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  • Ratchet: Gladiator

    Posted on Nov. 24, 2006 at 22:18 +0100 Tagged with , , , ,

    Ok, I guess this means now the end of a good month playing _Ratchet & Clank_ games. Tonight I now finished the unofficial 4th part of the series: "Ratchet: Gladiator" (German title).

    Unofficial simply because this isn't really a platformer-shooter like the first 3 titles are, but more ... a shooter ;-) Short story short: Ratchet, Clank and Al are kidnapped by an entertainment mogul and Ratchet is forced to participate in arena fights. These fights go from normal arena matches to challenges known from RC3 where you basically have to reach certain checkpoints of kill a boss.

    While this might sound boring if it's all the game has to offer, this was actually not the case. Insomniac managed to rotate the challenges well and so kept the game throughout entertaining. There are also some challenges, where you have to use a hoverbike, hovercraft, land stalker etc. Nothing special, but it keeps the game fresh.

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  • Ratchet & Clank 3

    Posted on Nov. 20, 2006 at 00:08 +0100 Tagged with , , ,

    Last weekend I finally finished _Ratchet & Clank 3_ and so here is a small review of it :-) As with _Ratchet & Clank 2_, Insomniac simply took the predecessor and made it better.

    For example: While I loved the weapons system in RC2, there were too few upgrades available for my taste. So now you can upgrade your weapons (in the normal mode) to level 5. But this also comes with a downside. While in RC2 the update actually sometimes felt like a totally new weapon, in RC3 most of the upgrade are just marginal updates like higher frequency or simply stronger. Only I think 2 out of those 5 are complete upgrades. For example the Shield you might know from RC2 is more or less the same up to level 4. All you get is, that it perhaps holds up enemies a little longer each time and you get more "ammo". But at least level 5 is once again the shooting shield :D

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  • Let the Ratchet & Clank weekend begin :D

    Posted on Oct. 21, 2006 at 20:59 +0200 Tagged with , ,

    Yesterday I got Ratchet & Clank 2 and Ratchet: Gladiator and I really love R&C2 so far. It's just like the first game but with better graphics, upgradable weapons and more.

    There's just one little thing, that annoys the hell out of me: Remember those info screens that appear in some kind of tutorial fashion to introduce you to special button combos and so on? Well, they now seem to appear whenever you reach a certain location when first playing a level through. No matter if you've been there before or not. Not really a big thing, but still annoying in my opinion esp. since this behaviour seems to be new in R&C2. At least, I can't remember noticing it in the first game of the series.

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  • Lessons learnt yesterday

    Posted on Sept. 7, 2006 at 23:15 +0200 Tagged with , , , , , , ,

    1. If you pay lots of money for a gun in a game, better use it. For the last year or so I was avoiding finishing Ratchet & Clank for the PS2, because I always died in the last stage and got reset to somewhere right after the start. A few months before that happened for the first time, I played it quite a lot to get these 1.000.000 credits to get the super weapon in that game: The R.I.D.A. ... just to never use it. Yesterday I used it for the first time, and finally finished the game. Hurrayyy. Next.
    2. Trust Apple to surprise you. Well. To make a long story short: I love the new Core2Duo iMacs ;-) The specs look really great and I can't wait to get some money to get myself one of them for my birthday in 2 months ;)
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