Hugh Jackman as Scott Raymond/Rayman, a retired actor who used to play the famous character "Rayman" and now protects Great Lakes City as a masked vigilante who also suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder.There are multiple playable characters who can die as the story continues without them. These can be viewed in a flowchart during and immediately after a given chapter. Via quick time events and dialogue decisions, the story will branch out depending on which choices are made. The meter enters a cool-down mode and eventually recedes when players are hidden from the officers' line of sight that displays on the mini-map for a period of time. Law enforcement officers will search for players who leave the wanted vicinity. Stars displayed on the meter indicate the current wanted level (for example, at the maximum five-star level, police helicopters and SWAT teams swarm to lethally dispatch players). If players commit crimes, law enforcement agencies may respond as indicated by a "wanted" meter in the head-up display (HUD). Players respawn at hospitals when their health depletes. Should players take damage, their health meter will gradually regenerate to its halfway point. Players use melee attacks, firearms and explosives to fight enemies, and may run, jump, swim or use vehicles to navigate the world. It may be fully explored after the game's beginning without restriction, although story progress unlocks more gameplay content.
Outside of the missions, players may freely roam the open world. Players complete missions-linear scenarios with set objectives-to progress through the story. Rayman 4 is an action-adventure game played from either a third-person or first-person perspective.
Unlike any Rayman game, this is the first Rayman game to be open-world, not to be made by Ubisoft and to receive a Teen rating for Blood and Gore, Violence, Language, Partial Nudity, Suggestive Themes, and Use of Alcohol and Tobacco.
Rayman 4 was met with generally favourable reviews from critics and newcomers, who praised the setting, visuals, story, main characters, their voice actors, the open-world map, the impact choices had on the narrative, and flowchart feature, however, Rayman fans heavily critized the entire game for its change of the franchise's genre, lack of fantasy elements, the crossovers between the Rayman franchise and other animated TV shows, and depictions of sensitive themes.
The game is dedicated to Floyd Parker, who commited suicide after receiving a series of hate comments against his original project/version of Rayman 4. Great Lakes Online, the game's online multiplayer mode, lets up to 30 players engage in a variety of different cooperative and competitive game modes. A "wanted" system governs the aggression of law enforcement response to players who commit crimes. The story is centred on many missions that involve fights (both melee and/or shooting), driving gameplay, and decision-making. Players control the five lead protagonists throughout single-player and switch among them, both during and outside missions. The game is played from either a third-person or first-person perspective, and its world is navigated on foot and by vehicle. The open world design lets players freely roam the map's open countryside and the fictional cities of Great Lakes City, Royal Woods and the small town of Corduroy Shores.
Set within the states of Michigan and Ohio, the plot follows five protagonists-retired actor and current vigilante Scott Raymond/Rayman, young comic book writer Lincoln Loud, successful Hispanic singer Ronnie Anne Santiago, young autistic guy Ethan Vasquez, and middle-aged unemployed alcoholic Trevor Globox-and their attempts to uncover corruption while pursuing an unidentified serial killer known as Nightstalker, while the five being under pressure from a corrupt government agency and powerful criminals. It is the sixth main entry in the Rayman series, following 2013's Rayman Legends. Rayman 4 is an upcoming action-adventure game developed by Rockstar North and published by both Rogue Games and Rockstar Games.