Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty (2008)Īside from its giggle-worthy title, this entry is perhaps the greatest example of filler that the franchise has to offer. It’s not a game that will insult you, but it will depress you’ll lovingly caress the old photos of previous Ratchet & Clank games - longing for the good times that have now passed. There’s nothing inherently wrong with tower defense, but it felt like a gameplay change that was made just for change sake. This was a time of identity crisis for the franchise there was a movie being made that felt 15 years too late, a co-op multiplayer game, and this bizarre tower defense escapade. Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault (2012)Ĭompared to where the series is headed now, most fans would shudder to remember the days of Full Frontal Assault on PS3 and Vita. We’ve all fallen for an endless runner before (I’m looking at you, Temple Run) and this worked as a decent-enough diversion to get you through that Monday morning commute.ġ3. This simple game isn’t anything remarkable, but it was certainly playable and did its job. Serving as a promotional tie-in for the soon-to-be-released Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus, Before the Nexus was an endless runner with the franchise’s personality sprinkled on top of it. Ratchet & Clank: Before the Nexus (2013)Īnother mobile game! But instead of suffering from primitive hardware, this one fell short by being derivative. It’s best described as a low-end Game Boy Advance game, one that even the most diehard of Ratchet & Clank fans likely skipped out on. Ratchet & Clank: Going Mobile is an unremarkable reminder of the time before smartphones, with very little to make it truly stand out. Not a modern mobile game either (which unfairly get a bad rap due to their “casual” nature), but a relic of a bygone era. That means there’s no better time to look back on the highs and lows of the entire series - let’s dive in. The latest entry in the series, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, is set to launch for PlayStation 5 on June 11, and is widely expected to be one of the console’s best exclusives yet. Do you want to bombard your enemies into oblivion with hilariously oversized rocket launchers? Do you want zany and creative concoctions that will do anything from turning your enemies into pixels or literal ducks? Of course you do - that’s why Ratchet & Clank rules. Since the debut of their eponymous series on PlayStation 2 back in 2002, Ratchet and Clank become the unofficial mascots of Sony’s gaming console, with an arsenal of cataclysmic weaponry that makes Iron Man’s arsenal look like a Build-a-Bear workshop. Before it made Peter Parker and Miles Morales swing, Insomniac Games was best known for blowing things up in the most spectacular way possible.

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