Future

Future
Future
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Future is the second Bonus League race course in Rayman M, where it can be unlocked by completing all challenges in the Pro League. In the GameCube and Xbox versions of Rayman Arena, Future is the fourth bonus race map in the Exhibition menu and becomes playable after beating the Pro League in the Time Attack mode.

Description

Rayman M

In Rayman M, this race track only contains the Training mode in single-player mode and the Race mode in multiplayer mode. In the Training mode, Rayman's reprise theme always plays as the background music and the stage is preceded by a special loading screen featuring stylized "BONUS" text and Rayman in a black suit and sunglasses, holding a gun, both placed on the Matrix-like digital rain background.

The course seems to be taking place on a linear platform in a huge green polygon mesh tube. Alongside the platform, the yellow wireframes of Tily and Rayman in different poses and outfits are displayed. The level structure can vary as long as the player keeps replaying the race course, since Future consists of several fragments of a straight forward map generated at random, just like Born To Slide. The obstacles and objects featured in this map are: normal and inverted speed arrows, pink bumpers, climbing walls, slippery paths, a fall of translucent pink walls with integrated circuit patterns on them, moving platforms and red mud-like surfaces.

Rayman Arena

In Rayman Arena, the level can be played only in the Time Attack mode (the Exhibition version in single-player mode and the standard variant in multiplayer mode). In the Exhibition mode, it contains two checkpoint lines, which provide the player with the time necessary to finish the course. It is not preceded with any special loading screens and a reprise of the character chosen by the player can be heard in the background.

The map itself is nearly identical to the Rayman M version. It has only been retextured for a blue and yellow more cartoony and wavy 3D mesh to fit in with all of the other levels in the Exhibition menu. Parts of the course are still generated in random order, although the first section always stays the same.

Gallery

Rayman M

Screenshots

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  One of the first player's starting positions
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  Future in the early stage of development of Rayman M

Artwork

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  Future loading screen
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  A polygon mesh of Rayman in a black suit
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  A polygon mesh of Tily
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  A polygon mesh of Rayman in a starting pose
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Rayman Arena

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  Level icon in the Exhibition menu
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  The first player's starting positions
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  A checkpoint line
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  The finish line

Trivia

• The special loading screen and Rayman's suit reference film The Matrix and its main character, Neo.
• At some point in the development of the game, the aesthetic of Future's landscape was changed drastically: earlier, the platform that the track is made out of was fully covered in an integrated circuit pattern and the walls that create the tube in which the main platform is placed featured blue Matrix-like digital rain, very similar to the one from the bonus loading screen.

External links

• Future's Training playthrough at YouTube (Rayman M - PC version)
• Future playthrough at YouTube (Rayman Arena)