Full Frontal Assault Re-Energizes Ratchet & Clank
It’s strange how quickly perception of a game genre can become affected by the platform it’s played on. In recent years, tower defense games have become synonymous with short-term distraction thanks to a myriad of browser and mobile games that took the genre out of the rarefied niche of Warcraft III mods. Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault reclaims the genre from the browser and mobile market in a way that feels both classic and new.
After a decade of regular sequels, the Ratchet & Clank series seemed to have stretched its basic mechanics as far as they could go, applying the cartoonish variety of guns and simple melee combat to big, platforming-heavy levels, online multiplayer and more. In a way, Full Frontal Assault is an attempt to go back to the roots of the series and rebuild it in another direction, one that’s not especially new but that still makes a lot of the most familiar parts of the series feel re-energized.
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