Impressions
I picked up the game today, and I've played for a couple hours.
The first thing you'll notice about this game are the wonderful graphics and the even better animations. You'll soon find out that the people at Insomniac have quite the sense of humour. Ratchet is a good character, and Clank is a very likeable character. The humour is displayed in the story-telling cutscenes...wait till you first meet the main bad guy (forget his name at the moment) and this 'Big Al's Robot Shop' commercial.
The controls take a little getting used to...in about 30 minutes, you'll get used to the controls. As for the controls themself, they're good. Not fantastic, but definately not poor. Ratchet responds well to the movement of the left analog stick, and flipping in between weapons and gadgets soon becomes a breeze.
The one thing I really enjoy so far about the game are the weapons. You start off with a wrench that you can throw as a boomerang or just pound enemies with, and a bomb glove that you can use to throw small grenade-like bombs at nearby enemies. Soon you'll run into such weapons as a flamethrower of sorts, a blaster gun, and a suck cannon, which sucks up little enemies and then blasts them at larger foes. It's a good addition to the usually weaponless platform genre, and plays a huge role in the game. Once you have 5 or more weapons, there are many ways to take out an area of enemies, which adds quite a bit of variety.
That's it for now. I'll post more later, perhaps
