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With Rayman 2 still in the final stages on the PC, about 50% complete for the Nintendo 64, and in the beginning stages for the PlayStation, creator Ancel explained that his ambitions for the jointless, loveable character include generating a Rayman game each year, leading into the year 2001 (for now). Despite the lack of a PlayStation 2 development kit (which no third-parties appear to have yet), Ubi Soft's proprietary engine software enables it to create characters and levels that it can later port directly to any system. But with the upcoming systems looming just over the horizon (Dreamcast in fall 1999 and PlayStation 2 possibly in 2000), the company explained it needed to get to grips with the new games now.
YES NO Company officials at Ubi Soft explained that their current focus is Rayman 2, which will arrive on Dreamcast, PC, Nintendo 64, PlayStation in the first quarter 1999. When asked to further explain, the tall, bespeckled artist kindly declined. The whimsical Ancel explained that Rayman 3 will feature racing aspects, including possibly cars or other vehicles in a four-way split-screen division, but won't be a Deathmatch-style game. Rayman 3 will take advantage of the both Dreamcast's and (possibly) PlayStation 2's multiplayer aspects, a major shift in the series. Rayman 3 is under way by an Ubi Soft team in Paris that doesn't actually include its creator, Michel Ancel (who's beginning work on Rayman 4). While one team prepares initial concepts for Rayman 3, a separate team is brainstorming Rayman 4, of which the company showed early concepts to game journalists last week in its Montpellier, France offices. While it's not unusual for game developers to think two to three years into the future, especially with a bread-and-butter game like Rayman (a series that inevitably will include Rayman 5, 6, 7, etc.), Ubi Soft's two-team strategy portrays more than just good planning.
Rayman 3 and 4 will appear on all of the newest next-generation game consoles, including PlayStation 2 and Dreamcast, the company explained in an unofficial statement last week. Ubi Soft confirmed last week that future plans for the Rayman series are under way.
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