Allgeier considered that these games had success because they were continually evolving the series to match the current climate in video games, where mascot-driven games had fallen out of favor, and the company had adopted an 'adapt or die' mentality for each title. Both the sequel Going Commando and the following game Up Your Arsenal were well-received and considered commercial successes. They spent more time on developing interesting weapons to make the combat as enjoyable as the platforming sections of the game. In planning the second, they revamped Ratchet's character, as they felt the first game portrayed him as a jerk, according to writer TJ Fixman, and softened the character to make him more relatable, at that point hiring James Arnold Taylor to voice the character (Ratchet's behavior toward Clank in Tools of Destruction when speaking about the existence of the Zoni and the risks posed by the Dimesionator could be a hint or reference to the character in the first game). The first game Ratchet & Clank, released in 2002, was successful. Originally developed as a childlike version of the Star Wars character C-3PO, they later decided that Ratchet and Clank should work instead like a buddy cop film, and made Clank an equal to Ratchet.

Along with this character they named Ratchet, they gave him a robotic companion, Clank. Artists sketched a number of concepts for this alien character, which was originally reptilian, but ended up as a new species they called a 'Lombax', a name Price had come up with. This idea inspired the team since it would allow them to create new worlds and characters to develop. Now in 2001 and struggling with ideas, Chief Creative Officer Brian Hasting proposed the idea of 'an alien that travels from planet to planet, collecting weapons and gadgets', an idea inspired by Spaceman Spiff from Calvin and Hobbes and by Marvin the Martian. One, called Monster Knight, never got past the prototyping stage, while a second, called Girl with a Stick and aimed to be a mashup of The Legend of Zelda and Tomb Raider series, had about six months of development work before Insomniac's CEO, Ted Price, decided to cancel it as 'the team wasn't feeling it', according to director Brian Allgeier. With the PlayStation 2 recently announced in 2000, Insomniac began to prototype ideas for games on this new console. The series is noted for its inclusion of many exotic, unique and over-the-top weapons and gadgets, a concept that Insomniac Games has expanded into their other games.įollowing the development of Spyro: Year of the Dragon, the third installment of the Spyro series, Insomniac Games wanted to move into a new intellectual property, since the Spyro series was owned by Universal Interactive Studios. The games take place in a science fiction setting and follow the adventures of Ratchet and Clank – a feline humanoid mechanic of the Lombax race, and a diminutive, sentient Zoni 'defective' robot – as they travel through the universe, saving it from evil forces that consistently threaten it. An animated feature film adaptation was released on April 29, 2016. Despite this however, the intellectual property is still owned by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The series was exclusive to Sony platforms until Rift Apart received a Windows port in 2023. In ink wars, you never know who your friends and foes are in this fun messy battle.Ratchet & Clank is a series of action-adventure platform and third-person shooter video games created and developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for PlayStation consoles, such as PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5, with the exclusion of Size Matters and Secret Agent Clank, which were developed by High Impact Games for the PlayStation Portable. Let the ink wars begin!! Look at all that colorful, Squid ink.

You get the ability to test your aiming and firing skills, as well as your artistic side with messy ink patterns.

It is so messy that it is fun, and the best part, it is not damaging your mom’s furniture.It is so entertaining to control a squid and its natural ink release, for they only ink when they feel threatened, scared or in this one’s case, temperamental.What does a squid being controlled have to do with fighting and art? Shoot the Squid and find out.! You are the artist in this game! Be ready to aim, shoot, fire and make a mess with the messy ink of an odd, temperamental Squid, in a battle against friends and foes.

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