It’s official: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart will be released exclusively on PlayStation 5 on June 11, 2021. Confirmed in the pre-order trailer embedded above, Insomniac Games’ second PS5 title will arrive in mid-2021 instead of the previous one said launch window. The game is available for pre-order on PlayStation Store starting today, and if you choose to commit cash before releasing it, you’ll get your hands on a few prizes.
Those are the Carbonox armor of Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando and the retro blaster from the 2016 reboot Ratchet & Clank. The former has been updated “with high-definition materials, lighting responses and ray-traced reflections”. The Digital Deluxe Edition, meanwhile, also includes five additional armor sets, a Photo Mode sticker pack, 20 Raritanium (an in-game upgrade material), a digital soundtrack, and a digital art book. On the PlayStation Blog, Sony teases that more news is coming soon, including the name of the mysterious female Lombax.
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is a brand new full-blown adventure. When the evil Dr. Nefarious uses a device that can access alternate dimensions to find a galaxy where he always wins, Ratchet and Clank are separated. meet a new Lombax resistance fighter, explore new and familiar locations (but with new dimensional twists!), and wield an all-new arsenal of out of this world weapons. “
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