The Joys of an Apex Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart PC Experience, and the Cheapest Deals!
When I spent an arm, a leg, and a kidney on this RTX 4090, the first thing I pondered was which games to throw at it first. Obviously, Steam is littered with PC exclusive graphical delights, but I developed a weird interest in seeing how far ported PlayStation (launch) exclusives could be pushed.
With the glaring exception of The Last of Us Part 1, ported PS Studios AAAs have been more or less mind-blowing on a decent rig. (Horizon, Spider-Man, and God of War, I’m looking and drooling in your particular directions.) As you can imagine, my ears pricked up to Lombax length at the announcement of a PC bound Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart—one of the prettiest jewels in the PS crown.
Why so? Because it, along with Housemarque’s Returnal, are among the first games to cast off the shackles of the last-gen. Insomniac Games was completely unfettered by the need to scale down and run this bold, dimension-hopping platformer on 2013-era PS4 tech. Hell, if the marketing line is to be believed, said multiverse of madness was only made possible by the power of the PS5’s internal SSD. (A dubious statement now, given this PC port can apparently achieve this feat on a decent spec HDD.)
Curious claims aside, the gameplay of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart hasn’t aged a day since 2021. That being the case, and If top-tier graphics fidelity isn’t your bag because you simply want a cracking 3D platformer on PC, let's sort you with the cheapest price right now…
Spec wise, you’re looking at the following requirements.
If visuals are your primary concern, let’s get to the big question. How has Ratchet’s double-jump from Console Land to The PC dimension gone? I sure would like to tell you it all went flawlessly but the truth is developer Nixxes has had
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