My favourite new gun is the pixelizer, a weapon that is used like a shotgun and on impact turns your enemies into 8-bit versions of themselves which then collapse in lovely NES-era animations when killed. The weapons on offer run the gamut between ones we’ve seen in previous games and a few particularly juicy new ones. Their journey will take them across twelve different planets on which they will run, jump and destroy enemies using a cache of cartoony weaponry. Clank escapes the warbot facility and crash lands on Ratchet’s planet, the two teaming up to alert the galaxy to the growing warbot threat and the villainous characters behind it all. He is kind and friendly and therefore fundamentally defective. Clank is a robot created a factory that builds lethal warbots. Ratchet, a Lombax/cat-rat-man who can walk and talk, is a gifted mechanic stuck on an outer rim world and dreams of a life of adventure and galactic exploration like his hero Captain Quark. The game kicks off with an amusing but fairly rote tutorial section that reintroduces the core Ratchet & Clank concepts before bringing its two heroes together. It’s not perfect by any stretch, but it’s hard not be excited to have one of the greatest gifts the PlayStation 2 ever gave us returned in otherwise pristine condition. There are, however, a number of areas where the game has had to concede ground to the upcoming Ratchet & Clank film (trailer embedded below) so that their two narratives ties in a little more neatly.
In the world of video games, however, 14 years constitutes a technological epoch and Insomniac are taking full advantage of that fact, creating a retelling of the Ratchet & Clank origin that feels as modern and playable as many other AAA titles out there right now. If this were Hollywood, the argument about Insomniac rebooting their flagship franchise only 14 years after its inception might have a bit of merit to it. Further, it is conclusive proof that, done right, a genre throwback can feel as fresh and innovative as it did on release nearly 15 years ago.
Ratchet & Clank is something that is surprisingly rare in the world of video games - neither an HD remaster nor a re-release of the 2002 classic, this is a full-blown, ground-up remake by the game’s original developer. You don’t need a subscription to Playstation Plus to enjoy this free game – just login to the PlayStation store on your PS4 or PS5 download the game, and get playing! If you remember #PlayAtHome from last year, this means the game is completely free for everyone! And it’s available right now. As we announced last week, Sony’s #PlayAtHome initiative returns this month, and kicking things off is the 2016 release Ratchet & Clank.
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