Tools of destruction levels

Talwyn then appeared and threw a smoke bomb when Ratchet and Clank dropped down a hole and made their way to the Skull Radio Tower. Outside the tower, they met up with Talwyn, Cronk and Zephyr. Talwyn couldn't make the artifact work, and when she handed it to Ratchet, it hovered over his hands. When pressed one of the sides, a 3D map of a planet appeared, which Talwyn recognized as Rykan V. They then flew to the planet, but were forced to first fight through a fleet of Slag's ships in the Rakar Star Cluster.

They then made their way to a room with the Gyro-Cycle, where they met up with Talwyn, Cronk and Zephyr. Ratchet unlocked the door to the room, which was filled with nothing useful, except an ancient HoloVid projector. The projector played a video that revealed to them that the Lombax Secret was a helmet called the Dimensionator and gave them their next lead on the Dimensionator's location.

They then traveled to planet Sargasso , where they tried to find the testing facility mentioned in the video. The Smuggler pointed out a destroyed launch pad for the Robo-Wings and sold them a Decrypter to fix it.

Ratchet successfully got the pad working with the Decrypter and the duo flew to the facility with the Zoni's guidance. Once at the testing facility, Ratchet and Clank encountered The Plumber once again. Qwark contacted the heroes on their way back to Aphelion claiming that he may have found a clue. After battling through another tournament on Mukow, Qwark showed them a video displaying the IRIS supercomputer , the largest supercomputer in the Polaris galaxy, which he believed would know the Dimensionator's location.

The Zoni appeared yet again and Clank had a vision of Talwyn being locked away in an unknown prison. Ratchet learned about Tachyon's origins. Tachyon was frozen as an egg and eventually found by Lombax Trillium miners on the Kreeli Comet who then raised him on Fastoon. However, once he learned of his Cragmite heritage and origins, he waged war against the Lombaxes. The duo traveled to Zordoom and freed Talwyn from her cell.

Once Ratchet and Clank got back to Aphelion, Talwyn contacted them and said she had found Cronk and Zephyr in the scrap compressor. They continued on towards planet Jasindu , first having to fight through Slag's fleet near the Verdigris Black Hole. After dealing with the pirate fleet, Ratchet and Clank landed on Jasindu. They made their way to a grind rail and traversed it while a giant robot controlled by a Kerchu tried to kill them. Upon destroying the robot in an arena, Ratchet found the Dimensionator.

However, Captain Slag and his pirate fleet arrived, stole the Dimensionator and threatened to kill Ratchet and destroy Clank if they followed him.

Aphelion tracked Slag's Fleet to the Ublik Passage. The heroes willfully followed the pirates and defeated Captain Slag. Ratchet was then given the "honor" of becoming the new captain of the space pirates by Rusty Pete.

Ratchet refused, though, and said he just wanted the Dimensionator. Qwark popped out of a pirate crate, took the Dimensionator and vowed to throw it into a black hole while fleeing in an escape pod. Rusty Pete, still claiming Ratchet to be the captain, revealed that the escape pod would land on the Cragmite homeworld on Reepor.

With Cronk and Zephyr in control of two large cannons, Ratchet, Clank and Talwyn tried to find a way inside the stronghold. After splitting up, Ratchet and Clank made their way to a raised platform and found Tachyon wearing the Dimensionator with Qwark under his walking throne's leg. Tachyon summoned the Cragmites from exile, knocking Ratchet unconscious and separating him from Clank.

Clank found his way back to Aphelion with the help of the Zoni, who showed him another vision of Ratchet standing in front of a portal on Fastoon before a muffled scream was heard.

Meanwhile, Ratchet traversed his way back to Aphelion and found Talwyn and Zephyr repairing a broken Cronk. Ratchet was devastated when he began thinking that Clank had perished. Clank flew down with the Robo-Wings and the duo was reunited. Aphelion said that her sensors had picked up a Cragmite armada rapidly approaching Meridian City on planet Igliak.

Talwyn told Ratchet that Meridian City was the capital of the Polaris Galaxy and that they needed to hurry while she and Zephyr repaired Cronk. Ratchet and Clank then traveled to Meridian City , fought off Tachyon's forces, Gyro-Cycled through the Sector-3 Construction Zone , flew through a tunnel and finally found Qwark cowering in a closet.

Clank then believed that Tachyon may be headed for Fastoon, based on his vision from the Zoni. Ratchet willingly agreed to go there, finally seeming to believe Clank about the Zoni. Tachyon then revealed that the Lombaxes had taken shelter behind the walls and used the Dimensionator to flee to another dimension when Tachyon initially invaded Fastoon in the Great War.

Only two Lombaxes stayed behind, the keeper of the Dimensionator and his infant son, Ratchet. Ratchet's father was revealed to have been killed by Tachyon, but not before sending Ratchet to Veldin. Tachyon opened a portal to the Lombax dimension and gave Ratchet the chance to join them. Ratchet; however, realized that no one would be safe as long as Tachyon had the Dimensionator, and vowed to destroy the gadget.

After injuring Tachyon, the Dimensionator opened and sucked all three into another dimension. After Ratchet and Clank defeated Tachyon, he declared that only he knew Ratchet's real name and his purpose before being sucked into a black hole after promising revenge. Ratchet attempted to use the Dimensionator to escape the crumbling dimension, but realized that the Primary Reflux Coil for the device was missing.

Ratchet and Clank used the now-working Dimensionator to return home. Ratchet awoke surrounded by Clank, Talwyn and Cronk and Zephyr. Ratchet wondered if Tachyon told the truth about his purpose and father. Clank told Ratchet that Tachyon was telling the truth and that Ratchet had filled his purpose by vanquishing Tachyon. The Zoni appeared once more, this time visible to everyone.

They trapped Clank in a psychic field and took him through into a dimensional portal. Ratchet tried to stop the Zoni, but the a defensive field pushed him to the ground. As Clank disappeared in a burst of light, all Ratchet could do was stare helplessly at the last spot he saw his friend. The shapes of the characters were also refined to match the PlayStation 3's polygon count and higher resolution.

Fixman was hired by Insomniac and worked on Tools of Destruction as his first project in the series, working with Insomniac CEO Ted Price and game director Brian Allgeier to develop a franchise bible to link together the lore of the games, tying up the previously loose mythology and giving the characters more backstory and depth. The team then established the goal of creating one fully-realized and playable level by preproduction, to give them an understanding of what was needed to run the game and a set of benchmarks to plan content for the rest.

After pre-production, no work was ever discarded or cut during actual production. A new form of texture streaming was introduced, allowing them more variety and lushness to surfaces. When marketing the game, it was shown on the TV show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition , with a unique character named "Captain James" made to tie-in with the episode. This used up a week's time.

A demo had also been made to showcase at E3, though it only ran at 30 frames per second and was therefore scrapped until a later one could be made.

In September 27, , Insomniac announced that the game had gone gold, meaning it had completed development, and that a demo would be released on PlayStation Store, with the game's full release coming the following month. The game had ultimately been localized for thirteen languages. The game was made in memory of Dan Johnson , a former Insomniac employee who tragically died before release, with the credits dedicated to his memory.

A pickup known as the Plasma Shield was intended to be included, and would be used by breaking shield crate. It would have function similarly to the Shield Charger from previous games and protect Ratchet from damage.

The soundtrack was composed by David Bergeaud. Tools of Destruction received positive reviews from critics. Reviews praised the lush visuals and gameplay, and compared the game to previous entries in the series. Reviewers mostly praised the story, with Eurogamer calling the storyling "excellent" [16] while IGN praised the story for having Insomniac's "most intriguing and diverse universe yet".

Critics praised the gameplay and the variety of weapons, but criticized the easy difficulty. IGN concluded that the gameplay of previous games had been "refined to award winning levels", but says that gamers "may be disappointed in Future 's difficulty". IGN claimed that the game had "surpassed Going Commando as the best game in the series", and was the "best game of any series on the PlayStation 3 thus far". Rift Apart. Characters Locations Weapons Gadgets. Comics Movie. Nefarious Talwyn Apogee Rivet Kit.

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This weapon, should it even exist, was far too dangerous, illegal and downright gameplay destabilizing to ever be used. We mean it. Cronk: Hey, I just finished stacking those, you vandal! Ratchet : The Lombaxes raised you!

How could you do this to them?! Tachyon : Those filthy creatures had the gall to pity me! Rusty Pete : What? Can't a pirate who's never told an honest truth in his life go blatantly out of his way to help the guy who killed his best friend and captain? Clank: Ratchet, the Planetary Defence Center is cubits below us. How do you propose we get down? To rise again! Zephyr: "Ah, a chance to show off my superior online capabilities!

Quest for Booty. However, Darkwater's spirit still resides within his corpse and the two are forced to share the body, making them the dual antagonists of the game. The Cameo : Whilst he does not appear physically or through a voice role, you can still find a golden Captain Qwark statue under the sea near Hoolefar Island.

The Cuckoolander Was Right : While the "Booty is in the Eye of the Beholder" Qwark Vid-Comic about "robot pirate ghosts" in Up Your Arsenal was very likely embellished to make Qwark look cool a fact that does not escape the narrator , this game reveals that's exactly what Darkwater and his crew are now. Demoted to Extra : As the game is about the search for Clank , it stands to reason that he only appears in the final cutscene.

Dragon Ascendant : Slag is revealed to be this to Darkwater, having previously mutinied against him to become Captain. He's Back! Hijacked by Ganon : The ending of the game reveals that the reason the Zoni kidnapped Clank was because Dr.

Nefarious told them that he could "fix" him , setting up A Crack In Time. The Mole : Rusty Pete. Symbol Swearing : The European release of Quest For Booty had Ratchet's dropping of "awww, crap" - when tricked by one of Captain Darkwater's traps mere inches away from the Fulcrum Star - completely bleeped out. If subtitles are turned on, it's censored with symbols too.

Videogame Cruelty Potential : It's possible to leave Talwyn behind in the cave when you get separated.