New Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart PS5 gameplay revealed at Gamescom – Polygon

The Ratchet & & Clank franchise kicked off in 2002 with the PlayStation 2 game Ratchet & & Clank. Insomniac Games has actually because delivered 10 spinoffs and follows up. The designers latest PlayStation video game, Marvels Spider-Man, was a bestseller on PS4, with more than 13 million copies sold. Sony got Insomniac Games in 2019.

Insomniac Games offered PlayStation fans a longer look at Cog & & Clank: Rift Apart, the duos debut on PlayStation 5, during Gamescom Opening Night Live on Thursday.

The games announcement trailer highlighted one of the PS5s big pledges: ultra-fast filling times, as demonstrated by websites that transported Ratchet and Clank almost instantly to other worlds. Cog and Clank traveled from a lush jungle planet to a futuristic city to a dream world with flying dragons to a pirate ship within seconds.

The new trailer for Ratchet & & Clank: Rift Apart appears to describe how those hazardous rifts come to be: Ratchet and Clank battle Dr. Nefarious, who wields the effective Dimensionator, shredding the dimensional integrity of a futuristic alien city, Megalopolis. Theres plenty of familiar Ratchet & & Clank gunplay, and a varied arsenal of strange weapons, but theres also some gorgeous visual results, including ray-traced reflections and environments packed with enemies, NPCs, fight sediment, and excellent particle results.

After that new footage premiered, Insomniac validated that Ratchet & & Clank: Rift Apart is a “launch window” release for PlayStation 5, but did not offer more specific timing.