Like Ratchet, she has a fiery can-do spirit and a flair for the heroics, but deep inside, she feels broken. Rivet is Ratchet’s alternate dimension counterpart, a female Lombax with a cybernetic arm. The standout is Rivet, the new playable protagonist. However, what ultimately won me over is the quirky charm of the game’s colorful cast of characters. It’s the basic setup to send our titular heroes into another swashbuckling adventure. The green-headed villain deserves a seat in the same council as Despicable Me’s Gru, and the Powerpuff Girls’ Mojojojo

Nefarious gets hold of a weapon that can collapse dimensions on each other and it’s up to Ratchet and Clank to stop him. Rift Apart’s story is probably its weakest point, with much of the plot being about as straightforward as they come: returning villain Dr. It also takes full advantage of the PS5’s shiny, new hardware, with ray-tracing providing enhanced lighting and realistic reflections nearly nonexistent load times that make interdimensional travel completely seamless and visuals that output at a dynamic 4K resolution, allowing everything to have crisp clear quality to them.įor lack of a better word, the game is simply Pixar-esque, a high production value experience that’s filled with grandiose spectacle and a ton of heart. Ratchet takes home the best anthropomorphic hero of the year award Oh, it also has the best fur effects, too, bar none. This game is pure eye candy from start to finish, boasting densely-packed environments that are bustling with activity a dizzying amount of particle effects that can swallow your screen at any one time and some of the most impressive-looking character models to ever be put in a game. What usually catches everyone’s attention about Rift Apart is how good it looks. This is the best showcase of the PS5’s capabilities yet and, in my opinion, the console’s best exclusive right now. Rift Apart builds upon that old school, action-platformer gameplay and gives it that next-gen polish, taking what could have been a fairly standard release to one that’s out-of-this-world – pun intended.

If 2016’s Ratchet & Clank reboot put the franchise back on the map, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart straps a rocket to it and blasts it to space.

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