* Featuring a new mission-structure approach, players will be rewarded with a constant progression of items such as weapons, amror, and health.
* Squad based gameplay - allows players to demolish the competition by commandeering your allied bots through critical and strategic battles.
* Enhanced online gameplay, featuring five modes of play and 12 levels. Modes include Conquest, Deathmatch, King of the Hill and more.

Official Press Release
Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. announced April 12, 2005, the first details behind the Fall 2005 release of Ratchet: Deadlocked created exclusively for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system. Insomniac Games continues to innovate the Ratchet & Clank series and has enhanced the latest installment by incorporating co-op gameplay in both single-player and multiplayer story modes, as well as squad-based functionality.

In Ratchet: Deadlocked, Ratchet and Clank are captured and forced to compete on an underground reality combat sport show. The show, which features abducted heroes fighting for their lives against a gruesome gang of deadly Exterminators, is run by a deranged media mogul named Gleeman Vox, who intends to use Ratchet and Clank as his next contestants.

To keep himself and his friends alive, Ratchet has no choice but to participate in the games and keep driving up the show's ratings with spectacular victories -- at least until our heroes can figure out a way to break free from Vox's control, the explosive Deadlock collar fastened to his neck, and bring the mighty Vox Network crashing down.