{"id":1651,"date":"2010-01-07T20:48:03","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T10:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2014-05-13T13:05:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T03:05:18","slug":"ratchet-clank-a-crack-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=1651","title":{"rendered":"Ratchet &#038; Clank: A Crack In Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ratchetclankcrack.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14440\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ratchetclankcrack.jpg\" alt=\"ratchetclankcrack\" width=\"620\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ratchetclankcrack.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ratchetclankcrack-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Platform:<\/strong>\u00a0 Playstation 3<br \/>\n<strong>Developer:\u00a0 <\/strong>Insomniac<br \/>\n<strong>Publisher: \u00a0<\/strong>Sony Computer Entertainment<\/p>\n<span class=\"dropcap\">O<\/span>ne of the most underappreciated gems of this generation for me is Insomniac&#8217;s <em>Ratchet &amp; Clank<\/em> series.\u00a0 Maybe the series is considered too long in the tooth or the shooter\/platformer hybrid genre is too niche but whatever it is, I find it a shame that a series that has such great level designs, colourful and vivid worlds and imaginative characters isn&#8217;t enjoyed by a wider audience.<\/p>\n<p>Wrapping up the trilogy that started with <em>Future<\/em> and was abridged with the downloadable <em>Quest for Booty<\/em>, <em>Crack In Time<\/em> brings the story involving the mysterious Zoni and the abduction of Clank to a close with a well paced final chapter.\u00a0 The player moves between controlling Ratchet as he travels the universe along side the hapless Captain Quark and controlling Clank whose levels are based in a giant mechanical clock shaped planet.\u00a0\u00a0 That&#8217;s <em>clock<\/em> shaped planet.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, the Clank levels, which are comprised of increasingly complicated puzzles involving multiple Clank clones and rewinding time, are actually some of the best designed stages in the game.<\/p>\n<p>A large part of the game&#8217;s appeal for me is its light hearted Saturday morning cartoon feel, from the comical and ridiculous arsenal of weapons to the over the top villains who are brilliantly voiced and animated.\u00a0 I particularly liked the whiney robots who complain of having sore backs and suggest you leave them alone and find &#8216;your own evil lair&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing particularly ground breaking about <em>Crack In Time<\/em>.\u00a0 Its just a pleasure to play through.\u00a0 Its polished, well produced and a breezy game to play through to completion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insomniac delivers a fantastic sequel to Ratchet and Clank Future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[309,396],"class_list":["post-1651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-5-second-review","tag-playstation-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14891,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions\/14891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}