Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal
Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal is a video game that consists of 6 releases
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The story begins with Ratchet and Clank living peacefully on planet Endako after saving the galaxy in Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando. They are interrupted by a news that Ratchets home planet is being attacked by an alien race called the thyrranoids.
Ratchet and Clank set off to save Ratchets planet.
When they get there its soon revealed that behind the attack is Dr. Nefarious, who has recruited the evil thyrranoids to take over the galaxy.
Dr.Nefarious is an evil mastermind who is now a robot after being almost killed by captain qwark a long time ago. He has a problem with malfunctioning and also has a robot butler named mr. Lawrence.
Dr.Nefarious plans to take over the galaxy by destroying all organic life using his super weapon which turns living things into robots and Ratchet sets off to stop him.
To do this they have to find Captain Qwark who has gone missing in hopes to get his assistance. And so begins the the story of Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal.
The Gameplay in R&C:UYA is reminiscent of the last game in the series, but adds a few new control setups.The basic gameplay remains the same but is refined in this game along with new weapons, armor and new spaceship designes. The new feature in Up Your Arsenal is that you had a home base which was a first for the series. This base was the Starship Phoenix, the player returned to this base often to get new missions, upgrade their armor, buy new weapons, go through VR missions and do some other
activities.
You also have your own living quarters in this ship, containing a fictional gaming console on which you could play a mini game to progress the story.
This mini game is the "Captain Quark vid-comic" series in which the player plays as Captain Quark back in his glory days when he first defeated the games main bad guy, Dr. Nefarious.
The game itself is a Sidescrolling shooter. You have to jump over obstacles, collect stuff, defeat random enemies and kill a boss at the end of every level to unlock the next mission in the story of the main game. There are also hidden collectibles in the levels and you also unlock skill points for getting through the levels really fast.
The game has a 2.5d look where a 2d game is rendered in 3d and also matches the real games graphical style and even has some of the same levels. Each episode is introduced by a cartoony cutscene which also hints at the stories being a bit modified to make Quark seem more heroic than he really is.
The Annihilation Nation is a TV show that is popular in the Solana galaxy. Its a show where gladiators fight for money and prizes. Ratchet enters this tournament to win a Thyrra-guise, a device that makes the wearer look like a thyrranoid and able to speak thyrranoid. Unlike Dreadzone, Annihilation nation is legal. This is also where the duo meets Courtney Gears for the first time
After he beats the first challenge, being the first one ever to do so he is invited to take on further challenges for cash and prizes. The fights are a great way to win money and level up your weapons.
There are 2 main types of challenges:
Arena battes where waves of enemies come at you and you just have to survive. In the first challenge, you have to fight 3 waves but it gets significantly tougher. One wave can also be a boss.
There are two bosses, Gary and Helen( Two gladiators who fight you as a tag team) and Scorpio, a robotic scorpion equipped with razor sharp blades and flametrowers.
In the last fight, The Qwarktastic Challenge you have to fight through 99 rounds of enemies and Both of the bosses.
The other type of challenge is the gauntlet where you have to fight your way through a course and survive. Actually, these are alot tougher than the arena challenges because your high level super
Replay Value
There are many aspects in Up Your Arsenal that increase its replay value. There are Titanium Bolts that can be found on each planet that give you access to fun
cheats. There are also skill points to be earned on each planet for doing various tasks that you can use to get different skins for Ratchet, such as a snowman skin.
You can also get Trophies. Trophies are essentially achievments. You can get them for a large variety of different things starting from just finding them to winning all of the arena challenges. If you get all of them you unlock the Insomniac museum, a collection of things that didint make it into the full game and the area where they are displayed is modeled after the Insomniac games offices. All of your trophies are displayed in the Trophy room of the Starship phoenix.
There is also online play that takes popular online variants such as Deathmatch or Capture The Flag and puts them into standard Ratchet and Clank gameplay mechanics.
Features include: various changeable skins, buddy lists, clan support with private clan games, leaderboards, and voice chat for all eight players. The gametypes are all standard shooter modes with a Ratchet and Clank twist added.
Seige mode is the game's assault the base mode, revolving around capturing and maintaining nodes, which players can spawn at. Capturing nodes lowers the defense of the base. Once the outside defenses are defeated, players enter the base and destroy the core to win. Capture the flag and Deathmatch in Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal saw little changes to their core ideas; in CTF, the flag could be used by it's carrier as a weapon. Deathmatch could range from teams of four on four to free-for-all. Weapons in the online mode could be upgraded after three consecutive frags, giving them a faster rate of fire, more ammo capacity, and/or more damage. Defeating an enemy caused them to drop a weapon pack containing all the weapons they posessed upon death, allowing upgraded weapons to be passed to other players.
Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal is the third game in the Ratchet and Clank series. It is also the first to include online play.
Plot
The story begins with Ratchet and Clank living peacefully on planet Endako after saving the galaxy in Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando. They are interrupted by a news that Ratchets home planet is being attacked by an alien race called the thyrranoids.
Ratchet and Clank set off to save Ratchets planet.
When they get there its soon revealed that behind the attack is Dr. Nefarious, who has recruited the evil thyrranoids to take over the galaxy.
Dr.Nefarious is an evil mastermind who is now a robot after being almost killed by captain qwark a long time ago. He has a problem with malfunctioning and also has a robot butler named mr. Lawrence.
Dr.Nefarious plans to take over the galaxy by destroying all organic life using his super weapon which turns living things into robots and Ratchet sets off to stop him.
To do this they have to find Captain Qwark who has gone missing in hopes to get his assistance. And so begins the the story of Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal.
Dr.Nefarious
Gameplay
The Gameplay in R&C:UYA is reminiscent of the last game in the series, but adds a few new control setups.The basic gameplay remains the same but is refined in this game along with new weapons, armor and new spaceship designes. The new feature in Up Your Arsenal is that you had a home base which was a first for the series. This base was the Starship Phoenix, the player returned to this base often to get new missions, upgrade their armor, buy new weapons, go through VR missions and do some other
Captain Qwark blasting Robots
You also have your own living quarters in this ship, containing a fictional gaming console on which you could play a mini game to progress the story.
This mini game is the "Captain Quark vid-comic" series in which the player plays as Captain Quark back in his glory days when he first defeated the games main bad guy, Dr. Nefarious.
The game itself is a Sidescrolling shooter. You have to jump over obstacles, collect stuff, defeat random enemies and kill a boss at the end of every level to unlock the next mission in the story of the main game. There are also hidden collectibles in the levels and you also unlock skill points for getting through the levels really fast.
The game has a 2.5d look where a 2d game is rendered in 3d and also matches the real games graphical style and even has some of the same levels. Each episode is introduced by a cartoony cutscene which also hints at the stories being a bit modified to make Quark seem more heroic than he really is.
Qwark
Annihilation Nation
The Annihilation Nation is a TV show that is popular in the Solana galaxy. Its a show where gladiators fight for money and prizes. Ratchet enters this tournament to win a Thyrra-guise, a device that makes the wearer look like a thyrranoid and able to speak thyrranoid. Unlike Dreadzone, Annihilation nation is legal. This is also where the duo meets Courtney Gears for the first time
After he beats the first challenge, being the first one ever to do so he is invited to take on further challenges for cash and prizes. The fights are a great way to win money and level up your weapons.
There are 2 main types of challenges:
Arena battes where waves of enemies come at you and you just have to survive. In the first challenge, you have to fight 3 waves but it gets significantly tougher. One wave can also be a boss.
There are two bosses, Gary and Helen( Two gladiators who fight you as a tag team) and Scorpio, a robotic scorpion equipped with razor sharp blades and flametrowers.
In the last fight, The Qwarktastic Challenge you have to fight through 99 rounds of enemies and Both of the bosses.
The beginning of a Gauntlet Challenge
The other type of challenge is the gauntlet where you have to fight your way through a course and survive. Actually, these are alot tougher than the arena challenges because your high level super
Replay Value
There are many aspects in Up Your Arsenal that increase its replay value. There are Titanium Bolts that can be found on each planet that give you access to fun
The "ratchet" trophy
You can also get Trophies. Trophies are essentially achievments. You can get them for a large variety of different things starting from just finding them to winning all of the arena challenges. If you get all of them you unlock the Insomniac museum, a collection of things that didint make it into the full game and the area where they are displayed is modeled after the Insomniac games offices. All of your trophies are displayed in the Trophy room of the Starship phoenix.
There is also online play that takes popular online variants such as Deathmatch or Capture The Flag and puts them into standard Ratchet and Clank gameplay mechanics.
Online
Features include: various changeable skins, buddy lists, clan support with private clan games, leaderboards, and voice chat for all eight players. The gametypes are all standard shooter modes with a Ratchet and Clank twist added.
Up Your Arsenal
| Game Name | Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal |
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| Original US Release |
Nov. 2, 2004
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| Aliases | R & C: UYA |
| CERO |
CERO: All Ages
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| ESRB |
ESRB: T
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| PEGI |
PEGI: 3+
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