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Ratchet & Clank Quest For Booty on Playstation 3 Store

Ratchet & Clank: Quest For Booty on Playstation 3 is essentially fan-service. It’s a quick release from a popular franchise designed to tide fans of the series over until the next full release (next year).

The game continues where previous iteration (Tools Of Destruction) left off; Clank has been captured by a weird robotic race called the “Zoni” and Ratchet is sure as hell gonna find his buddy with the help of ladyfriend Talwyn.

Quest For Booty was described by Vinny Carravella of GiantBomb as being “much like your Ikea bookshelf, you’ll find that Quest for Booty looks great for the price, but doesn’t really contain the love and craftsmanship of its higher-priced counterparts”. And he’s so, so right because while Quest For Booty contains all the charm, humour and great characterisation we’ve come to expect from an R&C game, it just doesn’t feel polished in the same way the full releases are.

Whether it’s something in the timing or something in the plot I know I didn’t giggle quite as much as Insomniac wanted me to. That’s not to say I didn’t giggle at all though.

Quest For Booty sets up numerous cameo’s between past and present R&C characters and the story spans a good 4 or 5 different areas. Your weapon arsenal is largely the same as it was in Tools Of Destruction but you have the ability to raise their levels again. The main new addition is the ability of Ratchet’s boomerang wrench which allows you to throw it, latch onto enemies or platforms and use mystical powers to move platforms into posistion. It’s a neat addition to the series, one that I’m sure they will build on in the next game.

Graphically Quest For Booty is phenomonal opting for the same presentation techniques as were present in Tools Of Destruction. And I actually mean, the same. It looks amazing for a downloadable game and while I did notice some frame rate dips here and there I’ll forgive them entirely given the nature of the package.

At £9.99 I estimate that Quest For Booty is just about the right length - for me I judge 2.5 hours of video game entertainment to carry a price of £5 so at £9.99 you’re paying the right price for a 5 hour game. There is sadly no reason to replay but it’s an honourable addition to the series and will tide fans over until next years confirmed iteration in the R&C series.

7/10.