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GREAT GAME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 18
Date: October 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The fourth Ratchet and Clank video game is coming, but Clank is nowhere to be found.
The new Ratchet and Clank is called Ratchet: Deadlocked. The story line in Ratchet: Deadlocked has Ratchet and Clank captured and forced to participate in an underground reality combat sport show. The reality show features captured heroes fighting for their lives against a deadly gang of fighters. The show is run by a crazy media tycoon, Gleeman Vox, who intends to use Ratchet and Clank as his next contestants.
Because of the collar attached to Ratchet's neck, he can't do anything Vox doesn't want him to do, or he would kill Ratchet instantly. To keep him and his friends alive, Ratchet has to participate in the games and increase the show's ratings with his incredible victories. The goal of this game is to break free of Vox's control, get rid of the deadly collar attached to Ratchet's neck, and bring down Vox's huge network.
Ratchet: Deadlocked has many new features such as more freedom for your mission choices; co-op game play in both single and multi-player story modes; a new set of weapons; medals; dread points; squad-based battles; and many more! The squad-based battles allow you to command a group of allied bots in both single and multiplayer game modes. Each bot has a different personality and a customization feature which allows you to change their body parts and textures.
Another key difference from the previous Ratchet and Clanks' game play is that you will not be using Clank. This is because he will be serving as the mission engineer. However, he will provide information and monitor your progress throughout the missions.
The new weapons in Ratchet: Deadlocked are better than ever. The main new feature in the weapon system is the ability to choose how your weapons are upgraded - both numerically and functionally. This new feature allows 1000's of possible weapon combinations to create the largest variety of Ratchet and Clank weapons ever before!
You can collect dread points and medals by beating missions. Dread points and medals are needed in order to unlock new planets, each planet offering new missions, challenges, and enemies. The first planet with actual missions is called Catacrom IV. The planet is filled with zombie robots which come out of the ground to attack you. The best feature about the zombies is that when they get torn apart and have their body parts scattered everywhere, they keep attacking you.
There are many new missions in this Ratchet and Clank. The first few missions are very simple. These missions are basically tutorials on how to use the game. As the game progresses, the missions get much more difficult. In some of the later missions, you can race hoverbikes, capture control points, destroy key targets, clear areas of enemies, and much, much more. The missions are never the same and the order of them keeps the game fun and interesting. Also, the missions usually last a few minutes, so you probably won't get bored with a single mission. Many missions are optional, but still very fun. Plus, the more missions you do, the more bolts ($ in the Ratchet and Clank world) you collect.
To sum up, this is a great game and I would highly recommend it to anyone who liked the previous Ratchet and Clank games or likes action adventure games.

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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: October 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

THis is an awesome game. It allows cooperative play with a friend for all the levels in the single player mode, enabling you to have much more fun with the exciting game. It also has a new weapon system, where instead of just buying and upgrading a gun, you actually get to customize it to your own liking. Furthermore, this is a great game and I'm definitely looking forward to getting it some time soon.

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A Different Chapter in the Ratchet & Clank Saga...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: October 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Like anyone else interested enough to write a Ratchet & Clank I eagerly anticipated the 4th installment; Ratchet Deadlocked... I like the game but it is considerably different than the other Ratchet titles in terms of game play and back ground story... This time, during single player mode, Clank is in a background or 'Mission Engineer'... this change reminds me of the Metal Gear Solid games... the game play is exceptionally fast and furious... the use of troop droids while in combat adds to the intensity... there seems to be lees of a story board to this title... there are several modes of team play now... a new one being Side-by-Side or Cooperative Missions... there also is a multi player mode that reminds me of Quake or Unreal style game play... over all I'm appreciative of there being a new Ratchet title but it is taking some getting used too and is slowly growing on me... Don't get me wrong, it's just that Up your Arsenal is a tough act to follow...

Fun Ratchet World, Nice Co-Op Gameplay

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 110 / 116
Date: October 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

We really love the Ratchet and Clank series of games, with the gameplay, humor and general mayhem. Deadlocked is NOT an adventure game like the others - it's a gladiator combat game. You don't even have Clank with you for most of the game.

It's not that this game is "bad" - but it's different. I really did like the whole exploring-worlds theme of the previous games. The gladiator matches in those were interesting diversions but I was always happy when they were over. In this game, that's all that you get. You go from arena to arena, mindlessly bashing away at enemies and trying to stay alive.

There are all sorts of mini-games that you unlock along the way - hoverbike races involving traditional follow-the-circles, shooting games, flying games, and much more. The humor is still quite fun, although it's now a very odd mix of very adult humor and very kiddy humor. The game is rated Teen so the adult humor is reasonably OK I suppose, depending on how protective you are of younger teens.

The weapons upgrades are as usual amazingly fun - and you get to have "mods" to your weapons like acid and napalm to customise them to your liking. You can do all sorts of mixes and matches to get just the feel that you want.

The graphics are of good quality - I've always enjoyed the graphic style of the Ratchet and Clank games so this provides more of the same. The sound is reasonably good, although we do find some really repetitive, annoying tracks in there. We also had the game completely freeze up on us a few times. Maybe it needed just a little more QA before it was released.

The multiplayer modes are a really nice extension of the game. I really enjoy playing a game with a friend, so anything with co-op in it is great.

I suppose on the up side that if this had not come out, we would have just been sitting here twiddling our thumbs until the next "real" release of Ratchet and Clank came out. So in that sense, I'm really happy to have this out as filler, to keep us busy until then. We definitely ran out to grab this as soon as it was released, even though it wasn't (as far as we were concerned) a fully fledged Ratchet and Clank game to plow through.

Well Recommended!

Rating? 4/5

Great, but one major problem

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I was incredibly excited for the release of this game for I'm a big fan of the other Ratchet games. This is truly a great game. I picked the game up on 2 days ago and I've only put a few hours into it and I am extremely upset to say that I have already reached the last level. How upsetting! It could be that I am just incredible at the game but in more likely hood, Insomniac made the game to short and I was playing on the hardest level!! But don't let this discourage you, there is still much online gaming (Something I can;t take advantage of) and co-op mode. So I still reccomend picking up this game but be weary.

One Word: AMAZING

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: October 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is freaking awesome. I just got it today and wow, I was impressed. The levels are absolutely huge and it there are different types of difficulty for the game so thats good for people who want a challenge. The vehicles are spectular as well as the game and you will have a blast blowing up anything in sight. The weapons are much better than the previous versions of the game too and they have different mods. It also has online like UYA. Well, see you online!

If you like arena battles, you're all set.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 38 / 48
Date: November 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I am really disappointed with this game (and I loved the other Ratchet & Clank games). This game just moves from one arena battle to the next (in the form of very small planets), so you don't get the adventures you do with the previous games. There is a cooperative mode where two players can play, but you need a big tv because it's like watching a couple of microbes run around.

Ratchet: Deadlocked... A+

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is really nice. Ratchet is captured to compete in an illegal game show run by Vox. Ive played through this game and there are both awesome qualities and some average things. If I could, I would have given this game 4.5 stars, but I like to round up.

Pros:
You get these two bodyguards that you can customize.
Your weapons can really become personalized. There are all kinds of different mods. There are mods which are mainly elemental mods, such as acid, lava, shock and others. And there there are mods that improve your weapons, such as a faster firing rate, a larger impact, and other things.
This game has an excellent replay value, just as much as the other R&C games.
There are A LOT of jokes in this one, some parodies that many people will not catch.

Cons:
If you didnt like the gameplay of the other R&C games, though it is improved here, you probably wont like this game.
Clank is not a playable character, now he is in the background helping you out.

Exciting, Fast-Paced, Short?!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: November 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is great for all ratchet fans, action fans, and those fans who play games like Soul Calibur or any game with a face-off. This game has all the intangibles, great action, humor, customizable guns that feel familiar to old Ratchet and Clank fans. The story line is simple but has some great twists. I would recomend fans who played 2 out of the previous 3 games start at a 3 star difficulty, other-wise you will fly by the game in under 8 hours. That is the big fault in this game, it is short. There are lots of worlds but the missions are basically shoot-em up and clear through enemies, which means you get hold of the game very quickly. That's probably why it is so fast. This game lacks nothing. Since, though, time is a big factor, this game to me is 4.5 stars.

Ratchet: Deadlocked

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: November 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I personally have loved all the previous Ratchet and Clank games with their destruction, humor, and amazing gameplay, but this one is nothing like the previous games.

For one thing, this game is not an adventure game like the others, it is, like many people have said; a gladiator game. Yes, you do get to explore the levels (meaning you are not exactly trapped in an arena the whole time as you might have thought), but there is no strategy in the game. To beat the levels, all you have to do is mindlessly shoot-up and bash away your opponents. Don't get me wrong, I love the gladiator fights, for they were in all the previous games, and they were extremely fun, but I was always glad to finish them and go back to the adventure, but in this game, gladiator fights is all you've got.

Now, the weapon arsenal in this game is much better than in the previous game! You can customize your weapons to your satisfaction! In this game, you are also provided with different weapons, such as the "Dual Vipers" that you see Ratchet holding on the cover-page. You are also provided with two upgradable robots (yes, they are the ones you see on the cover) which help you defeat your enemies! Since you don't get to have Clank with you, you are given these robots instead of him, and they are great!

The gameplay and graphics in this game beats the ones in all the other games, for the destruction is more detailed than ever! The gameplay is also very good as well! You can do back-flips and roll-overs to avoid getting shot by incoming bullets! The gameplay and graphics in this game definetly deserve an "A+"!

The humor in this game is as good as ever! Just like the previous Ratchet games, this game is filled with loads of humor to keep you laughing your head off! Also, when in the gladiator fights, you the commentary people throw a few funny jokes every while and then, and they don't repeat the same jokes over-and-over again like in some wrestling games I have played.

Overall, this game is a great game, but as I have said before, I didn't exactly like the fact that this game barely has any adventure, but it is still a very great game! If the game had some more adventure, it would have been the perfect game! For people who like Unreal games, this game is for you!

A well recommended game!

Rating? I give it a 9.1/10, because the lack of adventure was quite a major flaw.

Additional recommendations? Rent it first, and play it, and see if you like it, because I personally liked it, but it depends on what person is playing it.

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