Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart release date, trailers, gameplay, news, and rumors

Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart release date, trailers, gameplay, news, and rumors
Ratchet and Clank are back, and this time they must save reality from collapsing. Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart, the first major PlayStation 5 exclusive of the year, while also featuring striking visuals, Rift Apart's main plot is about dimensional shifting, which uses the console's ultra-fast SSD to move the player around seamlessly. between world's. . The upcoming third-person shooter platformer adventure will feature enhanced lighting, ray tracing, and a dedicated 60fps performance mode as our galactic duo leap across the planet to defeat the evil Dr. Nefarious. The new title developed by Insomniac will arrive in 2021, picking up the story of 2013 Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus. A new female Lombax will also be playable, along with a massive arsenal of weapons including the explosive pistol, topiary sprayer, and frag bomb. More importantly, Rift Tether can train Ratchet and Clank through anomalies to move around the world. For more, here's everything we know so far about Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart.

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Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart release date

Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart

(Image credit: Insomniac Games) Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart was first revealed during the PlayStation 5 reveal on June 11, 2020. It is the twelfth game so far in the series, with the original debuting on PS2 at final. 2002. It's also the longest gap in the franchise's five-year exit history. Looking at the release dates for the past five titles (North America only, see below), it's clear that the series has historically favored a fall release schedule. This time, however, the game was confirmed to be released in early 2021, sometimes during the PS5 release window, as long as it could finish. There's a good chance Rift Apart will launch on the system around the same time as the 2016 reboot in April and then, making it the first major console exclusive game in 2021.

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Trailers

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(Image credit: Insomniac Games) Announcement Trailer
Created during the PlayStation 5 unveiling, the trailer takes us to a prehistoric planet (possibly Sargassum), until Ratchet and Clank suddenly cross a dimensional rift. Clank notes that "the dimensions are collapsing on top of each other", before a horde of robots follow them and begin shooting at the pair. Ratchet pilots an Anthropod to safety, only to be thrown through different dimensions, resembling Megalopolis and Torren IV, ending up in Ardolis, where the Lombax is confronted by a group of pirates already fighting a kraken. There is also another planet in the rift jump sequence in which Ratchet rides a dragon at night in traffic; however, it does not appear to resemble the recognizable planets seen earlier in the series. The trailer ends with Clank being separated from Ratchet in an explosion on the pirate ship, sending the little robot falling through a rift, only to be greeted by a Lombax woman on a planet ruled by Dr. Nefarious. We previewed gameplay footage after the announcement trailer, but it later turned into a seven-minute extended gameplay demo at Gamescom's Opening Night Live on August 27, 2020, which we'll focus on here. . The extended gameplay demo began with a scene where Ratchet and Clank return to Megalopolis, noting that they still have time to stop Dr. Nefarious. A Goon-4-Less team attacks, leading to a real game. The hairy-eared Lombax and her robot companion battle their way through the city, taking out enemies via a selection of new weapons and the former's trusty OmniWrench. Eventually meeting Dr. Nefarious, Ratchet damages the former's "Sizer", causing many cracks to materialize, consequently transporting creatures from other worlds to his. Ratchet and Clank chase Nefarious until a rift appears and pushes them through the same dimension hopping sequence shown in the announcement trailer.

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart News and Rumors

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(Image credit: Insomniac Games) Right now, the big Rift Apart mystery surrounds who the Lombax woman is who jumps into the frame at the end of the announcement trailer. This is only the second appearance of a female Lombax in the series – Angela Cross already appeared in Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando back in 2003 for the PlayStation 2. It was then established in-game that only male Lombaxes own it. Tails, many are now wondering if this new female Lombax is actually from the same species or from an alternate universe. On June 16, 2020, Insomniac Games confirmed that the female Lombax will be playable alongside the titular heroes. <p lang="en" dir="ltr"> she Plays as Ratchet AND a mysterious new female Lombax from another dimension. #RatchetPS5 #RiftApart pic.twitter.com/aMDSAB77iG June 16, 2020 Where in the timeline is Rift Apart?
Interestingly, Rift Apart is not a sequel to the 2016 reboot. Instead, the game was confirmed at Gamescom Opening Night Live 2020 as a sequel to Ratchet and Clank: Into the Nexus, which released on PlayStation 3 in 2013. "Canonically, This is an expansion to Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus, the 2013 game, but it's a standalone adventure," Insomniac creative director Marcus Smith explained. "So this is a game that even if you've never played a Ratchet and Clank game, you can go into it and you'll understand it and you'll enjoy it. For die-hard fans, we've got a lot of nods... you're going to see a lot of characters and returning planets, and see them all through a new light of 'multidimensionality'.

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