Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One coming to PS3 in Fall 2011

by Ludwig Kietzmann on Aug 17th 2010 2:31PM

Insomniac has announced a new Ratchet & Clank game for the PlayStation 3. Yeah, we know you've heard that one before, but this time it's a four-player, online co-op platformer. Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One features drop-in / drop-out play between four characters -- Ratchet, Clank, Qwark and Dr. Nefarious -- and blatantly discourages space diplomacy by equipping everyone with absurd weaponry. Thankfully, that part of the franchise hasn't changed.

Look for Ratchet and Clank and those two other guys in stores during Fall 2011.

(Dibs on Qwark!)

Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One (first screens)

Source: Insomniac

Tags: gamescom-2010, insomniac, playstation, ps3, psn, ratchet-and-clank-all-4-one

Reader Comments (81)

Cool :)

Awww but I wanted Quark

SWEET!

I love Insomniac!!!

Hahaha!

"President Quark?"
"She was taking a memo!"

And finally, a co-op Ratchet game. But he name is kinda... unoriginal compared to the genius that was Up Your Arsenal. =D

@SpaceFox

Shit, it's spelled "Qwark". xD

Take him.. I'd rather have Rusty Pete.

This looks really fun. PLZ HAS 4 PLAYER COUCH CO-OP!!

@Kid Icarus
Seconded. At least give us 2 player couch Co-op! C'mon, some of us like to throw random, slightly immature comments (and pizza slices) at each other while we play co-op.

@KirbyCommando

The Ninja Turtles?

@Acosta02
No, friends from middle school through college. =D

@Kid Icarus

I think Ratchet really appeals to other people in a house (roommates, girlfriends, kids, etc), it would be an absolutely shame for this not to have local co-op. It's the kind of game that people already see, and ask if they can play with you.

@Kid Icarus

Co-op is always awesome!

@Kid Icarus

Mode(s)
1-4 players online/ offline

From the source itself.

@CrashTunoku

Eeeeep! Yah! Thanks for doing the reading none of us could be bothered with!

All 4 one?

What kind of weak inyourendo is that Insomniac??

Oh well. Day one purchase regardless.

@SmashZilla All 4 One, and one big trademark infringement.

@Gibbeynator
I'm pretty sure nobody copyrighted the 3 musketeers.

@KirbyCommando

I think you're wrong Kirby,

I've been eating their candy bars for years.

@SmashZilla

I miss the inuendo subtitles from the PS2 games.

@Ballistic H
"Tools" Of Destruction, Quest for "Booty", and A "Crack" In Time

@Nolan North

Don't forget Size Matters. Probably my favorite title of the bunch. Can't say the same for Deadlocked....

I also heard that Crack in Time was originally going to be called called Clock Blockers.

I would have called this one Foursome.

@SmashZilla

Yeah, All4Some would've been nice. lol.

@KirbyCommando and @Gibbeynator

I'm going to be that kind/douchey/dumbass guy that takes your comment too seriously!

(all this is based on Canadian Law so your mileage may vary)

Trademarks are generally logos or names designed to separate your corporation from others, so I don't see how that would apply here. These an be registered, but have a degree of common law protection, and can be renewed for 15 year periods for ever.

Copyright law protects anything and everything you make thats even remotely artistic, or some form of expression, even without taking the time to register it (that just makes it easier to defend). This protection lasts the length of the last living author (if done by a group) plus 50 years before it transfers to the public domain. As such, Dumas' work was indeed protected by copyright law... or at least would have been if he hadn't gone and died in 1870.

At least no one mentioned patents, or intellectual property... then I'd be here wasting my time talking law for at least another minute or two :P

:D

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

The PS3 in all of its HD glory has really been lacking full retail 4 player co-op games.

I wish Insomniac the best of luck with this one.

@Falcon Punch "Lacking in 4-player co-op," really? LittleBigPlanet2 is coming out this year.

But I, too, am pumped for more games to fuel the pizza/video-games parties with friends. We can't just play LBP and Rock Band all the time (although, with both games getting sequels this year, maybe it will hold us over until this once comes out).

Insomniac is really productive. Do they have a big team or something?

@DeeZeee

this isn't the same team that made Ratchet & Clank 1-4 and the Future Series but rather a upstart studio Insomniac opened in North Carolina.

@Solace Speaking of Ratchet 1-4, did anyone else read this title and get excited for a moment that this would be an HD collection of the PS2 games?

@Solace Okay, thanks for answering! :)

YES!

Hell Yeah. But how are you playing as Nefarious? He died!

@KirbyCommando
hes a robot, if his brain lives, he lives.
i more of want to know why hes being a good guy..... >.>

I thought it was spelled QWARK.....

as someone who loves Ratchet & Clank, I can't help but feel disappointed again

@Solace why? you dont like the Co-op goodness?

@Chris DPSN AggieCEO XBLThe Aggi

This isn't a TRUE ratchet title, and co-op is fine but I was hoping to get a sequel to a Crack in Time with some COMPETITIVE multiplayer (I was addicted to R&C 3 online multiplayer on the PS2)

I pass this as a filler game, no bigge but it also means we won't see another TRUE ratchet title from the burbank studio for a long time most likely PS4.

I see them working on R3 now then the EA title another 2 years and after that who knows if they'll even want to come back to R&C.

@Solace
At the rate they're going, what with 9 Ratchet & Clank games being released within less than 8 years, an essential role in an upcoming spin-off (Heroes on the Move), a just announced 10th game also coming out next year, and the fact the Sony does 10 year agreements for all their systems (Meaning PS3 will get support till 2016) I find it very likely that this will not be the last Ratchet & Clank game for the PS3. We will probably get one more PS3 game after this, than the Playstation 4 will come out and the PS3 will get handheld ports and HD collections.

@Solace

dude i think i'm with you

I love you Insomniac.

Also, am I the only one who thought this was another PS2 collection from the title? That would have been awesome too, what with R&C, Going Commando, Up Your Arsenal, Deadlocked, and Size Matters on PS3 ... *drools*

So glad it's a new title though!

@Haelie I hope so.....but with like 4 or 5 games it would take a while....'d rather they just put them on PSN than sell them all on a Disc.....

@Haelie Minus size matters and I agree. I only want insomniac in my PS2 classic.

Cool! I wonder why Nefarious has decided to help them... maybe Ratchet rebuilt him and implanted a new A.I. or summit...

@Danjcb yea I'm wondering about that too.....we'll see how that story pans out tho....

@Chris DPSN AggieCEO XBLThe Aggi

Well as Nefarious was more or less Annihilated at the end of the last game, I think it is a fair theory. Perhaps in a later game, Lawrence will come back and Nefarious' old A.I. will rebuild itself or summit... dunno

@Danjcb Well, maybe it's gonna be like the time when Bowser had to help Mario for Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. Oooh, I can't wait for this one. Crosses-fingers for couch co-op. GLEEE!!

I saw the headline and thought it was a HD upgrade rerelease of the PS2 games.

Nice!

I certainly hope this still has a single-player component. Awesome news, though!

Hey, what happened to that crappy crossover mascot game Sony was making?

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