Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal

You make game that manages to captivate gamers. It manages to impress critics and the like, so a sequel was inevitable. The sequel came and managed to improve on every aspect of the game. It became an instant fan favorite. Now, Insomniac decided to do another sequel. This had me think "what more could they do to improve on Going Commando?" The short answer is, they don't. They actually scale down on a lot of things, like the spaceship battles, grinding sections, hang gliding, booster sections and... well, let's just get into the long answer.

The story is that Ratchet's home planet gets attacked by an alien race known as the Tyhrranoids. The lead suspect behind this is a robot known as Dr Nefarious. After saving Veldin, Ratchet is told by the Galactic President that the only way to defeat Dr Nefarious is with the help of Captain Qwark. After getting Qwark out of a jungle planet and reacquainting him with society, Qwark ends up forming the Q-Force out of a few supporting cast members l...

THE GOOD:
● Tons of fun
● Will last you for hours
● Excellent graphics
● Challenging, yet rewarding
● Great new weapons and skins
● Crazy enemies
● Hard bosses that will keep you trying to beat them until you do
● The bolts are back and better than ever
● The Galactic Rangers make their return!
● Great and funny cut-scenes

THE BAD:
● Needs just a tad more harder challenges/bosses
● After you defeat the game, the replay value is good once, but then it gets tedious
● Need to use those challenging gadgets more
● Clank is rarely used

SUMMARY:
This is a great Ratchet and Clank game. Even though it is probably not the best out of the series, it still delivers a game packed with fun and excitement. You must buy this game if you are into Adventure games. Here is the breakdown:

GAMEPLAY: Most of the missions in this game are perfect for the average gamer. If you are a hardcore gamer and love shooting games, then this game will probably be too easy for you. However, if you are not the brightest in the bunch an...

THE GOOD:
- Insomniac did a wonderful job of the graphics. The explosions were realistic, and the animations perfect.
- The game had a large selection of weapons, which made it very entertaining.
- Online play is amazing.

THE BAD:
- As always, Insomniac's games have been very glitchy. Through my first play through, I had already found over a dozen glitches.
- The online servers have been having trouble with lag glitches, causing the server to become very slow.
- The game becomes very boring, after a bit.
-The replay value is not too good.

SUMMARY:
In all honesty, I would play this game over again, but I wouldn't exactly be glued to the screen twenty-four/seven.
Although fun, this game has a lot of repetition in it.
First, you have to go to a planet and do something, then come back, then go back to the planet again, then 4 levels later, come back to the Starship.
It gets pretty boring after a while.

As I stated before, the game is also very glitchy. I doesn't take much to skip entire levels, and ...

THE GOOD:
- Ratchet and Clank are back for the 3rd straight year with a new adventure
- Pretty good storyline this time around; how the Qwark comics affect the story was very cool; the Q-Force is a really cool team, though most of them really do nothing at all
- Great graphics, as usual; great cutscenes; great music and sounds as well
- Lots of great characters; good final boss (and he isn't a pushover)
- Decent amount of bosses
- Probably the funniest game of the series so far
- Some of the best weapons and gadgets of the series
- Collect special bolts and trophies
- Skill points are back, and as fun to collect as ever
- Squad-based missions are really fun
- Arena battles are a lot of fun; many great bosses
- Great weapon upgrade system
- Upgradeable armor; very handy
- Though they are slightly annoying, sphere planets are back; cool map system as well
- The game as a whole is very polished
- Best crystal/moonstone collection of the series; so much fun and very exciting and slightly challenging
- ...

THE GOOD:
-Same beautiful graphics
-Same awesome sound
-Same great controls
-The dialog has really improved
-A couple of cool features
-Still satsifying

THE BAD:
-Disobedient camera occasionally
-Easy, repetitive combat
-Frustrating puzzles
-The levels are way too linear
-Excessively short
-Mostly lame extras
-Disappointing multiplayer
-Lame missions (get some information, defeat enemy troops, stop the villain, fight more troops, get more information, stop the villain again, etc.)
-Lack of gameplay elements (no ship combat, racing, grinding, etc.)
-As you progress, the difficulty is random

SUMMARY:
Because the first two Ratchet and Clank games were a hit, every R&C fan was tempted to try the third title. But is this game really all it's cracked up to be? It depends on how well you take the disappointments you find here.

Graphics: 10 -- As always, these are some of the best visuals you can bring out in a PS2. And it was great to see the same explosive style without a single change. The character mod...

THE GOOD:

Online

Multiplayer

Humour

SUMMARY:
Ratchet & Clank Up Your Arsenal is the third installment in the Ratchet & Clank games. The other two games were big successes so Up Your Arsenal was created.

Just like the other two games you control Ratchet and Clank is your companion as you travel the world trying to stop Doctor Nefarious and his evil ways. You will embark on a journey through planent to planet battling Tyrranoids, swimming through water, swinging through the air with your Swingshot and more.

The humour is as good as ever. Clank is now a agent and is famous as he stars in his own reality TV show. The fans love him and life is sweet for little Clank while Ratchet gets swept into the corner.

The range of weapons is quite impressive. Pick a weapon and start blasting away at a enemy and it should start to upgrade and become stronger. With a big variety of weapons ranging from your big guns to your lava whip you will never get bored of inflicting pain onto your enemies. When the ...

Long term fans of the series will be a little disappointed by this game. At first. But then they will love it as much as the other games.
There are slightly less weapons. You may think that's rubbish, but it's a brilliant idea! No more useless weapons! Only the good ones. (You'll know what I'm talking about when I say no hoverball gun...). There are a few features missing from this game. The popular grind boots, space fights and even the Hover-races! (They were cut because of time shortages). But one addition is the battle field levels. Wide open spaces with more then one way do complete the challenge! There are two vehicles you can use- The Turboslider (a fast car with a cannon, which will NEVER fall over) and the hovership (it's like a plane and a helicopter mixed together- I prefer the old plane fights myself!). And the cool retro style Quark Vid-comics (2D mini games that contain secrets about the plot).
Also, you'll want to play it again and again! Theres so much to unlock! Mini-...

THE GOOD:
Lots, exeptanly the weapons

THE BAD:
It odes get kinda overlacking, Its tooooo fun, man!

SUMMARY:
Alright. Ratchet and Clank was a great game but I did deserve 4.3. Going Camando was even better, 4.6.

But now, Insomatic's last game is coming high!

R&C3 Kicks ass! The title is boring for the UK because it only says 'Ratchet and Clank 3' I like the US title, Up Your Arsneal. Its like 3-in-one: Ass, Arse, Arsneal of weapons! Yeah. Also, whats better than weapons? It has more upgrades, more weapons and more gameplay power. Even if there is 8 weapons in multyplayer, relax! It's a BANG game!

Rank: Explosive Platform 5!

If I had a article, it would be "Ratchet kicks more ass than the other games. Its a stunner!" Nice, eh?

Also, the damage of weapons is realistic! POW, KABOOM and nice sound. Also theres good weapons from R&C2 and The origanal! The Bouncer and The Plasma Thingy is good. Againt of doom! Woohoo!

Also in the game, There are ace skins such as snowman. Cheats, Skill points and Sta...

THE GOOD:
-Lots of weapons and upgrades
-online multiplayer
-lots of levels
-lots of unlockables
-Fun to play through over and over
-great graphics

THE BAD:
-Lots of repeat guns/ ideas for guns
-No hover boarding or any race type things

SUMMARY:
The third game in the series drives our two heroes, Ratchet and Clank, to stop the evil Dr Nefarious. He is trying to make all of the galaxy robots. Ratchet and Clank find themselves meeting lots of familiar and new character in this excellent gameplay. They are loads of extras to do like get all of the skill points and obtain the all of the titanium bolts. Once you do all of this, you can find great secrets which are fun.
My favorite feature of Ratchet and Clank 3 is the online gaming. It is excellent. There are three modes, all very good. Meet up with you chumps or make some new ones while playing it.