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'That's nice and we really appreciate it, but we know Pixar doesn't just do what they do because of the great visuals they provide. 'We've often been compared to Pixar in terms of visuals,' says Bernal. Having said that, you can expect some meaty cut-scenes. You may remember him from the teaser trailer - yes, that old buffer is Azimuth, not an elderly Ratchet, and R&C hasn't gone all MGS4. Ratchet considers, but doesn't judge, which is handy when you're swigging vodka cokes out of a children's plastic beaker.Īlong the way he meets General Azimuth, a grizzled old Lombax who has been in exile for many years - 'He's like an Obi-Wan Kenobi figure,' as Bernal puts it.

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In A Crack in Time, Ratchet has worked out an approximate location for Clank and is on a mission to track him down. Those who finished PSN adventure Quest for Booty - SPOILER ALERT, skip to the next paragraph if you don't want to know what happens at the end - will know it ended with Clank being spirited away by the Zoni. That's not to say nothing has changed, however: for starters, Ratchet has a new sidekick. Overall, though, the general look is the same. Environments and weapon effects are a bit more stylised. The game runs fully at 60 frames-per-second. According to Bernal there have been some technical improvements, such as self-shadowing and new water effects, which came out of developing Resistance 2. Everywhere you look there are crates to smash and bullets to collect and enemies to dispatch. There's Ratchet, running and jumping as smoothly as ever around pretty, colourful environments. You can tell he's not making it up just by glancing at the game in action. 'We don't want to alienate players and just completely go in a different direction.' 'Well, there are a lot of things that are similar,' he says. In fact, when asked what are the key differences between this game and Tools of Destruction, project manager Bryan Bernal is refreshingly honest.

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Insomniac isn't threatening to take the series in an entirely new direction or redefine the genre or any of that daft old gubbins.

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The good news is that's not about to change with Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time, the second full-length PS3 instalment in the series. But more or less, the Ratchet & Clank games stuck to their big, stupid, brightly coloured guns. It created a more grown-up, darker series in Resistance, keeping the more Emo members of staff happy by letting them draw monsters and war.

Insomniac was also smart enough to stick with its successful formula. How different games would be today if Mario had been given a goatee and forced to clear his name after being accused of a crime he didn't commit, rohypnolling Princess Peach perhaps. Thank goodness some developers managed to resist. Developers thought giving their characters an attitude problem and a stupid haircut made their games cool and edgy, when in fact it just made them dull and rubbish. Remember when it was fashionable for action-adventure series to 'go dark' a few instalments in? Jak II: Now With Guns, Prince of Persia: He's Got Dreads, Tomb Raider: Miserytits etc etc.