Product Description

Rayman Advance combines a challenging nonlinear platform-style game with striking animation. Come face to face with more than 50 outrageous creatures in six mind-boggling worlds and over 30 different levels. Accumulate and put together your skills as you advance, helping Rayman defeat his bizarre enemies, rescue his friends, the Electoons, and restore peace and harmony to the world.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12269 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: UBI Soft
• Released on: 2001-06-22
• Platform: Game Boy Advance

Amazon.co.uk Review
Rayman Advance is perhaps the first real must-play Game Boy Advance game available. It's a full conversion of the PlayStation classic brought to life in vivid detail with level-by-level optimisations, gorgeous graphics, large, detailed and well-animated characters and that patented Rayman gameplay that Ubi Soft has been delivering for years now.

Those unfamiliar with the character and story should expect yet another cute take on the 2-D side-scrolling adventure game but Rayman easily stands alongside Mario in terms of brilliance. Rayman, a cute, big-nosed guy with a pompadour fringe and an infectiously upbeat attitude, is the Guardian of the World. Oddly, he has hands and feet but no arms or legs to support them--but that doesn't stop him from doing his thing. His powers include jumping, clinging to ledges, using his ears as a helicopter, and most importantly, punching. A helpful fairy doles out these powers to you as you complete tasks and progress in the game. Rayman's task, as usual, is to defeat enemies and free creatures (called Toons) caught in great iron boxes. He also collects "tings", which he can use to barter with magicians as he rids his bizarre little world of oppression from the likes of colourful bosses Moskito and big bad Space Mama.

The most striking thing about Rayman Advance is its graphics and gameplay. The design is extremely creative, there are things to bounce on, ride and grab and other tricks to do. It's the sort of game that always has you doing something new, which is no mean feat considering it spans 60 levels. A first rate 2-D platform game for all ages. --Andrew S Bub

Manufacturer's Description
Hold the power of the smash hit PlayStation adventure in your hands!Now the million-selling platform action of Rayman is available handheld on Game Boy Advance. When the incorrigible Mr. Dark launches an invasion, Rayman's unsuspecting world takes a turn for disaster. Darkness falls, and with it a scourge of freaks bent on capturing the Toons, precious light-giving sprites vital to the world's harmony. As Rayman, Guardian of the World, you must harness untold powers to face Dark and his twisted minions, free the Toons, and restore balance to the universe.

Customer Reviews

Certainly one of the better GBA games
Like Super Mario, GT Advance, and Tony Hawks, this was one of those "must have" games at the launch of the GBA. It was a good complement to those other games too, as all four are very different from each other.

True, Rayman is a 2-D scrolling platform game, but it feels completely different to Super Mario. It isn't a case of either/or - you can buy both and enjoy them for different reasons.

Let's start with the technicals; soundwise, the effects and music are pretty good, although the music can get a little irritating after you've played the game a few times. Graphically - as you've no doubt heard - it is very impressive and stylish, and the fluidity of Rayman's movements shows some very impressive animation work.

On the gameplay side, I have a real problem here. I just find the game too darn hard, that's all. I know that I am not alone in this, as I have read similar complaints from other people.

It is also one of those games where it is abundantly clear that you have to deliberately and repeatedly lose the game in order to discover hidden places and techniques that could help you win next time around. Personally I get bored with having to deliberately lose the game, and then have to work my way through the level I've just nearly completed in order to get back to where I was when I deliberately took my own life.

The other problem I have with the gameplay is that you don't "finish" one level and go onto the next - it doesn't work like that. Instead you use skills gathered in the later levels, to come back and finish off an earlier level. Perhaps I just have a bad memory, but I find it frustrating to have to go back to a level I nearly finished ages ago, and then wander around for ages in a world I am bored with, just to find the one remaining bit of the puzzle I need to complete.

I can't get through this game without reading strategy guides off the Internet. I don't like having to resort to that, but I know I'm not alone. We don't each have all the time in the world to play the Gameboy, and this game can be frustrating if you can only spent half an hour or so a day to play it.

In summary: A beautiful showcase game that demonstrates the raw power of the gameboy system. For someone with a lot of time on their hands this game is good, but it isn't something you can just pick up for five minutes here and there.

Absolutely fabulous!!
I'd never played Rayman before so I wasn't quite sure what to expect. As far as I'm concerned, this is one awesome game. I have quite a few GBA games now but this is one that I keep returning to. There's so much in here to keep you interested and the attention to detail is amazing - just when you think you've got the game sussed, there's always something new popping up! Great graphics, slightly dodgy soundtrack, first-class gameplay. Rayman rules! No arguments!

Cool Game!
I have already got this game on Game Boy Color and it is my first GB Advance Game. I was not disappointed, Graphics are colourful, good music, the only criticism is that it only has 3 saves - not enough for a long and involved game like this. Unlike the GB Color version you cannot put in passwords either. But worth it even with these drawback.