Along the way you will meet both familiar and new characters alike as you attempt to find Clank and stop my personal favorite R&C villain, The Evil Doctor Nefarious. Nefarious is trying to take control of The Great Clock, a device built at the exact center of the universe (give or take 50 feet) designed to maintain the fabric of time and space. Clank is the key to its use and he must gain control before Nefarious does. The story moves at a good pace and will last around 9-12 hours depending on how many of the collectables you want to gather. The final hour is the true action packed climax you’d expect, ending with one of the more memorable and emotional ending I have ever seen.

Behold The Great Clock

Instead of simply warping from location to location, Ratchet can explore each system using his ship and land on moons for collectibles or land on planets and stations to progress the story. In space combat is fairly dull as enemy ships are very easy to defeat. On the ground however Ratchet has access to his arsenal of ridiculous weapons. Each weapon has its own unique abilities and each it fun to use and highly destructive as fans of the series have come to expect. There are familiar feeling weapons, and then there are weapons like the Rift Inducer 5000, a weapon that opens a hole to another dimension allowing “Fred” to grab and eat your enemies. My favorite weapon while playing was Mr. Zurkon, a trash talking robot companion who would attack all who opposed him. The reason I liked his so much was his one-liners to enemies like “I shall let you live little alien…psych! Mr. Zurkon lives only to kill” or “You dare to hurt measly furball?” This is of course a testament to the great sense of humor R&C: ACIT has. Finally Ratchet’s newest toy is his Hoverboots. They allow hover off of ledges, hit jumps, and overall increase your movement speed through the game while in use. They open up fun new platforming elements that for the most part work very well.

Unfortunately Clank doesn’t have a trash talking robot companion and his one-liners are…well…less than stellar. He does however have a great new time mechanic. At certain points in Clank’s levels he will have to make copies of himself to open a door. You must move Clank onto a time pad and begin recording an action like holding down a button. Once you stop that, you begin recording on the other pad and can see a copy move to the button and press it which opens the door for you. As you progress you will face more and more thought provoking puzzles. These later puzzles will require your copies to do multiple actions each in order to open the door at the end. The time mechanic is a welcome addition that is the true driving force of Clank’s sequences.

Both Ratchet and Clank do suffer from the same issues. The camera can be very uncooperative at times and can make combat and platforming very difficult. There are also times ledges will become picky about where you land on them. If you do not land to their satisfaction, you hit a wall and plummet either to the platform below you or more frequently to your death. The same issue also occurs in some of the Hoverboot sequences.

What did you notice first, the more vibrant graphics or the Hydra Tank?

The various worlds you will visit in your travels all look beautiful. The game engine shows improvements both in and out of cutscenes and has a lot more color. It’s like playing a Pixar movie, an explosive action packed rollercoaster of a Pixar movie. The voice acting is top notch with every role being delivered flawlessly. The music is also good with each world getting a fitting score.

A Crack in Time is continuing the trend of fantastic exclusives for the PS3 this year and is a must have for fans and newcomers. The action is great, the game looks great and sounds great, the ending is fantastic, and the overall experience is more than enough to satisfy gamers through multiple playthroughs.

This game was reviewed on the PlayStation 3.

• Art Book for the game.
• Free PSN Voucher with which you can download Discovery Package which is more of a visual representation of Insomniac’s office in the form of a Moon.
• A free 3D lenticular cover

We have information for the stores in Europe where ypu can pick up this special edition:

• Finland: Almost everyhwere
• Denmark: GameStop
• Austria: TBC
• Italy: Everywhere
• UK: Game Exclusive
• Holand: Rigu, Dexcom

Stay tuned with GB for more news and updates.

Ratchet & Clank is one of Sony’s major hit games, ever since the first games on the Playstation 2.

Many of you know, that the masterminds behind Ratchet & Clank are Insomniac Games, which their latest release was the great hit First Person Shooter – Resistance 2, and as many of you notice, it seems like Insomniac is developing their games in the order of, Resistance, then Ratchet, Resistance, and now their latest Ratchet & Clank game: Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time.

The new Ratchet & Clank is a sequel to Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, and the PSN title – Quest For Booty, and the story picks up right after QFB left off.
in Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time, Ratchet is trying to find and save Clank, he was kidnapped at the end of TOD, to be more specific, he was kidnapped by Doctor Nefarious.

Players will play the game in 2 different ways, one time they will play as Clank who is trying to solve puzzles that have to do with “time”, for example Clank can record his actions, so he can then use this to platform to his destination, or maybe stop time so he can pass through fast moving platforms. Where as Ratchet you will battle and platform like every other Ratchet & Clank game, but featuring new weapons and gadgets and even allies, the idea that you play as both of them seperatly is well demonstrated on the recently revealed boxart of the game, so check it out!

Just like i mentioned, this is just like the classic Ratchet & Clank games, where you fly from one planet to another, doing quests and shooting down every enemy you see with all the variety of weapons at your disposal, except of course, your without Clank, so he isn’t there to help you out in your time of need.

I’m sure all of you noticed the big graphical jump the game has (from TOD to ACT), many articles wrote about the game having great looking graphics, being almost identical to Pixar movies, and let me tell you it sure is!

In conclusion, every R&C fan should not miss out on A Crack in Time, for it seems to be like the best R&C to date!
so mark the date, October 27.

The sequel is expected to be bigger and better than Tools of Destruction. Hopefully the devlopers will be implementing the multiplayer modes in the game. Ratchet and Clank : A Crack in Time is expected to hit Playstation 3 this fall.