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Ratchet & Clank is delightfully self-aware. TheyвЂ™re not as prevalent as the standard third-person shooter/platformer levels, but they do serve as a nice challenge in between. One level may be a dogfight in the sky in which Ratchet has to take down enemy warships another may be a smaller, more puzzle-focused challenge for Clank to resolve. While the objective rarely changes, however, the way things are accomplished do. Although it maintains the same tight and restricted environments of its predecessors, thereвЂ™s a great deal of verticality, hidden elements, and side objectives in each level to lend players more content to dig through.ДЄ levelвЂ™s objective flow sticks to its traditional format of visiting planets, defeating enemies, and moving on to save another planet in peril while continuing the story. In an effort to streamline the process, necessary items are automatically equipped to Ratchet via interaction points in each level, allowing you to focus on building up your weapon upgrades and tinkering with the guns that best suit your play style.ДЄs a bonus, there are benefits to backtracking to older levels and using newfound items to gain access to previously unavailable areas. Items are arguably more important than the weapons, since a majority of each level is built to utilize different combinations of the items Ratchet has collected. ThereвЂ™s a generous offering of gadgets as well, including a modification that turns Clank into a jetpack and the Tresspasser device that grants Ratchet access to new areas through a hacking minigame.

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Each weapon is distinct, and all of them have robust upgrade trees to make them all the more effective against the many different enemy types.

The Groovitron kicks out a funky beat and distracts enemies from attacking by launching them into a dance frenzy. The bomb glove returns as a helpful grenade-tossing weapon capable of devastating large groups of enemies. The Pixelizer is a powerful blaster converting enemies into their 8-bit forms, causing them to burst into a mess of colored squares when defeated. True to the series' history, thereвЂ™s a large arsenal of weapons to play with, many of which have multiple applications in combat. It returns to the same alien universe, taking both Ratchet and his robot friend Clank to multiple planets during their adventure.

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Ratchet & Clank is a technically rejuvenated version of the PS2 classic. Resurrecting an older franchise can be a gamble, but here the payoff is plentiful.

ItвЂ™s less of a reboot and more of a return to form, revitalizing and updating the franchise while simultaneously keeping its use of inventive weapons, alien worlds, and quirky attitude intact. Ratchet & Clank is proof thereвЂ™s still a lot of mileage left in the 3D platformer genre.

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