Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction Goes Gold, Demo Coming!

Kinglink  |  September 28th, 2007 at 4:10 pm

While I’ve seen many games announce gold 2 weeks before release, I also know of many good games that was “gold” monthes (and one a year) before release. It happens.

Most companies plan for X release date from the moment they enter production, and while it does change it’s usually not up to the team from that point. They tend to go gold when production is finished, and bug fixing is done. If anything, a game that goes gold earlier usually shows a sign of a good production process, as late games tend to be signs that there were bugs that had to be squashed before it went gold.

Kpepe  |  September 28th, 2007 at 5:17 pm

Wow This is going to be a great game. Can’t wait for the demo. I also want RaC on the PSP(imma get the deluxe slim pack) It’s going to rock.

L3371  |  October 1st, 2007 at 12:20 pm

RCF looks awesome and is on our Xmas lists along with Uncharted:DF

PSPsGTghOost  |  October 1st, 2007 at 9:11 pm

Gonna pick R&CF up. I would also like to pick Gran Turismo Mobile up. Where the hell is it. Hurry up Polyphony Digital.

Demayor  |  October 1st, 2007 at 11:16 pm

I’ve never played a R&C game (other than the betas for online play) but I’m looking forward to the demo. Maybe I’ll like the game. I’ve always hear great thing about them but never pulled the trigger on any of them.

Obakasan  |  October 3rd, 2007 at 7:56 pm

i wait to buy the Japanese version of R&CF since the releases are only about 12 days apart. will the games language change to the systems language(my rfom and rr7 both display and play in english even though they are Japanese versions of the game’s)? I live in japan and i was wondering if i need to import it or not.

WebScud  |  October 4th, 2007 at 4:51 pm

I just put down $5 bucks at GameStop because I couldn’t wait any longer for the demo. It’s freakin’ awesome. But…

I have huge graphical tearing issues. Is anyone else experiencing that? The PS3 is connected via HDMI to a Sony KDL-46S2010. It’s a 1080i LCD panel, but when the game launches the display automatically changes resolution to 720p. Any thoughts?

HappySpaceInvdr  |  October 5th, 2007 at 1:18 am

@WebScud

Frame tearing is a side-effect of disabling V-Sync, which in turn is necessary to get the high frame rate this game runs at.

HappySpaceInvdr  |  October 5th, 2007 at 1:24 am

@Greg Phillips

“-60fps and 720p is the preferred hi-res resolution. However, we do support 1080i so everyone with a HDTV can enjoy RCF:ToD in all it’s hi-def glory.”

Err, yes… except that in 1080i, you won’t get the full benefit of that lovely framerate. An interlaced picture takes twice as long (as progressive scan) to draw a full frame so, at 1080i, the resulting picture will look more like 30fps.

maluraq  |  October 5th, 2007 at 7:47 am

@HappySpaceInvdr actually that’s not true, it depends on how they draw the picture internally. A 1080i picture draws one field every 60th of a second on a 1080i interlaced TV, just like 720p@60fps, except that each field is only one half the full resolution, interlaced with the next field. The effect is to see 1080 lines of resolution at 60fps just not as high quality as 1080p at 60fps.

On a non-interlaced TV this isn’t true, because the internal chips may recompose the image and draw a 1080p picture at 30fps instead but 1080i pictures are for 1080i TVs, to be fair, which mine happens to be.

Obakasan  |  October 5th, 2007 at 8:26 pm

@Greg Phillips i wait to buy the Japanese version of R&CF since the releases are only about 12 days apart. will the games language change to the systems language(my rfom and rr7 both display and play in english even though they are Japanese versions of the game’s)? I live in japan and i was wondering if i need to import it or not.
no answer?

Shades1982  |  October 12th, 2007 at 11:13 am

I just finished the demo but have one issue with this otherwise amazing game. I noticed the screen, on the top and bottom, had small black bars, like a letterbox format. Now i never had this problem with any other game and i can only hope that this is just a demo issue because RFOM didnt have this, and neither did any game on my PS3 or 360 library. I have a Westinghouse 32″ SKU series TV and its just amazing (some of the best colours ive seen on an LCD). I know my TV IS NOT THE PROBLEM. My PS3 is set to 1080i (but changes to 720P automatically for games that dont support true 1080 and is running on HDMI 1.3 cables.

I tried all the setting on my PS3 and nothing fixes this issue. Once again this is the only game that does this on my TV.

da1gamer  |  October 22nd, 2007 at 10:51 am

i hope there’s no multiplayer or online play for R&C:5, so that the single player mode can be perfected