Nintendo had Mario. Sega had Sonic the Hedgehog. And for Sony during the formative years of their first game console, nothing was more synonymous with the Playstation brand than Crash Bandicoot. But like their gaming hardware predecessors, Sony’s Playstation also had other titular characters to hang their hat on thanks to the games they were associated with being some of the best on the market – characters like Ratchet & Clank. The minds at Insomniac studios worked hard to discover their next big game following the success of “Spyro”, eventually converging on what would become the first game in the series – another successful 3D action-adventure shooter & platformer.
Following multiple entries in the series, Insomniac’s developers grew tired of working on the franchise and put it on the shelf following “Into the Nexus”. With the advent of Sony’s Playstation 5 came the revelation of Insomniac being back in the game both literally & figuratively by revealing what seemed like the truest testament of what Sony’s newest console system could accomplish. It’s time to test the boundaries of time & space, meet a new ally, and discover some first impressions of “Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart”.