Vote now! Insomniac’s Ratchet & Clank Future Weapon Contest is on!

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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.

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  • I’m sorry. I have been a huge supporter of R&C since Day 1, but I have to say that none of these weapons are impressive in any way. They have no massive destruction capabilities or any type of usefulness of weapons that we’ve come to know and love. Also, it was my wife who pointed out that the Sticky Hand weapon is exactly the same as the weapon from The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogies Revenge. Here’s a couple pics:

    http://spyhunter007.com/Images/nightmare_green_rubber_attack3.jpg

    http://spyhunter007.com/Images/nightmare_closeup_skelitons14.jpg

  • They’re all good ideas…it would be cool to have them all…just like it would be cool if we Canadians were able to participate. Guess we can’t have everything…or is it that we can? Kinda confused on that point because it’s a matter of perspective. Ah well, clearly a moot point.

    In my opinion, I believe that the “Sticky Hand” would invoke the most laughter…

    That was my vote.

  • i voted for the spiral of death, just sounded like something that would be really cool and graphically impressive, the runner up was the quark gun for sure though lol

    Thanks to Insomniac for letting the community get involved a little bit with the development side, i think it’s awesome. I think i recall one time when you guys actually put a kid in one of the ratchet and clank games for as a “grant a wish foundation” thing? I don’t know of any other developers that do things like that, just another reason to love Insomniac :)

  • i just had an awesome idea! well since one poster pointed out that the whole quark gun doesn’t fit the character of quark (who always runs away) why not make a morph gun that turns enemies into quark which then run away from you! lol they’d run into walls off cliffs, they could act like they’re being heroic while running away, it would be hilarious

  • ^Now that’s an awesome idea!

    /signed

  • Hmm, my previous comment is still “awaiting moderation”… probably because it included a link. Well, this is what I said:

    “How about you guys fix R2 before i go voting on new games.”
    Seconded.

    Speaking of R2, I think it would be cool to see something similar to the Marksman’s electric orbs in A Crack in Time. A whole new weapon or an upgrade to the Rift Inducer or Groovitron for an example. If those weapons will even be in the game… just a thought.

    “The new Weaponry in A Crack in Time will be brand new to the series, and will allow the player to customize and modify their weapons, perhaps expanding on the Raritanium upgrades seen in Tools of Destruction. The new weaponry will apparently offer a “much more engaging player experience”.

    The Lava Gun will not appear in A Crack in Time, but weapons with a lava effect will be used, some “classic” weapons from previous games will also be returning.”

    Source (this time without the link): Ratchet & Clank wiki

    So yeah, will be interesting to see…

  • “I gotta say from seeing this I just remembered how awesome the weapons from Up Your Arsenal were. Bring some of those back please.”
    I agree with you, ratchet10.

    And that indeed is good idea, Edd.:)

  • Please make these sorts of comps global, I’d loved to have entered.

  • heehee the anticipation ^_^

  • Sweet! I voted! It was a tough decision though… (there were two of them that I was going back and forth with…)

  • Having little Qwarks run around would be hilarious. It got my vote.

  • Haha.. I wan’t the qwark machine

  • Man i feel dumb. I should of known that my Solar Resorcer would be too much to implement and not nearly funny enough…sigh…
    I should of looked at the tips for the contest page on this site before i went ahead and submitted. Alls well live and let live i say, as long as the gloves don’t win(sick of gloves), ill go for the disk gun.
    Thanks for the opportunity! ;)

  • voted for the sticky hand since it seemed the most original. didnt like the others much

  • HEY INSOMNIAC IF U GET THIS COMMENT THERE SHOULD DEFINATEY BE A RYNO 5. THAT WOULD BE INSAINE. AND ONE MORE THING! THIS THIS NEXT R AND C GAME GONNA BE THE LAST. I HOPE NOT

  • I can’t decide between the sticky-hand and the bubble gun. They both look like they would be fun to use. Maybe I’ll choose the bubble gun for more damage…

  • :O My thoughts exactly.

  • hand slapper FTW!

  • sticky hand

  • I voted for the sticky hand. I submitted a similar weapon called the “grappler” which attaches to enemies and swings them around, but didn’t have the “slap” feature. Also, it wasn’t especially humorous.

    And I fail at drawing.

  • Aw, mine didn’t make it. Here was my idea:

    http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/7787/theh01pulminator.jpg

    The H01 Pulminator

    When fired, the H01 Pulminator would shoot purple plasma balls that stay in the frozen once contact is made with enemies. So if you shoot an enemy in the head, the plasma ball would keep him stuck there for a few seconds, keeping his head stuck while also dealing some damage. The weapon could also used to stop moving platforms or solve other puzzles that could use a “slowdown”.

    What did you IG guys think of it? Was it even considered?

    Voted for Spiral of Death btw, hope it wins!

  • I had to vote for the plasma sprinkler. It’s hilariously absurd and would fit right in.

  • VOTE STICKY HAND TOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Good list.
    I hope there will be a RYNO V in ACiT.
    Please make the arsenal as big as in Going Commando.

  • Bubble Shot will win.

  • I tried entering a weapon design but I was not selected as a finalist. I was so sad, I really wanted to go to Comic-Con. Anyway, I voted for the Spiral of Death, I bet it would look awesome in the game if it won.

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