A really great game, but this game just didn't bring the great feel that the old Ratchet & Clank games did.
User Rating: 8.5 | Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction PS3
You've been waiting for this game for quite a while: Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction. Ratchet & Clank Future is a brand new series for the PS3. Tools of destruction is a great game. The graphics are undeniably great, making it hard to believe that the graphics only go up to 720p. The arsenal of weapons, oh, you will love it. But speaking of arsenal, this game does lack of a multiplayer. No co-op. You can't go online and pawn with the shotgun. You can't go and play team death match with your friends. There's no multiplayer. And you thought you'd play with your weapons that you remember from Deadlocked? Think again, that tradition ended in Deadlocked. Well, it's for the PS3, so how can you possibly get Deadlocked weapons anyway? And some traditional weapons you'd expect in a Ratchet & Clank game are not there. No sniper. And what's supposed to be a machine gun doesn't feel like a machine gun, but still is very fun to use. But look on the bright side. There are brand new tools (of destruction) to make up for the absence of multiplayer and classic weapons. You can collect raritanium (despite it's name, it can be found anywhere) to modify your weapons such as bigger aoe., more bolts dropped from enemies, more raritanium dropped from enemies, more ammo, and **** like that. In addition, when you get all of those raritanium upgrades, you can by a special ability for your weapon, which are like the mods from deadlocked, but each weapon is only compatible with it's own special ability. There's a thing called a holoplan, which is basically blueprints for a secret weapon, but you have to find the different parts for it which are scattered all over the Polaris Galaxy (It's like Exodia from Yu-Gi-Oh, only you don't have to waste a ****-ton of money on just 5 cards.). The story for the game is that Ratchet was driven from his home in Metropolis by this guy named Tachyon, who is the emperor of the Polaris Galaxy, and wants to kill all of the lombaxes, and destroy the weapon they used to wipe out the cragmites, which is a race of monstrous aliens. It's a really great game, but it comes at a price. It's far too easy, and Insomniac wanted kids to start playing Ratchet & Clank Games. They're actually trying to get E10 ratings for their Ratchet & Clank games, and as a result (I don't judge games by their ratings, but according to Insomniac's CEO, they're putting Ratchet & Clank in a wrapper that's a little less "adult" than their previous Ratchet & Clank games), this game just didn't bring the great feel that the previous Ratchet & Clank games did, and little does Insomniac know, that kids were already playing Ratchet & Clank games, despite the T ratings. Parents don't worry about their kids playing T rated games, they only worry about they're kids playing M rated games, not T rated games. But parents never buy their kids AO rated games, I don't think there's such thing as an AO rated game. Except for Manhunt2, which actually isn't rated AO anymore, since the company went through court acts and made it a little less violent, to lower it to an M rating. Sorry I got off topic. Don't get me wrong, Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction is a great game, but didn't bring the great feel that previous Ratchet & Clank games did.
