There's an uncomfortable balance between defense and exploration in Full Frontal Assault's campaign mode. Ratchet & team hop back and forth between three different planets where they must balance defending a base against waves of enemies and pushing forward to assault the enemy stronghold and establish a more lasting planetary defense.
No sooner are they together than a mysterious new villain begins invading peaceful worlds.
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Aside from a balanced competitive multiplayer mode, Full Frontal Assault's attempts to try something new feel like change for the sake of change.Īt the outset of Full Frontal Assault, Ratchet, Clank and series stalwart Captain Qwark have joined together to form Q-Force, a team dedicated to protecting the galaxy from alien threats. It's a strange fit for the series and feels particularly awkward in the single-player and co-op campaign modes. The new core of the gameplay is a base defense meta-game heavily inspired by the tower defense genre. You can still use your hoverboots to glide through the air or slide along pipes, but platforming-focused sequences are now brief and infrequent. The weapon leveling that came to largely define the series? It's now a quick, hardly noticeable process. The goofy story and sense of humor? Reduced to a handful of short cutscenes and a rotation of in-mission dialogue quips. What do you do with a series that's done everything? The lombax and his robot buddy have been around for ten years and, with the addition of Full Frontal Assault, 11 games (and one compilation).įull Frontal Assault's solution to that challenge comes by way of stripping down many of the elements that made previous Ratchet & Clank games stand out. Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault presents developer Insomniac with a dilemma.
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