 With this title under wraps, Insomniac were then able to consider how to approach the fifth "Ratchet & Clank" game, knowing how to work the PlayStation 3 hardware with the aim to make a game that played like an animated movie.Insomniac brought on Fixman to write for the series at this point; one of Fixman's first goals was to take disjointed mythology from the first four games and flesh out the characters more to give them a stronger backstory.This led to the three "Future" games, the first being "" (2007), which brought the series back to what players had latched onto and met with praise, outside of its cliffhanger ending.