An anthropomorphic
wombat battles undead pirates in the far future.
Ratchet
& Clank descend from an illustrious tradition. There was a time where a
console line up was composed primarily of game like this one, with bright primary
colors, cartoony graphics, some platforming and some fighting.
Before
playing this one, thank you Sony for your welcome back gift, I didn’t realize
that apart from Nintendo land I can’t think of any other game that continues in
this tradition. This is a shame, I can still remember countless hours playing with
Mario and his ilk but evidently First Person Shooters need even more shelf
space.
Moving to
the game itself I must confess that it doesn’t live up to his forebears. Maybe
I’m getting too old but the humor and the anthropomorphic characters are simply
not engaging for me.
The graphics
are certainly nice but the game play is so and so.
Mainly half
of the time is devoted to puzzles and platforming sequences, nothing too hard
and certainly enjoyable stuff. Our hero is literally armed with a futuristic
spanner which he can use to interact with various objects in a not very intuitive
way.
The other
half of the time is occupied with fighting the undead pirates. I didn’t like it
very much, honestly it wasn’t very entertaining, it felt like a chore that I
had to go trough to progress in the game.
The game is
very short, only 4 hours, and honestly not very good, I imagine that if you
want this kind of stuff you need to buy a Wii.
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