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This is the final battle between Chairman Drek and Ratchet. You need to be at your best and fight with everything you have. If you're lucky, you'll come out alive.
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Before you even attempt to do battle with Drek, you best have all your ammo and as much health as you can buy. This means going back to Planet Orxon and walking back through the refinery area to the storage room. Buy the Ultra Nanotech for 30,000 bolts. It's a ton of money, but having 8 health spheres is very important. You'll probably be left with next to nothing in the bank. If this is true, you should go re-explore some planets and get at least 10,000 bolts in your war chest before you go back to the reflector dish.
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STRONG ADVICE: If you have 4 hours to explore, find 150,000 bolts and buy the R.Y.N.O. gun. It will make things so much easier, especially with the Gadgetron PDA at your side. This will be a cakewalk compared with what your about to do the normal way. Put it to this way. IT'S SO EASY, IT DOESN'T NEED A WALKTHROUGH!!
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OK... Here we are back at the dish. You have all your ammo and are ready to go. Make sure you have the right weapons in your Quick Select option. Don't use the visibomb gun, walloper, morph-o-ray gun, or mine glove. Anything that's slow or short range. It's a waste. Do include the Gadgetron remote PDA, because you'll be calling in emergency purchases along the way. Defense weapons like the drone shield or decoy are a wise choice. Best weapon by far is the tesla pulse gun.
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Load the swingshot. Tarzan past the double versa-target then jet-hover down to the striped hover pads. As you land on a hover pad, it short-circuits and quickly starts to tip and fall into the canyon. Jump from hover pad to hover pad as fast as you can before they fall away underneath you. From the last hover pad, jump and then shoot the swingshot from mid-air, to catch the next versa-target. Repeat this 3 times until you reach the first arena area. Drek is waiting in his spaceship. Load the gold blaster to start.
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Fire at the belly of Drek' ship from close range. Rachet's weapon target ring has to be lit on Drek's ship for it to do any damage and affect the health meter at the bottom of the screen. Zoom auto-aim is out of the question. Drek will fire 20 missles in sequence, that will land close to your last known ground position. All you have to do is keep running to avoid being hit. After the round of missles is complete, Drek reloads, and fires 4 bomb canisters that have explosive fire shock waves. Jump to avoid the fire waves as they explode.
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Once Drek's health meter goes down by one full section, he'll stop and reteat to the next arena. Again load the swingshot and jump the hover pads to the next area. Load the weapon of your choice or whatever you think will do the trick. I chose the disruptor. Blast away again and reduce Drek's health meter by one full section. He will then retreat to the last arena. Meet him on the circular platform.
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As Rachet lands on the platform, a very important movie sequence begins. Chairman Drek finally decides to talk to Rachet face-to-face, and explains his whole conquest and mission about creating new planets, to sell the land and then to pollute them, and then to build new planets again as old ones become unbearable to live on. Everything is ALL about money and he will stop at nothing to achieve his greedy dreams. This means saying good-bye to Rachet.
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Drek activates the auto-destruct timer and a red power piston rises from the floor of the platform. Rachet has 15 seconds to disable the timer or Drek's planet-buster laser engages. Power slam the timer first, then load your favorite weapon and fire away at Drek's ship. Drek will release some strange new robot enemies, but nothing you can't handle. Unfortunately, you will be distracted vaporizing them all, before you fire on the ship again. As Drek's health bar goes down, another piston timer will start for 15 seconds.
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If need be, load the Gadgetron remote PDA while on top of the power piston. Game action will freeze while you buy ammo, and you are safe from the robots for now. Give it everything you have. Don't hold back! If you are cornered by robots, jump on the grindrail around the perimeter of the platform. It will speed you away from trouble and drop you off on another part of the platform. WATCH YOUR HEALTH! Load the defense drone while on the power piston, then load your weapon.
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EXTRA STRATEGY: Use the fire bombs that Drek drops from his spaceship, to your advantage. The fire shock waves will destroy his robots and spike mines so don't waste ammo trying to destroy them. Just out-run them and focus on Drek's ship. Fire shock waves will not affect you while standing on the piston (before you power slam).
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Drive Drek's health meter all the way down. The last section is very very hard. He'll fire very strong pulse cannons at you. KEEP MOVING!!! If you're still alive, Drek's ship will spin out of control and crash on the platform. You've saved your home planet and completed the game. Drek's ship is catapulted out to his orbiting planet, and in the process, a new 2nd planet buster laser inverts on the platform, pointing up to Drek's planet. Slam the power piston and get sweet revenge.
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I won't tell you anything further, other than you get to watch a great final movie, all the game credits (of course) and some very interesting new information.
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