Why are both Tonic Trouble and Rayman non-violent games?
UBI SOFT: In working in the Rayman cartoon, Ancel and his team re-discovered unique ways that cartoon-makers are able to convey heightened emotion through the creative use of humor. That lesson carried over to Tonic Trouble. “You can achieve the same sensation of fear, suspense, and excitement without having to be a Doom-type of shoot-’em-up-and-watch-’em-bleed game. Other games are doing this already, so there is no reason to join in. We want to be different,” Ancel says. The carrot who is a central character in Tonic Trouble, for example, meets his maker by getting chopped in half- a wry reference to the vegetables’s usual fate in the kitchen. Q: What else does Tonic Trouble have in common with Rayman? UBI SOFT: The way the humor is developed, the gags, the unexpected surprises, the wacky elements and the fresh, colorful, imaginative graphic environments. Q: How does Tonic Trouble differ than Rayman? UBI SOFT: Rayman was introduced in 1995. Tonic Trouble is able to take advantage of
