Best old school Ratchet & Clank games?

[SteveGrabowski]

The PS Store has a ton of Ratchet & Clank games on pretty deep discount this week. I already have the PS4 game so I'm only looking at the PS3 offerings. There is a PS3 remaster of the three PS2 games together. Are those games better than the native PS3 games? Eg better than the Future series or Full Frontal Assasult? I don't know the series well but it looks really cool and I always hear people talking about the PS2 games but not so much about the PS3 games. So are the PS2 games better? PS3 would be the only way for me to play them since I don't have a PS2 and PCSX2 emulation on the Ratchet & Clank series is supposed to be awful.

 

[purbeast0]

I thought the first one on PS3 was one of the best, if not the best one ever. I think it was Tools of Destruction. It had some DLC for it called Quest for Booty that was just okay. It was very short but I think it was like $15 or $20 at the time.

A clank in time was pretty good too. I just prefer playing as Ratchet more with all of his gear.

All 4 One was by far the worst of them I thought. it just felt gimmicky and I wasn't a fan of it.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

I thought the first one on PS3 was one of the best, if not the best one ever. I think it was Tools of Destruction. It had some DLC for it called Quest for Booty that was just okay. It was very short but I think it was like $15 or $20 at the time.

A clank in time was pretty good too. I just prefer playing as Ratchet more with all of his gear.

All 4 One was by far the worst of them I thought. it just felt gimmicky and I wasn't a fan of it.

Thanks for the detailed response. I ended up picking up the Ratchet & Clank Collection containing PS3 remasters of Ratchet & Clank, Going Commando, and Up Your Arsenal since those three are supposed to be incredible. That one seemed like a no-brainer. Since I still had $8 burning a hole in my PS Store account I figured I'd grab one more of the games after.

Yeah All 4 One doesn't look that great with the God of War style camera, so I'll pass on that. Full Frontal Assault is a complete no-go since I hate MP. The entire Future series looks awesome though. After reading what you wrote and checking some reviews it felt like a coin-flip between Tools of Future Destruction and a Clank in Time, so I gave the tie to Tools since it's the first game in the series.

Pretty awesome this deal I pulled at Gamestop last weekend. I combined two of their promotions along with the PS Store's Midyear sale to craft what was effectively a trade-in of Nioh, one dollar, and two dollars I had in my PS Store account already to get Persona 5 (PS4 version), the Ratchet & Clank Trilogy, the two inFAMOUS games plus the DLC for inFAMOUS 2, God of War Ascension, and Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction all off the PS Store. I say effectively because part of it was trading in two games I had on physical disc and then buying them in digital form much cheaper off the PS Store.