There's no way to tell whether or not Ratchet, the furry hero of Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando, is indeed "going commando" underneath his slick new battle suits. Honestly, I don't want to know - it's enough for me that he no longer wears those...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at Game Revolution
Game Vortex
This hasn't been a good year for sequels, especially ones I've been looking forward to. First there was Jak II, which turned out to be a whole lot of everything else, but not enough of the original. Then there was Rebel Strike, which proved to be as...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at Game Vortex
Into Liquid Sky
The original Ratchet & Clank was an absolute delight to look at. There is no doubt about that. Everything in the game felt alive and flourishing. It was decidedly different from other games because of the amount of animation in the background, along with...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at Into Liquid Sky
Games are Fun
The sequel to the original Ratchet and Clank, the first 3D game to successfully merge weapons and platforming into something greater than the sum of it’s parts, R&C: GC takes everything that made the first game great, fixed the minor flaws from that...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at Games are Fun
GamerDad
But Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando isn't just your typical 3-D action platformer sequel. Insomniac has basically given us more of the same of the first game, with the emphasis being on MORE! More weapons and gadgets, more enemies, more battles, more...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at GamerDad
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Insomniac's Ratchet & Clank impressed many gamers when it came out last year, offering a mix of platforming and shooting. The sequel, Going Commando offers much of the same satisfying gameplay but adds a few new twists including more puzzles, additional...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at The Laser
GamingTrend
A scant 8 months ago I wrote my review for the original Ratchet and Clank. I was a latecomer to the game since I didn't receive it for Christmas last year and I was absolutely awestruck by how great the game was. A year after the first one came out we...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at GamingTrend
Gaming Illustrated
There’s something that feels a little off about Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando (RC:GC), Insomniac Game’s all-stops-pulled-out sequel to my PS2 game of the year in 2002. Don’t get me wrong, RC:GC is a great game that presents everything with a...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at Gaming Illustrated
Game Rankings
Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando improves on almost every mechanic from the first game in the series, though it is a sole gameplay tweak that most certainly gives this the edge over its predecessor, and in turn, its competitors in the platforming...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at Game Rankings
Console Game World
Ratchet and Clank return as heroes for hire in the new PlayStation 2 title, Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando. Upon taking a job to find a stolen experiment for mega-corporation Abercombie Fitzwidget, Ratchet and Clank meet a large cast of characters...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at Console Game World
Future Gamez
A quick search of the word ‘insomniac’ reveals it as “experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness” (courtesy dict.org). It appears as though over the last year since Ratchet & Clank was released, the guys and girls at Insomniac have been getting...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at Future Gamez
PopCultureShock
Have you ever had one of those absolutely exquisite meals where the food was just the most incredible taste you’ve ever experienced? I’m talking about those dishes where you find yourself suddenly drooling, eating faster, not stopping to conversate...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at PopCultureShock
Team Fremont
In an industry full of sequels, rehashes, and copycats, it’s tough to find that golden mean where the quest for originality doesn’t breed over-bloated ideas. Last year’s Ratchet and Clank was one of the most original, yet enjoyable, games in recent...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at Team Fremont
DreamStation.cc
There aren’t many games out there that are as satisfying as Ratchet and Clank 2: Going Commando (RaC2). You may not believe it but jumping into a crowd of enemies and dismantling them with a huge selection of different weapons never gets old. RaC2...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at DreamStation.cc
Ratchet and Clank are back just a year after their successful debut on the PS2. In fact, a year has also passed in Ratchet and Clank’s world since they put an end to the Blarg. In the intervening time Ratchet and Clank have been milking their success...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at Gamers Temple
It's always exciting when a new title comes out, and takes the video gaming world by storm. Even more exciting, though, is when the sequel comes out, repeats (or even outdoes) the success of the first one, and thus a franchise is born. Sony was lucky...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at Next Level Gaming
Gamerz-Edge
I saw Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando at E3 and thought it looked exactly the same as its predecessor, but I also thought the same thing about Jak & Daxter (with the exception of the big guns). Upon further playing, I've found an absolutely endearing...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at Gamerz-Edge
PGNx Media
The latter part of Sony's duo of great platformers arrives. Ratchet and Clank was a great platform title, one of the few that tried to do something different. Naughty Dog delivered two games in two years (the Jak series) and those turned out fine so I...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at PGNx Media
IGN
While the first Ratchet and Clank suffered, in my opinion, because of its immensely generic homogenization of character and because of its relative ease, Ratchet and Clank Going Commando tries to solve these problems in typical Insomniac fashion. Ratchet...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at IGN
GameZone
Almost precisely one year after Insomniac’s release of the hugely popular (and rightly so) Ratchet & Clank, comes the sequel: Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando. Only a scant nine months in development, Going Commando is the antithesis...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at GameZone
Gaming Age
I'm not big on platformers - haven't been since Mario 64. Somewhere between then and now, the love for hopping and bopping around 3-D environments, collecting stars, clover leaves, Skittles or whatever it was just didn't appeal any more. The rush of...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at Gaming Age
Gaming Horizon
This holiday season is strewn with popular sequels to popular originals of last year, with Going Commando and Jak II being the forerunners. Coincidentally, both titles are big-name platformers from big-name developers who have made a reputation in the...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at Gaming Horizon
Armchair Empire
While there are thousands of philosophies worldwide that try to sort out the meaning of life, the universe and everything, I prefer to think that mankind exists for two sole purposes: (1) the creation of things, and (2) the destruction of said things in...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at Armchair Empire
RPG Dreamers
Ratchet & Clank exploded onto the video game scene last holiday for the Playstation 2. Surprising all experts and game players alike on just how good it is. Within a one year time period, Ratchet & Clank has surpass all other platform games as the best...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at RPG Dreamers
Netjak
Since the inception of 3D games, platform games, easily one of the most popular video game genres thanks to a couple of Italian plumbers, tended to fall into one of two categories. There were the collection festivals, which would generally drop the...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at Netjak
Gaming Nexus
About a year ago Sony took the gaming world by storm when it released two amazing platformers, Sly Cooper and Ratchet & Clank. While it appeared that the cel-shaded Sly Cooper received the most hype it was immediately apparent that Insomniac’s...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at Gaming Nexus
Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando is the perfect example of a sequel done the right way. Far too many times, gamers have been presented with horrible sequels that fail to live up to their predecessor’s standards. Going Commando is the exact opposite....read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at Videogame City
Gaming Target
About a year ago Sony took the gaming world by storm when it released two amazing platformers, Sly Cooper and Ratchet & Clank. While it appeared that the cel-shaded Sly Cooper received the most hype it was immediately apparent that Insomniac’s...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at Gaming Target
Enter R&C: Going Commando. Not only do you get more weapons, but you have incentive to use them instead of the perfectly-capable wrench the whole time. The more you use a certain weapon, the more chance you have to level-up, leading to upgrades and the...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at Lawrence
Boomtown
When designing a sequel to a very popular game, you always run the risk of alienating current fans, but with Ratchet & Clank 2, that’s very unlikely to happen. Using a slightly enhanced version of the original game engine, Ratchet & Clank 2 sets our...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at Boomtown
Eurogamer
Given that Ratchet & Clank was rather unflatteringly held up as Jak & Daxter with guns, it hardly seemed fair when Naughty Dog's Jak II: Renegade borrowed a futuristic location and flying cars, and mixed heavy weaponry and traditional platforming to...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at Eurogamer
Game Power AU
It's a safe bet that nobody at Insomniac Games got any sleep in the last twelve months. Only a year since the release of Ratchet & Clank, we're seeing the debut of the fully-fledged sequel, Locked and Loaded (known as Going Commando in the United States)....read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at Game Power AU
Keep in mind that I've never played the original, so I was going into this pretty much fresh. Look at the cover of the game, and you see a bipedal thing that looks like a cross between a cat, a human, and perhaps a boll weevil; all I can tell you for...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at Game Over Online
VGPub
Insomniac Studios? Where have I heard that name before? Didn?t they do that game with the slightly? mirthful Dragon? Why yes, yes they did. With Insomniac?s acquisition by Sony a few years ago, it was apparent that Spyro The Dragon, a Universal property,...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at VGPub
The game starts off with Ratchet (the cat-like guy) & Clank (the small robot) having nothing to do after saving their galaxy in there previous adventure. That is until they get a call from a Mr. Fizwidget, the chairman of megacorp, for a mission in...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at GameCell UK
DarkStation
Last year SCEA brought out two of the best platforming titles that the PS2 has to offer - Sly Cooper and the Thievius Racconus and Ratchet and Clank - two very different types of platformers that really took the gaming world by surprise. The first of the...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at DarkStation
Gamecritics
As I've mentioned before, games often attempt to emulate Hollywood films. This is particularly true when it comes to sequels. For years now, Hollywood has operated under the notion that a sequel must take the first film and simply up the stakes in every...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at Gamecritics
Ratchet and Clank are back and this time they've gone commando! Get ready for the ride of your life as you blast your way through countless leaving a path of total destruction in your wake! In this adventure you'll not only enjoy the classic destruction...read the complete Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando review at Da GameBoyz
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