MasonicGamer: Insomniac Games Ratchet Clank series has been around for little over a decade by this point, weve seen the series reach some great heights in the past but also some great lows. Generally speaking anything developed in house by Insomniac Games has been good but it all came to an end with 2009s A Crack in Time, a game that most fans will agree was a fitting end to the series and perhaps the best Ratchet Clank game all together or was it Up Your Arsenal? Hmm, Ive never been able to decide which of the two I prefer.
After A Crack in Time it seems that the team responsible for the series ended up working on new projects and some kind of B-Team was setup in order to continue making Ratchet Clank games,
Twinfinite writes, "In the year 2013, the Year of Luigi, is the idea of the gaming mascot dead? Not necessarily. Sony still has a hand in the pot with their perennial franchise Ratchet Clank, which saw a major overhaul on the Playstation 3 with the aptly named Future series. With a new focus on cinematic scale, crazy mechanics, and giving tiny robot Clank a bigger spotlight, the series has come a far way from their PS2 incarnations. Developer Insomniac Games hopes to recapture that retro spirit with the finale to the Future series, Ratchet Clank: Into the Nexus. Will the trigger happy heroic duo go out with a whimper or with a much more appropriate bang?"
Is it not poetic that Insomniac, having released Resistance: Fall of Man as a launch title for the PlayStation 3, gives the console one of its last hurrahs with Ratchet Clank: Nexus, mere days before the launch of the PlayStation 4? It is the studios tenth game for the console and this long familiarity brings with it a certain confidence in their ability to create a solid and enjoyable experience while continuing to experiment with the established Ratchet Clank formula, even if in a far less extreme way than has been seen in the All 4 One and QForce entries of late. With those two games failing to match up to the sales and critical reception of earlier titles, the team at Insomniac has returned to the traditional set-up of action-platformer for this epilogue to the Future arc, and although it does offer some interesting new ideas, it is impossible to deny that, at this point, the dynamic duo is showing their age.
indicates that Ratchet amp; Clank and Resistance developer Insomniac is set to release Sunset Overdrive in 2014.
The announcement was made with little fanfare, with Microsoft simply stating that we should "Expect more huge launches as well, with the release of next-generation experiences, such as 'Titanfall,' 'Project Spark' and 'Sunset Overdrive' in 2014."
Insomniac's next big intellectual property, Sunset Overdrive, is a cartoonish, open-world shooter. A trailer for the game was first shown during Microsoft's press conference at the 2013 Electronic Entertainment Expo, displaying a character running through an animated world and making use of various weapons.
Sunset Overdrive will be exclusive to the Xbox One. This is dramatic shift for developer Insomniac, which in the previous generation was known mostly for its Sony PlayStation exclusives, Resistance and Ratchet amp; Clank.
indicates that Ratchet amp; Clank and Resistance developer Insomniac is set to release Sunset Overdrive in 2014.
The announcement was made with little fanfare, with Microsoft simply stating that we should "Expect more huge launches as well, with the release of next-generation experiences, such as 'Titanfall,' 'Project Spark' and 'Sunset Overdrive' in 2014."
Insomniac's next big intellectual property, Sunset Overdrive, is a cartoonish, open-world shooter. A trailer for the game was first shown during Microsoft's press conference at the 2013 Electronic Entertainment Expo, displaying a character running through an animated world and making use of various weapons.
Sunset Overdrive will be exclusive to the Xbox One. This is dramatic shift for developer Insomniac, which in the previous generation was known mostly for its Sony PlayStation exclusives, Resistance and Ratchet amp; Clank.
