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Ratchet & Clank

April 12, 2016ShooterESRB E10+

Overview

About Ratchet & Clank

Ratchet & Clank is a single-player third-person shooter with platforming elements, and a reimagining of the series' first game. Players mainly control Ratchet, traveling from planet to planet to battle enemies with a wide range of inventive weapons and gadgets while crossing gaps with a grappling hook, riding grind rails, and solving occasional puzzles. Segments controlling the robot Clank focus on environmental puzzle solving, and the game also includes hoverboard races and spaceship combat. Weapons and gadgets are unlocked through progress or bought using bolts collected during play.
Story setup
On the planet Veldin, a young Lombax mechanic named Ratchet dreams of joining the heroic Galactic Rangers, but he is turned away. His life changes when he rescues a small defective warbot fleeing a factory where Chairman Drek of the Blarg is building a mechanical army. Ratchet names the robot Clank, and the two set out to warn the Rangers that Drek intends to destroy planets to build a new homeworld for his people. Teaming with the boastful Captain Qwark, the unlikely pair join the fight to stop the scheme.
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At a glance

Released
April 12, 2016
Platforms
PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4
Genres
Shooter, Platformer, Adventure, Action
Play modes
Single Player
Age rating
ESRB E10+
Time to beat
~14 hours
Media

Screenshots

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Playtime

How long to beat

Player-reported completion times for Ratchet & Clank.

Rushed
14hoursMain story only
Typical
14hoursStory plus some extras
Completionist
25hoursEvery side objective too

Estimated from 5 player reports — a small sample, so treat these as approximate.

Playing together

Multiplayer & game modes

Ratchet & Clank offers various play modes for different gaming experiences.

Play Modes

Single Player

Content

Age ratings

How rating boards around the world have classified Ratchet & Clank. Open a board for its content descriptors.

ACBPG

Mild science fiction violence

CLASS_IND10
  • Violência (Violence)
ESRBE10+
  • Fantasy Violence
  • Animated Blood
GRAC12+
  • Violence

An action game that performs the activities of Ratchet and his friend Robot Clank who ventures into space. Attacks using weapons and frequent explosion effects. Slight expressions of violence. Therefore, in accordance with Article 21 of the Act on the Promotion of the Game Industry and Article 9 (2) of the Classification Review Regulations, it was decided to classify it as "12-year-old".

PEGI7
  • Violence

The protagonist as well as most of the enemies are fantasy characters. The violence portrayed is unrealistic and has a cartoony and comical context. You use an array of fantastical weapons to take care of enemies, which when they die, generally explode or disintegrate and leave behind the in-game currency (bolts). The game features weird, hostile aliens that can look disturbing. The game does feature some violence towards human-like characters, but this is limited to unrealistic violence. The game has a bright colourful graphics scheme. Difficult or disturbing scenes are mostly always lightened up by a joke.

USK12

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