Ratchet & Clank Preorders are a Little Confusing

Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time is offering a virtual buffet of preorder bonuses — from a whole level to a special weapon skins. But the whole promotion is confusing, to say the least.

The trick to this is that each retailer (GameStop, Amazon, Best Buy, and GameCrazy) will be offering the bonuses exclusively.

GameStop’s exclusive, the “Discovery Package,” will come with the Insomian Moon, a special level resembling the Insomniac Games’ office layout stuffed with extra content.

Amazon is offering the “Bolt Package,” which starts the game off with the Bolt Magnetizer and Box Basher weapons, as well as 5,000 bolts. (This one’s for the greedy, for sure.)

Best Buy’s bonus will be the “Power Package.” It’s not available to order yet, but it will allow players to start the game off with extra HP, a special weapon skin, and the new Cryo Mine Glove, which freezes enemies.

And last but not least, the “Space Package” is being offered at GameCrazy. It includes a hotrod skin for Ratchet’s ship, an exclusive Ratchet & Clank Home Avatar, and also allows players to start the game with 5,000 bolts.

Insomniac’s Christian Cardona assures that the “exclusives” offered in the packages will not exclude anyone, hinting that some of the content offered could be unlocked through gameplay or DLC.

Let’s hope so — it’ll be hard to decide between the different bonuses. The Insomniac Moon seems too good to pass up, but the others are definitely tempting as well.

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