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Ratchet and Clank is a platform game developed by Insomniac Games and published by SCEA, released in 2002 for PlayStation 2. This is a single-player game.
This game generally received extremely positive reviews from the gaming press; it was praised for its excellent, funny and enjoyable gameplay, and it offers a fantastic and well-balanced storyline.

Ratchet and Clank takes place in a fictional universe. You will play as Ratchet (a furry alien creature) and Clank a little robot in their quest to find and the famous superhero in the game called Captain Qwark and eventually also save the galaxy from the evil villain Drek.
The background story tells you the events that occurred before the game. On the fictional Planet Quartu, a small robot emerges from a robot manufacture. This robot encounters a video recording on an infobot. He is immediately horrified by its contents, and decides to leave the planet in a spaceship, only to be shot down over the planet Veldin.

On Veldin Ratchet is actually constructing his own spaceship when the robot crash-lands near Ratchet s home. Fortunately he manages to recover the robot from the wreckage, nicknaming him Clank.
Clank reveals to Ratchet what is contained in the infobot that is to say a recording of Chairman Drek of the Blarg race.
In this recording, Drek explains that his home planet has become so polluted that it is now uninhabitable. So he offers a solution which consists of building a new planet for his race by extracting large parts of other planets.

Drek s broadcast also asserts, however, that this will result in the destruction of the planet which he is currently targeting is Novalis.

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