Kyle Orland writes:
"0:00 What a ridiculously long and unfortunately punny name for a game. Anyway, I've liked pretty much every Ratchet game to varying extents, so I can't imagine this will be very different. I like having the game on my hard drive, too, so I don't have to search for the disc.
0:01 A treasure map sits on a table and the menu screen appears over top. I adjust the brightness to the prescribed level and it seems really dark. R&C is supposed to be a bit dark, but still, this is ridiculous!
0:02 Hard difficulty is described as "Ye must have a death wish, me hearty!" This is just scary enough to get me to try Medium.
0:03 A storybook opens as a narrator tells a tale: "Once upon a time, there was a fearless young Lombax who gained fame throughout the galaxy by ..." Blah blah blah. Clank the robot was kidnapped by the "Zoni." Ratchet used a computer to get a clue -- a pirate named Darkwater who might have a key to the Zoni dimension. Transfer from storybook to full 3-D. A woman with a rocket pack, Talwyn, is with Ratchet as they hop onboard a mysterious ship.
0:05 A drunk-sounding robot, Rusty Pete, talks to the disembodied head of his departed captain. "Alas, poor cap'n. No one misses you but me!" "I miss you too, Rusty Pete." says the disembodied head/puppet. "You may not have me body, but you'll always have me heart." Heh. I love the animation. Big robot pirates sneak up behind Ratchet and Talwyn. The biggest of them puts Ratchet in his arm cannon and fires him into the next ship. "Whoooooooooa!"
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.
