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Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time

Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time (known as Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time in most PAL countries) is a platform game developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the…

83 27 October 2009

Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time is an adventure developed by Insomniac Games, released 27 October 2009 on PlayStation 3.

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What Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time is

Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time is an adventure game developed by Insomniac Games and released in 2009. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Continuing from the end of Quest for Booty, Clank has been abducted by the Zoni to a place called the Great Clock on behalf of the robot Dr. Nefarious, who is trying to discover the secret of the facility from him. Nefarious attempts to access Clank's memory banks for the key to something called the Orvus Chamber but is not allowed to do so because of the Zoni. Nefarious then sets free his Hypersonic Brainwave Scrambler, causing the Zoni to flee and a blackout to occur. When the power is restored, Clank has awoken and attempts to escape, but is caught by Nefarious and his butler, Lawrence and promptly immobilized. Clank awakens later to find himself with a robot named Sigmund who is the…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, fantasy and kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Ratchet & Clank series

Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time is the tenth of 32 entries we hold in the Ratchet & Clank series. It arrived a year after Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty. The next entry was Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time - Collector's Edition in 2009. Its critic score of 83 is 7 points above the series average of 76. The highest-rated entry is Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction at 92.

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How it was received

Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 16 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 81, across 158 votes.

What it launched against

Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time launched on 27 October 2009, within three weeks of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Assassin's Creed II, Dragon Age: Origins and Left 4 Dead 2. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Assassin's Creed II, Dragon Age: Origins, Left 4 Dead 2.

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Official trailer

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When did Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time come out?
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time was released on 27 October 2009 for PlayStation 3.

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