Rayman 2: The Great Escape

With its enchanted storybook look beautifully translated into 3D, lush, vibrant colors, funny enemy designs, and clever jumping puzzles, Rayman 2 is platforming perfection. No arms, no legs, no problem for the…

90 21 October 1999

Adventure Platform Action Comedy Fantasy

Rayman 2: The Great Escape is an adventure developed by Ubisoft Montpellier, released 21 October 1999 on Nintendo 64.

Verified 10 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Rayman 2: The Great Escape is

Rayman 2: The Great Escape is an adventure game developed by Ubisoft Montpellier and released in 1999. It was published by Gradiente. It is available on Nintendo 64 only. It runs on RenderWare.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Rayman 2 takes place in a world called the Glade of Dreams. An army of Robot Pirates, led by Admiral Razorbeard, invades this world and destroys the Heart of the World, the world core. This greatly weakens the resistance's power and disables Rayman's powers, leading to his capture. Globox, a friend of Rayman, is later also captured and put in the same cell as Rayman aboard the Pirates' prison ship. Globox gives Rayman a silver lum given to him by Ly the fairy, which restores his powers. Rayman escapes the prison ship, and is separated from Globox again. He learns that to stand a chance against the Pirates, he needs to find four ancient magic masks to awaken Polokus, the spirit of the world…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Rayman series

Rayman 2: The Great Escape is the 14th of 96 entries we hold in the Rayman series. The next entry was Rayman 2: The Great Escape in 1999. Its critic score of 90 is 21 points above the series average of 69. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.

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How it was received

Rayman 2: The Great Escape holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1999 averaged 72, so it scored 18 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 85, across 208 votes.

What it launched against

Rayman 2: The Great Escape launched on 21 October 1999, within three weeks of Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings, Grand Theft Auto 2, Thief Gold and Half-Life: Opposing Force. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings, Grand Theft Auto 2, Thief Gold, Half-Life: Opposing Force.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

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Screenshots

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