Sony delivered on its promise of a Ratchet & Clank-focused State of Play today, showing off tons of new footage and explaining story and gameplay details. Creative director Marcus Smith said that the upcoming Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is a new, standalone adventure built from the ground up for the PlayStation 5.
As the trailers have suggested, Ratchet and Clank are separated, leaving the main hero to explore Nefarious City by himself. This city is the seat of power for Dr. Nefarious, who has taken over this other dimension and dubbed himself Emperor Nefarious. Ratchet encounters a resistance group fighting against the Emperor, and as we saw in another recent trailer, meanwhile the new lady lombax Rivet befriends Clank.
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