
Have you tried the new Rayman 2-D games, like Rayman Legend and Origins? The controls on those games are super smooth. Even better than the controls in some of the new Super Mario games!
I didn't play much of the 3-D Rayman games, but I do have a good E3 memory involving Ubisoft. When they first showed off Rayman 2, they had a stage show where you could get called up on stage in front of a green screen, and look like you were interacting with Rayman in the game. When I brought the video tape recording of me on stage, it blew my little brothers' minds! They thought I was really in a video game and asked me all sorts of questions!
In Skylanders Imaginators, I created a character that looked kind of like She-Hulk, and her battle cry was something like, "Hooray for pizza!" and she had retro game sound effects.
I still kind of wish I could get the Crash and Neo Cortex Skylanders, but stores still want 30 bucks for them! There is a Sensei Skylander that I thought would be cool to buy called Barbella, but I never got it either.