Rayman makes the leap into the 3D world with aplomb enjoying a lush, colourful universe with bizarre inhabitants such as a well mannered snake or a captured whale. The creative input is top notch too: Rayman gets involved in a host of mini games such as swimming with the afore mentioned whale, even water skiing. But itfs the promotion of lateral thinking for which the developers deserve most praise: a barrel of gunpowder can be tossed at the enemy hordes, or it can be used to break through into previously inaccessible areas, even lit to use as a rocket to fly around screen.