New Ratchet bugged?

Could there be a problem with the biggest PS3 game of the year, Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction? GR Global Editorial Director Stephen Pierce has this to say:

I had got to the Planet Mukow, about four or five planets into the game. I completed the first Arena Challenge in the Imperial Fight Festival and headed back to my spacecraft to fly to another planet. I pressed the triangle button to enter the craft and the screen went black and some numbers appeared in the top left hand corner. The game froze."

"I reloaded and attempted to leave the planet a further four times and the same thing happened each time. I don't know if I've got a defective machine, copy of the game, or what?"

[predator]

u beat me to it again, but the one im going to post is different to this.

Edit. the i was going to post has just been done to, i need a bigger CRank, damit.

Hope this bug gets sorted quick

[mighty_douche]

or so i read yesterday. sure all the xbox fans will be all over this, no ps3 game is allowed to get over 90% without having something to moan about!

i hear theres a typo on the back of the box to, some other ammo for you guys.

[mesh1]

shush

[wageslave]

"Over 9?"

According to Metacritic, the combined score is 9.0 / 10.

Not "over 9". But 9.

[the worst]

Either take off 500MB or add 500MB in data to your HDD by deleting something or downloading something. Uncharted videos come to mind, as both are over 500MB. Should work fine after that.

[predator]

i think that workaround is related to the game not starting at all, which seems to be a different bug from this 1 freezing, hopfuly im wrong as this looks like a good game for the ps3 and would hate it to be spoiled by bugs

[wil4hire]

amazing..

[SabreMan]

nothing is good in everyones eyes, it's called Opinion

rightly or wrongly everyone is entitled to one

[FirstknighT]

Let's see how you kiddies like it. You sony fools couldn't stop posting bad news for Halo 3.

Let The Games Begin!

[mighty_douche]

a fix is on the way already so relax noob, nothing to see here. oh and by the way, this game was developed in roughly 9 months compared to halos 3 years, i think a few launch bugs which can be resolved arent as big an issue as you'd like to try and make them.

360 tab is the next one over, f*ck off back there.

[MIAMIFROST]

everytime I see a post from this guy , its a negative sony bashing one. Get a life dumba$$! Go play Halo if your Xbox is not being repaired.

[Silver Bull3t]

Being aptly named, I can't call you out on that one, but as far as flame bait goes you're certainly guilty.

I bet you wish they took as much time on PS3 titles as they did on exclusives for the 360. Like you said nothing to see here... except the fact that a signature title is BROKEN!

I wish I could play crapware that needed fixed too.

Time for a reservoir change there _Douche, you STINK!

[1337 gamer]

@FirstKnight

this problem could be fixed easily by an update but halos sh*t graphics cant thats the difference.

[WIIIS1]

You obviously haven't played Halo. Whether this bug can be fixed or not remains to be seen btw.

[S1D3 EFFEC7]

Really nice.

[titntin]

No one else has had the same issue - there are no reports from anyone else of this problem.
Its very likely that the guy has some corrupted code data on his hard drive and should do a fresh HD install. Although rare, this can happen for anyone when copying data....

[leon76]

I'm getting tired of this BS!!!! like titntin said there are no reports of anyone with this problem!!!!! this is getting ridiculous!!! STOP THIS NONSENSE!!!!

[heavyarms]

Is not the first game on the ps3 that needs a freaking update for it to run with no problems. For sure now this is only a rental for me. If kz2 or msg4 have problems i will be throwing away my blueray player. I dont need to freaking updates for these games. Am i the only ps3 player that hates this sorta crap or what. Come on, this is is pathetic if you ask me. Just get the game made right in the first place before you sent it out. And if i get another scratch dvd on my 360, i'm taking out running over that sh1t with my 07 Tundra, that piece of sh1t. I might as well stick with my pc gaming. Ut3 anyone!!!

[Captain Tuttle]

You're over reacting just a bit. So the game needs an update...big deal. It happens with PC games all the time. And there's already a workaround announced. Kudos to Insomniac for nipping this in the bud quickly...sometimes these things can drag on.

[Meus Renaissance]

If it becomes an issue for people then a patch will be released and the issue fixed. It doesn't come out in Europe for another 2 weeks so I'm personally not even considering this news; by that time, it will have been fixed hopefully.

And for the trolls who've been searching Google like badgers digging through the underground, looking for some negatives regarding the game then they should remember "the biggest game" on the 360 killed consoles and came with scratched discs - so what's your "HA!" about mate?

[wageslave]

"the biggest game" on the 360 killed consoles and came with scratched discs "

A small number gets discs dislodged from their cases at retail - thats just a stupid thing to suggest MS is responsible for. It says nothing about the game itself.

Secondly, a video game cannot "kill a console" if it doesnt update the fcuking machine.

The machine is "game agnostic" -- no "game kills a console".

You're a fcuking troll. How you've managed so many bubbles can only be attributed to the bias of this site, and/or you're gaming the system.

You're repeating ignorant nonsense. Oh, and btw, I heard Ratchet & Clank is buggy. Suckit troll. And the reviews are 9.0 / 10 on metacritic -- lower than Bioshock and Halo 3.

[AliC]

I didn't see this level of fanboyism when Halo 3 was released, people of all formats generally welcomed the game, this seems like picking at a very small annoying bug that's not even game breaking bug.

Bugs are inevitability of live, no matter how good your QA department may be sometimes bugs will pop up unexpectedly.

Lets enjoy the game for what its and its technical Achievements.

[Silver Bull3t]

"I reloaded and attempted to leave the planet a further four times and the same thing happened each time. I don't know if I've got a defective machine, copy of the game, or what?"

Not a game breaking bug?... did you even read the article?!

[Silver Bull3t]

I wish I could look the other way while I got it from behind and hoped for a reach-around.

[xg-ei8ht]

The hdr in Halo3 is sweet, But the aa isn't - OUCH>

[DiGiTaL Ki11eR]

damn, they give you guys a crappy solution to fix that, they should patch it.

[Cloud Strife]

just look at Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic.that game had a ton of bugs in it.makes u want to keep youe fingers crossed for mass effect don't it. :)

[feejo]

The game froze maby it is better to have spider man blu-ray instead.

[toughNAME]

GR Global Editorial Director Stephen Pierce is the biggest xbot ever

[jackdoe]

Well, if other gaming sites report it than it could be widespread. Until then, it could be a localized incident because a game stopping bug like this is too big to get through QA if it occurs normally.

[DFresh]

What are you talking about?
They only released a demo
and
the new one has style besides
I haven't seen one Insomniac game fail yet
so this ad is a lie

[gamesblow]

Never affected my game at all and I beat it today... so, it's not a prodminate bug for everyone. I got the game at 9:00 monday night and spent over 15 hours beating it over the last few days. It was amazing. Best game I've played since SOTC, I believe. I loved every aspect of it... It's also the blu-print for what the ps3's future can hold.

[mgbass13]

Wow...NEEERRRRD FIIIIGGGHTTT! Seriously, anyone knocking this game for an isolated incident is probably a: desperate for something to do
b: totally gay
c: a virgin

Oh yeah, and about this one bug...at least the machine running it didn't come with a bug. You know, one that crashes the whole freaking thing, forces you to send it out for repair, and REQUIRES a 3 year warranty. 360 has good games, but it's total JUNK as far as hardware goes. Anyone else notice the D-pad on the controller starts going dead after about 6 months?. JUNK!!! "Thank you for crapping all over us, microsoft, give us more!" If it wasn't for 3rd parties, this system would be done.

[ReBurn]

Talking about how much the 360 sucks doesn't do anything to resolve the current issue with this game. It may make you feel better, but that's about it.

[gololo]

guys stop bashing the game...and im glad that with the current consoles bug fixing is happening...what I mean by that is imagine if we didn't had HDD, bugs like the stats in Warhawk, or a bunch of glitches in GeOW couldn't be fixed? That would just simply screw up the whole game, but again this can be fixed by an update...so I for one don't expect games to be bug-free, after all, games are software, and every single software written has had some kind of bugs, and I embrace the fact that devs have the HDD to rely to make slight updates to improve the quality and experience of the game.

[beavis4play]

after fighting in the arena, got in my ship, watched a cut-scene and left. someone either has a buggy game or is making it up.

but, i didn't have any problem on planet mukow.......now, back to the game.