by David Rasmussen

Created on: April 03, 2009

One of my favorite franchises from the PS2 (and later ported to the PSP for a few rounds before going onwards to the PS3 where I'll probably never see it again... unless I, you know, invest in a PS3) the Ratchet and Clank series is one of my favorites (right up there with my other favorite the Sly Cooper series).

It all started with an evil planet of polluting resource wasting aliens who managed to use up all their own resources on their homeworld (yeah, like we haven't heard that one before). Left with a ruined world they decided to launch a campaign to create a whole new world by stripping prime sections of real estate off of other worlds and building it over an artificial planetary heat core, then dropping it into another planet's orbit (after destroying said planet) to create an ideal new homeworld. And how did they go about accomplishing that? Well by invasion and ruthless planetary conquest of course combined with upbeat positive empowering public relations campaigning through the media as seen through a series of infobots which, by they way, always clue you in as to where the bad guys are headed (or have headed) next! Gotta love it when the bad guys of every Ratchet & Clank series turns out to be so damn media savvy! Darn!

Anyway since you can't destroy a galaxy by multimedia alone (no matter how many American Idol reality TV shows or inspired spin off singing dancing etc shows you create to bombard the people with) you need an army, and it's in one of these robotic factories of death creating that Clank is well born. Since the factory was turning out gigantic mega robots it's clear that the robot that will later be named Clank (by Ratchet no less) is going to be marked for the discount bin if the robots chasing him weren't so bent on destroying him that is. One thing leads to another and Clank steals a ship only to crash on the same planet as Ratchet, who ends up collecting him as "Salvage" from his ship only to find out he's still "alive". One thing leads to another and Clank manages to recruit Ratchet in the task of alerting people to the threat of Supreme Chairman Drek and his people's plans to build a new homeworld (by tearing apart other people's worlds).

To do this they first seek out Captain Qwark who, if you remember subsequent Ratchet & Clank games, turns out to be evil in this game (or just a major sellout as he's most definitely selling out for an endorsement deal with Drek).
So you have your work basically cut out for you. All you have

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