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More Timesplitters 4 details appear, David explodes with joy photo

I love Timesplitters 2. I mean really love it. In an almost scary way. If it were a girl I'd marry it, if it were a food I'd gorge on it until my stomach lining burst, and if it were a drug my veins, lungs and brain would now be naught but a sticky black goo, trickling out of my deliriously over-dosed body as it lay stinking in some alley on the wrong side of town.

Packed with brilliantly expressive character design, genuinely funny, marvellously deranged script writing, some fantastic and affectionate movie pastiche, and the slickest and most enjoyable gameplay in any console FPS, it's as if Free Radical scanned my very soul before designing it and used the collected data to create the ultimate personalized gaming wet dream just for me. You'll understand then, the moronic, dribbly grinning and unashamed moistening of trousers upon my part which greeted Grim's news of a new sequel just over a month ago. 

There's a whole lot more of that on the way from me today, as Free Radical screenwriter Rob Yescombe has been talking to CVG, confirming that things are definitely moving ahead on Timesplitters 4:

Yes, TimeSplitters 4 is happening. At the moment it's in the very early concept stages, and as yet it's unsigned to any publisher.

TimeSplitters 4 will be a great big joke at the expense of the world of games - ourselves included. God, that's a terrible sound bite. Can you just make one up and make me sound hilarious? No, wait, just say that I /*have*/ a hilarious sound bite, but it's still in the very early concept stage.

The game's not a very long way away but it's not a very short way away either. It's somewhere in the middle. Is that non-specific enough?

Rambling, vaguely nonsensical, and therefore exactly the kind of statement that bodes very well for the development of a Timesplitters game as far as I'm concerned. And the best bit? No specific publisher. While to some that may seem a strange thing to celebrate, to me it screams one glorious fact: EA isn't involved yet. Timesplitters: Future Perfect was possibly the most crushing disappointment of my gaming life, a turgid, contrived, sterile and humorless piece of overly refined pap which subverted everything that was good about TS 2. Please guys, for me, sign carefully and don't let that happen again. 

 


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Coonskin05's Avatar
Coonskin05 at 08/08/2007 13:59
YES PLEASE!
Jordan Grim Devore's Avatar
Jordan Grim Devore at 08/08/2007 14:13
Anyone who doesn't like Timesplitters 2 can jog off.
Mxyzptlk's Avatar
Mxyzptlk at 08/08/2007 14:21
That reminds me, I so need to hunt down a copy of Timesplitters 2.
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Kif at 08/08/2007 14:31
Me and my friends used to play Future Perfect during breaks during sixth form (My friend used to bring his PS2 in with a small screen). Also, that is one of the best logos I have EVER seen.
ian_esq's Avatar
ian_esq at 08/08/2007 14:55
Timesplitters 2 was a game I always avoided. But all I ever hear is how good it was
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JohanMcDougal at 08/08/2007 15:07
I liked Future perfect :(
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charliesuh at 08/08/2007 15:16
Yay, I just found a copy of TS2 in a bargain bin yesterday, 7$!
It's my first time playing it and I love it!
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mono at 08/08/2007 15:19
Future Perfect is no Timesplitters 2, but show me a man on earth who would dare pass up the opportunity to do a sniper battle in FP's Siberia level.
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Brandon Undead at 08/08/2007 15:28
Yesh, a little brutal on Future Perfect... I never played part 2, though I guess I should now that I've read this, but I found TS: FP a pleasant surprise in FPS games, which I generally find a terribly monotonous bore.
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David Houghton at 08/08/2007 15:29
I'll give you that, multiplayer sniper battling was great, but it was sadly the only good thing in it.

It was particularly cool if you had one person on foot and the other in the jeep screwing towards them trying to run them over before they could get the headshot.
DarkTravesty's Avatar
DarkTravesty at 08/08/2007 15:39
Future Perfect>2
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ArrestedDeveloper at 08/08/2007 15:43
I've never played timesplitters but the trailer for the game was awesome.
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MusashiX2 at 08/08/2007 15:50
i think the first Timesplitters is still the best. i loved how the map editor had those pre-made maps already in there, and you could alter them however you want. you could even do simple things like select one option to change the theme of the whole map, and it looked completely different.
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KilgoreTrout XL at 08/08/2007 15:57
I could never get past the one level where you fought all the ducks in the morgue and you only had one double barrel shotgun. There's also a level where you had to make to the end and back (maybe twice or so) of a winding city street which was completely insane as well.

Does that sound crazy or does anyone remember that?
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Drift64 at 08/08/2007 16:00
I did not like T2 but really enjoy T3. T2 had crappy control compare to the third one and the third one shows actual gun reloading!!!
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Professor Pew at 08/08/2007 16:22
By the time I got an xbox, the T2 looked so horrid that I never really got into it. I also liked T3 tho, even if it was an easy 6 hour game :/

I did like the humor, so yeah bring on T4!
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David Houghton at 08/08/2007 16:33
Kilgore: I know exactly the levels you mean. They were utter swine! It took me weeks to get any good at the Capture The Bag level on the city streets. Those two levels still haunt my nightmares.
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ajaxender at 08/08/2007 17:21
t2 was great, but i thought fp improved on it at least a little in every way, except for controls, where it improved A LOT (but then, i got into halo about the same time as t2, so that was the benchmark for me back then, and t2's lack of manual aiming annoyed me). More Timesplitters cannot be a bad thing!
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hellsing321 at 08/08/2007 17:21
I think you're being a little harsh on FP. It definetly wasn't as good as #2 but it was still a good addition to the franchise.
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TheBrain at 08/08/2007 17:27
I loved both games. However, I hope TS4 has a jump button. When it is not there...it just..bothers me.
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RivaOni at 08/08/2007 17:44
I love both the first two TimeSplitters games, 3 wasn't awful, just nowhere near as good.

However, I also think TimeSplitters was a superior multiplayer experience to TimeSplitters 2, but that may be due to my permanent intoxicated state for the period I played TimeSplitters with friends (so from Day One of the PS2 launch up until the early hours of the morning of the TS2 launch, not none stop obviously though).

It felt more suited to how my friends and I were playing games at that point, where as TS2 wasn't quite as frenetic.

Still, so long as we can still play suicide bomber on the Chinese level against bots while drunk it'll still be fun (and yes I'm aware of how technically wrong that is in this day and age but its fun sending a friend into a room where another friend has trapped them inside, with a remote mine stuck to him and the remote in your hand)
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zaqu at 08/08/2007 17:48
timesplitters was the best series in everyway i loved 2 and 3 had the BEST multiplayer anywhere and single player was epic and thebrain is right the only thing that made halo beat timesplitters was the damn jump button but i loved secondary firing from timesplitters
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Toneman at 08/08/2007 18:14
Timesplitters 1 had the best multiplayer, Timesplitters 3 had the best single player, Timesplitters 2 was the sweet in between.

I made some of the greatest maps in the world with that map editor. My friends don't even like playing the default ones anymore, they're THAT good.
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Majora at 08/08/2007 19:09
The only thing i want to know is where the series will be chronologicaly, Seeing as in Ts3 you went back to the start of it all and destroyed the time crystals which basically made the 3 games not happen.No crystals = no time travelling Crow = No creation of the splitter species.With this there is no war, no splitters and most of all no time travel...So when the hell is it going to take place...
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sloganpwns at 08/08/2007 19:15
This has just become my most anticipated game of all time.

my only hope, besides EA fucking this game up too, is...

The thing that really pissed me off with TS:FP was how they didn't let u remap the buttons for weapon swapping and you would have to let off the left joystick to hit the D-pad, making you stop moving. You could change it in TS2 though! Did anyone else find this extremely frustrating? Am I over reacting to a stupid button? Has TS2 set my standards to high?
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JonDarkwood at 08/08/2007 19:33
Huh, I love the multiplayer in future perfect though. If it's so bad then i'm kind of glad i'm playing that first since I don't have Timesplitters 2 yet.
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tehuberone at 08/09/2007 01:26
Future Perfect had a way better story than 2, and it basically took all the multiplayer aspects of 2 and added to them.

Quit hatin'.
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The_Psychopsilocybin at 08/09/2007 02:13
The original timesplitters is where i learned how to play fps with dual joysticks. Man the multiplayer was phenominal at the time. TS2 was good and TS3 was okay, hopefully TS4 will be good.
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Boolean at 08/09/2007 03:02
"Also, that is one of the best logos I have EVER seen."

Huh? *scrolls up*

BAAA HA HA!! CLASSIC!
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Alighero at 08/09/2007 16:34
I cannot wait for TS4. Enough said.
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Tarantino1000 at 10/07/2007 10:25
TS1 Sucks! :P TS2 is improved, TS:FP is the ultimate coolest one. I love the haunted mansion and Jo Beth Casey. WOW! I hope TS4 is for PSP and a bit like TSFP. I ,like the castle level and the mapmaker, plus Everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SUPER COOL!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
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Dole at 10/20/2008 21:22
O.K. a few things:

-Christiangamer, you can literally make any button do anything in TimeSplitters 2, so if you wanted, you could give it the Halo controller layout

-In my opinion, TimeSplitters 2 is the best game of the series; this is not to say that the others are bad, though.
TimeSplitters 1 is just ridiculously frantic and you can’t tell what the heck is going one, which is what makes it so fun.
TimeSplitters 2 is almost as frantic, but you can at least tell what’s going on for the most part. Some of the things I loved about TimeSplitters 2 were all of the little details, for example: if you shot Big Tony in the head, his toupee popped off. Not to say this was my favorite detail (though I do love it) or the only one, there were tons of those, like: certain characters had eyes that glowed in the dark, some had hats that came off (like Big Tony’s toupee), some characters had particles that followed them (like the Scourge Splitter who had a flaming head, and the Sewer Zombie who breathed green breathe (not the snot projectile, the breathe was very subtle) in story mode), and stuff like that. It was those things that made it so great (in addition to the awesome gameplay of course).
TimeSplitters 3, I think, was a good game. I was very disappointed when I found out EA was publishing it, though. There were somethings they got rid of in TimeSplitters 3 that I think they shouldn’t have kept the same, like the fully customizable control scheme in TimeSplitters 2, the little details, the large number of story item pick-ups for custom story maps, the unlimited logic memory (at least until you made more than 36 logics which caused all of them to stop working), you get the idea. There were also plenty of cool new features though that got me excited about the game. The mapmaker overall was definitely improved despite having somethings altered for the worse (the biggest problem being that there was never enough memory to make in depth story levels). The story was more in depth (hit and miss with that one, it was kind of fun just jumping around randomly in TimeSplitters 2 and finding yourself in really bizarre situations). Some cool new weapons with more detailed animations were added (but sadly, no Tommy Guns, K-SMG was almost as good once you got used to the gun flash taking up the entire screen (the K-SMG was nice and glitchy, too, I love that—turning it into an automatic rocket launcher that you didn’t have to reload was the best)). Remote controlled cats were totally awesome! Whenever I would play with someone who had never seen the cat before, I would just drive around them meowing to freak them out because they didn’t know what it was going to do. I can also see why they took out some of the detailed things in TimeSplitters 2, they do have a certain amount of memory to which they are limited.
Anyway, I could go on all night (in case you haven’t figured it out, I’m a TimeSplitters fanatic that has investigated every little nook and glitch in the games—I also like to use parenthesis).

-I personally liked the way the controls in TimeSplitters 2 were as well, a lot of people say they were too hard to operate, but I thought they were really good.

- I’ll end this with one last thing, Halo sucks (especially 2 and 3). You can play as a big doofus in TimeSplitters and shot a bunch of aliens with a pistol if you like Halo. And those of you who like to jump, think about this: In real life, how often do you jump? And think about this, too: In real life, you jump about ten inches in the air if you don’t pull legs up after you’ve left the ground, how useful is that in a videogame? I can answer that one for you, almost completely useless. I played a game like that, it was DRIV3R (Driver 3 for those of you who are a bit slow or don’t like numbers mixed into words). DRIV3R was a cool game, but the jumping that was accurate to real life…totally useless; the shoulder roll was more effective for getting onto to a higher surface.

-Anyway I’m done. (Looking back, this is really REALLY long, sorry)
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