Is ratchet and clank a platformer?

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Gamespot has it listed as an action game but is there platform jumping? All the screenshots I've seen show ratchet running on the ground. Are the levels multi-levelled or are you just pretty much stuck running around on the ground. I liked playing jak and daxter because of all the jumping around so would ratchet and clank serve up the same kind of gameplay?
 
It's an action platformer. Plenty of jumping to be found.

And, as far as I'm concerned, the greatest action platformer of this generation.
 
Ratchet and Clank: GC is easily the best action/platformer that I have played in a few years. Also, I was wondering what they classify Metroid Prime as?
 
I know it may sound simplistic, but from what I have heard a platform game is one in which the main aspect of the game is to jump onto platforms rather than shoot or any other aspect of play? I may be totally wrong, its just what i have heard.
 
[quote name='harle']Ratchet and Clank: GC is easily the best action/platformer that I have played in a few years. Also, I was wondering what they classify Metroid Prime as?[/quote]

Maybe an FPAP [First Person Adventure/Platformer]?
 
Dunno what it's classified as officially, but I love it! But I have most often seen it lumped into the Platformer category. I think that category has broadened a lot (ie more different style games are in it) since 3D games (starting with Mario 64).
 
You do much more shooting that jumping (platforming) in the game...Hmmm.

Well, It's a great game beacuse it's genre-less. It doesn't cleanly fit in any catagory.
 
So many web sites have so many games wrong, and some game types missing altogether. Just ignore it. Any review should tell you what type of game it is.

Best Buy's web site has that great PS2 RPG, Spawn:Armageddon, in stock. Just a random example.
 
R&C GC is amazing... I despise platformers ever since the N64 came out, but I thoroughly enjoyed this game.
 
Games today try to encorporate qualities from many different genres so the line gets blurred once in a while. Most games today have some sort of RPG or action element to them, but we are able to decifer that Soul Caliber 2 is still a fighting game and Madden 2005 is a sport's title. I think when defining a game, we have an innate sense of what it is. We have prototypes in our mind like strategy = chess or command and conquer, rpg = dungeons & dragons or final fantasy, strategy rpg = shining force, first person shooter = doom, etc.. and we compare the game we are currently playing to the prototypes in our mind and decide which ones they relate to the most. Subconciously over time we lump a bunch of new games into these different categories in our mind and we then have more games to compare the even newer games to. So yeah, I consider Ratchet and Clank a platformer. It's qualitites are most reminiscent of games like Crash Bandicoot, Donkey Kong 64, Jak & Daxter, or even Mario 64 in my mind, so that's where it gets filed. If you read magazines, you'll notice some pictures have Sly, J&D, and R&C in the same shot, all those games are different, but they have some kind of air to them that let's you know they are the same genre of game.
 
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