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Elsewhere in frivolous mini-game land, there's an amusing-if-pointless riff on dancing games, where you get to 'shake yer booty' by jiggling the pad, no less while dressed as a peg-legged pirate. On top of that, there's the usual rail grinding stuff that always seems to find its way into Ratchet games somewhere, not to mention little sky-diving segments where you tilt the pad to dodge missiles and so on, and also some utterly spectacular-looking shoot-'em-up levels.
Riffing on Rez and Panzer Dragoon, these on-rails sorties allow you to blast freely or lock-on to multiple targets in as thrilling a way imaginable. In full high definition, these majestic sequences are a real treat for the eyes, if a little undemanding in terms of the actual difficulty these pose. Replete with obligatory boss sections, they certainly do their job in providing the requisite eye candy, and remind you that someone really needs to make another spectacular 3D shooter for the current crop of consoles.
As regards the main game, Insomniac knows full well that that core gameplay has been pretty much nailed since the original came out in , so hasn't exactly gone out of its way to meddle with the successful platform-combat formula. The interest value, as we've said, is providing an absolute array of new toys to play with, upgrade and augment, as well as challenging and inventive new creatures to duke it out with.
Whether you like it or not, the game keeps dragging you on because there's always something new to discover around the corner - like the next upgrade to your weapon, or a new weapon or gadget entirely. Admittedly, having pulled this trick so many times on us over the past five years, even most of the so-called new weapons are slight variations on what's gone before, but now and then they'll pull something out of the bag that's so different from anything anyone else has done before, you can almost hear them chuckling in expectation of how much fun you're going to have with them.
With an evident rock, paper, scissors approach to the weapon vs enemy design, you'll be effectively tasked with flicking between weapons constantly, webbing up a teleporting enemy one second, then quickly zapping a shielded enemy with a blast of electricity.
Solving such problems are all part of the fun, but executed with a control system that's so intuitive that you don't mind the constant swapping around. With over 30 gadgets and weapons to choose from at any one time, it's obvious that the game needed something that could accommodate all this without overwhelming or confusing the player, and - with great credit to Insomniac - it has done it even better this time around than ever before.
By hitting triangle, you'll bring up a ring of 10, and can select the one you want by simply highlighting the one you want with the left stick. As you build up your collection of gizmos, this ring spreads to a second and third page, but far from being a confusing mess, simply switching between them with R1 or L1 makes it an extremely slick process to switch with ease during battle.
To make it even more of a challenge, the game offers you the choice over whether to pause the action while making the switch or let it carry on. I know which I prefer, but the choice is very much yours. We want to make Eurogamer better, and that means better for our readers - not for algorithms. You can help! Become a supporter of Eurogamer and you can view the site completely ad-free, as well as gaining exclusive access to articles, podcasts and conversations that will bring you closer to the team, the stories, and the games we all love.
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