Maa Gamer

I have never played a Ratchet & Clank game before (Gasp from the readers). Let's just put that right out there before we go any further. I guess I've always thought that platform games should have died out along with text adventures and Tetris (further gasps!). However, when the bright new age of 3D gaming arrived it was decided that platform games should be saved and reinvented for a new gaming generation. This generation must have been pretty young - with a rather vivid imagination - because in most of these new incarnations you often end up playing as a purple dragon, a hedgehog with a blue rinse or a character from the latest Disney movie. Now I come to think about it, a plumber who eats way too many mushrooms before rescuing princesses from giant lizards seems to be the most plausible really. Ratchet & Clank is equally fantastical. You play as Ratchet, the last Lombrat Lombax in the universe, who is trying to find out what happened to the rest of his race and, of ...