Gamer 2.0 reports:
''Insomniac's well-known for having a big game out for the holiday season every year, but this year they have changed that up with a second smaller game, Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty, coming out just before Resistance 2 hits the big stage this fall. Instead of the traditional retail games they've released before, Quest for Booty was made by a secondary team at Insomniac for the PlayStation Network. Since the next full Ratchet & Clank game will not be coming out until next fall, Quest for Booty sticks to giving gamers a snack to chew on for now until the full course is ready for next year.
Without spoiling too much about what happens at the end of Tools of Destruction, Quest for Booty is all about Ratchet following a lead on the whereabouts of Clank after being kidnapped at the end of the last game. This lead takes him to the former crew of the robot pirate Captain Slagg, who may have key info on where they should start looking. Things go awry and by the end of the game, Ratchet's not much closer to his goal than he was at the start of the game. That's understandable since this small game's not going to contain the same amount of important story, so this definitely feels more like filler, as far as the story goes.
With Quest for Booty, the smaller development team at Insomniac took the chance to inject more platforming and some smaller new stuff as an experiment of sorts. In a classic cliché move, you get start the game on the pirate ship with many of your weapons and by the time you leave, you're stripped of your weapons. You spend at least the next hour or so with just your wrench, but you're given the chance to focus on the fun platforming bits of the Ratchet gameplay, complete with rails, magnetic tracks, and plenty of platforms. The weapons are pretty much the same, though the wrench has gotten some new moves, such as the ability to grab certain items or latch onto certain platforms, catapults, and spring to help you navigate through the world. To go along with that first new move for the wrench, Quest for Booty also experiments with light/dark gameplay by letting you grab these glow-in-the-dark creatures that repel certain pesky enemies while lighting your way through pitch black caves, which is well-done and a nice change of pace from the usual Ratchet gameplay.''
20th Anniversary Armor Pack arrives today for Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart; more games coming to PlayStation Plus Premium November 15.
Man... what i wouldnt give to have a full PS5 UHD of all the R&C games in one collection. i guess streaming them on PS+ is the next best thing (or naturally a PS3)
They couldn’t make PS2 versions of those R&C games like they did with the J&D games?
Kobra
What fan that waited for launch day needs to know? There were 4 ps2 games the rest starting with tools was ps3 only. Quest for booty, a crack in time, nexus, full frontal assault were ps3 games.
You really saying Ratchet & Clank, Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando, Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal and Ratchet: Deadlocked weren’t on PS2? 🤨
Even Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters and Secret Agent Clank had PS2 versions...
Of course I wasn't talking about the actual ps2 games...why would they need to make ps2 versions of ps2 games? That is why I only included the ps3 games in my comment.
@ no
You must’ve misunderstood what I asked for.
I’m saying they should’ve made PS2 Classic versions of these Ratchet & Clank titles on PS4 so they’d be downloadable just like Jak & Daxter had rather than just streaming the PS3 versions
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is amazing. I really hope Insomniac are working on more. I'm always up for another Ratchet & Clank game.
From Xfire: "Insomniac Games first introduced the unlikely duo of Ratchet and Clank back in 2002 on the PlayStation 2. Since then, the series has taken audiences on a journey that has spanned not just an entire galaxy, but multiple dimensions, with its most recent outings."
Best games of the franchise are Up Your Arsenal, A Crack in Time, 2016 Remake and without a doubt the newest one Rift Apart. You simply can’t go wrong with these.
Man what a glorious game series.
Only ones I don't like as much are all 4 one and full frontal assault other than that all games are awesome( even these are good games just not up to the standard of other games in the series)
Nice article, good list, they're all fun & I love this game!
Rift Apart is spectacular.
Insomniac are wizards, I want their next game to be a new Resistance. I can't wait to see what they have in store for us next.
Ryan Mccaffrey said last week that Resistance 4 was in development but Sony cancelled it due to the high number of post-apocalyptic games around at the moment.
Well that’s a shame. I feel they could do something truly special with today’s technology.
I'm looking forward to playing Rift Apart then the whole series sometime afterward. Up Your Arsenal is my favourite
Ratchet & Clank: Quest for Booty is typically regarded as one of the worst in the Ratchet & Clank series, and it’s clear why after playing it over the Holiday season. It is only set in one world with little story to be be had, the level design can be frustrating, and the lack of weapons (and anything new) make this short 3-hour entry worth skipping in the series.
* Warning minor spoilers in this review *
Damn...