Rayman Arena: Ultimate Multiplayer

Rayman Arena: Ultimate Multiplayer (Also known as Rayman Arena) is a 3D multiplayer party game published by Ubisoft and developed by their Milan studio. It is a expanded, high-definition remake of Rayman Arena (also known as Rayman M: Multiplayer on Europe), which was originally released in 2001, including all content from every version: Rayman Arena (Nintendo GameCube & Xbox), Rayman M (PlayStation 2 & Microsoft Windows) and Rayman Rush (PlayStation). released worldwide on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X & S, Microsoft Windows (on Retail and Steam forms) and Nintendo Switch in September 2023, seven months after the release of Rayman 2: The Greater Escape.

Features

 * All characters from Arena, M and Rush are included at the start.
 * More unlockables such as new skins, characters, race courses and battle arenas throughout the Rayman series.
 * Instead of four, there will be up to 8 players in maximum on each race and battle.
 * Murfy acts as a tutorial instructor and referee like Lakitu in the Mario Kart series.
 * A new campaign/story mode (taking place after Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc, Origins and Legends; unlike the original 2001 game) following Dark Rayman, who has trapped both villains & heroes alike in a competition to eliminate them. They must team up to save their friends who have been brainwashed and take part in the tournament.
 * Various game modes like:
 * Race: Training, Race/Obstacle Racing, Popolopoi, Lums & Time Attack
 * Battle: Lum Spring, Lum/Total Fight, Freeze Combat & Capture the Fly
 * 2D side-scrolling races based on Origins and Legends, with similar controls as normally, hence Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc's 2D Madness and Nightmare bonus levels. (New)
 * Race/battle modes involving walking/flying shells, inspired by Rayman 2: The Great Escape and Revolution's Missile Dogfight mini-game. (New)
 * A Kung Foot mode from Rayman Legends, this time in a 3D plane. (New)
 * Online multiplayer with various new modes such as:
 * Ranked
 * Tourney
 * Daily challenges like in Rayman Legends.

Starters

 * Rayman (Dark Rayman/Raymesis and other costumes from Origins/Legends appear as his skins)
 * Admiral Razorbeard
 * Globox (Dark Globox, Uglette and Globette, though a latter is revealed to be Uglette according to one of the new pages in "Knowledge of the World" from the Rayman 2 remake, appear as his alternate skins)
 * Henchman 800 (now has skins based on other variants in Rayman 2)
 * Grand Minimus (teamed up with an other Teensie as a duo)
 * Barbara (has skins based on other princesses in Legends and her Adventures outfit)
 * Ly the Fairy (some of the skins are based on her appearances from the Japanese version of Rayman 2 and concept art included in Rayman 3 Print Studio)
 * Tily
 * Henchman 1000
 * Razorwife

Unlockables

 * Goth Teensie (single unlike a starting Teensie duo; with skins based on other Teensies)
 * The Magician (has alternate skins based on his Rayman 1 self and cousin, Andrew from English with Rayman)
 * Mr. Dark
 * Bzzit (has an alternate skin based on Moskito)
 * Polokus (has an alternate skin based on his classic/Rayman 2 appearance)
 * Betilla (has an alternate skin based on her Rayman 1 costume and skins for the other Nymphs)
 * Spyglass Pirate
 * Clark the Giant (scaled down in size)
 * Mr. Skops (scaled down in size)
 * Hoodblaster
 * Count Razoff
 * Reflux (w/ André)
 * Rabbid (has skins based on other Rabbids in the Raving Rabbids trilogy)

Race

 * Beginner League
 * First Ruins
 * Nebulous Tower
 * Dark Sewer
 * Advanced League
 * Dawn Sand
 * Water Canyon
 * Thousand Waterfalls
 * Expert League
 * Forest Jump
 * Zenith Harbour
 * Treasure Ship
 * Extreme League
 * Pipe Maze
 * Lava Factory
 * Electric Final
 * Bonus League
 * Big Bang
 * Future
 * Born To Slide
 * On and On
 * Speed Stress
 * Extreme Slide

Battle

 * Beginner League
 * Shadow Plain
 * Rise and Shrine
 * Sunset Coast
 * Advanced League
 * Timber Wood
 * Haunted Yard
 * Palm Beach
 * Expert League
 * Spellbound Forest
 * Ly's Palace
 * Coconut Island
 * Extreme League
 * Gemstone Temple
 * Forgotten Dungeon
 * Ghastly Trees
 * Bonus League
 * Spooky Towers
 * Pac-Arena
 * Low Gravity Arena
 * Kurai

Race

 * Band Land
 * TBD
 * Cave of Bad Dreams
 * TBD

Battle

 * Candy Cheatau (based on Mr. Dark's boss battle in the original 1995 game)
 * The Buccaneer
 * Clearleaf Stadium (an area where Rayman fought the Hoodstomper)
 * TBD
 * Rabbid Coliseum (Rayman Raving Rabbids)

Trivia

 * Unlike Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled, the game doesn't have microtransactions to unlock various stuff in it, despite having DLC content in digital stores.