So, I got my hands on a copy of Rayman Revolution , and yesterday me and my brother go to play only to find that the game behaved really strangely. First of all, the splash screens at the beginning went by really really fast. I'd normally say this as a good thing, because it means I can just get on with the game, but this seemed really odd. Then, none of the music played. On a couple of attempts at booting the game the first few notes of the menu track played before stopping. Sound effects were also really quiet and the game froze at nearly every screen, causing us to have to open the disk drawer and close it again to continue, which is a little off putting. As a result we couldn't get past the first cut scene which froze after the first line.
What occurred to me as the oddity of this is that I've never seen a CD game behave like this before. Usually scratched, cracked or dirty CD's result in the game to either not run at all, freeze on the first screen with no fuss or perhaps garble the sprites up a little (I remember this happening to an old copy of Rayman 1 for the PS1 once
). The other thing was that the disk was perfectly clean, with no dirt marks or scratches at all. We tried cleaning it for good measure but to no result.The instant assumption was that this was a pirate copy. Yes, I know it seems farfetched, but we once accidentally brought a pirate copy of Super Mario 64 DS from the same shop which froze in a very creepy way upon completing the first level
. However, none of the signs were there. It is clearly a legit copy of the game, complete with the PS2 hologram.So now what? I'm left with a completely useless copy of Rayman Revolution. The only other thing I can think of is that the game was always like this, and it was some bizarre factory fault. It look's like we're going to have to return it if there's nothing else to do, and end up Rayman Revolution-less again
. Sadly, unless they release Origins for PC I won't be able to play since I don't own any of the consoles it's being released for 