Ratchet & Clank

Most of us are familiar with Ratchet & Clank by now, and 14 years after its first instalment, they’ve gone back to the start with a hilarious and very well put together re-imagining of the first game to bring us Ratchet and Clanks origin stories.

This game serves both as a good reminder to why we all loved our furry lombax pal and his shiny sidekick and also as a way to introduce new players to the series, and if that’s you and this doesn’t get you hooked… then I dunno what will!

Everything you could hope for in a Ratchet and Clank game is here; colourful worlds, entertaining characters, fun and tricky puzzles, wacky and over the top weapons, lots of baddies to test out your arsenal on and puns!

This game is a whole bunch of fun, from the moment I started playing I couldn’t help myself from exclaiming out loud “Woah! Wow!” and laughing at the multiple crazy ways to dispose of enemies. Be it by your normal single shot lazer, a flame thrower, a disco ball shooter, a sheepinator, or my personal favourite; a gun that zaps enemies back into the retro land of 8-bit graphics, and there are many MANY more, you will never grow tired of zapping your enemies right in the face! And of course, if you run out of bullets, smack some sand sharks upside the head with ratchets wrench!

Ratchet and Clank wont disappoint the old die-hard fans as they have brought back all of your favourite activities from the previous games, like rail grinding with your grind boots, participating (and in my case dominating) in hover board races, jetpack flying, and space combat.

It was great to see all of this included and nothing left out… not only was it all there, but all of these features were updated to work well for Ratchet and Clank in this crazy new world of gaming! the main feature that I noticed the improvement in was the space combat, when you hop in your spaceship and take to the skies for those epic space battles, the last thing you want is an over complicated hard to control spaceship… this is not going to be a problem in here. The space fights are short, snappy, simple and enjoyable.

Once you go through the story of the game, you can’t help but go back through every level to make sure you’ve completed every goal and collected every collectible there is… and instead of just being rewarded by “oh yay you’ve done it all” you also get some nice little unlocks in the forms of masks that you can have Ratchet wear, or different colour or effect filters for the screen, so you can make the game play in sepia tone, or more gritty and action hero-ish.