Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
Developer/publisher SIE (Insomniac Games) Format PS5 Release Out now
Something goes wrong in the opening 15 minutes of . That in itself is not a surprise: it’s how videogame stories often begin, after all. But this development is particularly unexpected. During a lavish ticker-tape parade to celebrate our heroes in Megalopolis, Clank presents a gift to his Lombax partner: it’s a gadget called the Dimensionator, designed to open rifts to other dimensions. He gives it hoping to enable Ratchet to meet more of his kind. We’ve seen the Dimensionator in previous games, so it’s no great revelation that it should turn up here. Nor that it should find its way into the wrong hands. Nor that those hands belong to returning antagonist Dr Nefarious. But during the chase to retrieve it, we jump at the wrong time and fall just short of a grind rail. And then we keep falling. It takes a good ten seconds or so to realise our extended plunge
