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An amazing must-have game for your PS2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 103 / 107
Date: November 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'm a HUGE huge fan of Ratchet and Clank. As soon as Going Commando game out we grabbed a copy - and have been playing it non-stop ever since! Talk about a great sequel!

The plot and gameplay is similar to the first game - you're going from planet to planet, bashing things, gathering up nuts and bolts and finding some INCREDIBLY fun weapons along the way. Even better, if you still have your memory card from the first game, you get to bring in many weapons from that for free.

If you didn't play Ratchet & Clank I, I *really* recommend you get it! It should be super-cheap by now and is great fun. It's not required to understand this second game, though.

This game is almost like 20 games in one. There are pod-racing like portions where you challenge on faster and faster tracks. There are gladiator arena fighting where you test your strength and endurance. There are spaceship flying sections like Wing Commander where you fly through asteroids and around corners. There are button-combos and logic puzzles and really funny video clips.

There are the skill points that you have to guess at and then execute. Each weapon upgrades to a new super version of itself. You really feel like you're making progress as you move through the game, becoming stronger and further along in the plot. Going back to planets is great fun, too, as you find ways to use your new weapons in fun ways.

The game is also great on an entire-family sort of way. There's a lot of fun puns that will go right over the heads of the kids, but in general the game can be great fun for everyone. The kids can hand the controller to the adults if they get stuck, and the adults will have just as much fun as the kids did (and may not give the controller back for a while).

There's always something fun to do, and if you want a change from what you're doing, just hop into one of the mini-games for a whole different experience. The game can literally go on forever. Highly, highly recommended as a must-have for any PS2!

Insomniac has out done themselves!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 98 / 118
Date: October 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

In todays age of gaming having games w/tons of blood, gore, guns and foul language, it's wonderful to have Insomniac Games make a game that, although rated a T, kids under the age of 10 can play. Yes, it has guns, but they're more the ACME sort from Looney Tunes compared to the realistic sounding guns in Jak II. And, you're shooting aliens/robots, not real people like in Jak II and other games. Ratchet and Clank 2 is bigger all the way around... more weapons/gadgets, bigger levels, more things to do than even the first Ratchet and Clank. I've played the first game COUNTLESS times and I know I will Ratchet and Clank 2. I highly recommend it as a game for the whole family and I have a 6 year old son who plays it too. I can let him play and not worry that he's going to want to go out and shoot someone. It's not the type of game to have to worry about what bad habit your child is going to pick up from it. Thank you Insomniac Games!!

R&C is back!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 17 / 22
Date: October 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The original "Ratchet & Clank" was an astonishingly beautiful platformer, with superb graphics, qaulity sound, and brilliant gameplay. "Ratchet & Clank 2" is just as good, if not better than it's predocessor. Theres a whole new storyline, with 15 new weapons to use. Each level is twice as big as last time, with extra Maxi Games, such as the "Wipeout Fusion" style racer, and the chaotic gladiator arena. The game is easily worth every penny and should not be put down.

insomniac picks it up.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 18
Date: January 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

i really love rachet and clank going commando. god the weapons are so much cooler than in the first. youll have tons of awesome weapons at your disposal. theres the lancer- deadly automatic rifal. the blitz gun- powerful shooter. the minirocket tube- big gun that shoots rockets. the bouncer- shoots corkscrew rocks than explode in a small eruption of flames. the ryno 2- unbelivabely hardcore power gun with several holes for bulletshooting a powerhouse of a gun costs 1000000 bolts. all the weapons you carry can be completely upgraded. so use your weapon a lot and it will change to a more powerful form of that weapon. rachet gets bigger and stronger as he fights bad guys as well and his health increases. and the weapons arent the only thing that can be upgraded your ship can be too. youll get to choose diffrent colors and designs for your ship. oh and rachet can now purchase armor. excellent game with excellent weapons. use your wrench a lot and that can also be upgraded. the weapons are simply so shar looking satisfying and fun to use youll wonder why you liked the first games weapons.

going commando is much more than just weapons

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 16
Date: February 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

iam actaully 18 but im doing the kids reveiw. but anyway rachet and clank going commando was definitely shockingly good. theres more than just weapons to like about this seqeul. the gameplay is outstanding. there are space moon battles megagames hoverbike races gladiator fighting logic puzzles and so much more. the planets are all beautifal. the weapons are great theres 50 weapons and gagets in going commando. the ryno 2 zodiac minirocket tube plasma coil hoverbomb gun heavy lance blitz cannon just to name a few. rachet and clank going commando sounds wonderful. all of the music warrents being on a tape recorder. apseouloutely one of the best sounding games you can find. the graphics are jawdropping theres armor suits rocket upgrades spherical gigantic worlds. tough villans and all that garbage. i highly recomend this game it is a winner in every way.

Great Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'm normally a fairly discriminating reviewer, so it isn't often that I would rate a game as a 5 star. In fact, the only past games I've ever given such a rating were Grand Theft Auto III and Vice City. Considering I'm usually not a big FPS gamer, a 5 star is especially impressive.

Anyway, I'll do a simple Pro/Con listing for brevity's sake:

Pros:

Awesome weapons (the most fun aspect of thegame is working towards upgrades)
Fun, interactive levels
Pleny of mini-games, puzzles, etc

Kid-friendly (not incredibly violent, esp. for a shooter)
An inventive story line
Hidden-areas w/ power-ups, special gadgets, etc.
Challenge mode (after beating the story line) provides replay value

Cons:

Relatively easy to defeat, even on challenge mode

As you can see, the pros outweigh the cons. If you're a skilled gamer, especially where Shooters are concerned, I'd suggest renting the game. I had it for a week and worked my way through the normal and challenge mode after 3 days. Challenge mode is great because you collect numerous bolts which enables you to buy the really cool, expensive weapons you couldn't afford the first time through. However, with weapons like the RHYNO II and the Ultra Weapon upgrades, Challenge Mode becomes something of a misnomer.

Which game to choose?...R+C:G C or Jak II?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Well to be honest with you jak 2 and ratchet and clank 2 are really both awsome games. The weapons in Jak 2 and the weapons in ratchet and clank are awsome. The gameplay in ratchet and clank are awsome. The game play in Jak 2 are awsome though repetitive to the max. They both have great graphics. There both great platformers. I suggest getting both. I have both and they are Superb games. But there 3rd sequals are gonna be in big competition

first was good, this one is great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

well worth the $40.00! highly recommended, best game I have played this year

Best game of the year...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The only thing I don't like about this game is the fact that I'll be finished with it soon and have to wait another year or two for Ratchet and Clank 3.

An incredibly fun and exciting sequel.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Last year an incredible game was released and now it has a sequel which seems a bit more like an improvement over the last game's slight flaws. What I mean by that is the fact that even though this is an amazing game and awesome sequel it's still genarally the same game with major improvements but you can't really judge a game much from it's previous ones so in total this is still an incredible game.

The game is of course a platformer and third-person shooter and does great on both and also has some fun puzzles to go with it.

This game really fixes the minor setbacks of the last game.
In the previous game you could simply skip ahead of most of the enemies with no problem but now there's now a leveling up system where for each enemy you defeat you get an amount of experiance(or "Nanomites" as the game calls it)when you get enough experiance to fill up you're experiance meter you're maximum health(or "Nanotech" as the game calls health)goes up which makes a point to destroying all you're enemies.
The same kind of thing goes with you're weapons too,whenever you use a certain weapon against an enemy that weapon also gains nanomites and when the weapon's expiriance meter gets full it upgrades into a much more powerful weapon so unlike the first game when if some weapon isn't useful you just don't use it so now there's a point to using even you're weak weapons.

And the game has an amazingly hilarious sense of humor as well.
The game also improved the diffuculty by making it quite longer than the first and improving the enemy inteligence so it has quite some challenge as well.
So all-in-all this is a fantastic game than can appeal to many many platforming and third-person shooter fans.

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