This status was later increased as the wiki reached 5,000 articles on 17 August 2012. The wiki has been hosted on Wikia since its creation, and in June 2009 the wiki received 'big wiki' status on Wikia Community Central for reaching the 2,500 article milestone. Since then, it has been run and maintained by the administrators and the open community of editors. The Ratchet & Clank wiki was started on Februby Thai420. The Ratchet & Clank wiki is constantly looking to expand the quality and quantity of the content covered in relation to the Ratchet & Clank universe. The content is intended to be presented in a clear, consistent and encyclopaedic style. The aim of the site is to provide as much information about the Ratchet & Clank universe covering all of the games, comics and other material.
GameSpot on the other hand felt that the variety in the gameplay, although easier than most games, kept the player interested and moving at a good pace.The Ratchet & Clank wiki is a wiki project about the Ratchet & Clank series that anyone can edit. Some criticisms were aimed at the story and characters, GameSpy feeling that Ratchet was an unlikable main character and that the game became predictable, boring and "just bland". It was praised for its high quality graphics and wide range of weapons and gadgets. IGN had similar views after seeing it in action at E3 2002, stating it would rival Naughty Dog's Jak and Daxter.Īt release, Ratchet & Clank was met with positive reviews and scores, earning an 88 out of 100 at Metacritic. After previewing it for the second time, GameSpot described "excellent graphics, varied gameplay, and tight control(s)".
They eventually finished the deathcourse only to discover Captain Qwark was working for Drek. Captain Qwark tricked them into doing a deathcourse on Umbris. They explored planets which Drek attacked such as Novalis and Eudora before meeting Captain Qwark on Rilgar.
If Clank would start his ship, he would agree to help Clank locate Captain Qwark to save the galaxy from Drek. He was spotted as he fled the planet and was shot down over Veldin. Meanwhile at a robot manufacturing plant elsewhere in the galaxy, the computer instead of creating a Sentry-bot accidently created Clank, a tiny robot who discovered that his creator, Chairman Drek, planned to create a new planet by destroying other planets in the galaxy. Ratchet then checked what else needed to be done to complete his ship from "HelpDesk". Ratchet, was seen working on a space ship. The story began on a backwater planet in the Solana galaxy, known as Veldin. In addition to shooting, the game includes space dogfights, hoverboard races, Grindboot courses, Magneboot courses, giant robot battles, and Swingshot courses (courses where Ratchet swings from node to node (called "Versa-targets") using a special hookshot-type gadget). The game was one of the first to try to shake up the platformer genre by focusing the game not only on making difficult jumps, but also on action and shooting aspects as well.