We’re excited to announce the five finalists in the “Captain Qwark’s My Blaster Runs Hot Weapons Contest Sponsored by Gadgetron”! We had a ton of excellent submissions from all sorts of folks. We were very impressed by how good some of your entries were. In fact, some of the entries are weapons that currently live in the Insomniac database, while a few others strike an uncanny resemblance to weapons already making their way into the game!
There were some common submissions, lots of you loved weapons that left enemies in their underwear, and many others suggested a cat launcher. Other favorites were guns that stopped time, morph weapons, and weapons that launched various food items. A couple of weapons were even similar to our finalists below, but in those cases, we always took the best submission. If all other things were equal, the first submission we received got the nod.
The five finalists are below, and you can vote for them for about one week, until Friday, April 24th at 12:01am PST. The weapon with the most votes will be included in Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time, and we will announce the winning weapon at the International Comic-Con in San Diego. We’ll also be flying the winner out to present them with a real-life replica of their weapon.
Before you check out the finalists and cast your vote, check out this video we made, showing our Top 10 favorite Ratchet & Clank weapons of all time.
Without further ado, the finalists are:
- The Plasma Sprinkler Glove
- Spiral of Death
- Bubble Shot
- Qwark Machine
- Super-Sized Sticky Hand Toy
You can get all of the details on these weapons, see the art created for them, and vote on them at www.ratchetandclank.com! Hurry over there to get your votes in this week.
Thanks for all of your great submissions! Bryan Intihar and I will try to answer your questions below.
Voted.
Can I express a pet peeve though?
There are ‘things (see Video Store)’ that are different between US and Canada…thus SONY sees these as different markets.
So why when I go to SONY owned properties (the R&C site you linked and KZ2 off the top of my head) do I not see a Canada image to click on.
I don’t speak American and I don’t speak the Queen’s English. I speak Canadian.
/small rant
Love ya anyway.
Its great seeing you guys really involved with the community and your fans. Keep up the great work!
nice guys , chico you got my vote lol , good luck to all 5 finalist , some very good ideas there kool , and to James my favorite weapon is … ok i dont really have one theres a bunch of awesome crazy weapons in ratchet that i cant even decided which one i like the most lol
Another great addition to the R&C series. User created weapons are the best!
Super-Sized Sticky Hand Toy got my vote :)
sounds awesome
You have to go with the Qwark Machine. The ability to use mini Qwarks in battle? Brutal.
off topic Jeff is there going to be an Infamous countdown here? i just saw a Brian fleming( sucker punch ) interview in g4tv.com saying the game will have simultaneous worldwide release, is that true???
I won’t vote. All of those look so bad I hope none of them get added and I won’t even use them unless I am forced to.
I mean look at that stick hand entry. How did that ever become a finalist? It looks like he took the image straight off of google or something. It looks like he just searched for something and sent it in as his image. That is the worse one out of them all.
The art was not the criteria.
The weapon meets the criteria of being unique, strategic, fitting into the arsenal, being something that can actually be done our game, and if possible, being humorous.
Clearly the Sticky hand succeeds on those levels.