The omni soaker was just too simple compared to previous incarnations, and the story is a bit weak in some of the details but over-all the idea worked (i haven’t finished it yet). But the difficulty ramped much better than TOD, which was way too easy for most of it till the final fight which I gave up on (although they have a couple of fights again where you’re next to a vendor and can stock up/recharge health at any time, which removes a lot of the challenge).

I’m glad they got rid of the racing mini-games, they used to shit me off to the point of throwing controllers, mainly because they were just so hard to control. Ended up having to do it it over and over, and eventually the competitors got so slow you could win, but it took about 20 goes sometimes. DEFINITELY NOT FUN. (same goes for jak 2-3′s races – jak 1 had the hard-to-control craft too though).

Good to see the arena battles back too. And the visuals are really very nice – so many fine details here and there they never managed before, and even more action and enemies on-screen – I think it finally does full justice to the world they created. Oh and no tearing (as usual) but no slow-down-to-half-speed when they drop a frame either. The cut-scenes are pre-rendered at a much higher quality this time too.

Actually, If this were the last R&C game (and afaik insomniac only stated the last in this story arc), I think i’d be quite satisfied – they were starting to beat a dead horse a bit, but this showed there’s still some life in the game. But is there enough to do another trilogy?

It would be a pity in one way though – there’s really no other decent 3d platform games like this around. I could really go a proper jak & daxter 1 style game again. Really high quality ‘pixar-like’ `animated adventure’ thing, a bit less blasting and a bit more adventuring. I’m a bit over flash-game-remakes, small puzzles, and 1st person shooters which seem the staples these days.

P.S. Just got online User ID is Royalty 2132 playin U2 multiplayer and it awsome. I played MW2 before then and its good but i just like U2′s multiplayer alot better. More fun to.