Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time

Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time (titled Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time in most PAL regions and Ratchet & Clank Future 2 (ラチェット&クランク FUTURE(フューチャー)2) in Japan) is a platform-shooter video game developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3 video game console. It is the sequel to Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction and Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty, and is the conclusion of the Future trilogy. The game was released in North America on October 27, 2009, in Europe on November 4, 2009, Australia on November 5, 2009 and in the UK on November 6, 2009.

Clank is lost somewhere in space, abducted by the evil Dr. Nefarious, and Ratchet is on a mission to find him. Ratchet and Clank both uncover the secrets of the their pasts and have the chance to reunite with their families. Both main characters make new friends in this final game of the Future trilogy, which, unlike previous games, is played solely as one or the other but not with both characters together. As Ratchet goes from sector to sector across the galaxy, Clank spends the game learning about his roots in the center of the universe. Alien Zoni technology provides for interesting ship ugrades for Ratchet and new time manipulation puzzles for Clank.