Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apartis bringing the long-running action platformer series to the PS5 in peak form. Developer Insomniac Games gave players their first look at the duo’s debut on the new PlayStation at Sony’s reveal event Thursday, and the studio released more visuals from the upcoming game over the weekend, showing off the new title’s impressive look and feel.
Much like its neighbors (and corporate siblings) at Naughty Dog, Insomniac is well known for pushing technical boundaries in its work. The expanded capabilities of the PlayStation 5 are immediately apparent inRift Apart’s art style, with an unparalleled level of detail in the character designs, backgrounds, and the series' iconic, outlandish weaponry.
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Rift Apartisn’t the first time Insomniac have used the Lombax and his robot pal to help bring in a new console generation; the series made a similar jump withTools of Destructionin 2007 on the PS3. The most recent entry, a reboot of the original 2002 game, released in 2016, but the series stayed pretty quiet during the PS4 era otherwise, with Insomniac focusing on other projects likeSpider-ManandSunset Overdrive.
TheRatchet & Clankrebootdrew praise from players and critics for faithfully updating the classic PS2 game into a more modern era of gaming, andRift Apartappears to be following that trend just as well. Clank’s shiny steel finish alone is enough to make anyone a believer in the PS5’s ray tracing capabilities, and details like individual tufts of fur are discernible on both Ratchet and the mysterious female Lombax that showed up at the end of the reveal trailer.
With a neatportal-jumping gameplayhook that will rapidly take players through completely different worlds as they play, it seems like a safe bet that the relatively long gap between titles will end up being worthwhile forRatchetfans. Insomniac’s future as a first-party studio was still unclear to the public when Sony purchased it in 2019, but if early impressions ofRift ApartandSpider-Man: Miles Moralesare any indication, players should have a lot to look forward to from the studio in the coming generation.
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apartis in development for the PlayStation 5.
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