It is clear that Ubisoft is in trouble and the last of them has the name, nothing more and nothing less, than Assassin’s Creed Shadowswho had to delay it for God knows what reasons. So in these days when you have started to carry out damage control after several releases that are more decaffeinated than you would ever want, it is time to get your act together to look for inspiration or, failing that, look to the past at the games and sagas that once had it for sale.
And the French seem to have set their goal on a franchise that had its moment of success in the second half of the 90s and the following 2000s, when it flooded the market with a lot of continuations and left as a legacy other characters who did the same. sound familiar to you: Rabbidswhich became independent during the Wii generation in 2006 and the following years. So you’re probably already imagining who we’re talking about, right?
The return of a Ubisoft classic like Rayman
Surely it is a fact that many do not know but, apart from having games that came to PlayStation and PC – as well as other later consoles –, the origin of the character without arms or legs must be found on a console that was a complete failure. : Atari Jaguar. That’s where it first premiered. Raymana wonderful platform cartridge for the time, colorful like few others and that had the creative genius of Michel Ancel behind it (and if you play it right now on PC it will not require an RTX to perform).
It was he, precisely, who was later in other games of Ubisoft that were a success, like Beyond Good and Evil either king kongbefore leaving the company to seek new professional horizons. Well, those two names, Rayman and Michel Ancel, it seems that they are back because the company wants to launch one of their classics to see if they can take flight and improve the success of their latest developments.
The information indicates that Ubisoft would be developing a remake of Rayman from one of his studios in Milan, but with the difference in this case that Michael Ancel would be involved in some way, not so much in the day-to-day development of this game as in the position of advisor, advisor, giving his point of view on issues that would be more conceptual, we suppose, than with the hope that the game maintain the spirit of the original and not an empty concept made by people who were not involved in its creation in the 90s.
No release date yet
The game doesn’t look like it’s coming out anytime soon but for Ubisoft It seems that it is key, because it has provided more resources to the studio involved, which has received the help of some of the workers who were in the superb Prince of Persia the Lost Crown which came out at the beginning of 2024 and which, unfortunately, did not have the success it deserved. Will you have it Rayman?
