Killzone 2

While Guerrilla Games has become well-known for the Horizon series, remastering Killzone 2 for the PS5 seems a given. It’s the game that put the company on the map and its excellent visual fidelity, attention to detail, fun gun play and solid multiplayer would make a smooth transition over to the console. If a new sequel on PS5 isn’t coming any time soon, then it makes sense to revisit Killzone 2 in some capacity.

Ratchet and Clank: Into the Nexus was marketed as the capstone to a generation of troubled Ratchet and Clank games on the PlayStation 3- specifically, it was the epilogue to the ‘Future’ trilogy of games.

As with many other games that Sony releases, it was, however, baffling as to why Sony would release this game on the PlayStation 3, which isn’t exactly hurting for exclusives at the moment, and not their troubled PS Vita handheld. Well, they might at least be trying to rectify the issue retroactively: PEGI, the rating board for video games in Europe, has rated Ratchet and Clank: Into the Nexus for PS Vita. Bafflingly, it has a release date of December 7, which is two days away.

It’s unclear if this version actually exists, or if it has been rated in advance (it coming to the Vita is not out of the question); at this point, we can be reasonably confident that the game will be coming to Vita. I’d just doubt that it’s coming to Vita in less than forty eight hours, is all.

Oh, and for those wondering: it was rated 7+.

Ratchet & Clank Into the Nexus has so far received mixed reviews so far but avid fans should still look forward to the game. The game is a PlayStation 3 exclusive, developed by Insomniac Games.

Let us know if you have any questions in the comments section below.

Collectibles and Locations Guide:

All Planet Yerek Collectibles (Gold Bolts, Ryno Plans) Locations:

0:00 – Ryno Plans #1
0:37 – Gold Bolt #1
1:03 – Gold Bolt #2
1:43 – Gold Bolt #3

Smugglers Parrot Location

Vault Cracker Trophy Guide

0:00 Key 1
0:10 Key 2
0:20 Key 3
0:33 Key 4
1:05 Key 5
Key 6 collect 30 horns after getting the first 5

Planet Silox (Gold Bolts, Ryno Plans) Locations

0:00 Ryno Plan #3
0:12 Gold Bolt #4
0:38 Gold Bolt #5
0:52 Ryno Plan #4
1:13 Gold Bolt #6

Planet Thram (Gold Bolts, Ryno Plans) Locations

0:00 Gold Bolt #8
0:10 Gold Bolt #9
0:27 Ryno Plan #4
0:44 Ryno Plan #5

Planet Igliak Collectibles (Gold Bolts, Ryno Plans) Locations

0:00 Ryno Plan #6
0:26 Gold Bolt #10
0:50 Ryno Plan #7
1:25 Gold Bolt #11

Ryno Plans Locations Guide (Gold Rush Trophy)

Planet Yerek
0:00 Ryno Plans #1
0:26 Gold Bolt #1
0:52 Gold Bolt #2
1:31 Gold Bolt #3
Planet Silox
1:52 Ryno Plan #3
2:05 Gold Bolt #4
2:30 Gold Bolt #5
2:45 Ryno Plan #4
3:05 Gold Bolt #6
Planet Thram
3:42 Gold Bolt #8
3:52 Gold Bolt #9
4:09 Ryno Plan #4
4:24 Ryno Plan #5
Planet Igliak
4:42 Ryno Plan #6
5:08 Gold Bolt #10
5:31 Ryno Plan #7
6:07 Gold Bolt #11

Rest to be collected in arena challenges.

Trophies Guide:

The Pride of Fastoon

Collect every trophy in Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus.

A Walk in the Park

Beat the game on Cadet difficulty.

The Adventurer

Beat the game on Hero difficulty.

The Legend

Beat the game on Legend difficulty

The Show Off

Beat the game in Challenge Mode

Thug Life

Win the Destructapalooza Bronze Cup.

Thug Rookie

Win the Destructapalooza Silver Cup.

Thug Champion

Win the Destructapalooza Gold Cup.

Vault Cracker

Unlock the vault on planet Thram. [as outlined before]

In Case of Zombies…

Purchase all weapons.

Armored and Dangerous

Purchase all armor.

Going Commando

Upgrade 1 weapon to level 6.

Up Your Arsenal

Upgrade all weapons to level 6.

Gold Rush

Collect all Gold Bolts. [see guide above]

Greed

Collect 1,000,000 bolts over the course of the game.

Your Worst Nightmare

Scare at least one of every type of enemy using the Nightmare Box.

Precious Metal

Collect 200 raritanium over the course of the game.

Exterminator

Beat Pest Control with just the Omniwrench.

Into the Nether Region

Complete all Netherverse segments.

Secret Trophies

Leap for Your Life

Grav-Leap to the Thug ship circling the Nebulox Seven.

Sweet Justice

Defeat Neftin Prog.

Shaky Truce

Form an alliance with Neftin Prog.

Cross the Streams

Defeat the Nether Leader and banish his kind.

Note: This guide will updated once we have more information about the game. You can also check out the complete video walk-through of Ratchet and Clank Into the Nexus here.

Game Overview:

In Ratchet & Clank Into the Nexus, our two heroes need to escort criminal Vendra to the Vartax Detention Center. However Vendra’s twin brother Neftin Prog intervenes and somehow manages to get hold of him and they both escape. The game features new and returning weapons and gadgets.

Ratchet & Clank Into the Nexus is developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony. The game is now available in North America exclusively for the PlayStation 3 and on November 22nd in Europe.

Check out the video walkthrough of Ratchet & Clank Into the Nexus below and let us know if you have any questions in the comments section below.

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The game is being published by Sony Computer Entertainment and is slated for an exclusive release on the PlaysStation 3. In North America, Into The Nexus is expected to arrive on the 12^th of November 2013 in North America and December 12^th 2013 in Japan. In Europe where the game is simply title Ratchet and Clank : Nexus the game is slated for release on November 13^th 2012.

• 1. Development
• 2. Story
• 3. Characters
• 4. Weapons and Gadgets

Development

This close to release it is rather uncommon for so little development information to be available to the press and media outlets, but what few details we do know are certainly very important. A long standing characteristic of the Ratchet and Clank games has been a commitment to solid gameplay without sacrificing what is, in essence a platforming game. This has always been accomplished through the implementation of a refined control scheme and clever in game mechanics that allow the player to manipulate the world around them in various ways in order to progress forward in the game.

To help this decidedly more modern Ratchet and Clank games retain their traditional standard. Insomniac Games have made sure to let players know that despite this games location in the “future” series, it will still be taking place in exotic locations with unique and original designs that can only be found in the R&C universe. The implementation of new weapons for our heroes to wield allows them to dispatch their enemies in various ways, bringing back the much loved Skill Point mechanic for improving your experience as you go relative to you skill level.

The illusive element, Raritainium will be put to use as a gameplay mechanic that goes hand in hand with the skill points. Raritainium will be used to upgrade the various weapons that you gain access to throughout your far reaching quest. Clank will be used in new ways now, being used to solve puzzles and navigate his way through dangerous mazes to help add another layer of depth to the already exceptional Ratchet and Clank Gameplay.

Story

The story opens with our two heroes, Ratchet and Clank providing an escort for two captured and highly dangerous villains that go by the names of Vendra and Neftin Prog. The two criminals are being transported to a high secrutiy prison called the Vartax Detention Center, where they are expected to spend a great deal of time locked away. The two genius criminals somehow manage to engineer an escape plan and escape amidst the chaos of a mass jailbreak. It’s in the ensuing chaos that our two unfortunate main characters find themselves stranded and lost at the edge of the galaxy in a long abandoned sector of space.

With the intent of tracking down and serving justice to Vendra and Netfin, the duo tracks the couple to the planet Yerek where they hope to capture the escaped convicts. Little did they know that the planet Yerek plays host to a series of once haunted city states. After a series of unfortunate events and unforeseeable circumstances the pair stumble across an inter-dimensional “crisis” that has the potential to threaten the existence of our known universe, forcing our heroes to leap into action yet again to save existence as we know it from complete and utter destruction. But what choices our heroes will make along the way are a mystery for now.

Characters

Ratchet – Ratchet is one of the Lombax, a race of bipedal anthropomorphized cats that share strikingly similar traits with human beings. Ratchet started out as a lowly mechanic wishing for adventure and bigger, better things. This and more came true when he met a strange little robot by the name of Clank.

Clank – Clank is a small little robot, no bigger than a backpack that escaped from a robot plant on the planet Quartu. After a failure to properly escape in a high speed chase with his once owners, he crashes close to a large plateau on the planet Veldin, the same planet that Ratchet resides on. Clank turns out to be the catalyst that sparks the chain of events that leads to a less than ordinary life alongside his Lombax friend.

Vendra and Neftin Prog – A pair once captured, now escaped and wanted convicts who were originally intended to arrive at Vartax Detention Centre where they would do their jail time. This tricky couple escaped from the clutches of the law and are now on the run, hiding out on the planet Yerek and being protected by the Thugs-4-Less organization.

Weapons and Gadgets

Something the Ratchet and Clank series has always had in spades is a diverse and interesting array of weapons and gadgets for the players to use. Some classic fan favourites will be making a return to the series in “Into The Nexus” such as the fusion grenades, alongside the aptly named “warmonger”. But fanservice is only acceptable up to a point, and from there on you need new pieces of equipment for the player to use. That’s why Into The Nexus introduces new weaponry such as the vortex cannon.

Once this cannon has been deployed in a fight, it will generate black holes which will suck your foe straight into another dimension. There’s the OmniBlaster, which is fundamentally just a fancy shotgun. The Winterizer is icy cold weapon that blurts out freezing gold tornadoes, quickly rendering your target immobile and turning them into snowmen. This latest game in the series also introduces the player to “The Nightmare Box”, a simple yet devious creation that scares enemies stiff, leaving Ratchet with plenty of time to eliminate them with the various tools at his disposal.

And what arsenal would be complete, without a Repulsor? The Repulsor suspends the enemy in mid-air through the use of strange technologies leaving them vulnerable to Ratchets attacks. But this is just a taste of what lies in wait in the full game.

From the looks of things, we can expect to see more of Ratchet & Clank’s fun science based puzzle platforming, with cool gadgets like gravity boots. The video gives us a good feel for how the movement and game play physics will look in Ratchet & Clank: Into The Nexus.

Additionally we are given a good glimpse at how the battle system will play. And to top it all off, as this is footage from the actual game and not just a developer diary sort of video, we are given a look at the overall story and get a sense of the game’s story pacing.

Ratchet & Clank: Into The Nexus comes out exclusively for PS3 on November 12.

Ratchet and Clank: Into the Nexus, the next installment in the Ratchet and Clank franchise, and one that returns to the series’ roots, and also caps off the Future sub-series on the PlayStation 3, is going to launch November 12. Yes, November 12 as in barely half a week before the PlayStation 4.

The game, which disappointingly enough, is not a full length Ratchet and Clank game, but is rather a short, three to four hour long budget prized adventure, will not, however, be lacking for quality. As Insomniac says, “some of you have asked us why we made a shorter Ratchet game. The truth is, we relished this ability to tie a bow on the PS3 era of Ratchet with a shorter title. All of us love the Ratchet universe – and after 12 years developing the series, it feels like a very close friend. We have a lot of stories to tell, some longer, some shorter. This one felt just right. It’s a very polished self-contained return to the Ratchet adventures of yore. It’s impactful, too; filled with planet-hopping, guns blazing, joke-cracking Ratchet & Clank, and events happen here that will change Ratchet forever. Think of it as a small epic.”

We’ll see how epic the epic is when it releases later this year.

Ratchet and Clank: Into the Nexus will be releasing this November for PlayStation 3.