Thank you guys so much for watching. I mean it. I’m really happy all this work was worth it. And it shows me that this is a good form of content for me to create. Next video will be a different game, but the same style! See you then.
@@Hydra343 I appreciate the thoughtfulness! I absolutely do want to do a TSFP retrospective as well. Just gotta find the time in between classes and such. I may be able to get some major progress done during my spring break! My next video will be something a little easier / shorter to complete so I can still share love of old games. It’s a smaller, even lesser known title. But hopefully people like it! Just peek back every once in a while :)
Just dropping in to say that my father passed and this game series is quite literally the most fun and loving thing we ever did together. Amazing series. Rest easy pops.
Same man. I'm sorry to hear about your father. My dad bought a 2nd xbox so we could play ts2 together without seeing eachothers screen and we would have big systenlink games between my friends and his friends. At night we would play in his bedroom and take turns playing behead the undead. The whole reason I learned to play inverted was because it was standard layout for ts2 and my dad was a helicopter pilot back in the 80s. So I started playing inverted to be like dad and then eventually it just stuck!
What I've observed about the franchise is that a lot of people didn't play it, but everyone who did loved it. I'm hopeful for a Time Splitters resurgence because I've noticed that over the past few years, more and more people have been doing retrospectives on it. The interest seems to be there, and if Free Radical made it more accessible I think there's money to be made. Great vid, bro! God bless!
When I was about 12, I broke my wrist and Timesplitters was the only game I had that let me remap all of the controls i needed to play with one hand. Itll always have a place in my heart
I have a specific love for TimeSplitters 2. When I was young and my dad was between jobs we won a PS2 from a radio competition he entered and the only actual games me and my sister had were TimeSplitters 1 and Burnout, but Burnout was so scratched up that it didn't play, pre-owned games right? We just had PS2 magazine demos besides that. So me and my sister would play TimeSplitters split screen vs the bots for hours or play the story - our family couldn't really afford new games so we used to buy the PS2 magazines with demos and play them a lot - but one magazine had an article about TimeSplitters 2, me and my sister used to read it over so many times because it was our absolute favourite game but our family couldn't afford it. Then one day my dad picked us up from school and said we had a new game at home and we were so excited but he wouldn't tell us what it was, we got home and ontop of our PS2 was a brand new copy of TimeSplitters 2, I swear we must have been up until the early hours playing it with our dad now and then coming in to see and asking if we were enjoying it, if it's good etc.
Wasn’t it great how rare getting new games was as a kid? It made us appreciate them more. TimeSplitters 2 was such an obsession with my friends and I. Funny you mention Burnout. Burnout 3 was another favorite of mine. I’ve never played the earlier games, but I’d love to.
I got both Timesplitters 2 and Future Perfect on sale a year ago and these are some of the best games I have ever played, and I was born in 02. Great job on the retrospective.
This game will always hold a spot in my heart multiple play through a as a kid with my cousin growing up and endless multiplayer matches together which are so damn fun
Same here dude this game and future perfect. I put hundreds of hours trying to platinum arcade finish story mode and playing vs with friends and AI Such fun games
I feel like they sealed a very solid reputation and left before the era of extremely high expectations. I feel like bungie did that with halo, Even though 343 is still relevant I still feel like its a shell of something that can be memorable. The perfect dark on the xbox 360 and james bond games I can't remember anything about them. 🤷🏻♂️ (just opinion not hating)
We had a unique oldschool traditional early 3D FPS sub-genre era , from (Quake) 1996 - 2005 when the last of this traditional FPS game design was still dominant. It was the best time for the genre overall , It had great single player campaigns as well as local multiplayer/lan parties and early online communities free of toxicity , even though imo early CODs did perfect the multiplayer online experience It wasn't as healthy as a community anymore and single player has suffered ever since , It also homogenized FPS Innovation because everyone just wants to copy or be the next COD , because It arguably has mastered the multiplayer side of the genre which previously had no reliable blueprint for consistent success. I'm not happy about It because I miss the experimental ambition of devs trying to find what works , but I do I think FPS Is the first genre multiplayer-wise that can no longer be Improved beyond what COD offers , It's a perfect feeling gameplay loop that never gets old (If It's one of the good CODs) , but I still prefer oldschool era FPS more because It was less generic , formulaic , streamlined/corporate feeling.
Team Fortress 2 could have been this if it wasn't so PC-centric and focused entirely on online team play, neglecting solo offline story mode and local multiplayer. Always loved TF2's art style but I don't play online games so it was a hard pass for me unfortunately.
I love how you actually explained the lore of every mission. Like what exactly happened to the frozen reaper in the first mission. I didn’t know it was thousands of years ago
That shared sense or utter terror as a flaming dinosaur or zombie chases you is unmatched to this day. Myself and my cousin in my room for hours, good times.
Well you blasted the bad guy at the end of Future Perfect. I suppose they could make another, but at this point it's OG Dev's aren't even in market anymore. It's like making a 1980's chevy from scratch, it would be close but not the same.
Dooood. This video was so good. I grew up playing time splitters 1-3 with my dad and sister. Now I’m 32 and haven’t played them in forever. Since ps2 days. This video was filled with so many awesome facts and made my nostalgia nut burst. Thank you ❤
This is the video I always wanted to make, I love Timesplitters 2 and it was a cornerstone of my childhood too. It goes without saying that you've done more justice to it than I could have. The fact there's a two hour love letter to this game made my week, thanks for this man.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! I want to make more videos like this when I have time. There will be a different title in between this and Future Perfect, but it will come!
I'm coming back now to say two things: First, I have no doubt you could create a wonderful video if you put in the time! I apologize that I missed that the first go round. Second, I am posting the Future Perfect video very soon. I hope you enjoy that as well!
Timesplitters 2 and 3 were a tremendous part of my childhood and it saddens me we never had another. Absolutely fantastic series I can't really more of in the same vein today.
One of my favourite games growing up. Ridiculously dense with content. Hours and hours of fun trying to platinum all of the challenges and building maps. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. A really well done retrospective!
it is such a coincidence today i decided to look up Time Splitters from my time with my ps2, and your content was uploaded just a month ago. i had no idea people even played this to this day and i'm so so thankful for this. i enjoyed this so much, thank you
Awesome vid. I always preferred 3, but I'll never forget beating this entire game in one sitting with my brother as we hid from our family Thanksgiving. That man knew this game by heart, he was able to shoot the cameras on Siberia without a second glance, and didn't come close to failing atom shmasher
*After reading the first part: "Well, the cameras become routine at a certain point..." *Gets to the Atom Smasher part: He sounds like a friggin champ! lol
@@MikeOnslow I’m so glad you think so! Makes me feel like all this time has been worth it. I hope you have a good day and eventually come back for Future Perfect!
Timesplitters 1-3 are some of my oldest and most fond gaming memories of all time, nothing has ever come close to the fun i had with them and i would die to see someone remake them
Loved this. Early 2000s, I was about 19 - 20 and me and my mates had two PS2s networked so eight of us could play! Loved it! Got my kids to play it when I found it for £4 at a games market! They liked it too.
A true gem. To see this game getting praise and acknowledgement in today's world is beautiful. Different world back then. Games didn't have to be super violent or gory even if they were shooter. Timesplitters 2 strikes such a balance. So fun, so characterful. Class all the way through. The top hot to handle arcade challenge is a day of fun on its own! Thank you for your views. Its a 10/10
Just disccovered your channel and daaaaaamn bro the feels this video gave me, remembering playing TS2 and Future Perfect for years with my older brother
I never played Timesplitters 2, but I did play Timesplitters 1. I heard nothing but good things about the sequel, but I never spent the money on it because there were other games I wanted to play, and I had hours of fun just messing around with the level editor of the first one. This is the first time I've seen footage of the second game and yep; can tell at a glance this has loads more polish and thought behind it. I think I get the hype now.
Omg this game was legendary! Me and a friend played non stop! Virus mode was mega! “I’m meltinggg”!! Seriously bringing back some nostalgia here what a time to be a kid
Me and my buddy spent a chunk of our childhood perfecting the coop mission runs, the timing and coordination we just had DOWN. TS2 was SO glorious, we still quote that game WAY more than you might expect. Man, I can still play out the Dam level in my head. Chicago, shooting those barrels. We shot from top to bottom because you could see the pressure drain as it emptied and it was so cool back then XD ITS TIIIIME TO SPLIT!
dude! keep it up because you have the vibe of a huge creator. love your chill voice and love this game series. it's nice when i can get some chores done and reminisce over one of my favorite game series ever. not even 10 minutes in yet and just had to drop you a comment, before i watch the rest. subscribed and looking forward to your next videos.
I remember my father giving me the Xbox and a few games way back when I was a kid. It was obviously Halo CE, The Sega GT and Jet Set Radio Future bundle, and Timesplitters 2. He told me he wasn’t into Timesplitters when I asked him about the game. I kind of know why because the aiming was just outdated even for its time but I got used to it. Timesplitters 2 and Halo CE were my first ever FPS games and they still hold up today. 100% that game is a feel good achievement. Thanks for the video.
Your retrospective of the story missions was really good, there are just two things i have to mention. 1. In 'return to planet X' there is a checkpoint. You hit it when you jump out of the crashed ufo into the green cave below. At least this checkpoint exists in the european version of the game. 2. The mysterious portal inside the Ozor mox base might acctually teleport you inside the big ufo in front of you. I doesn't seem to be a time portal. And by the way have you ever noticed that the tools of the dark machinists battle machine rotate the wrong way?
This is a great video, ive always felt that Timesplitters as a series is so overlooked considering its one of the best game series there is. I particularly like that you made a point to discuss the music, I'd say Timesplitters 2 and 3 are big reasons that i became a musician. The soundtracks are phenomenal. In regards to the Space Station, I always thought it was a human station that was taken over by the Time Splitters, in the opening curscene you see them moving human corpses and as you mentioned theres signs in english and space suits for humans. I think the reason the time machine in Future Perfect is so dofferent probably just means its a different kind of time machine because that one sends Cortez in his own body through time rather than the one in 2 where it puts him in the bodies of other people.
You're welcome! I love Timesplitters. If you are interested, I released a video on Future Perfect a couple months ago, and will be doing one for TS1 in the future!
I really, really enjoyed this. Talking about how good TS2 was/is - it's like sharing a fine wine. Ages beautifully, and tastes even better for it. Plus, the amount of work put into this vid shows through - I greatly appreciated it. Thank you and keep them coming!
You played it a lot as a kid but you're only 19? Crazy. Most people who played this as kids are my age (30) You must have been a console or two behind as a kid huh?
Unless he played on a console 2 generations back as a kid.. Could be possible.. When all my friends got a gameboy color I finally got the original brick, and when my friends got their playstation and n64, my mum got me a 2nd hand Sega Megadrive ^^
This was my favorite game to play with my brother as a kid. We used to play for hours on our OG Xbox while our parents were working. I was terrible at shooters so I only ever played on the easiest difficulty. My tiny brain also couldn’t manage the time limit on Atom Smasher, so I could never beat it - didn’t care though, I just replayed the shit out of the earlier missions. Each one is incredibly, perfectly campy and just such a vibe. Two decades later, my brother and I have an apartment together, and he STILL has that same Xbox. This video made me suggest pulling out TS2, and we’ve been doing Co-op again, this time on max difficulty for that extra content. It’s preposterously hard, but we’ve been making headway. It’s been a blast. Thanks for stirring up some core memories, man ✌️
Been playing these games since I was a toddler, I've never not had TimeSplitters in my life. Thanks, FRD, you made many childhoods very happy with the greatest video game trilogy ever.
Thank you for making such a long and detailed video about an amazing game! This was such a fun and impactful game from my childhood and I always have it with me to this day as I’ve moved around. It’s so unique and they really did a good job at making it a special and re-playable experience all around. It’s fun to go back to and is so interesting. Great story, good characters, goofy moments and so much customization. Countless hours have been spent between this and the third game. I know myself and many others have hoped for a resurgence or even a 4th installment over the years, someday!
I appreciate you watching! I felt like the game didn’t have enough recognition. Since making the video, I’ve heard so many awesome stories from people about their time with the game!
Timesplitters 2 was one of the first console games that you could set your own soundtrack for by uploading music onto the original XBox hard drive. One of my top video game memories from high school was playing this at 1am with Mt friends, killing each other to Billy Joel haha
Love to see people keeping the brand alive. I’ve been remaking the maps in Halo as of late. Got 4 done and published on Infinite if you’re ever curious, with more on the way. Did like a dozen on Halo 5. I particularly enjoyed the story level descriptions. Haven’t seen anyone go as in depth as you did.
I had it on GameCube and we played it so much with my older brother, really good time with this amazing game ! Thanks for the video incredible work you’ve made !
I really enjoyed this, revisiting great memories. It’s really interesting being able to now understand the missions in detail too. You are really articulate and you did a fantastic job. Thank you for making this video.
I grew up with the TimeSplitters franchise, and it's very near and dear to my heart! The way you covered TimeSplitters 2 in this video was great, and I'm hoping you do the same for TimeSplitters Future Perfect, because I love that game a lot also, and the campaign for that game has a special place in my heart. For a 2 hour long video, I was pretty engaged the entire time, and you did a good job covering the many awesome features found in this awesome game! I definitely had to subscribe after seeing this video! I hope to see you make more awesome retrospective videos like this!
just got to the end! you should definitely add the arcade league and challenge videos! epic retrospective. congrats on making it - i'm sure it was a TON of work.
Thank you so much for your comments! They made my night, honestly. I'm really glad you enjoyed and I absolutely plan to make more content along these lines. As for the gameplay videos, I'm thinking of stitching each league together possibly, editing it so as to highlight all the fun bits :) Hope I can continue to entertain over time.
my brother and i have so many memories of playing 2 v 10 bots, setting all the bots to snowmen and then triggering the "I'm melting" sound clip for like 30 minutes straight w/ flamethrowers while laughing our adolescent heads off
I was a little too young at the time to fully appreciate this game but wow the memories me and my brother still have from that monkey dance floor and stuff is insane lol, I’m kinda tearing up thinking of all the amazing memories that game had for me.
Probably one of, if not my favourite game of all time - up there with old Final Fantasy, Pokemon and Zelda games. This video was absolutely brilliant, nice work man! They announced that the new Free Radical was closed down a couple of days ago, so no further sequels or remasters to now 😭
This game was my childhood. All-time classic. Playing co-op hard mode with my best friend and determined to beat it. The custom map creation. Virus mode multiplayer. Unique maps and characters… including Leo Krupps and the duck man. Sweet music. I would certainly buy a re-release if that ever came on modern consoles.
This game was amazing! Once upon a time when Halo came out (but I didn't have an Xbox) and I had finally moved on from Perfect Dark, I decided to remake a lot of the Halo multiplayer levels in TS2. This was SO fun!
Just finished watching this, and was going to make a comment asking about Future Perfect. Then checked the channel, and it's there. Thanks fella, great content.
I was 9 when TimeSplitters 2 came out in 2002. I played the shit out of it on PS2, especially arcade splitscreen with all of my friends. I loved the silliness of playing as monkeys, robots, and gangsters.
The coolest thing about this game when I was younger was realizing more story mode unlocked plying higher difficulty, was such a cool feature cause you felt like you were opening so much more of the game
I don't remember the game being *that* hard even on hard difficulty. I do remember really young me not getting past Neo Tokyo though because I was so impatient with stealth stuff (and perhaps not smart enough to realize what I was supposed to do). I remember coming back to the campaign a bit older (still played the game a ton with the challenges and vs bots and waaaaaaaay too much time in the map editor) and when I realized that hard mode *gave more content* I was blown away. So few games did something like that and it made it feel like you got 1.5 campaigns. What I do remember as being super hard were some of those one-off challenge campaign missions. I don't think I ever beat all of those...
I loved this game! The crazy secret mission were so much fun. First played it on a demo and thought it was really cool. When I got the full game and saw how different each level was I was hooked.
Whilst everyone I knew complained nonstop about how difficult and frustrating this game was, it was what made me love it. TS2 deserves a lot more recognition it currently has.
I LOVE this retrospective so much! Best one on TH-cam!! One thing kid me always found kinda neat even though it's a bit dark is that some of the in game dialogue, mostly from bosses (one example being Khallos) implies that things are turning out differently and that normally our heroes didn't make it this far... Which I still find cool because perhaps it means that the timesplitters are being thwarted by people throughout history that ordinarily would've suffered a tragic fate but thanks to Cortez get a second chance to accomplish their missions. Overall I love this game and very much enjoy your in-depth synopsis of the main story. ^v^
as a kid i spent hundreds of hours in the arcade mode and i feel it's by far the best part of the game, i remember never picking female characters when my mom was home too lol
I’ll never forget this game. Me and my sister and our childhood best friend would rent this game from Blockbuster all the time to go through the story. We one day forgot to return it and ended up having it forever. I think it was 2003 or 04. I introduced some friends to it in 2016 and we started playing it again. I keep hoping there will be a remaster for current consoles just because it’s soooo good. Fun thing, is during multiplayer modes; I’d always chose Stone Golem because if an enemy had fire, the golem would never catch on fire. Something the developers changed in Future Perfect.
He was immune!!! But yeah man, sounds a lot like my childhood experience. Played with my sister and a friend now and then. Been trying to get more people into it, and I’ve had a lot of people play it with me over the years now!
Thank you guys so much for watching. I mean it. I’m really happy all this work was worth it. And it shows me that this is a good form of content for me to create. Next video will be a different game, but the same style! See you then.
I'm only about halfway through the video, but I've been enjoying every second of it so far. Really well edited and well scripted too.
@@Hydra343 thank you so much! I’m glad you’re enjoying it :)
@@OnyxLeviathan I hate to ask because I feel like it puts pressure on you, but are you considering doing a retrospective for future perfect as well?
@@Hydra343 I appreciate the thoughtfulness! I absolutely do want to do a TSFP retrospective as well. Just gotta find the time in between classes and such. I may be able to get some major progress done during my spring break!
My next video will be something a little easier / shorter to complete so I can still share love of old games. It’s a smaller, even lesser known title. But hopefully people like it!
Just peek back every once in a while :)
@@OnyxLeviathan That's completely understandable. I appreciate the replies and eagerly await more videos from you :)
Just dropping in to say that my father passed and this game series is quite literally the most fun and loving thing we ever did together. Amazing series. Rest easy pops.
Same man. I'm sorry to hear about your father. My dad bought a 2nd xbox so we could play ts2 together without seeing eachothers screen and we would have big systenlink games between my friends and his friends.
At night we would play in his bedroom and take turns playing behead the undead.
The whole reason I learned to play inverted was because it was standard layout for ts2 and my dad was a helicopter pilot back in the 80s. So I started playing inverted to be like dad and then eventually it just stuck!
Im sorry for your loss
What I've observed about the franchise is that a lot of people didn't play it, but everyone who did loved it. I'm hopeful for a Time Splitters resurgence because I've noticed that over the past few years, more and more people have been doing retrospectives on it. The interest seems to be there, and if Free Radical made it more accessible I think there's money to be made. Great vid, bro! God bless!
Thank you! Fingers crossed we get a badass new game.
TimeSplitters Rewind has been in development since 2017, we can only hope it makes it through development hell.
They could start of with some fresh remasters of the three games.
@@OnyxLeviathanits a great game!
I hope by now you’ve heard of the official 4th game in development by original devs 😎
When I was about 12, I broke my wrist and Timesplitters was the only game I had that let me remap all of the controls i needed to play with one hand. Itll always have a place in my heart
that's so dope
I have a specific love for TimeSplitters 2. When I was young and my dad was between jobs we won a PS2 from a radio competition he entered and the only actual games me and my sister had were TimeSplitters 1 and Burnout, but Burnout was so scratched up that it didn't play, pre-owned games right? We just had PS2 magazine demos besides that. So me and my sister would play TimeSplitters split screen vs the bots for hours or play the story - our family couldn't really afford new games so we used to buy the PS2 magazines with demos and play them a lot - but one magazine had an article about TimeSplitters 2, me and my sister used to read it over so many times because it was our absolute favourite game but our family couldn't afford it. Then one day my dad picked us up from school and said we had a new game at home and we were so excited but he wouldn't tell us what it was, we got home and ontop of our PS2 was a brand new copy of TimeSplitters 2, I swear we must have been up until the early hours playing it with our dad now and then coming in to see and asking if we were enjoying it, if it's good etc.
I absolutely love this
Wasn’t it great how rare getting new games was as a kid? It made us appreciate them more.
TimeSplitters 2 was such an obsession with my friends and I.
Funny you mention Burnout. Burnout 3 was another favorite of mine. I’ve never played the earlier games, but I’d love to.
I got both Timesplitters 2 and Future Perfect on sale a year ago and these are some of the best games I have ever played, and I was born in 02. Great job on the retrospective.
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed the video and the games. They are vastly, criminally underrated.
Same I was going to buy TS2 on Xbox and then purchase Future Perfect later, but the day I was going to buy it they both were half off, so I got both.
welcome
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@@Expressmusic457 Excellent choice! Best FPS games to me
This game will always hold a spot in my heart multiple play through a as a kid with my cousin growing up and endless multiplayer matches together which are so damn fun
For my best friends birthday nearly 20 years ago I bought him a stack of PS2 games from the
I'm so glad this game means a lot to you, just like me! So many fun memories.
Same here dude this game and future perfect.
I put hundreds of hours trying to platinum arcade finish story mode and playing vs with friends and AI
Such fun games
And then your 'friend' says what now? You reply, shut up and kiss me before engaging in passionate anal s*x for several hours
Timesplitters is an amazing series. 👍
I loved this game so much. I never understood why it wasn’t more popular. Good to see it getting some love.
It's a shame the goldeneye, perfect dark, timesplitters genre had such a short life.
I feel like they sealed a very solid reputation and left before the era of extremely high expectations. I feel like bungie did that with halo, Even though 343 is still relevant I still feel like its a shell of something that can be memorable. The perfect dark on the xbox 360 and james bond games I can't remember anything about them. 🤷🏻♂️ (just opinion not hating)
We had a unique oldschool traditional early 3D FPS sub-genre era , from (Quake) 1996 - 2005 when the last of this traditional FPS game design was still dominant.
It was the best time for the genre overall , It had great single player campaigns as well as local multiplayer/lan parties and early online communities free of toxicity ,
even though imo early CODs did perfect the multiplayer online experience It wasn't as healthy as a community anymore and single player has suffered ever since , It also homogenized FPS Innovation because everyone just wants to copy or be the next COD , because It arguably has mastered the multiplayer side of the genre which previously had no reliable blueprint for consistent success. I'm not happy about It because I miss the experimental ambition of devs trying to find what works , but I do I think FPS Is the first genre multiplayer-wise that can no longer be Improved beyond what COD offers , It's a perfect feeling gameplay loop that never gets old (If It's one of the good CODs) , but I still prefer oldschool era FPS more because It was less generic , formulaic , streamlined/corporate feeling.
Team Fortress 2 could have been this if it wasn't so PC-centric and focused entirely on online team play, neglecting solo offline story mode and local multiplayer. Always loved TF2's art style but I don't play online games so it was a hard pass for me unfortunately.
my man, it was over a decade. short life nothing
I mean they were first person shooters, the genre just evolved, it didn't go away .
This is THE game of my childhood. I used to play with my dad and little sister all the time. Thank you for making this! It took me back to those days.
Playing virus mode on splitscrean with my siblings was one of the gaming highlights of my childhood. Epic game.
I love how you actually explained the lore of every mission. Like what exactly happened to the frozen reaper in the first mission. I didn’t know it was thousands of years ago
I used to play Timesplitters 2 on a Gamecube with my group of friends. Four player split screen was absolutely *chefs kiss*
Playing Flame Tag on chasm with my brothers was such a blast as a kid, never had so much fun playing a game since 😌
I’m glad you like the gametype! I always felt it was creepy and that I wanted it to be over haha
That shared sense or utter terror as a flaming dinosaur or zombie chases you is unmatched to this day. Myself and my cousin in my room for hours, good times.
Virus scared the living shit out of me as a kid.
The screaming sounds and jump scares. I always had to have my friend beat those for me.
Flame tag was great, but Virus was the best experience I ever had since.
Although TS3 was objectively bigger better stronger TS2 always remained my favorite. So sad that the series died 😢
Well you blasted the bad guy at the end of Future Perfect. I suppose they could make another, but at this point it's OG Dev's aren't even in market anymore.
It's like making a 1980's chevy from scratch, it would be close but not the same.
Dooood. This video was so good. I grew up playing time splitters 1-3 with my dad and sister. Now I’m 32 and haven’t played them in forever. Since ps2 days. This video was filled with so many awesome facts and made my nostalgia nut burst. Thank you ❤
This is the video I always wanted to make, I love Timesplitters 2 and it was a cornerstone of my childhood too. It goes without saying that you've done more justice to it than I could have. The fact there's a two hour love letter to this game made my week, thanks for this man.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! I want to make more videos like this when I have time. There will be a different title in between this and Future Perfect, but it will come!
I'm coming back now to say two things: First, I have no doubt you could create a wonderful video if you put in the time! I apologize that I missed that the first go round. Second, I am posting the Future Perfect video very soon. I hope you enjoy that as well!
First FPS I ever owned and one of my favorite games ever. Great vid!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed.
Timesplitters 2 and 3 were a tremendous part of my childhood and it saddens me we never had another. Absolutely fantastic series I can't really more of in the same vein today.
One of my favourite games growing up. Ridiculously dense with content. Hours and hours of fun trying to platinum all of the challenges and building maps. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. A really well done retrospective!
1:46:19 may be the first Queensryche reference I've ever heard in a non-music-related TH-cam video, absolutely GOATed 👌
29:37 i am reasonably sure you aren't going back in time, just going into another UFO that has the time crystal in it.
I believe you are right
I love the amount of detail. You even talk about every character.
Thank you for this.
Timesplitters was my childhood.
Stone Golem: (Humanoid made of pure stone and performs a full body slam on Captain Ash)
Captain Ash: Take that you bounder!
Ash is made of steel!
it is such a coincidence today i decided to look up Time Splitters from my time with my ps2, and your content was uploaded just a month ago. i had no idea people even played this to this day and i'm so so thankful for this. i enjoyed this so much, thank you
One of my favorite games, played for hundreds of hours as a kid on my gamecube. Great video!
Awesome vid. I always preferred 3, but I'll never forget beating this entire game in one sitting with my brother as we hid from our family Thanksgiving.
That man knew this game by heart, he was able to shoot the cameras on Siberia without a second glance, and didn't come close to failing atom shmasher
*After reading the first part: "Well, the cameras become routine at a certain point..." *Gets to the Atom Smasher part: He sounds like a friggin champ! lol
This game is absolutely legendary. Nothing will ever beat it.
On my... I searched TS2 today by chance hoping for a little nostalgia, but this is more than I could've dreamed of! Thank you Sir!
You are absolutely welcome! I hope you enjoyed it.
Jus finished it after 3 sittings! Absolutely spot on and certainly does this classic game justice, thank you!
@@MikeOnslow I’m so glad you think so! Makes me feel like all this time has been worth it. I hope you have a good day and eventually come back for Future Perfect!
Timesplitters 1-3 are some of my oldest and most fond gaming memories of all time, nothing has ever come close to the fun i had with them and i would die to see someone remake them
Loved this. Early 2000s, I was about 19 - 20 and me and my mates had two PS2s networked so eight of us could play!
Loved it! Got my kids to play it when I found it for £4 at a games market! They liked it too.
Me before watching this: "If they dont include Compound as part of the OST im not watching"
Me 3 sec into the video: "Liked the vid"
TimeSplitters 2 was an amazing game, loved the future tokyo level and the sound track was awesome
A true gem. To see this game getting praise and acknowledgement in today's world is beautiful. Different world back then. Games didn't have to be super violent or gory even if they were shooter. Timesplitters 2 strikes such a balance. So fun, so characterful. Class all the way through. The top hot to handle arcade challenge is a day of fun on its own! Thank you for your views. Its a 10/10
Just disccovered your channel and daaaaaamn bro the feels this video gave me, remembering playing TS2 and Future Perfect for years with my older brother
bless the algo! i really loved this game as a kid. awesome work on the vid
The more TimeSplitters retrospectives I see, the more it warms my soul haha. Big ups man, great video
This video deserves way more attention. Very good. Loved this game when i was i child.
Spent so many hours playing this with my dad as a kid on ps2. This bought back forgotten memories of my late dad! Thanks!
You’re welcome! I’m glad you have those great memories. I used to play with my little sister!
For those who played this series I salute you
Same to you bro 😀
I did, was in mid teens when it came out
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I never played Timesplitters 2, but I did play Timesplitters 1. I heard nothing but good things about the sequel, but I never spent the money on it because there were other games I wanted to play, and I had hours of fun just messing around with the level editor of the first one.
This is the first time I've seen footage of the second game and yep; can tell at a glance this has loads more polish and thought behind it. I think I get the hype now.
Thank you for making this. This takes me back
Omg this game was legendary! Me and a friend played non stop! Virus mode was mega! “I’m meltinggg”!! Seriously bringing back some nostalgia here what a time to be a kid
Me and my buddy spent a chunk of our childhood perfecting the coop mission runs, the timing and coordination we just had DOWN. TS2 was SO glorious, we still quote that game WAY more than you might expect.
Man, I can still play out the Dam level in my head.
Chicago, shooting those barrels. We shot from top to bottom because you could see the pressure drain as it emptied and it was so cool back then XD
ITS TIIIIME TO SPLIT!
dude! keep it up because you have the vibe of a huge creator. love your chill voice and love this game series. it's nice when i can get some chores done and reminisce over one of my favorite game series ever. not even 10 minutes in yet and just had to drop you a comment, before i watch the rest. subscribed and looking forward to your next videos.
This trilogy was a massive part of my childhood but this game specifically was my favourite. Absolutely loved these games.
I remember my father giving me the Xbox and a few games way back when I was a kid. It was obviously Halo CE, The Sega GT and Jet Set Radio Future bundle, and Timesplitters 2. He told me he wasn’t into Timesplitters when I asked him about the game. I kind of know why because the aiming was just outdated even for its time but I got used to it. Timesplitters 2 and Halo CE were my first ever FPS games and they still hold up today. 100% that game is a feel good achievement. Thanks for the video.
Those were also my first FPS titles, and my dad didn't care for TS2 either! How wrong he was lol
Your retrospective of the story missions was really good, there are just two things i have to mention.
1. In 'return to planet X' there is a checkpoint. You hit it when you jump out of the crashed ufo into the green cave below. At least this checkpoint exists in the european version of the game.
2. The mysterious portal inside the Ozor mox base might acctually teleport you inside the big ufo in front of you. I doesn't seem to be a time portal.
And by the way have you ever noticed that the tools of the dark machinists battle machine rotate the wrong way?
That makes sense about the portal! I’m not sure why I didn’t see it that way. Perhaps we were catching up to the splitter just in time.
This is a great video, ive always felt that Timesplitters as a series is so overlooked considering its one of the best game series there is.
I particularly like that you made a point to discuss the music, I'd say Timesplitters 2 and 3 are big reasons that i became a musician. The soundtracks are phenomenal.
In regards to the Space Station, I always thought it was a human station that was taken over by the Time Splitters, in the opening curscene you see them moving human corpses and as you mentioned theres signs in english and space suits for humans.
I think the reason the time machine in Future Perfect is so dofferent probably just means its a different kind of time machine because that one sends Cortez in his own body through time rather than the one in 2 where it puts him in the bodies of other people.
This brings back so many childhood memories. Thank you for doing such an extensive dive into one of the greatest console games ever made.
You're welcome! I love Timesplitters. If you are interested, I released a video on Future Perfect a couple months ago, and will be doing one for TS1 in the future!
@@OnyxLeviathan I'm already on it! Thanks for doing these long format videos dude.
@@jamiethomas3122 you got it
I loved Timesplitters 2 and Future Perfect. It’s rare when EA lets a franchise fade into obscurity without ruining it first.
I really, really enjoyed this. Talking about how good TS2 was/is - it's like sharing a fine wine. Ages beautifully, and tastes even better for it. Plus, the amount of work put into this vid shows through - I greatly appreciated it. Thank you and keep them coming!
I’m so happy I found a video about this. I used to play this game so much as a kid. I’m 19 now, but dude this was my life.
You played it a lot as a kid but you're only 19? Crazy. Most people who played this as kids are my age (30) You must have been a console or two behind as a kid huh?
@claudejohnson-kq7ih Exactly I played this game 20 years ago lol
The math isn't mathing here lol
That doesn't make sense... lol
Unless he played on a console 2 generations back as a kid.. Could be possible.. When all my friends got a gameboy color I finally got the original brick, and when my friends got their playstation and n64, my mum got me a 2nd hand Sega Megadrive ^^
This was a really fun watch! Really loved the more scripted sections but live commentary worked well too
This was my favorite game to play with my brother as a kid.
We used to play for hours on our OG Xbox while our parents were working. I was terrible at shooters so I only ever played on the easiest difficulty. My tiny brain also couldn’t manage the time limit on Atom Smasher, so I could never beat it - didn’t care though, I just replayed the shit out of the earlier missions. Each one is incredibly, perfectly campy and just such a vibe.
Two decades later, my brother and I have an apartment together, and he STILL has that same Xbox. This video made me suggest pulling out TS2, and we’ve been doing Co-op again, this time on max difficulty for that extra content. It’s preposterously hard, but we’ve been making headway. It’s been a blast.
Thanks for stirring up some core memories, man ✌️
This is such an awesome story! Also screw Atom Smasher haha I’m honored to have rekindled this for you
The last Maiden you come across is the next sacrifice for the giant monster. That's why she's hanging there.
WHY DID I NOT PUT THIS TOGETHER? I guess details get lost in the process of time haha
@@OnyxLeviathan😂 I did think you were talking about the initial reaction when you first see her, rather than it being a mystery altogether 😅
She seems a bit small to sacrifice. If I was a giant monster I wouldn’t be happy with finger food
@@josephlinden1630 virgin blood prolly go hard if you were a giant monster tho
This is one of the most detailed and complete reviews I've seen. Great work. :)
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed :) TS1 will get a deep dive as well, soon as I have the time
Bro…this is superb. I love TS2, this was a blast to the past for me.
Been playing these games since I was a toddler, I've never not had TimeSplitters in my life. Thanks, FRD, you made many childhoods very happy with the greatest video game trilogy ever.
Thank you for making such a long and detailed video about an amazing game! This was such a fun and impactful game from my childhood and I always have it with me to this day as I’ve moved around. It’s so unique and they really did a good job at making it a special and re-playable experience all around. It’s fun to go back to and is so interesting. Great story, good characters, goofy moments and so much customization. Countless hours have been spent between this and the third game. I know myself and many others have hoped for a resurgence or even a 4th installment over the years, someday!
I appreciate you watching! I felt like the game didn’t have enough recognition. Since making the video, I’ve heard so many awesome stories from people about their time with the game!
Thank you for this deep dive! I love the analysis of each mission and the characters and their motivations
And thank you for watching!
your video is a masterpiece thanks !
Can't wait for you to do future perfect this was a really fun video
timesplitters 2 and future perfect were some of my most favourite games they need to come back
Timesplitters 2 was one of the first console games that you could set your own soundtrack for by uploading music onto the original XBox hard drive. One of my top video game memories from high school was playing this at 1am with Mt friends, killing each other to Billy Joel haha
Counterstrike for Xbox was the same way, it'd read your library and let you play music while playing. Life was great.
Dude thank you for this video - was watching a longplay of this game and had no clue wtf was going on
Love to see people keeping the brand alive. I’ve been remaking the maps in Halo as of late. Got 4 done and published on Infinite if you’re ever curious, with more on the way. Did like a dozen on Halo 5.
I particularly enjoyed the story level descriptions. Haven’t seen anyone go as in depth as you did.
I cannot believe I hadn't seen this comment. A bit of a late reply, but that's awesome that you are making the maps in Forge!
@@OnyxLeviathan TH-cam be like that sometimes 🥲👍
I had it on GameCube and we played it so much with my older brother, really good time with this amazing game ! Thanks for the video incredible work you’ve made !
This is sick bro! Gonna watch the whole 2 hours when I get time 😅
I hope you enjoy it!
I really enjoyed this, revisiting great memories. It’s really interesting being able to now understand the missions in detail too. You are really articulate and you did a fantastic job. Thank you for making this video.
That's very kind of you! Thank you for enjoying the video.
Great video! I've watched the whole thing!
This game was so deep. So many things to unlock, so many weapons, levels, characters and the create your own levels was great!
I grew up with the TimeSplitters franchise, and it's very near and dear to my heart! The way you covered TimeSplitters 2 in this video was great, and I'm hoping you do the same for TimeSplitters Future Perfect, because I love that game a lot also, and the campaign for that game has a special place in my heart. For a 2 hour long video, I was pretty engaged the entire time, and you did a good job covering the many awesome features found in this awesome game! I definitely had to subscribe after seeing this video! I hope to see you make more awesome retrospective videos like this!
just got to the end! you should definitely add the arcade league and challenge videos! epic retrospective. congrats on making it - i'm sure it was a TON of work.
Thank you so much for your comments! They made my night, honestly. I'm really glad you enjoyed and I absolutely plan to make more content along these lines. As for the gameplay videos, I'm thinking of stitching each league together possibly, editing it so as to highlight all the fun bits :) Hope I can continue to entertain over time.
Lot of happy memories from this game. My best friend and I playing split screen with all the bots. One of my all time favorite shooters.
my brother and i have so many memories of playing 2 v 10 bots, setting all the bots to snowmen and then triggering the "I'm melting" sound clip for like 30 minutes straight w/ flamethrowers while laughing our adolescent heads off
"I'M MEEEEEEEEELTIIIIIIING"
This was fuckin dope. One of my fav console games of all time
I was a little too young at the time to fully appreciate this game but wow the memories me and my brother still have from that monkey dance floor and stuff is insane lol, I’m kinda tearing up thinking of all the amazing memories that game had for me.
Probably one of, if not my favourite game of all time - up there with old Final Fantasy, Pokemon and Zelda games.
This video was absolutely brilliant, nice work man!
They announced that the new Free Radical was closed down a couple of days ago, so no further sequels or remasters to now 😭
This game was my childhood. All-time classic. Playing co-op hard mode with my best friend and determined to beat it. The custom map creation. Virus mode multiplayer. Unique maps and characters… including Leo Krupps and the duck man. Sweet music. I would certainly buy a re-release if that ever came on modern consoles.
This game was literally my childhood . Would play offline single player for hours everyday. Best game ever
This game was amazing! Once upon a time when Halo came out (but I didn't have an Xbox) and I had finally moved on from Perfect Dark, I decided to remake a lot of the Halo multiplayer levels in TS2. This was SO fun!
Jokes on you, was my favourite game when growing up, the music from the Wild West level is unbelievably good
When he says rent free I feel it 😂😂😂
Just finished watching this, and was going to make a comment asking about Future Perfect. Then checked the channel, and it's there. Thanks fella, great content.
@@maryhinge40 you got it! TS1 on the way after my next big video
@@OnyxLeviathan awesome
I was 9 when TimeSplitters 2 came out in 2002. I played the shit out of it on PS2, especially arcade splitscreen with all of my friends. I loved the silliness of playing as monkeys, robots, and gangsters.
The coolest thing about this game when I was younger was realizing more story mode unlocked plying higher difficulty, was such a cool feature cause you felt like you were opening so much more of the game
I agree! Some people felt it was limiting to those of lesser skill, but I found it as a reward for practice.
A 2 hour video on one of the greatest video games ever made?! YES please!
I hope you enjoy it! Thanks for checking it out. I love Timesplitters!
one of my favourite games of all times, will always hold a very special place in my heart.
This game blew me away as a kid. Got it on GameCube and man I played it non stop!
I literally just finished replaying TS2 a week ago haha. Love this stuff, this was the majority of my childhood.
I don't remember the game being *that* hard even on hard difficulty. I do remember really young me not getting past Neo Tokyo though because I was so impatient with stealth stuff (and perhaps not smart enough to realize what I was supposed to do). I remember coming back to the campaign a bit older (still played the game a ton with the challenges and vs bots and waaaaaaaay too much time in the map editor) and when I realized that hard mode *gave more content* I was blown away. So few games did something like that and it made it feel like you got 1.5 campaigns.
What I do remember as being super hard were some of those one-off challenge campaign missions. I don't think I ever beat all of those...
I loved this game! The crazy secret mission were so much fun. First played it on a demo and thought it was really cool. When I got the full game and saw how different each level was I was hooked.
Whilst everyone I knew complained nonstop about how difficult and frustrating this game was, it was what made me love it. TS2 deserves a lot more recognition it currently has.
I LOVE this retrospective so much! Best one on TH-cam!! One thing kid me always found kinda neat even though it's a bit dark is that some of the in game dialogue, mostly from bosses (one example being Khallos) implies that things are turning out differently and that normally our heroes didn't make it this far... Which I still find cool because perhaps it means that the timesplitters are being thwarted by people throughout history that ordinarily would've suffered a tragic fate but thanks to Cortez get a second chance to accomplish their missions. Overall I love this game and very much enjoy your in-depth synopsis of the main story. ^v^
as a kid i spent hundreds of hours in the arcade mode and i feel it's by far the best part of the game, i remember never picking female characters when my mom was home too lol
Right? Some of them made noises that were… odd lol
I’ll never forget this game. Me and my sister and our childhood best friend would rent this game from Blockbuster all the time to go through the story. We one day forgot to return it and ended up having it forever. I think it was 2003 or 04. I introduced some friends to it in 2016 and we started playing it again. I keep hoping there will be a remaster for current consoles just because it’s soooo good.
Fun thing, is during multiplayer modes; I’d always chose Stone Golem because if an enemy had fire, the golem would never catch on fire. Something the developers changed in Future Perfect.
He was immune!!! But yeah man, sounds a lot like my childhood experience. Played with my sister and a friend now and then.
Been trying to get more people into it, and I’ve had a lot of people play it with me over the years now!
This was the go to multiplayer for me and my nephew at sleepovers with our cardboard split screen contraption.