Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters is a platformer/shooter video game in the Ratchet & Clank series for both the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable. It is the first Ratchet & Clank game on the PSP handheld, and the 5th in the series. It was developed by High Impact Games, a company spawning from the original Ratchet & Clank developer, Insomniac Games. The story is about Ratchet and Clank as they are interrupted from their vacation to search for a kidnapped girl and encounter a forgotten race known as the Technomites. It is the first Ratchet & Clank game to get an E10+ rating by the ESRB with the second title being Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction for the PlayStation 3.
While on a vacation on Pokitaru, Ratchet and Clank meet a little girl named Luna who is writing a school report on heroes. Shortly after they meet her, Luna is kidnapped by mysterious robots. Clank then stumbles upon a mysterious artifact from an ancient race, the Technomites whereafter Ratchet and Clank set out to save Luna. Clank suspects that Luna is actually a robot controlled by the Technomites, using the same wording Ratchet did in the original game when Clank is fooled by the Captain Qwark robot. In the process, they discover the forgotten race of smart but diminutive inventors, and also encounter Captain Qwark, who is attempting to find his birth parents. Ratchet encourages him to use the internet to aid in his search, and he goes away.
Later on, Clank's suspicions are confirmed when they see Technomites entering the Luna robot, but shortly thereafter, Ratchet is kidnapped and drugged, and Clank is forced to fight a huge dropship with machine gun hands. After destroying the robot, Clank sets off to save Ratchet, whose DNA was stolen in order to produce super-powered clones. Emperor Otto Destruct, leader of the Technomites, has recognized Ratchet's potential and hopes to use his DNA to produce the ultimate soldier. After being tracked down and defeated on Dayni Moon, Luna reveals the clone plot to Ratchet and Clank and explains the Technomites are bitter for never receiving credit from the general population for their technological advances.
After defeating Luna, Clank tries to get the clone factory co-ordinates from Luna, but gets infected with a computer virus and malfunctions. Ratchet uses his shrink ray to go inside Clank, meeting his internal security system (which bears a distinct resemblance to Barney Fife), and they collaborate to eliminate the intruders and restart Clank's processor. Clank reveals that he did obtain the factory co-ordinates before being deactivated, and they head to a planet known as Quodrona. After killing dozens of clones, Otto tells them that what Luna told them was a "cheesy story", and what he really is after is to be immortal, using a special machine that transfers the intelligences from one being to another.
Qwark, persuaded by Otto, thinks Otto is his father and temporarily fights on his side. Otto gets in the life-sucker and is fought inside it. Ratchet and Clank eventually defeat him after a long battle. After beating Otto, they learn that Qwark's real parents were killed by defective equipment made by the Technomites. Qwark tries to use Otto's machine to give Otto the intelligence of himself, Skrunch interferes and Otto then gains the intelligence of Skrunch. Back in Ratchet and Clank's apartment on Megapolis on planet Endako in the Bogon Galaxy, the Ratchet clones become action figures that keep the shrunken Qwark company while the two heroes watch TVThe PSP version of the game received overall positive reviews. Game Informer rated 9/10 and awarded it the "Handheld of the Month" for April 2007.[2] Size Matters received a rating of 85 out of 100. On the other hand, the PS2 port of the game got lukewarm scores, with IGN giving it a score of 6/10, citing its poor graphics, dull gameplay, and glitches.
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