for the Nintendo 64 does.

Now, the iPhone and iPod Touch version of this game has great graphics, but not the same as the Nintendo 64 version does. For some of you, this might be your first time introduced to the Rayman series and might be confused. Well, here’s the plot of the game:

Rayman 2 takes place in a world called The Glade of Dreams. An army of Robot Pirates, led by Admiral Razorbeard, invades this world and destroys the Heart of the World, the world core. This greatly weakens the resistance’s power and disables Rayman’s powers, leading to his capture^.

Globox, a friend of Rayman, is later also captured and put in the same cell as Rayman aboard the Pirates’ prison ship. Globox restores one of his powers through a silver lum given to him by Ly, a fairy. Rayman escapes the prison ship, and is separated from Globox again. He learns that in order to stand a chance against the Pirates, he needs to find 4 ancient, magic masks to awaken Polokus, the spirit of the world. He travels through the Glade of Dreams via the Hall of Doors, a magical place linked to various locations in the world, controlled by the ancient Teensies.

In the course of the game, Rayman frees Globox who had been captured again, and they continue together for a short while until Globox departs again to go find his family. Later, Rayman finds Globox’s wife Uglette and learns that he has been imprisoned on the Prison Ship. Rayman also encounters his friend Clark, a strongman who has stomach problems due to eating rusty pirates; to continue through the level, Rayman has to cure Clark by means of an elixir.

Eventually Rayman recovers the four masks and awakens Polokus, who makes quick work of the pirates on land. In the air however, he has no power, and Rayman is tasked to dispose of the Pirates’ Prison Ship, where Admiral Razorbeard also has his headquarters. In a final battle Rayman fights Razorbeard, who is controlling a giant robot, the Grolgoth. Eventually Rayman destroys the robot and while Razorbeard escapes in a small escape pod, the Prison Ship explodes. Rayman is presumed dead and only one of his shoes is found, but during his funeral he appears again, walking on a crutch.

Taken from wikipedia.org.

Overall, I HIGHLY recommend picking Rayman 2: The Great Escape up. It’s a great game and worth every penny (to me atleast). Now, hopefully Gameloft ports more games over to the iPhone and iPod Touch in the future.

Rating: 4/5 (Great game, no check points in levels [which there needs to be] , camera system could be better)

Rayman 2: The great Escape on the App Store.