“The more the merrier” only goes so far. When you’re talking about three friends joining you for a session of “Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One,” it’s absolutely true. When you’re talking about all the weapons the developers crammed into the game — and the finger gymnastics required to switch among them — not so much. “All 4 One,” a return to form for the titular duo after their appearance in March’s unfortunate “PlayStation Move Heroes,” employs the tried-and-true gimmick of uniting traditional enemies against a new threat. In the manner of “Super Mario RPG,” which exposed Bowser as a cowardly lizard who was constantly secretly crying, “All 4 One” puts everyone’s favorite lombax-robot duo on the same team of their usual antagonists. Namely, the Buzz Lightyear-esque foil Captain Qwark and main bad guy Doctor Nefarious, who looks like one of the aliens from “Mars Attacks!”
Their coming together to face a common enemy is surprsingly funny, and indeed the game reveals itself to have one of the best scripts of the year, with constant asides from the unseen news anchors who serve as the game’s de facto narrators.
