Ratchet & Clank Nexus

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A return to the classic R&C structure and gameplay. It's not as big as Crack in Time, but it's bigger than Quest for Booty, and it's digital only. It'll cost $30/€30, no £ price stated yet.

goddammit, i thought this was gonna be a full game.


ah well, will still probably get it though.

I wouldn't spend $30 on a digital game anyway, full retail title or not. So this is going to have to be pretty fucking special.

Oh wait, according to Fred on the EU blog it's getting a physical EU release. Now I can get excited.

This sounds good i'm interested. Hopefully we get a good sale on the digital release of HD trilogy now.

A_Nonny_Moose wrote:

Oh wait, according to Fred on the EU blog it's getting a physical EU release. Now I can get excited.

alright, good, that's a whole lot better already.

Still not going to buy this at launch, Insomniac need to win me back as a fan, but the Vortex Grenade looks interesting and I think the side scrolling Clank sections coule be really cool.

So did anybody end up getting this?

It's a solid classic-style R&C game, just shorter. Only 5 planets and I think only 8 weapons, since there's no way to customise the quick select.

The two new things are the gravity stuff and flying. There's no zero-gravity gameplay but the opening has you floating between magnetic pads on the outside of an exploded spaceship, which is pretty cool. The jetpack upgrade is actually a jetpack in this game, rather than a reskin of the helipack. In certain parts you can freely fly around, exloring and fighting. It has a fuel guage but it's very generous.

It's just a shame that these features don't have a full length game to get fleshed out in.

is it worth the money then?

If you want more (good) Ratchet and Clank then yeah.

It does seem a bit buggy though. A couple items weren't working properly earlier and I had to die and reload a few times before it sorted itself out, and I just got stuck inside the weapon trial area just now. You can try weapons before you buy them, but when I pressed start to quit it just stayed in the trial zone and wouldn't let me pause again. I had to quit the game.