Ratchet and Clank Size Matters-GiftedGamer Review

Ratchet and Clank Size Matters Review

This game unlike the others in the series, is actually a ported PSP game which I played on the PS2.

The game begins with Ratchet tanning on the beach when some little technomite girl Luna comes up to him and pretends to be taking pictures of him for a school project. She fakes getting kidnapped and then you have to go find her and “help” her although when you end up finding her she just knocks out Ratchet and teleports Clank to another planet.

Fast forward to the main gameplay, this game is made up of many small mini games and short levels such as Dreamtime and the Shrink-into-Clank-brains level. There is also a lot of Hoverboard racing that you do to get bolts, armor and tools that are required for the game as in the Polaritizer and the Shrinkray. You can level all of your guns up and tools so that they transform for example the Mootator turns people into cows. If you level it up enough it turns into the ArMooGeden which turns people into bulls.

If you get certain sets of armor like the Crystal armor, you have a special ability, for example the Crystal Armor special ability is when you do a jump and hit the Square button, crystals spawn at where your wrench hit and blow up any enemies standing in it.

There are also 2 Clank arenas where you battle for bolts, necessary tools and armor. These games include a handball, controlling bots to get to the finish line and bumpercars.
There is also Giant Clank battle in space where you fly around and blow things up with your turrets.

For the last boss, three very important items I found were the Agents of Dread (evolved from the Agents of Doom) the killer bee hive (evolved from bee hive) and the static charger. You will need to damage the final boss’ bubble before you damage him. Once you get him to roughly half, you can start damaging him directly without worrying about the bubble. The bubble will respawn if you damage him and wait long enough before he gets to half HP. Before this you also fight him again as Giant Clank, although that one is fairly simple and I just shot him a few times and hit him with a triple square repetitively.

This game cannot compare to other Ratchet and Clank PS2 games but it was good for what it was. Overall I give this game a 6.5
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Ratchet and Clank Future Review - Tools of Destruction

Ratchet and Clank Future - Tools of Destruction Review

This is the first Ratchet and Clank game for the PS3. I was anxious to see how the game evolved for the more powerful PS3 console. Would the graphics be much better? Would the game play be better? Here is my review.

For the most part the graphics were better than previous versions of Ratchet and Clank and I enjoyed the scenery of the various maps and levels. For some reason I enjoyed the graphics of Ratchet better in the older games. This game is as good gameplay as if not better than previous versions. Unlike the other games, when you are stopping some bad guy, trying to take over the galaxy or being imprisoned and having to fight back, in this game you are looking through Ratchets Lombax origin. His origin demonstrates new guns and tools that were made by the greatest minds to ever roam any galaxy.

This game features a single one of these inventions, The Dimensionator. This is a hat item that can open portals to teleport things through space. There is an alien tyrant who tries to get the Dimensionator to end the Lombax race once and for all and bring back his race, the Cragmites.

This game uses weapons as found in previous versions of the game although slightly modified, and completely new weapons for your arsenal in the Combat Devices. A good part of the game has to do with space pirates which end up surrendering to you, although when you go back into another level, they still attack you. There are new gadgets in this game as well such as the Leechbomb, which drains the enemies life and adds to yours. There is also the Groovinator which causes all of the nearby enemies to burst out and dance!

This game also puts Clank back in the action, which I was really happy about. And it even gave him some new modifications such as the Glider. In this game, you can also trade Leviathan souls which are gathered from large and dangerous creatures, for lots of bolts. Bolts are the currency of the game to buy weapon upgrades, ammo and more. Raritanium can be used to upgrade your weapon as well. You find raritanium in crates.

During your missions, you also find Cronk and Zephyr, two old battle bots as well as Talwyn who end up helping you throughout the game.

For fighting the last boss, I didn't find the Rhino that important, although it still helped alot. Here are the locations of all of the pieces of the Rhino holo-plan.

Kortog
northern-most corner, break these boxes and you will have the Holo-plan for this planet.

Mukow
Take the ferris wheel up to the right side and when you are about halfway up, jump and then glide to the right. See a bunch of crates, a holo plan is hidden within them.

Nundac Astreroid Ring
on Delta right beside a box by a green launch pads, the one furthest away from the teleporter.

Ardolis
Use helipod by a door to the right of you, go to right. There is a chest of raritanium, smash the crates and you will get a Holo-plan.
note that you must get the Holo-plan before taking the elevator, or you will have to backtrack

Rykan V
Go to the town area where your ship is. At one edge of town there is a river of lava flowing out from under big structures. Jump up and cross the river. In the farthest corner of the platform, there is a "box" containing a forcefield on one edge and a platform with HeliPod target on it. Jump into the box , then use your Heli-Pod to raise it high enough to get to the next platform. Break boxes and you should find the next holo-plan.

Sargasso
Once you get about halfway up the Troglosaur's spine, you can jump over to the building. or use RoboWings

Viceron
Instead of taking the taxi, turn around on the platform and the Holo-Plan is in some boxes directly opposite the taxi.

Jasindu (Kerchu City)
Take the above ground path from where you land, kill the little bug eyed guys until you get to a pirate in an open area before you go under a bridge. Look directly to your right, there is a ledge about a double jump high in the face of the rock of the right wall of the open area. Up there is a raritanium chest with a holo- plan in it.

Ublik(Slags Fleet)
After you take the first ship across, fight your way to an area with a bolt crank. To your right is a grav ramp that will take you around behind the building. You'll find some raritanium chests, etc., and a path that leads to a ship. Don't follow the path yet, just walk around the area until you find the plan.

Reepor
There are two gun-control turrets that Cronk and Zephyr use to annialate the force field. There is a platform in front of the control room to your right that you have to jump across open space to get to. You can see it pretty easily because it has a cluster of eight crates on it. Smash them and get your plan.

Igliak (Meridian)
There is a big room about halfway through the level with a trench in the middle that you can fall through the city if you fall in. In the right hand corner from where you enter it,right before the trench and up on a ledge, there are a group of boxes. They have the holo-plan.

Return to Fastoon
To get this Holo-plan, you have to delay the fight between Tachyon, and do this before Ratchet and Talwyn open the final chamber. When you use the Decrypter to get into the area just outside the final battle, stay to the right wall, smashing crates and other breakable objects as you go. It is actually very easy to find if you stay along that wall. Talk to the smuggler when you have all of these pieces to get the Rhino.

And of course as in all the other great Ratchet and Clank games, this game also has rail grinding. The last boss Emperor Tachyon, I found one of the best difficult end game bosses of all the Ratchet and Clank games.

Overall I really enjoyed this game and I give it an 8.5

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Ratchet Deadlocked Review

Ratchet Deadlocked Review

Ratchet Deadlocked is a gladiator game for the PS2 featuring Ratchet but not clank. In this game, it will start out with Ratchet on the ship, the Phoenix, as seen in Ratchet and Clank 3. Invaders will take Ratchet from the ship and put him in an area of space called the shadow sector. In the shadow sector, Ratchet as well as a lot of other gladiator heroes, will be fighting to the death in set deadlock courses.

In this game, vehicles such as the land stalker, the hoverbike and the hovership are all available for use throughout the story mode and some deadlock challenges.
During this game, you will get badges and deadlock points that will activate new worlds for you to gladiate in.
For the story mode part, you will unlock almost all of the maps although in order to fight Ace Hardlight, Vox and beat the Ghost Station area after you kill Hard Light, you will need to do some mini game challenges from pretty much all of the levels.
There are 2 announcers that like insulting you and causing rude / unnecessary comments such as “ if Ratchet was a tough cookie, what kind of cookie would he be, I’m thinking Snickerdoodle….”, snickerdoodle? Really ?

This game apparently has online action although I could never see any other players online. In this game, you have 2 helper Bots who will fight and help you complete challenges. To buy weapons, there will be a vendor near a blimp that transports you from arena to arena. In Al’s workshop (from the previous games) you can upgrade your battle Bots. Across the wing is Clank. Unfortunately all he does is appear in cutscenes and talks randomly. You cannot use him as a hove pack, control him or use him as a glide.
Ratchet and Clank is better with Clank.

This game is fairly easy and took me one day to beat. There is no special information for the last boss, Vox as he is extremely easy and all you need to do is not get hit by his weaponery as well as hit him with your hardest weapons.
This is the weakest of the previous Ratchet and Clank games.

Overall I would rate this game a 6, Rent it before you buy it!
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PS3 fixed

Btw, after talking to Sony Canada it seemed I could either mail the broken PS3 back and have them fix it ($150) or try something on my own. After holding down the start button for a hard reset (you can hear beeps and it resets the output to analog from HDMI) so I had to find the old analog rca cables that came with the PS3 to see if there was a signal, but it was completely dead.
I took that opportunity to get a 250G hard drive and replaced the smaller drive by simply opening the HD bay, sliding the bad harddrive out and to the left, removing the 4 screws (2 on each side) that hold the hard drive to the carrier, replaced drive with same drive type (but bigger capacity), screwed the 4 screws back in and when I went to start it up, it asked if I want to format the drive and now PS3 works again and I have more memory. Although I lost my PS2 game saves for some of the recent games I was reviewing, the system works fine again so will be reviewing more PS2 and PS3 games again shortly.
Meanwhile have put a trailer for the new Sonic Winter Olympics game on the website, http:www.giftedgamer.com
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PS2 is Coming Back!

Hi All. Can you believe the PS2 is actually experiencing a boom in sales?
Despite the "outdated graphics" of the PS2 mainly because of the lower memory capacity of the games and the system which requires smaller file sizes to run, the PS2 is enjoying a recent boost in popularity because of recent price drops.

The best selling systems are still the Ninendo DS and DSI as well as the Wii. Trailing the field is the PSP with the worst sales. PS3 is not doing so great either but still offers great quality games and is close to XBox 360 in sales. The PS3 will also most likely get a price drop in early June when it is expected to be announced at E3 and that may fuel PS3 sales along with a slowly improving economy.

So we will continue to rank, rate and review our large collection of PS2 games as they become more popular once again. Many PS2 games do offer great gameplay despite some limits on graphics relative to the PS3, and even having a PS3 there are still many times a PS2 game will find it's way into the drive bay. Check out some of the PS2 reviews and enjoy the newer low prices on the gaming systems.
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Ratchet and Clank - Up Your Arsenal - Gifted Gamer Review

Ratchet and Clank - Up Your Arsenal Review

This third game in the Ratchet and Clank series is markedly different than the first two. Captain Quark starts off as someone who lost his mind in the jungle and turns into your team leader and doesn't try to kill you. Half of the game you are helping the Galactic Rangers fight off an alien space menace known as the Tyranoids. The Tyranoids were created by a robot called Dr. Nefarious. You are back at Gadgetron again.

Your home base is called the Starship Phoenix. You get a lot of missions from there. You can buy armor and weapons. You can train in a special training facility and you have your own room which you can play Captain Quark video games at.

One thing about this game is that at the higher levels you get hit harder and die faster. One level for example, is impossible without the Shield Charger. There is no way to destroy all of the enemies without being destroyed. Therefore you must run through it and have the Shield Charger up to make sure you make it through. Something that is mandatory for the last boss would be the Bouncer. It did half of the overall damage during the boss fight.

The enemies take a lot of hits later on in the game. This game is better than the first two games in the series, other than the lack of save spots in some places and how high the enemies can do damage.

Overall I rate this game an 8 (but I really hated that one part that requires the Shield Charger to get through).

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Ratchet and Clank Going Commando - Giftedgamer Review

Ratchet and Clank Going Commando - Giftedgamer Review

This game is pretty much like the original Ratchet and Clank version 1 with a few minor differences. The first difference is the story line which has a small blue ferocious pet sweep over the galaxy as a deadly experiment. Another thing is Megacorp has taken over for Gadgetron. If you played Ratchet and Clank 1 and beat it, then at the planet Barlow there is a Gadgetron Vendor which will give you free weapons from your last game. The RYNO unfortunately is not included in that cache therefore you need to pay the 1,000,000 bolts to get it although it is not necessary to have it in order to beat the game.

There are many new weapons in this game as well as the fact you can upgrade a weapon you bought by frequently using it. In the final battle which is the one where you face a giant Furball that Quark has created.

The weapons and items I have used were the Heavy Bouncer, which was is the upgraded version of the Bouncer; Megaturret which is the upgraded version of Mini-Turret; Synthenoids and a Charger Shield. By the time I was out of ammo with my Bouncer, Mini-Turret and Synthenoids, the mutation would be dead. The Charger Shield is important because the Giant Mutation Thing can do high damage.

There is also a Hover Bike in this game which is supposed to be the upgraded version of the Hover Board. In this game you also play as Clank alot more.

Some parts can get quite annoying in this game because it takes long to kill some of the levels, needed a Megacorp machine or takes too long with no intermediary save points which can get unnecessarily frustrating. I would recommend this game for ages: 6+

Overall I rate this game a 7.

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