Ratchet MP again in future?

By Tom Bramwell Published 26 October, 2007

Just not for this Future.

Insomniac has said once again that it will consider putting multiplayer back in Ratchet & Clank one day, even though you won't be seeing it in the new PS3 version.

"[W]e were kind of disappointed to find that less than 5 percent of players actually played [multiplayer online] who actually played the game for both Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal and Deadlocked," creative director Brian Allgeier told MTV News.

"And so, in looking at Ratchet & Clank: Future, we thought, well we could spend 30 percent of our resources on multiplayer, but that would take 30 percent away from the single-player experience."

However, Allgeier also told MTV the team would like to "go down that road again someday", echoing what Insomniac's Ryan Schneider told Eurogamer in September, that we might see Ratchet & Clank in a multiplayer capacity again "one day".

Elsewhere in the MTV chat, it's revealed that Ratchet & Clank Future will link up to PSP game Secret Agent Clank "in some secret, undisclosed way", although it's also said that the game won't link up to PS3's Home service or, fairly obviously, Resistance: Fall of Man.

For more on Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, check out our first impressions. Our review should be up soon too, and helpfully the PS3 demo is now up on the European Store as well as the US one.

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Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (8) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • Baronen #1 4 years ago

    Fair enough, R&C has always been about the singleplayer anyway.

  • menage #2 4 years ago

    i actually think the series went into decline when they started the MP aspect.

    Of course online would work much better. But still, the main adventure shouldn't suffer because of it.

    Ratchet 4 sucked bigtime because of it.
    Edited by 1 at 26/10/07 @ 12:20

  • Les #3 4 years ago

    The typical Ratchet player, like he says, couldn't care less about multi-player. Insomniac should put multiplayer in the Resistance series (hard to imagine there won't be at least one sequel) and just offer a great single player experience via Ratchet & Clank. Although this might piss off the average video game journalist that takes at least a point off of every review score if there isn't any multiplayer, disregarding the fact that their readership in general doesn't care about it at all.

  • JediMasterMalik #4 4 years ago

    I'm more dissappointed that reviewers seem to think the game needs it, why can't we just have a great SP game? How many MP games do consoles really need?

  • menage #5 4 years ago

    "I'm more dissappointed that reviewers seem to think the game needs it, why can't we just have a great SP game? How many MP games do consoles really need?"

    Yeah. I'm getting sick and tired of this "complete package" crap.

    How long do we we play games. Especially with all the games coming out now. I finish it in a couple of weeks and never touch it again. And how many MP games are people gonna play anyway. WOW, Halo, Gears, CoD, have the genre pretty much covered.

    The best example of taking it to extremes in journalism was the Halo 3 Edge review. It wasn't even about the game anymore. They even admitted it had crap bits. And it still got a ten because of "complete package". Options, modes, community are more important for them than the actual game play or single player experience it seems. While most people never play online at all.
    Edited by 3 at 26/10/07 @ 13:11

  • Boob_Man #6 4 years ago

    Maybe only 5% played only because in general the PS2 network was cack - MP in R&C probably would be quite popular because the game is. I agree though, personally speaking I would much rather have a quality single player game. Leave the MP to the obvious candidates.

  • Les #7 4 years ago

    Games need to specialize and not try to please everyone if gaming ever hopes to become a serious form of entertainment. Multiplayer-only Warhawk was an excellent idea: great game, attractive price. I hope the same will happen with MGS4, though there it looks more like trying to get the gamer's cash twice (with the two titles being developed and released at the same time).

  • Apologie #8 4 years ago

    Ratchet is good as it is..., doesn't need multiplayer.
    I actually have dificult to imagine multiplayer in game like Ratchet.

    Edited by 1 at 27/10/07 @ 20:48