That leads Clank to meet with Rivet, a female Lombax who is new to the series, and Ratchet, to eventually hook-up with an alternative robot pal named Kit. That's because, after Dr Nefarious gets his hands on the oft-featured Dimensionator and accidentally opens up huge dimensional rifts, our eponymous heroes are split up. Not least the fact you play as two Lombaxes this time around. It is split across a fair few planets and regions, each with their own puzzles, secrets, bosses and, in the case of some, open-world landscapes.įavourite elements return, such as crazy, often hilarious weapons, hover boots, rail riding, the weapons shop (which is now in shape of Mrs Zurkon - an enemy in the 2016 remake), and plenty more besides - but there are some key differences too. Like most others in the series, this is essentially a shooter-meets-platformer with a keen sense of humour and stunning, Pixar-like visuals. Best upcoming PS5 games: The future PlayStation titles to anticipate.Best PS5 games: The most amazing PlayStation 5 titles to pick up right now.Technical bells and whistles aside, this is a Ratchet & Clank game through and through, so we'll start there. In many respects, this is the first truly next-gen game on any console and has us salivating for what's possible in the future.

And the tricks afforded by the PS5's DualSense controller are exploited to the max. The graphics drip with ray-tracing and other wizardry from every pore.

The entire premise of the game is only possible thanks to clever compression techniques and superfast SSD loading speeds.

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