

Ratchet and Say what you will about other Sony mascots like Jak and Daxter or Sly Cooper, but at least they knew how to actually end. Ratchet and Clank:Nexus is just a reminder for why you shouldn't drag your series out to this level a game insultingly short and uncreative compared to the other entries. The weapons have as much impact as looking at your enemies and aren't fun to use at all, the story's attempts to be frightening are laughable (I know it's a kids game but you can at least try), and of course, there's audio logs voice acted by whoever was around that are either Insomniac's lack of self awareness to how contrived the plot is or yodeling "What the hell is exposition, some kind of vegetable?!" Supposedly this is the last game in the RaC series. If it is, I'm going to be even more depressed than I was playing this miserable kick to the ribs this game is to the series as a whole. It was so ready to end by A Crack In Time, but no, they had to drag it out to make three more games that were all painfully mediocre compared to the original trilogy, or even the Future trilogy. I felt like Conan the Barbarian watching his village burn down while playing this game except instead of a village, it was the childhood memories I have for the original trilogy. If you must spend £25 on something, spend it on the Trilogy Collection for the PS3 even if there are some graphical oddities in it, it's much more worth your time than this boring, un-scary pile of cat waste.

That is, you can complement your game by playing this mobile phone and tablet version for a while. You can synchronize all of the raritanium that you collect in this Android game with the Playstation 3 version of Ratchet and Clank: Nexus.

Of course, you can use some of the franchise's legendary weapons along the way. The gameplay is identical to that of most games in this genre: you have to travel non-stop through endless, danger-filled scenes while trying to collect as much raritanium as you can. Ratchet and Clank: BTN (Before the Nexus) is an 'endless runner' in which players have to try to get as far as possible inside one of the endless scenes, controlling the charismatic protagonist of this game from Sony.
