Whether you’re new to swinging Ratchet’s wrench or a veteran of the DreadZone, Rift Apart’s mix of third-person shooting and platforming is immediately easy to understand. With more touching and clever writing that makes good on the promise of a multi-dimensional trip unlike anything the series has done before, Rift Apart makes old characters fresh and new additions so indelible it’s hard to imagine the series without them.Even if 'Ratchet and Clank and Rivet' would be a pretty long name.

And even compared to great work building out a universe for Spider-Man, Rift Apart may be Insomniac’s most emotionally resonant game yet.

But the duo’s age doesn’t show at all thanks to an amazing outing – their first new one in nearly a decade – that is a gorgeous and expertly crafted example of what PS5 exclusives can look and play like. Ratchet and Clank have been doing the whole “saving the universe” thing for quite some time, and their latest adventure, Rift Apart, amusingly acknowledges that right from the start.

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