Released before 2013's Into the Nexus, the franchise's final PS3 entry, Before the Nexus was the second time Ratchet & Clank headed to mobile. It is also worse than 2005's Going Mobile.

There are also two mobile games: Ratchet & Clank: Going Mobile (2005), and Ratchet & Clank: Before the Nexus (2013), developed by Handheld Games and Darkside Game Studios respectively.

“Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart” finally gives the PS5 the showpiece it deserves. You’ll make your friends jealous of the still impossible to find console and have a great time in the process.

(The smartphone tie-in game from the same year, Ratchet & Clank: Before the Nexus, has no story to speak of.) There's also Ratchet & Clank (2016), but this was a reboot, as well as a movie tie-in ...

Most games in the Ratchet & Clank series relegate this role to a Gadgetron box, but in Rift Apart, the role is given to Ms. Zurkon, who fans may recognize from Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus. Ms.

As the final (downloadable) entry into the Ratchet and Clank adventures on the PS3, Nexus is a fitting if all too short epilogue. You'll have completed the story mission in about five or six hours ...

Some games, like “Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart,” are harnessing PS5-specific tech to change the way we play.

The last time we saw the pair of Ratchet and Clank, they were tearing the universe a new one in the final chapter of the Future series, Into the Nexus, on PlayStation 3.

Before the Nexus provides incentive for collecting Raritanium, Ratchet and Clank’s currency, by allowing it to carry over to Ratchet and Clank: Into the Nexus when synced with PSN accounts.

The player plays as Ratchet and has to jump between grindrails in order to collect bolts which can be used to upgrade weapons and armor. It was released to promote Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus.

Considering Ratchet and Clank: Into The Nexus ' low price and not all that demanding visuals, it seemed like natural candidate for a PS Vita release.