Ratchet Gets Multiplayer, Jak Trilogy Wrapped Up 18
Thanks to GameSpot for its preview of Insomniac's PS2 title Ratchet And Clank: Up Your Arsenal and a similar hands-on look at Naughty Dog's PS2 game Jak 3, as Sony's big platform-action titles for Xmas 2004 get shown in detail for the first time. Notable changes for Ratchet And Clank 3 include "a fully loaded multiplayer game as well, for online or offline play. The broadband-only mode will support up to eight players, with voice support via the PlayStation 2's USB headset" - the preview calls it "a nice bit of addictive madness that had some surprising echoes of Battlefield 1942." Contrastingly, Jak 3 apparently "does a lot of what Jak II did in terms of gameplay, in that it takes the bulk of its predecessor's mechanics and builds out" although we're assured the title "is being tweaked to address player concerns with Jak II's gameplay."
Hummm. A thrid Jak. (Score:1)
Not to say I didn't like Jak II, but what kind of sequel does this make?
Jak 3, being like Jak 2 (Score:3, Insightful)
FFS. Stick to one genre. GTA is GTA. Platform games are platfom games. Shoot em ups are shoot em ups. By mixing genres all you end up with is something to piss off everybody.
BTW. Prince of Persia - sands of time suffers from the enormously. Quite why someone would take such a wonderful platformer and interlace it with a shitty zombie game, I do not know.
Dave
Re:Jak 3, being like Jak 2 (Score:2, Insightful)
I tried Jak2 and really didn't like it but I actually thought the shooter/platformer combination worked beautifully in Ratchet 2. In fact, I'd have to say it stands as one of my favorite platformers.
Brien
Re:Jak 3, being like Jak 2 (Score:2)
http://pc.ign.com/articles/489/489838p1.html
And Ubi liked the sales figures enough that they are currently working on a sequel...
Re:Jak 3, being like Jak 2 (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Jak 3, being like Jak 2 (Score:2)
Creativity? That's different. Blindly dropping "driving round the city because it's cool" as a way of getting between the interesting bits of Jak 2 was not, even remotely, creative. They just copied.
Never played Metroid, nor Mario Sunshine - both, I suspect, to my detriment. Very tempted by a game cube, it has to be said
Cheers,
Dave
Lame subtitle (Score:3, Insightful)