Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assualt - PSN Nov 27th, Vita January

[solidsnakejej]

I'm guessing a Quest For Booty type game.

The good people of Insomniac Games are preparing to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Ratchet & Clank, which is coming up later this year. An HD remaster of our classic PS2 Ratchet & Clank games is something our fans have requested for a long time, and we’re looking forward to granting their wishes this summer with the Ratchet & Clank Collection.

But we’ve also heard a lot of community requests to develop a new Ratchet & Clank game, one that returns to the classic third-person Ratchet & Clank camera. We listened to your requests, and this holiday season Insomniac will release our new Ratchet & Clank game as part of our 10th Anniversary Celebration.

I’d like to officially announce that Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault will be coming soon to a PS3 near you.

Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault is a fun-sized Ratchet adventure which will be available for download exclusively on the PlayStation Store. We’ve returned to the series’ classic feel, camera, controls and weapons, while innovating and giving you a whole new way to play. Even better, the addition of online features means you can experience Full Frontal Assault with your friends, so stay tuned! We’re really excited about this game, and we hope even these small tidbits about it get you excited too.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/...psn-this-fall/


Called QForce in Europe, they can't handle dirty jokes

[AC!D]

Nice! I hope its more like a Crack in time this time aroumd. That was easily the best Ratchet game ive ever played.

[Pro A.]

Anything that wasn't the atrocity that was All 4 One is okay by me. I'm excited to play the first three Ratchet games again, as well. Up Your Arsenal remains my favorite in the series, but it's been years since I've played the original or Going Commando (another joke the Euros probably couldn't handle).

[KRA]

that's kind of strange how we can't handle jokey titles with sex allusions
yet we can handle more tities in media...

[venomv]

That's what I was thinking....

[masteratt]

Yeah, very odd. Europe is usually more chill about that stuff. Maybe because it was targeted at kids? Targeted at kids + Rude[ish] title = Bad?

[Pro A.]

Yeah, they're usually lax about sex, but really tough on violence.

[HPK]

I still own the original PS2 games (not the PSP ports or Deadlocked, though. Deadlocked was horrible). I love the Ratchet & Clank games, but I never got the chance to play the games on the PS3.

I also heard something about "A Crack in Time" being originally called "Clock Blockers," which sounds far too funny to be real.

With these fancy HD remakes and the newer games I've missed out on, I might have to try getting a hold of a PS3 at some point.

[OmniStalgic]

I still own the original PS2 games (not the PSP ports or Deadlocked, though. Deadlocked was horrible). I love the Ratchet & Clank games, but I never got the chance to play the games on the PS3.

I also heard something about "A Crack in Time" being originally called "Clock Blockers," which sounds far too funny to be real.

With these fancy HD remakes and the newer games I've missed out on, I might have to try getting a hold of a PS3 at some point.

PS3 has been where it's at for a while now bra...unless ur like me and stick to only a few games every year and rock em till they burn up in your hands...Definitely a lot to catch up on tho if you haven't been with a PS3 for a few years.

[HPK]

I can't convince myself to buy one just yet. I'm lacking the funds for the purchase, but there also aren't enough games (to my knowledge) to justify owning a PS3 with my 360.

To keep things a bit more on topic: All-4-One just seemed like a horrible idea.

[Pro A.]

You should have played it. Almost everything fell flat or came across as half-baked. Sure, it had its moments, but in general it was a chore to get through and it had some atypical bugs and poor game design.

[solidsnakejej]

Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault heads back to the classic camera, weapons and third-person Ratchet gameplay that the series is known for, while adding a new tower defense element that will have you building and defending a base against invasions using your ultimate Ratchet & Clank arsenal. This new twist, added to the classic Ratchet gameplay, brings a whole new level of strategy and decision-making to Full Frontal Assault. You’ll want to make sure your Hoverboots are laced up and ready as you race to defeat your enemy while keeping your base secure. Wait, Hoverboots don’t have laces…

In Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault, our heroes face a new nemesis – one who has a nasty surprise planned for Captain Qwark. You’ll be able to choose between playing as Ratchet, Clank, or Captain Qwark, and confront an alien army across five levels set on three different planets. The game allows you and a friend to play together with either split-screen or online cooperative gameplay.

Full Frontal Assault will give you a ton of reasons to keep playing, including an online mode we’ll reveal later, as well as loads of upgrades, extra character skins and unlockable content, but we’d like to show you first screenshots of the game here!

Everyone here is very excited to bring Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault to you this fall. In the meantime, for those of you hungering for a Ratchet & Clank fix, be sure to check out the Ratchet & Clank Collection when it launches in the U.S. on August 28th. You may have seen some of the great reviews from the European release.

There will be much more to come from Ratchet & Clank this summer and fall, as we celebrate their 10th Anniversary! To keep up with the latest news, be sure to like Insomniac Games on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/...defense-twist/

[solidsnakejej]

[Gribble-Grunger]

I don't like the look of that at all

[AC!D]

It looks good to me. The tower defence stuff looks good.

[Gribble-Grunger]

It looks good to me. The tower defence stuff looks good.

That's WHY I don't like the looks of it

[AC!D]

Well i love the gladiator arena battles in previous games which were intense and fun so i dont see expanding that greatly with RTS elements being a bad thing.

[solidsnakejej]

10 years of concept arts
http://www.insomniacgames.com/ratche...f-concept-art/

On the concept art front, Insomniac character artist Dave Guertin created these early sketches of our heroes:

Our first image of Ratchet. The idea was to create a spunky alien with a crazy gadget gauntlet and some Bionic Commando traversal abilities. While he barely resembles the final character, Ratchet 1.0 already has many of his characteristics in place: oversized hands and weapons, a gadget glove, three-toed feet, and pilot headgear. Eventually his reptilian body gave way to a more relatable cat form:

[solidsnakejej]

Beta sign ups US only
http://www.insomniacgames.com/invite/ffa/

[solidsnakejej]

Coming to vita in January
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/...ta-in-january/