A great return to form for the series, easily the best since A Crack in Time on PS3.

Great hard hitting combat, striking art style with one of the best looking implementations of ray tracing I've ever seen, and a really propulsive main story campaign. It's really a great entry in the series.

The only thing this is lacking is a little more variety around the edges. The best games in the series are chock full of totally optional objectives, story bits, and minigames. Hell, Crack in Time has a whole wild space exploration bit at its top level.

Rift Apart, by contrast is really just the mainline. And that mainline is really polished and well-realized, but beyond it... there's really nothing to do other than the combat arena. The game needed a speedle racing minigame or something to liven it up a little bit. Just one or two more things to break up the story progression.

Reviewed on Mar 23, 2024


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