Additionally, players can earn skill points on each planet, which unlock menu extras such as behind the scenes concept art by Insomniac Games.Īfter completing the main storyline, the player can either choose to warp back to before the final boss was defeated in order to collect gold bolts and skill points they may have missed, or to begin a new game plus known as challenge mode, and restart the story with all their weapons and a few items carried over. The player can also collect gold bolts on planets, which are used to purchase gold weapon upgrades of existing weapons. Most weapons are purchased with bolts, though some can be found during side objectives (such as the Suck Cannon or Morph-o-Ray). The player can at any time revisit any planet they have obtained the coordinates for from an infobot.Īside from story objectives, many other objectives on planets exist that are optional, and only grant a weapon or gadget not strictly necessary to further the story (such as the Metal Detector).
Other objectives are locked and require a gadget that can only be obtained on another planet.
Objectives typically require the player to progress through a linear section using gadgets to traverse obstacles and puzzles or weapons to defeat enemies, but some may require the player to complete a minigame or pay bolts to proceed. On each planet, they must complete a set of objectives, with the goal of obtaining an infobot to unlock a new planet and progress the story, or to obtain a gadget that might be required to complete objectives on other planets. The two travel between many different available planets on a ship (which changes throughout the story). The player has set nanotech, or health, and once depleted, is returned to the nearest checkpoint with no consequences (but must re-purchase all ammo). Using Clank as a backpack, with the additions of the Heli-Pack and Thruster-Pack upgrades, can allow Ratchet to jump higher by crouching before a jump, jump further to reach new distances, and glide in the air. The player can select them from the pause menu, or quickly cycle between them in battle using their customizable quick select menu. Ratchet has a basic moveset that allows him to jump and double jump, wield his OmniWrench as a melee weapon, and fire one of many equippable weapons or gadgets. Ratchet & Clank is a third-person three-dimensional platformer, in which the player controls Ratchet, a lombax mechanic from Veldin, who carries his robot friend Clank as a backpack.
Bolts can be used to purchase new weaponry and many other in-game items.įourteen years later, a movie retelling the events of the game was released in theaters on Apalong with a PlayStation 4 re-imagining based on the movie told from Qwark's perspective released earlier on Apin North America. They obtain many weapons and gadgets along the way, and earn bolts, the main form of currency in the series. Players explore many planets to complete objectives, obtain an infobot that will give them coordinates to another planet, and progress through the story. Ratchet & Clank is a third-person action adventure title with elements of platforming, shooting, role playing games, and puzzle solving. The two then go on an adventure to seek the help of intergalactic celebrity Captain Qwark in their fight to save the galaxy from Chairman Drek, a businessman who wants to create a new world for his people by destroying planets and taking their parts. His life is changed forever when blargian robot Clank crash-lands on his planet and enables him to leave. The game follows lone lombax mechanic Ratchet, who lives on Veldin and has a longing to leave the world.
A remake of the game was released for the PlayStation 4 in April 2016. It was initially released in November 2002 for the PlayStation 2, and was re-released for PlayStation 3 in June 2012 and PlayStation Vita in July 2014, both alone and as part of the Ratchet & Clank Collection. Ratchet & Clank is the first installment in the Ratchet & Clank series, developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment.