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GamezBox: Ratchet & Clank A Crack in Time Review

GBX writes: "After completing Ratchet & Clank A Crack in Time I went back to take a look at Insomniac's last game just to see if my eyes were deceiving me. Now on their fourth title using the Resistance Engine you might expect A Crack in Time to have taken another leap forward in terms of visual performance. In fact the opposite is true, gone are the gigantic creatures, the impressive draw distances and hordes of on screen enemies from Resistance 2, replaced by something much simpler, much closer to how you remember Ratchet and Clank to have always looked. And it's a bit of a recurring theme, this game feels like something of a B-team effort; smaller is size and less ambitious in execution. But that's not to say it's a bad game. After eight years Insomniac know exactly how to make a Ratchet and Clank title work. If you can suffer through the somewhat stilted story mode, A Crack in Time develops into a massive playground that really plays to the series' strengths."

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nogolis5225d ago

As much as I love this series and wish it to continue on and on and on, it needs a reboot. It needs to do something different and it needs to do it on the next go around. Something ground breaking or revolutionary. The thing is Insomniac seems to think adding a few new weapons and tweaks to old ones is enough to keep gamers interested and it's not.

I thought that the PS3's R&CFTOD needed full on space exploration in an open, sandbox galaxy, but it didn't happen. I thought, well the next one will have it and it didn't have it. The 3rd one, QFB withstanding from the line up, is coming upon us in another year and if it doesn't have it the series needs to be sold off or die off. One or the other.

Insomniac are so talented and I love them to death but they don't innovate. They sit around doing the status quo thing and it isn't working.

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Older PlayStation games that we'd love to see on the PlayStation 5

From Xfire: "For a company with a three-decade-long history in gaming, Sony has done a crappy job at preserving its legacy. "

Flawlessmic729d ago (Edited 729d ago )

All the mgs games, all the ape escapes, silent hill 1-4, croc 1 and 2, legend of dragoon, tekken 3,tenshu, bushido blade, vagrant story, okami, ico, crash bash, gt4.

Thats just off the top of my head that i would play immediately, still so many more though that id love.

Welshy728d ago

MGS, Silent Hill etc are no brainers, but you earned my thumbs up for our boi Croc. I talk about him all the time, it's an honour to find another man of culture.

Flawlessmic728d ago (Edited 728d ago )

Hahaha yea was one of my very first games i owned on ps1 as a child, great memories!!

Love to hear there other people out there that enjoyed the gem of a game that is croc 👌

RedDevils728d ago (Edited 728d ago )

Okami has HD version already. I want those Sly games though since PS3 and vita had it.

Flawlessmic728d ago

Yea sly would be cool, i never got into those so would be a good opportunity for me to do so.

But yea theres so many games in sony catalogue we coukd be here all day listing titles.

Hopefully we all get the ganes we are hoping for.

outsider1624729d ago

Tenchu 1 and 2
Socom 1 and 2
MGS 1-3
MGS4
ICO

seanpitt23729d ago

RDR2 for me they can boost that up to 60fps with better graphic settings than last gen

Luc20729d ago

Folklore. It was such a unique and beautiful game. Great soundtrack. I still have my PS3 copy

The_Hooligan729d ago

YES please! Also I would love to see Warhawk come back. Such an awesome game.

moriarty1889729d ago

The Resistance and a killzone series for me.

Bigman4k729d ago (Edited 729d ago )

Infamous 1 & 2 probably will get remaster for PS5/4 at some point as for the others in that article idk

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Ranking the Ratchet and Clank Games from Worst to Best

From Xfire: "Insomniac Games first introduced the unlikely duo of Ratchet and Clank back in 2002 on the PlayStation 2. Since then, the series has taken audiences on a journey that has spanned not just an entire galaxy, but multiple dimensions, with its most recent outings."

Levii_921042d ago

Best games of the franchise are Up Your Arsenal, A Crack in Time, 2016 Remake and without a doubt the newest one Rift Apart. You simply can’t go wrong with these.

Man what a glorious game series.

neutralgamer19921042d ago

Only ones I don't like as much are all 4 one and full frontal assault other than that all games are awesome( even these are good games just not up to the standard of other games in the series)

victorMaje1042d ago

Nice article, good list, they're all fun & I love this game!
Rift Apart is spectacular.
Insomniac are wizards, I want their next game to be a new Resistance. I can't wait to see what they have in store for us next.

DOMination-1042d ago

Ryan Mccaffrey said last week that Resistance 4 was in development but Sony cancelled it due to the high number of post-apocalyptic games around at the moment.

victorMaje1041d ago

Well that’s a shame. I feel they could do something truly special with today’s technology.

chicken_in_the_corn1042d ago

I'm looking forward to playing Rift Apart then the whole series sometime afterward. Up Your Arsenal is my favourite

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All the Ratchet & Clank PS3 exclusive games can now run on the Playstation 3 emulator, RPCS3

The RPCS3 team has announced that all the Ratchet and Clank games that were released exclusively on Playstation 3 can now run on the latest version of RPCS3. RPCS3 is the best Playstation 3 emulator that is currently under development and its incredible progress has really amazed us.

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Retroman2037d ago (Edited 2037d ago )

No Quest for booty/ into the Nexus??

Oops from the video both is emulated.