Insomniac's Ratchet & Clank games have been a mainstay on Sony platforms since their debut on the PlayStation 2 back in 2002. The Playstation 3 brought with the the mostly excellent Future trilogy (Tools of Destruction, Quest for Booty, A Crack in Time), revealing the final fate of the Lombaxes and...

Platforming and shooting gameplay is as solid as ever; The visual appeal continues to please; Maxing out a weapon's upgrades and the ensuing carnage never gets old

Doesn't live up to the rest of the series in terms of scope and quality; A depressed Lombax isn't very funny; Clank's puzzle levels are awkward and simplistic

Je retombe en enfance quand je joue à Ratchet and Clank! Série de jeux à essayer et en plus toujours moins cher chez Wallmart à la sortie! A se procurer!

The swampland of Planet Thram stretches as far as the eye can see. A spray of small islands pock the landscape, as do sheer rocky cliffs, rising from the murky waters at random intervals, like teeth in a rotten mouth.

Weapons and upgrades; Jetpack; Great sense of humour; Challenge mode

Weak last level

Ratchet and Clank have been all over the place--and I'm not just talking about the different planets they've traveled to. After defending the universe from power-hungry fools and dabbling in a few different genres, the galactic duo is back doing what they do best: running around, cracking jokes, and...

Fun platforming and shooting levels; Contains the humor the series is known for

Story ends too abruptly; Side-scrolling sections aren't that fleshed out

Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus is a lean, mean machine. It doesn't represent a great departure from the franchise, but instead hones in on what made the games so fun in the first place: fast-paced, gun-toting mayhem.

Fantastic; fluid controls; Wonderful sense of humor keeps you grinning from ear to ear; The tight action and small levels keep the action roaring forward; Challenge Mode further energizes the campaign

Some uninspired weapons

Ratchet & Clank have been Playstation all-stars from the PS2 era onwards, and their first trilogy remains solid even today, which isn't half bad, considering that the first game came out over ten years ago

Back to quality platforming of before; free flight

weapon upgrade system underdeveloped; short play time

Nexcellent For whatever reason, the Ratchet & Clank series never really grabbed me during the PlayStation 2 era. Maybe I was spending too much time playing Jak and Daxter (or perhaps I was adverse to games with ampersands in their titles) and the million other mascot platformers at the time, but it...

For a budget price you get to spend some quality pre-PS4 time saying goodbye to the last generation – and indeed Insomniac themselves where Sony are concerned – with a perfect encapsulation of what made Ratchet & Clank one of the company's notable first party success stories.

Ladies and gentlemen, we gather here today to mourn the loss of one of the most enjoyable gaming franchises of the past decade. The Ratchet & Clank Franchise enjoyed a great run between its launch in 2002 and 2009's entry, A Crack in Time , but it appears as though developer Insomniac Games has all...

Ratchet and Clank: Into the Nexus walks a narrow line as a sequel. It feels like you expect a Ratchet and Clank game to feel with the same exceptional weapons, enticing upgrades, and charming characters. Yet Into the Nexus also constantly surprises with a ton of new ideas that are never overused.