Insomniac Games gave PlayStation fans a longer look Ratchet & Clank: Rift apart, the duo’s debut on PlayStation 5, during Gamescom Opening Night Live on Thursday.
The new trailer for Ratchet & Clank: Rift apart appears to explain how these dangerous gangs come to be: Ratchet and Clank fight against Dr. Nefarious, using the powerful Dimensionator, shreds the dimensional integrity of a futuristic alien city, Megalopolis. There’s plenty of familiar Ratchet & Clank gunplay, and a varied arsenal of weird weapons, but there are also some stunning visual effects, including reflections and ray-traced and environments full of enemies, NPCs, battle tritus, and impressive particle effects. .
After this new movie premiered, Insomniac confirmed that Ratchet & Clank: Rift apart is a “launch window” release for PlayStation 5, but did not specify specific timing.
The new gameplay footage is an expanded look at what Sony Interactive Entertainment and Insomniac announced Ratchet & Clank: Rift apart in June at the PS5 public event. The game’s announcement trailer marked one of the PS5’s big promises: ultra-fast loading times, as evidenced by portals that transported Ratchet and Clank to other worlds almost immediately. Ratchet and Clank travel within seconds from a lush jungle planet to a futuristic city to a fantasy world with flying dragons to a pirate ship. That trailer showed the brand’s light humor of the series and plagued a new character, a female Lombax from an alternate dimension.
The Ratchet & Clank franchise started in 2002 with the PlayStation 2 game Ratchet & Clank. Insomniac Games has so far delivered 10 pursuits and spinoffs. The developer’s latest PlayStation game, Marvel‘s Spider-Man, was a bestseller on PS4, with over 13 million copies sold. Sony acquired Insomniac Games in 2019.
