Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando
Yes, I can't stop with this series. It's by far the best game series I've run into since Half-Life 2, the most time-consuming since Descent, and the most exciting thing in my life today. I finished the first Ratchet & Clank earlier this week; Tuesday, if I recall correctly. This series is such a craze for me I found a photo/image of Ratchet and made avatars from it to use on the Internet. The picture is from the Playstation 3 game, Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction. I don't own the game yet, but I know I want to play it; that image stuck out of the others I looked at.
Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando has ups and downs, like most games do. Insomniac took the original and made great and small improvements. I have seen improvements in the game engine, mostly in shading and shadows; the physics were improved on some. The weapon upgrade and the nanomites for defeating enemies to increase nanotech gets rid of the tedium involved in saving up money to get better weapons, like getting the gold weapons and saving up for the super nanotech on R&C 1. There are also plenty of ways to raise money, too; so far, I've found two gladiator arenas, two hoverbike tracks, trading crystsals for bolts, and a space combat area. Space combat is all right. You fly Starfox style, which is an excellent choice; something as complex as what Freespace 2 has wouldn't fit the bill, as FS2's interface is complex and has a somewhat steep learning curve. The HUD is well made, except for one important element, the radar. I don't know what led Insomniac to use an FPS-style radar with 3D that's hard to judge; I died in the first space challenge because I couldn't make heads or tails out of the radar to find out where my enemies are. Even after a few days of playing, I've learned but now and again I still get confused sometimes.
The humor isn't always amusing; Fizzwidget has an odd style of speech and half the time I don't get the puns in his spoonerisms. Some of the humor I just don't get; I'm not sure if it's because of lack of experience or exposure, or if it's just not in my taste. On the other hand, many of the cinematics are full of humor, like when the thief is ordering chemicals from a chemical plant and the experiment/protopet is leaping around and stuff and he's crashing into chemicals and so on and they're crashing into stuff on the shelves. I couldn't help but laugh because it was so doggone hilarious. The Behind the Hero parts featuring Captain Qwark are interesting and either amusing or disturbing, depending on what the news is.
All in all, R&C Going Commando is not a disappointment, and I'm spending a great deal of my free time playing it. Thursday when I got GC I also got Up your Arsenal, so I will be playing that soon as I finish R&C 2 GC. I think Sony has finally won me over because I will actually be getting a Playstation 3 and collecting the 3 R&C games for it but nothing else; I collect consoles and games, and don't trade and rent as I go like other gamers I know; so when I get it, the PS3 will stick with me for its entire lifetime.
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Now playing: Dota - Basshunter
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Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando has ups and downs, like most games do. Insomniac took the original and made great and small improvements. I have seen improvements in the game engine, mostly in shading and shadows; the physics were improved on some. The weapon upgrade and the nanomites for defeating enemies to increase nanotech gets rid of the tedium involved in saving up money to get better weapons, like getting the gold weapons and saving up for the super nanotech on R&C 1. There are also plenty of ways to raise money, too; so far, I've found two gladiator arenas, two hoverbike tracks, trading crystsals for bolts, and a space combat area. Space combat is all right. You fly Starfox style, which is an excellent choice; something as complex as what Freespace 2 has wouldn't fit the bill, as FS2's interface is complex and has a somewhat steep learning curve. The HUD is well made, except for one important element, the radar. I don't know what led Insomniac to use an FPS-style radar with 3D that's hard to judge; I died in the first space challenge because I couldn't make heads or tails out of the radar to find out where my enemies are. Even after a few days of playing, I've learned but now and again I still get confused sometimes.
The humor isn't always amusing; Fizzwidget has an odd style of speech and half the time I don't get the puns in his spoonerisms. Some of the humor I just don't get; I'm not sure if it's because of lack of experience or exposure, or if it's just not in my taste. On the other hand, many of the cinematics are full of humor, like when the thief is ordering chemicals from a chemical plant and the experiment/protopet is leaping around and stuff and he's crashing into chemicals and so on and they're crashing into stuff on the shelves. I couldn't help but laugh because it was so doggone hilarious. The Behind the Hero parts featuring Captain Qwark are interesting and either amusing or disturbing, depending on what the news is.
All in all, R&C Going Commando is not a disappointment, and I'm spending a great deal of my free time playing it. Thursday when I got GC I also got Up your Arsenal, so I will be playing that soon as I finish R&C 2 GC. I think Sony has finally won me over because I will actually be getting a Playstation 3 and collecting the 3 R&C games for it but nothing else; I collect consoles and games, and don't trade and rent as I go like other gamers I know; so when I get it, the PS3 will stick with me for its entire lifetime.
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Now playing: Dota - Basshunter
via FoxyTunes