Rayman Jungle Run dashes onto Windows 8 - Our Impressions

Last month we were excited to learn that Ubisoft'due south Rayman Jungle Run would be coming to Windows Telephone at some betoken in the future. The combination of endless runner with bodily levels and the lovable Rayman is just what our favorite smartphone platform needs. What we didn't know is that Jungle Run would also be coming to PC and tablet via Windows 8 and RT. Happy surprise - it's out now and Xbox Live-enabled!  Plus information technology gives u.s. a bully idea of what to look when the phone game comes forth.

A legendary runner

That icon in the corner there totally represents jumping and not gas.

Rayman Jungle Run is an adaptation of Rayman Origins, one of the finest 2nd platformers in recent memory – possibly of all fourth dimension. The Xbox 360 and other console versions wowed players with its lush painted backgrounds, smoothly animated characters, and sheer variety of platform challenges. It's also tons of fun in iv-player co-op, so buy it correct now if you have friends to play with.

Ubisoft faced an interesting claiming with bringing Rayman to touch-screen devices. Virtual sticks and buttons work for some people, while others have trouble using them. Thus the developers decided to just have Rayman run automatically, not unlike Gravity Guy, The Gunstringer: Dead Man Walking, and Temple Run. That frees players up to just concentrate on jumping – either via borer anywhere on the screen or clicking a mouse push.

Race to the flag

While Jungle Run plays very much like an endless runner in that your character always careens forward, this game does have smartly designed individual levels. There are 5 level sets with ten stages each, all themed after specific gameplay mechanics.

The starting time world is naturally the easiest and players won't have to worry virtually death. Instead, the challenge is completing a perfect run past collecting all 100 of the aureate Lums spread throughout each level. They often require fast reflexes and maybe even a fiddling jumping or falling to find hidden ones. Get enough teeth and you lot'll unlock super tough Land of the Dead levels.

Subsequent worlds give Rayman new moves similar floating, running upward walls, and punching. Punching actually introduces an on-screen button, but that doesn't overcomplicate the game. Y'all can press the spacebar to dial, which is easier when not playing on a touch screen. Hazards like spiked vines and enemies volition testify up every bit well.

Since Jungle Run was designed as a mobile game, all of the levels are super brusque. Just when you're starting to become the hang of 1, your grapheme will pass the flag at the end. That actually works great for the collection aspect of the game, though. You tin can easily memorize a level and get back to wherever you previously missed some Lums in practically no fourth dimension at all. It's addictive.

The cost is correct

The Windows 8 game costs the aforementioned every bit the iOS version: $2.99. However it'southward actually a better value, because you get all four characters: Rayman, Globox, Night Rayman, and Rayman in Globox Arrange without the demand for a PDLC purchase. They play the same but information technology's always nice to have more characters to choose from. And this version has 200 GamerScore of Xbox Live Achievements. The only bad matter I can say about it is that the unlockable Gallery pictures (which open in a web browser) are super tiny and thus not the about heady rewards.

Admittedly it feels a lilliputian weird to play a Rayman game on my PC in which I can't command Rayman'southward walking. But the bite-sized levels and ane-click/tap controls make this a perfect game to play when you lot have a few minutes to kill or only want to relax. If you dig platformers and stone Windows eight or RT, don't miss Rayman Jungle Run. Now allow'south promise the Windows Telephone version isn't far behind…

Become Rayman Jungle run here at the Windows 8 Store.

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Source: https://www.windowscentral.com/rayman-jungle-run-windows-8-impressions

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