Today, just a few days before E3, Sony released a trailer for their upcoming Ratchet & Clank game. Within the first few seconds I'm engaged in visuals that are up to par with a recent Pixar film. The color, lighting, and detail are spectacular. There's a bit of a hint to what the story will be about, but I have a massive lack of experience with the franchise, so I'm not exactly sure where it would fall in the timeline. We get some brief glimpses of gameplay with some gun play, a vehicle segment, and a little bit of platforming with Clank. What interests me is that this game will be a tie-in to the film that is to be released April of next year. I can only recall one game that was made based off the movie that was based off the game and that game is Street Fighter The Movie The Game and that game looked horrible and was critically received horribly. This however looks like it will measure up.
This trailer also came with an eight minute gameplay demo. Weapons like the Groovitron seem to have returned and it also looks like we have a new weapon in the Pixelizer that converts enemies into pixilized versions of themselves. It's a neat looking weapon and looks fun to use. The demo also shows us some platforming that looks pretty simple, but does its job in diversifying the gameplay. There's not much to talk about. You have jumping of course, climbing up and across railing, and some tethering to floating devices. The combat looks basically the same from what I've seen from other Ratchet & Clank games. You have your guns with various effects and your wrench for melee attacks. The battle against the boss at the end of the demo has some nice visuals, but as far as boss design, it was basically standard fair. He seemed to work on a pattern and throws out some smaller enemies. Overall it looked okay and did a serviceable job. It got my interest peaked, but I do wonder since E3 is around the corner if there will be anything new shown for this.
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