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Platform gamers wake up! For those of you who loved the original Crash Bandicoot, spent days playing Jak & Daxter or begin salivating over rumors of the next Sonic game, your wait for the next 'must have'? platform game has officially ended. Ratchet & Clank was in development by Insomniac Games (the team that gave you Spyro the Dragon) for almost three years and it was well worth the wait, as the game reflects the effort and thought put into it.
You play Ratchet, a young, yellow-furred mechanic stuck on his backwater planet, dreaming of adventure and intergalactic space travel. Your plans look doomed to fail as your recently built space ship is lacking a robotic ignition system. Somewhere near the galactic core, the evil emperor Drek, leader of the Blarg, is planning to rebuild his polluted home world by grabbing the best parts of the other planets and relocating them to his world. To ensure that the inhabitants of these planets agree to part with chunks of their planets, Drek is mass-producing an army of war-bots and Blarg warriors. One of the robotic rejects (Clank), figures out what's going on and seeks out the assistance of the Captain Quark, galactic hero, the only one who can save the galaxy, but is shot down over (you guessed it) Ratchet's home world. As it turns out, Clank has a built in robotic ignition system and the two agree to help each other and so the adventure begins.
The game play is multifaceted, diverse and entertaining. Together your unlikely heroes travel from world to world accomplishing tasks, destroying everything that you 'can't put a wrench around'? and collecting cash to upgrade your weaponry. Many times you just need to just destroy everything in your path to clear a level and other times, you will need to think your way out by solving puzzles and even mastering the art of hoverboard. While the majority of the game is pretty straight forward, there are a couple of levels that really have you sweating it out.
The characters are excellent, ranging from the main characters like Ratchet, Clank, Emperor Drek and Captain Quark to even the minor characters scattered around each world. Each is beautifully rendered and professionally voice acted.
The worlds are visually wonderful and detailed. While the game is somewhat linear and task oriented, the worlds have an openness about them so that you don't feel trapped like you do in many games. You can always leave a world and come back later. In fact, many times, you have to leave a world to collect the tool you need to get past certain obstacles. The huge diversity of weapons and gadgets at your disposal provides for numerous ways to take out enemies and overcome obstacles.
My kids (4, 6 & 14 years old) and I loved this game and give it an enthusiastic 'Recommend Buy'?, as we never got bored with it. The only debate is which one of them gets to keep the huge Ratchet poster that came with the game.
The PlayStation 5 event kicked off today, providing the gaming community with an in-depth look at the games that are set to be on the upcoming console. In addition to some exciting new properties, the PS5 is expected to include some tried-and-true favorites -- including a new entry into the Ratchet & Clank franchise. During the event, it was announced that an entirely new Ratchet & Clank game, called Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart, will be an exclusive on the upcoming PS5. The title will once again be developed by Insomniac Games, and it appears to feature an all-new character, following some time-travelling shenanigans.
This will be the first Ratchet & Clank game in several years, with the most recent title being 2016's remaster of the original 2002 game. That release was tied to the Ratchet & Clank animated movie, which debuted that same year to poor critical reception.
Rumors surrounding a new Ratchet & Clank game -- as well as whether it would be a PS5 exclusive -- have been floating around for quite a while now. In February of this year, it was hinted that a new game would be released from Insomniac Games before the company ultimately publishes Marvel's Spider-Man 2. Today's event also revealed the existence of Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, so it appears that Insomniac has been quite busy!
“We like what they’ve been doing in the Spider-Man franchise and things like Ratchet & Clank are certainly vital series in the present and future,” former Worldwide Studios boss Shawn Layden also told The Hollywood Reporter in 2019. “That’s what we’re concentrating on.”
While the franchise has been around for nearly two decades, it reportedly was initially a far cry from what it ultimately became. As Insomniac CEO Ted Price said in 2018, the game was a sort of 'Hail Mary' for the studio, with the two titular characters initially taking a different shape.
'He was a lizard, at one point,' Price explained at the time. 'He was sort of a 'Marvin the Martian' guy, which, I think, was sort of the original inspiration, and then [Ratchet] became a furry, fox-like character.'
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comments'Clank was originally three robots who would cling to different parts of Ratchet’s body,' Price added.
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