Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction

This post was written on 2008/09/01 at 22:50:12 by Horst Gutmann

I love Ratchet & Clank. I really do. So far I've played every single game of the franchise (except for Secret Agent Clank and the new PSN title Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty) and absolutely loved every single one of them. The first installment of the franchise on the Playstation 3, Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction is no exception there ... at least for the most part.

It offers basically everything you've come to expect from the series including humor, jump'n'gun action and great weapons. If you liked any other game of the series, you will definitely enjoy this one, but be warned: While graphically miles above the other games, it's not really a revolution but "just" an evolution. Also it feels definitely shorter than the PS2-installments and esp. Going Commando and Up Your Arsenal. There is nartually again an arena with your usual battles against wave after wave of enemies, but there is no big open area like the desert in "Going Commando" and the ice plain and sewers in "Up your Arsenal".

In general the game feels more like a successor to the PSP-title Size Matters than anything else. No vehicle action, only very simplified space-action (Starfox instead of Wing Commander), no 2D levels with Capt. Quark, not even some fist-fighting with Giant Clank. All you get is jumping and shooting with the well known leveling system (although also simplified). Still, the controls are great once again, the graphics are really nice and the cutscenes are just hilarious. The game even has a story and you finally learn something about the Lombax.

If you like the series, get this game. If you have never played any Ratchet & Clank game before, this might be the right time to give it a try, now that all games of the franchise (except for "Secret Agent Clank") are available as budget titles. But please: Start with the first game if you can. While this game doesn't really require any knowledge of the story so far, ... the other games (except for "Size Matters") are simply better in my opinion. But if the other games didn't exist, this would be a 5 out of 5 ;-)

4/5

Comments:

  • Leandro Severino (Guest)

    Hi Horst,

    Your site is open-source ?

    My question is because I want migrate my personal blog to Django too and I your site is a excelent example to me. If yes, Do you can sent to me the source to my mail ? I want study your sources.

    Thank's man and sorry to my terrible english.

    
    

    Sept. 5, 2008, 2:27 p.m.

  • zerok

    Nope, sorry, but this site isn't open-sourced. But there are tons of examples out there how to write a site with Django. For instance djangoproject.com as well as django-de.org have published their source-code in their local trac installations.

    Sept. 5, 2008, 10:37 p.m.

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