Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando
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40 free Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando is the 2003 PlayStation 2 sequel that turned a likeable platformer into a full-blown arsenal game. Weapons level up as you use them, health grows as you fight, and a new galaxy is packed with arenas, races and space battles. It is also the game that made skill points a ritual. Thirty optional feats are scattered across its planets, each with a punning name and an odd requirement, and collecting them unlocks cheats in the Special menu. This quiz covers what those skill points ask for and where they are found, alongside the weapons, gadgets, characters, plot twists and development stories behind the game. It is written for anyone who has chased that last skill point, and for players who simply remember the series fondly. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will pick up the requirements you never worked out.
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Q 01Which French novella's cover helped inspire the tiny spherical worlds Ratchet walks around in Going Commando?
The Little Prince
The Little Prince was cited by programmer Brian Hastings, who said its cover partly inspired the idea. Building the spherical worlds meant changing about 50,000 lines of the game's code.
Q 02In Going Commando's final twist, which returning first-game character has been impersonating Megacorp boss Fizzwidget?
Captain Qwark
Captain Qwark shut the real Fizzwidget away and stole his identity, hoping to stage a crisis he could solve to win back his fame. The plan ends with him swallowed by a giant monster.
Q 03The Going Commando skill point Try to Sleep is earned by using which weapon on sixteen mutant squirrels?
Sheepinator
The Sheepinator fires a beam that converts enemies into sheep, which makes the skill point a counting-sheep gag. With enough use it upgrades into a version whose sheep explode.
Q 04Going Commando's skill point Clank Needs a New Pair of Shoes is earned at Maktar Resort by winning 300 bolts from what?
A slot machine
A slot machine at the resort pays out 300 bolts when three jackpot symbols line up. Many of them land on explosion symbols and blow themselves up before that can happen.
Q 05Prehistoric Rampage, a Going Commando skill point on Oozla, is earned by shooting down four of which flying creatures?
Pterodactyls
Pterodactyls circle slowly in the skies above the swamp, which makes them easy targets. The same level hides a second skill point for smashing up the Megacorp store.
Q 06In Going Commando, Megacorp markets its violent blue fuzzball experiment under which cuddly product name?
Protopet
The Protopet was engineered to be the perfect pet, but it is extremely violent and breeds at a rapid pace. It was known as Experiment #13 before it got a commercial name.
Q 07The Going Commando skill point Speed Demon is earned on Barlow by beating a 2:10 target time in which minigame?
Hoverbike racing
Hoverbike racing returns later on Joba, where a second skill point demands a time under 2:27. On Barlow the key is to take every shortcut and keep boosting.
Q 08Going Commando takes Ratchet and Clank out of their home Solana Galaxy to which new galaxy dominated by Megacorp?
Bogon
Bogon mixes gleaming cities like Megapolis with swamps, deserts and ice worlds. One corporation owns property on almost every planet the pair visit there.
Q 09Which former Megacorp scientist is unmasked as the thief Ratchet has been chasing through Going Commando?
Angela Cross
Angela Cross is a Lombax like Ratchet, and she stole the experiment because she knew how dangerous it was. She had been fired after warning management about it.
Q 10Setting the console clock to 3:00 AM activates a Going Commando teleporter leading to which secret location?
Insomniac Museum
The Insomniac Museum is a hidden gallery where eleven developers comment on material cut from the first two games. Its teleporter sits on the central fountain of Silver City, on Boldan.
Q 11Collecting all thirty skill points in Going Commando unlocks the final outfit cheat, which dresses Ratchet in what?
Swimming trunks
Swimming trunks and sandals are the reward, under the cheat name Beach Boy. The tuxedo arrives at seven skill points and the clown costume at twenty.
Q 12Ratchet begins Going Commando with the Gravity Bomb and which long-range Megacorp pistol as his default weapons?
Lancer
The Lancer is standard issue for Megacorp commandos, so Ratchet gets it for free. With use it upgrades into the Heavy Lancer, a rifle with a rapid rate of fire.
Q 13Which mercenary outfit in Going Commando sells its protection to the highest bidder and switches sides mid-story?
Thugs-4-Less
Q 21The first Wrench Ninja skill point in Going Commando means beating which Maktar Resort arena boss with only the wrench?
Chainblade
Chainblade fights with two long extending blades and went undefeated in five hundred straight matches. Coming back with the strongest wrench lets Ratchet finish him in only a few hits.
Q 22Going Commando's Heal Your Chi skill point is earned on the desert planet Tabora by finding all one hundred of what?
Crystals
Crystals are scattered across Tabora's open mining area, and the mining vehicle is a quick way to hunt down the last few. With the Mapper gadget, every uncollected one shows on the map.
Q 23The Going Commando skill point Operate Heavy Machinery asks Ratchet to destroy ten robots in Megapolis using what?
A crane
Thugs-4-Less are first hired by the masked thief for protection, then bought out by Megacorp. Their boss ends up holding a personal vendetta against Ratchet and Clank.
Q 14Which Going Commando skill point is earned on Dobbo by beating every enemy with weapons from the first game?
Old Skool
Old Skool allows only first-game gear such as the Bomb Glove, Decoy Glove, Tesla Claw, Visibomb Gun and Walloper. Coming back after the story helps, because the enemy formations are weaker.
Q 15On which Going Commando planet does Ratchet smash the Snow Dan, a snowman with a developer's face, for a skill point?
Siberius
Siberius tucks the Snow Dan around the back of a garage near the start of the level. Its face belongs to artist Dan Johnson, whose cameos were tucked into many of the studio's games as an inside joke.
Q 16Which rare collectible, forty of them hidden across Going Commando, pays for weapon mods from a black market dealer?
Platinum bolts
Platinum bolts are the rarest currency in the galaxy, tucked into secret areas or handed out as prizes. Early builds of the game still used the first game's gold bolts instead.
Q 17After the credits, which Going Commando replay option keeps Ratchet's weapons and adds a bolt multiplier?
Challenge mode
Challenge mode also sells Mega versions of weapons, which can then level up again into Ultra forms. Its bolt multiplier grows with each enemy beaten without Ratchet taking damage.
Q 18Which missile-spraying Going Commando super-weapon costs one million bolts from the Help Matron on Barlow?
RYNO II
The RYNO II fires immensely powerful missiles at every enemy available and cannot be upgraded. Its price means most players can only afford it much later in the game.
Q 19Where is the real Abercrombie Fizzwidget found at the end of Going Commando, after an impostor ran Megacorp?
A supply closet
A supply closet at Megacorp headquarters held the company's founder for the whole adventure. Once freed, he thanks Ratchet and Clank for their hard work.
Q 20Which Ratchet & Clank game followed Going Commando a year later as the third entry in the series?
Up Your Arsenal
Up Your Arsenal arrived in 2004. Its high-definition remaster was later bundled with the first two games in a single collection.
A crane can drop a metal box on sweeper bots, or pick up a laser bot and turn its beam on the others. Dying on purpose resets the room if the count falls short.
Q 24Which mineral, mined on Tabora or won in space combat, pays for upgrades to Ratchet's ship in Going Commando?
Raritanium
Raritanium is traded at a black market ship shack, and fully upgrading the ship earns the skill point Nice Ride. Cosmetic changes cost the mineral without counting toward it.
Q 25Which weapons maker from the first Ratchet & Clank game was driven out of Going Commando's galaxy by Megacorp?
Gadgetron
Gadgetron left an abandoned factory on Barlow, where one vendor still sells its gear. A save file from the first game unlocks five of its old weapons there for free.
Q 26Which voice actor took over as Ratchet in Going Commando, replacing Mikey Kelley for a more mature sound?
James Arnold Taylor
James Arnold Taylor was brought in as part of a wider effort to make Ratchet friendlier and not so cocky as in the first game. Clank kept his original voice actor.
Q 27Going Commando's Lava Gun sprays a stream of molten rock until it upgrades with use into which weapon?
Meteor Gun
The Meteor Gun fires meteors instead of a continuous stream, the one upgrade that heavily changes how a weapon works. Eurogamer praised the upgrade system but criticized this path.
Q 28Which item does Ratchet win by beating a second swamp monster on Oozla in Going Commando?
Box Breaker
The Box Breaker lets one hyper-strike destroy every breakable object nearby. It turns skill points such as Smash and Grab and Vandalize into a quick lap of each level.
Q 29Which top-tier Going Commando armor costs a million bolts and fully encases Ratchet's head, ears and tail?
Carbonox
Carbonox armor blocks 90 percent of damage and first goes on sale on Grelbin. The game's armor suits were designed by fashion experts from the planet Endako.
Q 30Which gadget in Going Commando misfires because its batteries were put in backwards, creating the giant final boss?
Helix-o-morph
The Helix-o-morph was invented to cure the creatures' violent streak, but it mutated the original into a giant instead. Once Clank spots the fault, the repaired device pacifies them all.