I’m resigned to being
late to the party. By the time I get
into something big -- new cell phones, Facebook, using email in general --
people have already moved on to something bigger and newer. You’d think that a guy who plays video games
like a Cocoa Puffs addict would be well-off in that department, but that’s not
the case.
A few months ago I
played a Ratchet and Clank game for
the first time. It’s not like I never
heard of the series, but when it started out I didn’t have a PS2 (and the same
problem would repeat itself thanks to the leap from PS2 to PS3). Still, I’d heard some good things about the
series. As far as I know, the games have
gotten consistently good reviews -- there may be, what, one or two that’s
gotten below a 9? There’s been a lot of
praise for the franchise assorted weapons over the years. And the fact that the duo will -- in the
worst case scenario -- be referenced in Playstation
All-Stars means that Sony wants to give one of their major players a bit of
recognition. A part of me still can’t
divorce the gun-toting Ratchet from, say, the gun-toting Jak, but I know there
are plenty of differences.
Chief among them, a
distinct lack of weasels. Or weasel aliens. I don't know, I only played Jak 3.