Insomniac Games’ current involvement with other consoles means that we haven’t seen anything of the upcoming Ratchet & Clank remake that was announced for the PlayStation 4 at E3 2014 – but, writing on the developer’s official forum, community manager Tim Salvitti has shed a little extra light on the re-release.
Due out in 2015 alongside the series’ cinematic debut, the title will be a re-imagining of the original game, employing all new assets built to take advantage of Sony’s new super machine. Here’s where it gets confusing, though: the franchise’s aforementioned film will be a re-telling of Ratchet & Clank’s origin story, taking elements from the first PlayStation 2 release. Meanwhile, the next-gen remake will only include parts of the movie’s plot. Are you keeping up?
According to Salvitti, the upcoming game will also feature many more areas and characters than the flick, primarily because the interactive format lends itself better to a much longer running time. To be honest, we’ll be glad when Sunset Overdrive is out, so that the developer’s free to talk about this less cryptically. Fingers crossed for a full announcement at December’s forthcoming PlayStation Experience, huh?
[source insomniacgames.com, via neogaf.com]
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I love R&C games so i can't wait for this I remember playing the 1st R&C Demo on PS2 & i played it over & over again it was just brilliant
Yeah, those two sentences didn't really make a whole lot of sense. ;P
Really bummed though that Sunset Overdrive didn't come out for the PS4. It would literally be the best exclusive PS4 game to play this holiday season, at least in my opinion.
Me being a huge R&C fan, I'm definitely looking forward to this, while also being really curious about what this reimagining will be like, so yeah, fingers crossed.
I know it won't happen with this game, but at some point I would like to see the games go back to the art style used from Tools of Destruction to Crack in Time. Those games looked really, really good and the only problem I have with the newer games is that, to me, the art style looks of lesser quality. Fingers crossed for that too.
@Sadodi The movie will be Ratchet & Clank's complete origin story, including parts from the first game; the remake will be a re-imagining of the first game, including parts from the movie.
Well, if they keep the quality of past two trilogies there's nothing to worry about.
Basically, I'm going to assume that the movie tells the story of the first game with a hell of a lot of frills, while the game will tell the story of the first game with a couple of the frills that the movie brings, but be more faithful.
@RaymanFan2 Yeah, that seems accurate. Presumably, the origin story in the movie will span more events than are in the first game, while not all of the events that are in the first game will be explored in the movie.
If they do it right, the two should complement each other really well. For example, those that watch the movie and want more of the story — but don't already know it — will be able to play the game. And vice versa, I guess.
I'm just glad Insomniac's making it.
Given that it's a game franchise, it'd be pretty hard to screw up a tie-in game, even if at worst it were to come out feeling like a level pack for Nexus or something, but knowing tie-in-maker-studios, they'd manage it.
EASILY my most anticipated game right now, even if it hasn't shown as much as a screenshot.
I'm expecting the movie to be a one-story thing and not canon, but R&C PS4 will probably replace the original as canon.
Definitely interested to see what will be said in the coming month. The PlayStation event in December seems like the perfect time to show it off.
I think this will be great! on a side note, i wish sunset overdrive was not a xbox exclusive. i think that game looks awesome!
Unfortunately these aren't my sort of games. Just can't get into them. Same with most older style games/remakes. Glad it is being made and there is a market for them though. Clearly I am in the minority. I hope the movie is a big success.
I'm still hyped here, can't wait to watch the next new trailer for this remake/reboot.
never played the first one, so everything in this game will be new for me.
I'm mostly hoping for Dr. Nefarious to be in it. The best R&C games are the ones where he's in it
Oh I didn't know about the Rachet & Clank Remake
@jmburks my xbox one has been a glorified cable box since launch, with the selling factor being sunset overdrive. Wishing i had held out though, that white one is a beaut. Cant complain tho, because of the x1 i was able to get rid of my 10$ a month cable box and downgrade to an hddtu instead free of charge. So as of next month, ive saved 120$ over the year in cable bills thanks to my x1! Meanwhile the ps4 sits happily in the man cave, played daily with no violation of its rights by having the frozen blu ray stuck in it once a week so i know its happy there.
@irken004 He is confirmed to be in it, but I dunno If he'll actually manage to add anything to it considering it's telling the first game's story.
@Sadodi I'm kinda sad as well, it seems like a fun game that doesn't take itself too seriously. Oh well, hopefully they make GOTY or sequel of it that is Multi-Plat.
I'm a huge R&C fan but I'll wait to see what the PS4 re telling/reimagining turns out like....it seems quite similar to the fad in cinema for reboots and remakes and they often don't turn out well, but I have faith in Insomniac to do a good job with it all.
I'm not a fan at all, I'll wait and see though, maybe I'll be surprised.
I love Insomniac Games and Ratchet & Clank! But I still prefer(and miss) Spyro. Like the PS1-era Spyros...
Another ps3 remake ? No wonder I'm bored with ps4 already, why would I play the same game with better graphics. Quit wasting time on this kind of stuff and put NEW games out
@LampShade PS2 remake, actually. And it isn't the same game with better graphics, that's what a remaster is, this is a remake. It's an entirely new game based on the first Ratchet and Clank game.
@BLPs Hmm... maybe we'll just get Nefarious's backstory in this one, as established in R&C3?
It would make sense, to set him up for any sequels.
It'd be cool if, this gen, we got three R&C movies and 3 R&C remakes. I think that's actually be cooler than new games IMO. Also they could probably remake Deadlocked, but 4 movies would be stretching it.
Maybe they could do 3 and deadlocked at once, since you can fit an awful lot into a movie for the running time...
I'm really looking forward to this but I hope they lose the hoverboard races from the first game, or at least sort the controls out if they include them! That part of the game ruined it for me!
Maybe I am on my own but I really didn't like the R&C games. Sunset overdrive would have been a game to interest me though
@Mrskinner
The games I really miss are the Insomniac-made Resistances. I'll be getting Sunset Overdrive, it looks great, and I'm a fan of the R&C series, so this remake should be cool but I'd love to see Sony and Insomniac team up one more time for Resistance. I think part of what happened there was the games were never advertised well and the PS3 wasn't ever as popular as PS4 is. If studios like Evolution deserve a chance with something like DriveClub, there's absolutely no reason Sony and Insomniac shouldn't partner up one more time to try and get Resistance back on track, or at least give it a nice send off. That series can't go out on Burning Skies.
Sunset Overdrive is the only game beside Scalebound and Dead Rising (with that scrumptious protagonist) I would get an Xbox One for. Sadly the xbox 360 and MS's wacky decisions left a bad taste in my mouth and I doubt Sunset Overdrive (or a potential sequel) will stay exclusive / its most fun elements won't be copied. Could be wrong though! did Microsoft fund development? if so we'll just get the sequel if its successful.
Gaming needs more wacky, brass and colorful games.
@AyeHaley
All I know is Insomniac owns the IP. It can do whatever it wants with the sequels and maybe even the current release as well. MS published Sunset Overdrive but it also published the original Mass Effect which obviously found its way to PS3.
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