 Review aggregators Metacritic and GameRankings calculated scores of 85 and 86 @.@ 7 % from their selected reviews for Giants as of 2007 . Although most critics had awarded high scores to the game , GamesRadar and <unk> reported the Windows version sold poorly . In contrast , the Mac OS X version sold out within months of its release , in spite of its smaller market base . According to the quarterly sales reports by <unk> , the PS2 version sold 11 @,@ 272 copies in the US for the six months since its release . This is a poor sales figure compared to the 51 @,@ 726 copies of Shadow Hearts and 753 @,@ 251 copies of Max Payne sold in the same period for the PS2 . Despite the poor overall sales , reviewers have nominated Giants as a game deserving a sequel , and have kept it on PC Gamer UK 's Top 100 as of 2007 . In 2009 , Andrew Groen of GameZone ran a retrospective on Giants and suggested that the game 's mix of humor and action inspired later games such as Ratchet & Clank and Jak and Daxter . He further commented that games of 2004 – 09 were influenced by Giants in one way or another . 
