Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando Review - PS2

Gameplay

As it happens from the previous Ratchet and Clank title they completed their mission and now are struggling to find work, we are firstly sent to a TV interview conducted with the two as they talk about life after the heroic triumph in the first installment of R&C. Which is how the story begins, seeing the interview on TV, MegaCorp's CEO, Abercrombie Fizzwidget teleports Ratchet and Clank to his office in desperate need of recruiting their skills to reacquire one of Fizzwidget's experiment animals that if smuggled away for good could cause enormous implications.

If it isn't broken why fix it? If you have a winning formula why would you even consider changing it? This is what was brought to the sequel that the original offers, its fantastic gameplay! What made the first R&C outstanding is the gameplay, above anything else; it had everything, the options of numbered weapons, environments and enemies to throw your might up against, so it's the same game you are all saying? Well because it hasn't been changed doesn't mean that it hasn't been upgraded now does it?

Weapons were a big part of the first R&C and in R&C2 this only grows to become bigger and better. Not only is there a useful twenty-two new weapons but they are all upgradeable giving more variety and more power! So with the upgrading it works out to have an overall 41 weapons available for Ratchet and Clank to use as they walk the path of valor once again. The way to upgrade your weaponry is to simply use them often and they will be upgraded - however, each weapon can only be upgraded once. The first with all its cool weapons available and you being able to pick which ones you buy escaping the system of other games that would allow you to lose items you have collected. The ability to be able to switch from weapon to weapon by simply pressing the triangle button made this easy to manage a large arsenal of weapons that you had acquired throughout your journey whilst in game fighting battles. Not only can his weapons be upgraded but Ratchet's health can also be raised up to 80 hit points using Nanotech which can be extremely useful with the amount of battles he has to go through.

You'll notice that the enemies are bigger and meaner than what we've seen in its predecessor that demands gamers to have a full list of ... (continued next page)