The character design for Rayman remains unchanged, and the game's other racers fit into the Rayman universe, as well. The game runs at a reasonably smooth frame rate throughout all its modes, and the textures are just fine. Graphically, Rayman Arena has a pretty standard look to it. Running, jumping, and weaving your way back and forth through the game's tracks gets old pretty quickly, and the battle mode isn't terribly well done. Multiplayer, which allows up to four players to play simultaneously via a split screen, is really the main draw of Rayman Arena, but the lack of any real gameplay variety keeps the game from becoming addictive at all.

You typically need only two laps on a course to figure out a path through the level that will defeat the computer racers. While the level design in most of Rayman Arena's race courses is competent, and each track is full of shortcuts and other options to provide some variety, there really isn't enough for you to do. The game plays like a very rudimentary third-person shooter, complete with the ability to lock on to your opponents.

Attacking plays a much larger part in the game's battle mode, which puts you into a small arena and lets you fight it out against either human or computer-controlled opponents. You can also attack by picking up on-track power-ups. You'll have to jump over and around barriers, climb up walls, surf down waterways, and do some fast platform jumping to come in first place. Each course consists of three obstacle-filled laps, and the object is, of course, to get around those three laps faster than up to three opponents. Rayman Arena is broken up into two types of gameplay. Rayman Arena has a pretty standard look to it. The results are, well, exactly what you'd expect from a mascot-driven foot-racing game. But instead of taking the completely obvious kart-racing route, Rayman Arena instead takes the only slightly less obvious foot-racing route.

Until now, Rayman's appearances have been chiefly in platform games, but like any good mascot, Rayman is branching out into the racing genre. Ubi Soft's platformer mascot, Rayman, has been in quite a few products, but because Ubi Soft puts these products onto as many different platforms as possible, the character has appeared in only a handful of games.

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