When a series makes it to the third entry, things could go in one of two directions.
It can go the Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade route and be arguably the best entry in the
series or it can go the Spider-man three path and be so terrible that series needs a reboot
to recover.
Thankful Ratchet and Clank Up Your Arsenal lands closer to Dr. Jones than emo Peter Parker.
Ratchet & Clank are back and have to save the galaxy again.
This time the story is a lot more personal.
Ratchet’s home planet is being attacked this time so the duo go back to help with
the fight.
The jump between Ratchet and Clank 1 and 2 was a major leap but the differences between
this and the previous game are not as great.
Rather, instead of changing this up, they simply improved everything.
Everything has been twiked and just made all the better.
Are you looking for some awesome weapons?
We got that.
Are you looking for some great humor and fun?
We got that.
Are you craving more slow paced levels where you control Clank?
Too bad, we got that too.
The weapon designs are once again at the top of the class.
Some staples return from previous games, such as the Suck cannon and Lava gun but some new
ones make for nice additions.
I quickly became a fan of the Plasma Whip.
When a problem came around, I must whip it.All these different weapons allow you to play
the game how you want to play it.
You don’t have to follow the path and shoot with the same gun.
Each situation the game throws at you needs to be handled with a different gun.
This adds a lot of strategy to each encounter.
Also returning is the upgrade ability.
The more you use a weapon, the better it becomes, a good reason to mix up your weapon choice.
But it is not just the weapons that have seen upgrades.
Everything about the game has been improved on, right down to the graphics.
While the previous Ratchet games were not by any means ugly, they are blown away by
this one.
Every planet just have more going on, with battles happening all around you and environments
that make you interested in what is up on the next platform.
The game is all about variety.
Once you start getting tired of the platforming and shooting the game mixes things up by throwing
in a epic set piece.
These range from fighting off waves of enemies with a team of Galactic Rangers to arena battles
with giant bosses.
It is the perfect pacing that never allows the game to feel repetitive.
And if you don’t feel like playing the single player you can see how good you are by playing
some fun multiplayer.
The online is kind of basic, with only a limited number of game types but is really fun to
blast away your friend with an Annihilator.
It took a game that was already a classic and made it just all the better.
The Ratchet and Clank games are some of the most memorial games on the PS2 because they
never settled for good enough.
The series works as the perfect trilogy.
The first game introduced the series, the second game improved with major changes, and
the third game perfected those changes.