Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters to be listed, IPO Tuesday

Sony Corp.'s (NYSE: SNE) Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters for the PSP will debut on the simExchange on Tuesday, February 6, 2007. It will be categorized under the Adventure genre. Shares will open for purchase at 80 DKP (forecasts 800,000 copies sold worldwide over lifetime). This game will be released on February 13, 2007. The game listing was first submitted by Pherstothelee. The summary of the game is:

Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters is the seventh installment in the Ratchet & Clank series and the first of the series for the PSP. The story continues from Ratchet: Deadlocked (known as Ratchet: Gladiator outside of North America), foregoing the sidestories of the Ratchet & Clank games for mobile phones.

The story sets off with Ratchet and Clank on vacation, where they meet Luna, a little girl who is later kidnapped by robots. Of course, Ratchet and Clank set out to rescue her, and of course, are caught up in a deeper mystery involving Technomites (a race of genius inventors).

Like previous Ratchet & Clank games, this is a 3D platformer/adventure game where the player uses melee attacks and special guns (such as a bee hive launcher or a vacuum-like sucking gun) to fight baddies. You can also level up your weapons and find better armor as your adventure unfolds. Putting together sets or combos of armor pieces will grant you bonuses. In Size Matters, the player be able to play as either Ratchet or Clank in various levels.

The game features 4-player online gameplay in both ad hoc and infrastructure mode. Size Matters includes the usual deathmatch, team deathmatch, and CTF options. However, the game will also include some new modes, such as Moon Cow Disease where your team must suck up more space cows than the other team. You can try to ninja your opponents’ meat crates after they pack the space cows or simply gank them to hinder their efforts.