Trivia / Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One

• Development Gag: The platinum trophy is named "4 Play," which was the game's original title before it was renamed to All 4 One.
• Executive Meddling: The game’s entire existence is the result of this!
  • Insomniac had planned for A Crack in Time to be the franchise’s Grand Finale, but once it turned out to be a critical and commercial success PlayStation requested that they make another one.
  • Once Insomniac agreed, the studio's higher-ups decided to shake the series up by going full-force into cooperative multiplayer^note Deadlocked was the first to have co-op, but it was simply a side mode with the game not being built entirely around it with the initial plan being to just have Ratchet and Clank playable...
  • ...before the higher-ups then requested they also make Qwark and Dr. Nefarious playable. When the game's writer informed them that he had killed off the latter character in the previous title, they essentially told him to figure it out, so he wrote up that Lawrence had teleported Nefarious away before his space station exploded, which was established in both this game as well as its preceding comic series.
  • And then to top it all off, PlayStation forbade Insomniac from calling the game Ratchet & Clank: 4 Play as they deemed it far too explicit even by the series' standards.
• Rereleased for Free: All 4 One has been among the hundreds of titles temporarily made free to download for PlayStation Plus users. This was one of the few games which was around for a full year rather than just a month, being available from June 5th of 2012 until June 11th of 2013.
• What Could Have Been: Insomniac has stated that the game had an entire spreadsheet's worth of potential titles, with many of them being more innuendous than the final one. Some of the alternate titles include "4 Play," "Friends With Benefits," "Bros b4 Foes," and "Multiple Organisms." The first one ended up being used as the name of the game's platinum trophy, while the latter three were all reused as titles for issues of the comic miniseries.
• Working Title: Concept art for the cover◊ reveals that the title "4 Play" was the title that got the furthest along before being changed to All 4 One.
• You Sound Familiar:
  • Robin Atkin Downes who voices Dr. Frumpus Croid previously voiced Captain Slag in Tools of Destruction and Quest for Booty.
  • Steve Blum who voices Mr. Dinkles also voiced the Thug Leader and Desert Rider biker in Going Commando as well as the Battleplex Announcer in A Crack in Time.

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