Rift Apart vs Up your Arsenal

[claudia_cos]

How is Rift Apart compared to Ratchet and Clank 3 (Up your Arsenal)?

[solaris32]

Arsenal doesn't have Rivet, so this game wins automatically.

Seriously though this game is great and fun to play. If you like R&C buy this when you're able.

[MechaMike]

I’d rank it below the PS2 games and CiT
but above everything else

[Dante]

I played all PS2 games so long ago that I have forgotten everything about them, so for now I don't care as long as I can enjoy this one.

[Veku]

So I'm 23 hours in and basically done with my first run, including collectables and weapon upgrades.

R3 obviously looks visually worse, but it has more content to offer like weapons, collectables, side-quests, locations and secrets.

It's also more varid in it's gameplay- like have vehicles to drive, arena challenges, more challenging puzzles etc and in general it's more of a challenge.
(played rift a part on the second highest difficulty and never really had any issue)

You can feel like a Rift Apart is meant for kids or young teeanger,because it tonned down or simplified a lot of gameplay mechanics, puzzles and the story itself including the humor is not as dark as R3 was.

Also currently I don't feel the desire to go for a New Game Plus run, while usually I have been looking forward to upgrade and buy new weapons and collect things I have been missing in my first run...

Rift apart is fun, looks stunning, it's core gameplay is more fluid and it's long livety is average for R&C standards, but R3 alongside a Crack and Time was the peak of the series.

TLDR:
R3: 10/10
Rift Apart: 7,5-8/10

[Stj.Srex]

To tell you the truth i am not sure. UYA was kinda disappointing after Going Commando when it comes to difficulty. GC was rly hard so if you play UYA after GC it feels like a breeze playing through with no challenge, Rift Apart can be challenging a little bit but when it comes to real challenge its no where near GC. So i think Rift Apart is better then UYA.

[Fried Water]

Originally posted by Stj.Srex:

To tell you the truth i am not sure. UYA was kinda disappointing after Going Commando when it comes to difficulty. GC was rly hard so if you play UYA after GC it feels like a breeze playing through with no challenge, Rift Apart can be challenging a little bit but when it comes to real challenge its no where near GC. So i think Rift Apart is better then UYA.

When was going commando difficult?

[TheHuskyGT]

Originally posted by Stj.Srex:

To tell you the truth i am not sure. UYA was kinda disappointing after Going Commando when it comes to difficulty. GC was rly hard so if you play UYA after GC it feels like a breeze playing through with no challenge, Rift Apart can be challenging a little bit but when it comes to real challenge its no where near GC. So i think Rift Apart is better then UYA.

I feel the opposite way. GC was way too easy. What I didn't like about it was its scaling/leveling which is bad, making most of your main weapons useless.

Since they improved it on UYA, it makes it feel easier. The only hard part is Naferious during 1st run with no RYNO. Specially if you forget how to kill him.

Let's just face it. These games are easy as heck. I'm glad they added difficulty options since Quest for Booty.

[Lugia]

recently played gladiator, 2 and 3 again before rift apart came out and honestly, 3 still beats this game out. rift is fine but feels too shooter-ey if that makes any sense. something about being locked to firing toward your screen.

[Sardonic]

Mechanically I think I prefer 3, but overall I would definitely say it's on par with 2.

[Dante]

Up Your Arsenal because in Rift Apart, 70% of the time you dont play Ratchet at all. You cannot even select Ratchet in the arena. That emo btch Rivet destroyed this game.

[OUTTATIME88]

personally, i can play crack in time over and over, replay value on that game (for me) is so much higher than rift apart, i dont know why but it just doesnt grab me. i'm sorry if that offends some but surely each to their own.

[Stj.Srex]

Originally posted by Hokōri:

Originally posted by Stj.Srex:

To tell you the truth i am not sure. UYA was kinda disappointing after Going Commando when it comes to difficulty. GC was rly hard so if you play UYA after GC it feels like a breeze playing through with no challenge, Rift Apart can be challenging a little bit but when it comes to real challenge its no where near GC. So i think Rift Apart is better then UYA.

When was going commando difficult?

One you get to that Ice Planet and you realize that all enemies are just sponges not to mention that when you die you dont get munition back so more you die the harder it become, checkpoints are also far apart in all planets near the end and all enemies can kill you in 2-3 shots no matter how much health you have. After all that UYA had 0 difficulty it was really easy. Of all R&C games i find only GC to be hard rest are rly easy especially Future games.

[alumlovescake]

I don't think Rift Apart is as good as the ps2 or ps3 games.
But I really hate 3/UYA


UYA feels like devs couldn't keep up anymore with the release schedule and after perfecting most things 2 they didn't know what to do

[itzDerrio]

modern r&c dont even compare to NONE of the ps2 games

[Ghadius]

UYA was the weakest of the PS2 games, but still beats Rift, despite its amazing graphics imo.

I think what it comes down to is the lore and tone of the game. Lotsa devs are convinced that games are "art" and compare them to movies in that sense - I think that's fair.

If you look at it from that point: the PS2/PSP games were sci-fi comedy adventures, while the PS3 games and after were/are more sci-fi chosen one/superhero action films.

Depending on what genre you prefer, you will lean more towards that.