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Ratchet & Clank Trilogy for PlayStation 3
Ratchet & Clank Trilogy for PlayStation 3 brings together Ratchet & Clank, Ratchet & Clank 2: Locked & Loaded and Ratchet & Clank 3. In the first story, mechanic Ratchet and robot Clank travel between planets to stop Chairman Drek. You jump, explore and use gadgets to progress. Collected bolts buy weapons and tools, making side routes and hidden supplies worthwhile.
The second adventure moves to Megacorp’s world and develops weapons and health through combat experience, letting you choose equipment to improve. The third story focuses on Dr. Nefarious and expands action with new weapons and tasks. Each game retains its own campaign. This is not a new story stitching old locations together: you follow the series step by step.
This PS3 collection adds HD presentation and trophies to the early games. Story campaigns are single-player. Movement, weapon choice and opening routes with gadgets form the shared foundation, while each sequel adds its own emphasis. You can experience initial design choices alongside later refinements. The three named adventures make up the contents; other Ratchet games such as Gladiator are not included.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 3 games are European editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Ratchet & Clank Trilogy for PlayStation 3 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Ratchet & Clank Trilogy
The original Ratchet & Clank appeared on PlayStation 2 in 2002. Insomniac combined platforming with weapons, gadgets and planets. The second and third games followed over the next two years, expanding combat and equipment development. Ratchet and Clank’s first meeting thus began a series. Ten years after that start, Sony brought the three early adventures together again for PlayStation 3.
Idol Minds worked with Insomniac on the PS3 remasters. The collection arrived in June 2012, later than the initially announced May. HD visuals and trophies refreshed presentation and added goals for players familiar with the secrets. The stories remained the early adventures, not a retelling using a new Ratchet film’s script or a sequel to A Crack in Time.
European names differ partly from Going Commando and Up Your Arsenal, the American second and third titles. The contents remain the same original series. A separate Vita version followed later, but this page concerns the PS3 disc and Idol Minds conversion. Early campaigns show evolving planets, gadgets and combat. Old network-play references for the third game do not promise current online operation.
Similar games for PlayStation 3
Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction shares planets, weapons and gadgets but was made as a new PS3 adventure. Tachyon and Ratchet’s origins connect its journey. The trilogy contains older campaigns with Drek, Megacorp and Nefarious. It compares the same foundation across periods: early development in the collection, a new PS3 story in Tools.
Ratchet & Clank: Quest for Booty concentrates platforming and puzzles in one shorter pirate chapter, emphasising kinetic wrench and glowing objects. The trilogy offers three separate planetary adventures. Both progress with tools, but a collection of early campaigns has another scope and structure from Quest’s deliberate intermediate chapter.
Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time also uses weapons and planets but gives Clank independent recording puzzles, Ratchet hoverboots and freer space exploration. Those features do not belong to the early campaigns. The trilogy shows older gadgets and weapons evolving between sequels; A Crack in Time adds a distinct planning-based Clank game.
Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One designs an adventure around co-operation. Up to four local players share a screen with a PS3 controller each. Trilogy’s story campaigns are solo. Humour and weapons overlap, but dividing tasks and combining group attacks differ from choosing your own planetary route and equipment for the next obstacle.
Jak and Daxter Trilogy also brings three PS2 adventures to PS3. Jak begins with collecting and platforming, later adding guns, city tasks and desert vehicles. Ratchet retains planets, gadgets and buying weapons as a more constant base. Both collections show development across three games with different movement, equipment and connections between world and tasks.
