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The swashbuckling action in Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty begins one year following the intense ending in Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction. Ratchet’s desperate search for Clank resumes with a bang as he finds himself engulfed in ship-board combat — only to be cast adrift and washed up on the shores of a remote island on the planet Merdegraw. Our Lombax hero must overcome life-threatening challenges, encounter hostile new alien races and even form an allegiance with dreaded Captain Slag’s first mate, Rusty Pete. All in the pursuit of clues that lead Ratchet to the treasure of Captain Angstrom Darkwater, Slag’s former commander and keeper of the only known link to the mysterious Zoni: the Fulcrum Star.
Push, pull, and manipulate objects as you solve various puzzles using Ratchet’s new wrench. New Light/Dark gameplay: Illuminate dark areas and use your wits to survive encounters with enemies that live in the dark. New Pirate Puzzles: Mix brew, manipulate shadows, and play tunes to find hidden booty.
Insomniac’s Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty is the second installment of Sony’s popular platfomer to hit the PS3. In an interesting twist, however, Quest for Booty comes in at a lower-priced, download-only PSN title. Watch this video review.
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To quote the video review: “While it’s easy to assume otherwise, Booty’s levels don’t feel like Tools of Destruction B-sides. Rather, they’re just more of a good thing, and they even look slightly better thanks to some lighting trickery and less repetitive textures. Regrettably, the narrative doesn’t feel quite so advanced; considering it picks up right where Future leaves off — with Clank having been taken by the time-controlling Zoni — Booty tromps off with its own side story, ending on the same cliffhanger with little more resolved. You have to admire the ambition of doing anything in so little time ? developer Insomniac even managed to squeeze in a heartfelt moment between Ratchet and ladyfriend Talwyn — but a little evolution in the series’ first overarching plot point would’ve been nice.
finished Quest for Booty in about two and a half hours. Add a little more if you’re somebody who doesn’t play videogames for a living, but take it right back if you’re any sort of Ratchet fan. Just to be very clear: I don’t care about the price — I’ll pay $15 for a few hours of Ratchet every time. But what should’ve been a love letter to fans ends up serving better as a taste of what outsiders are missing — and, as a fan, that makes me just a little bit sad.”
Overall — 7.5
