The first gameplay demo of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart will be shown during Gamescom’s Opening Night Live. You’ll have to tune on on Thursday 27th August at 7PM BST to see it and dozens of other games.
Don't miss the world premiere @PlayStation 5 demo of Ratchet & Clank:
Rift Apart with @insomniacgames #ps5Watch @gamescom Opening Night Live, streaming Thursday at 8 pm CEST / 2 PM ET / 11 AM PT
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— Geoff Keighley ? Opening Night Live (@geoffkeighley) August 25, 2020
Gamescom has gone all-digital for 2020 (for obvious reasons), but after years where it felt like Gamescom was just a tagalong behind E3, this has come at a time to help refocus news around a handful of key livestreams.
This will be the first time that Sony have shown off one of their next-gen titles since the PlayStation 5 reveal event back in June. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart was a major talking point from that show, with Insomniac Games building their game concept around the capabilities of the PlayStation 5’s SSD, enabling them to create a dimension hopping adventure that swaps between realities in just a few seconds (making for some pretty easily disguised loading screens thanks to their brevity).
You can already see a good portion of this gameplay from the announcement trailer below, but what will be shown at Gamescom will be a longer, uncut demo that’s likely more indicative of the general gameplay experience.
The game is one of two that Insomniac have in the works for PS5, the other being Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales. That game is built on the foundations of the 2018 PS4 exclusive, looking to tell the story of the second person to don the Spider-Man costume, Miles Morales. There’s been a number of questions asked over how big the game is, whether it’s a true sequel or standalone expansion, if the original is being remastered, and it’s left things decidedly murky. What we know for certain is that it’s out this year alongside the PlayStation 5. Oh, and that it will have ray-traced puddles.
Between Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, it looks like Insomniac are doing a lot of heavy lifting for the start of the PlayStation 5 generation.
Source: Geoff Keighley
