Ratchet: Deadlocked

Ratchet: Deadlocked is the fourth game in the Ratchet & Clank series by Insomniac Games. Deadlocked is different in its counterparts in that it focuses more on shooting than platforming and puzzle elements…

70 25 October 2005

Adventure Platform Shooter Action Comedy Science fiction

Ratchet: Deadlocked is an adventure developed by Insomniac Games, released 25 October 2005 on PlayStation 2.

Verified 27 Sep 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Ratchet: Deadlocked is

Ratchet: Deadlocked is an adventure game developed by Insomniac Games and released in 2005. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 2 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The storyline involves Ratchet and Clank, along with Al, being kidnapped and forced to compete in an underground reality show called "DreadZone" run by the media mogul Gleeman Vox on the outer fringes of the galaxy.

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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Ratchet & Clank series

Ratchet: Deadlocked is the fourth of 32 entries we hold in the Ratchet & Clank series. It arrived 12 months after Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal. The next entry was Ratchet & Clank: Going Mobile in 2005. Its critic score of 70 is 6 points below the series average of 76. The highest-rated entry is Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction at 92.

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How it was received

Ratchet: Deadlocked holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 3 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 72, across 122 votes.

What it launched against

Ratchet: Deadlocked launched on 25 October 2005, within three weeks of Shadow of the Colossus, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Call of Duty 2 and Sid Meier's Civilization IV. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Shadow of the Colossus, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Call of Duty 2, Sid Meier's Civilization IV.

Cheats and codes

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