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Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

“Rift Apart feels like an animated movie you can play.”

INFO

Format PS5

Price £69.99

ETA Out now

Pub PlayStation Studios

Dev Insomniac Games

Players 1

Length 12+ hours

Accessibility Skippable puzzles; simplified traversal toggles and options; adjustable camera sensitivity and motion blur intensity; togglable camera shake and ledge guard; combat assist modes; combat shortcuts; customisable subtitles, HUD colours, and visual contrasts and shaders; game speed options

Dimensions in which you can even find a PlayStation 5 have been scarce, and while there are great games on the system, not many have really forced it to show us what it’s capable of. Thankfully, our two galactic heroes are here to make one noisy landing – because Rift Apart has all the bells and whistles. Beyond being a PS5 must-play, this is a game that hasn’t even been possible until now.

Ratchet & Clank have been unlikely saviours of the universe many times since their 2002 PS2 debut. Rift Apart starts with the pair attending a parade in their honour in Megapolis. It’s a cute introduction that sees the twosome jumping across floats that summarise their origins in a tongue-in-cheek fashion, explaining how a lombax mechanic on a backwater planet teamed up with a defective killer robot to thwart evil, and

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