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The main mission on Planet Hoven is to find and destroy Chairman Drek's Planetbuster spaceship. From the shuttle pad, work your way to the left to the open area with the elevator hover pad by the cliff [previous page].
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If Clank already has the hydro-pack upgrade, it would be a good idea to first return to the Gadegtron kiosk by the shuttle pad, to load-up on ammo. From the teleport pad inside the cave tunnel, walk to the edge of the cliff. There's a wall of crates below. Load the bomb glove and toss a few bombs below to detonate the crates. If you're lucky, the robot soldiers hiding there will be taken out as well. If not, jet-glide to the lower area and load your favorite weapon to take care of them.
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Go to the dock platform on the left, extending out over the lake. Watch the floating hover pad. As it approaches, jump to the hover pad and ride to the other side. Jump to the far platform. Load the pyrocitor. In the far corner, is a metal man-hole cover. As you approach, the lid springs open. 4 hover spike mines pop-out and engage their spikes. Flame all 4 spike bombs as they fly around. Whack all the nearby crates and walk across the bridge to the next platform.
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As you walk onto the platfrom, an attack helicopter with guided missles appears from behind the cliffs. Load the visibomb gun and retreat back to the first platform. Once you engage the helicpoter, try to stay out of his line of fire as best you can. Fire 1 missle and guide it with the onboard camera, directly into the helicopter. Because he is so close, this may take 2-3 tries to steer the missle. Once he's destroyed, a hover pad elevator will start-up at the back of the platform.
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Before taking the hover pad up to the next area, pre-load some defense and activate a set of drones. You will be ambushed by 5-6 robot soldiers up top. What weapon to use is up to you? You will want the maximum firepower to avoid as much injury as possible. Nano-robots from your glove of doom probably aren't fast enough. I chose to attack with the pyrocitor. Up top, as the robots soldiers fire away, attack them and flame from left to right. If you're lucky, Rachet has survived.
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NOTE: Ratchet will probably die several times trying to get past this robot soldier ambush or the second attack helicopter. When the game resets, you'll be back by the launch pad. Don't forget to go to the Gadgetron Kiosk every time you re-start.
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Once you've dealt with the robot soldiers, a 2nd attack helicopter blocks your way. Retreat back to the very edge of the cliff, load the visibomb gun and guide 1 missle into the chopper. Remember that the chopper cannot be firing any missles at you while you fire a visibomb. Avoid the chopper's missles at all costs. Once the chopper is destroyed, whack all the crates and especially that Nanotech health sphere. Bounce jump between the walls in the far cliff, up to another cave tunnel. Dig up all the hidden bolts.
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Walk through the tunnel around to an overhead conveyer bridge. Load the pyrocitor before crossing. Draw the weapon as you approach the other side. Another metal man-hole cover swings open and 4 hover spike bombs attack Rachet on the far side of the bridge. Flame away and clear the bridge. Bounce jump the wall to a higher cave tunnel. Draw the pyrocitor again and take out the snow rats that come running down the tunnel. Dig up all the hidden bolts with your metal detector.
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Outside on the next ledge, we see the huge Planetbuster spaceship hovering to the left. Dead ahead on the far cliff, is the main command building. To get there, we have to cross this series of hover pads going up and down over the valley. Watch the cycle of each hover pad as you jump from one to the next. From the last hover pad jump to the path and immediately jump back and hang onto the ledge. Watch our for 3 robot soldiers that come running out of the building.
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Even while you're hanging from the edge, the robot soldiers will continue to fire at you just over your head. When there is a break in the action, jump up to the path and flame the soldiers from close range. Go to the left along the sidewalk and clean out the spike bombs and crates. Walk around and look inside the building through the entrance on the right. Load the glove of doom and toss 2 canisters inside the doorway. Watch your nano-robots run ahead and take down the 4 soldiers inside. Go in and clean-out the building.
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Walk out the other side of the building. To the left is a circular platform with a stack of crates and another metal man-hole cover. Flame the spike bombs as they spring out. Now walk back across the conveyer bridge and down the main path along the cliff. Another attack helicopter rises up from the valley and starts attacking Rachet. There is no place to hide other than inside the building. Run back to the building and load the visibomb gun. The chopper should still be there. Fire 1 missle and guide it straight into the chopper.
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Now comes the really tough part. As you walk to the platform with the turret gun, the Planetbuster leaves the docking area and starts firing all its machine guns at you (and it's alot of gun-fire). Run like mad to reach the turret cannon without getting hit too many times. Once inside the turret cannon, start pounding away at the Planetbuster. Take out all the helicopters as they come into range. Rachet has to gun down 20 helicopters before the spaceship breaks apart.
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This tough mission is now complete [movie sequence begins]. Chariman Drek is upset that the Planetbuster
has been destroyed and yells at Captain Qwark for doing a lousy job of security. Rachet now has co-ordinates for Drek's military space station in orbit around Planet Oltanis. After the sequence finishes, look down over the edge of the platform. We can see the shuttle pad below. Jet-glide down to the shuttle pad and load up with ammo at the Gagdetron kiosk.
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