Overall, Ratchet & Clank Future makes pretty good use of the tilt controls; they're not intrusive, and they're largely limited to things like free-falling, gliding and minigames, where it makes sense to use them. For example, the computer-hacking minigame involves tilting a circuit board to roll a ball around, using it to bridge gaps for a slow-moving spark, which feels completely natural. Even the Robo-Wing controls (which we slagged on in our last preview) have been fine-tuned to the point where controller-tilting doesn't feel awkward in the slightest. And if you still have a problem with any of that, you're free to turn the motion controls off altogether.

We'll even go so far as to say that Sixaxis controls might have improved the Starfox -y, on-rails space-combat sequences, which - while pretty - are way too slow and simple to be much more than a distraction from the main storyline. Three of the game's 18 levels are devoted to these set-pieces, and while they're kind of fun, Insomniac was apparently so concerned with making them accessible to newcomers that there isn't much challenge or excitement to them. Survival is just a matter of pasting everything that looks like a target with the right analog stick while keeping your ship drifting out of harm's way with the left. The option of using Panzer Dragoon-style cluster missiles makes things a little more interesting, but a greater sense of speed and a lot more enemies wouldn't have hurt, either. At least we could do barrel rolls.