Here, the game introduces its secret weapon: , a female Lombax freedom fighter missing her right arm (replaced by a cybernetic prosthetic). Rivet is not a gender-swapped skin; she’s a fully realized character with her own arc — mistrustful, impulsive, scarred by years of resistance against the Emperor. She has her own companion, Kit (a defective warbot who rejected violence, analogous to Clank’s logical pacifism but with more guilt).
Rift Apart entered full production in 2018, leveraging Insomniac’s proprietary engine (the same one used for Spider-Man: Miles Morales ). The team’s key innovation was the “dimensional rift” system: portals that could be rendered in real-time without loading screens. This required rewriting how the engine streamed assets, essentially pre-caching entire alternate levels in RAM and swapping them in less than a second. ratchet & clank: rift apart codex
Won “Best Family Game” and “Best Animation” at the 2021 Game Awards. Also took home “Technical Achievement” from the BAFTAs. Here, the game introduces its secret weapon: ,
For the Lombax, the robot, and the fans who’ve followed them since 2002, Rift Apart was worth the wait. And for the rifts still open… the adventure continues. Rift Apart entered full production in 2018, leveraging