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StaceyW wrote:I think so. Funny how I never noticed that, since I usually just concentrate on coming out of there alive.

About the moons, well there's one small one I see at the top left, and when the glass shattered I saw a bigger one near the centre of the screen.

I spotted a lovely DVD and HDD recorder in Sainsbury's today, and my next pay is in three weeks, so I could buy it then...

PluMGMK wrote:Why are people on this forum so forgetful?
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Rayman 3, 4 in the Works
The next two games in Ubi Soft's Rayman series are under way for the next-generation systems.
by IGN Staff

September 28, 1998 - Ubi Soft confirmed last week that future plans for the Rayman series are under way. Rayman 3 and 4 will appear on all of the newest next-generation game consoles, including PlayStation 2 and Dreamcast, the company explained in an unofficial statement last week.

While it's not unusual for game developers to think two to three years into the future, especially with a bread-and-butter game like Rayman (a series that inevitably will include Rayman 5, 6, 7, etc.), Ubi Soft's two-team strategy portrays more than just good planning. While one team prepares initial concepts for Rayman 3, a separate team is brainstorming Rayman 4, of which the company showed early concepts to game journalists last week in its Montpellier, France offices.

Rayman 3 is under way by a Ubi Soft team in Paris that doesn't actually include its creator, Michel Aneel (who's beginning work on Rayman 4). Rayman 3 will take advantage of the both Dreamcast's and (possibly) PlayStation 2's multplayer aspects, a major shift in the series. The whimsical Aneel explained that Rayman 3 will feature racing aspects, including possibly cars or other vehicles in a four-way split-screen division, but won't be a deathmatch-style game. When asked to further explain, the tall, bespeckled artist kindly declined.

Company officials at Ubi Soft explained that their current focus is Rayman 2, which will arrive on Dreamcast, PC, Nintendo 64, and PlayStation in the first quarter 1999. But with the upcoming systems looming just over the horizon (Dreamcast in fall 1999 and PlayStation 2 possibly in 2000), the company explained it needed to get to grips with the new games now.

Despite the lack of a PlayStation 2 development kit (which no third-parties appear to have yet), Ubi Soft's proprietary engine software enables it to create characters and levels which it can later port directly to any system.

With Rayman 2 still in the final stages on the PC, about 50% complete for the Nintendo 64, and in the beginning stages for the PlayStation, creator Aneel explained that his ambitions for the jointless, loveable character include generating a Rayman game each year, leading into the year 2001 (for now). Based in the Montpellier offices, Aneel and his team of about 20 are currently at work on a 3D Rayman cartoon and Rayman 4.

spiraldoor wrote:Games journalists were shown very early R4 concepts in late September, 1998, which is very important. Ancel once planned to make one Rayman platformer a year... and R4 was initially planned to be released in 2001.

PluMGMK wrote:I guess it depends on how good the developers were. I don't think any team could be good enough to make a high-standard game every year,

StaceyW wrote:WTF my copyright sanctions disappeared?! I thought these didn't expire.

Rayman4321 wrote:I never watched anything from Eddsworld, but i think it's funnyer than that gay-tube guy named Fred

StaceyW wrote:Hello. Expect some Rayman Saturn videos really soon now that I got my DVD recorder. =D

1995 Atari Awards
Number in parenthesis is percentage of votes it received

Best Graphics in an Atari Jaguar game of 1995:
Winner: RAYMAN (Ubi Soft) (59%)
Runner Up: Missile Command 3D (Atari) (13%)

Best Music in an Atari Jaguar game of 1995:
Winner: BLUE LIGHTNING (Atari) (25%)
Runner Up (tie): Ultra Vortek (Atari) (19%), Vid Grid (Atari) (19%)

Best Playability in an Atari Jaguar game of 1995:
Winner: RAYMAN (Ubi Soft) (22%)
Runner Up: Battlemorph (Atari) (19%)

Most Original Atari Jaguar game of 1995:
Winner: FLIPOUT! (Atari) (33%)
Runner Up: Missile Command 3D (Atari) (25%)

Most Anticipated Atari Jaguar game of 1995:
Winner: RAYMAN (Ubi Soft) (36%)
Runner Up: Highlander (Atari) (29%)

Best Action/Adventure game on the Atari Jaguar, 1995:
Winner: RAYMAN (Ubi Soft) (31%)

Best Arcade game on the Atari Jaguar, 1995:
Winner: MISSILE COMMAND 3D (Atari) (40%)

Best Computer Translation game on the Atari Jaguar, 1995:
Winner: MYST (Atari) (58%)

Best Flying/Space Combat game on the Atari Jaguar, 1995:
Winner: BATTLEMORPH (Atari) (57%)

Best Puzzle game on the Atari Jaguar, 1995:
Winner: FLIPOUT! (Atari) (53%)

Best Sports game on the Atari Jaguar, 1995:
Winner: VAL D'ISERE SKIING & SNOWBOARDING (Atari)(36%)

Best Fighting game on the Atari Jaguar, to date:
Winner: ULTRA VORTEK (Atari) (68%)
Runner Up: Primal Rage (Time Warner Interactive) (32%)

Best 3rd Party game on the Atari Jaguar, 1995:
Winner: RAYMAN (Ubi Soft) (73%)
Runner Up (tie): Dragon's Lair (ReadySoft) (13%)
Theme Park (Ocean) (13%)

Best Game on the Atari Jaguar CD, 1995:
Winner: BATTLEMORPH (Atari) (32%)
Runner Up: Highlander (Atari) (21%)

Game of the Year on the Atari Jaguar, 1995:
Winner: RAYMAN (Ubi Soft) (44%)
Runner Up: Battlemorph (Atari) (22%)

PEOPLE'S FAVORITE AWARD:
Awarded to: ALIEN VS. PREDATOR (Atari) (38%)

PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD:
Awarded to: TEMPEST 2000 (Atari) (46%)

The Official Unofficial Awards:

Most Intense/Involving Game: Alien vs. Predator - Marcus Hauge
Best Action Game: Tempest 2000 -Marcus Hauge
Initially Perceived to be the worst game that turns out to be a game that is
actually quite fun: Club Drive (tag and collect only) - Marcus Hauge
Our Favorite Video Game Company: Atari - Marcus Hauge
The *PLEASE DON'T STOP PRODUCING HARDWARE* Award: ATARI - Marcus Hauge

BEST MOVE OF THE YEAR:
1- New distributors
2- reducing prices of games and the JAG system
3- commitment to higher quality standards -- Marcus Hauge

WORST MOVE OF THE YEAR:
1- All new distributors carrying reduced priced games at far above retail
level
2-limited selection for WalMart and Venture
3-too few games announced for 1996.
4-poor advertising (only reason it's not #1 - we expect it)
5-Babbage's not carrying many new Jag titles -- Marcus Hauge

Most ridiculous rumor of 1995: Atari 2600 emulator for Jaguar will feature
seven titles per CD. -- Dan Skelton
Most ridiculous prediction of 1995: 100 games by Christmas -- Dan Skelton
Most reasonable prediction of 1995: 20 new Jaguar titles for 1996 (excludes
third party titles) -- Dan Skelton
Best Jaguar-related development of 1995: a strong set of titles released
fr September through December (second best development: hiring of Ted Hoff)
--Dan Skelton

... there was the 1994 Summer Consumer Electronics show. At that show
a company called UBI Soft showed an early version of a platform game
called Rayman for the Jaguar. It impressed everyone, not just Atari
owners. In fact, it impressed everyone to a point where it was
promptly announced for all other 32+bit platforms following that show.
And while it took a little over a year from that showing to finally
end up in consumer hands, Rayman is now available.