Subscribe: th-cam.com/users/BenPlaysGames Support the channel: www.patreon.com/ben_plays_games I thoroughly enjoyed covering TimeSplitters 2, it still holds up brilliantly considering its age.
Was there anything more exciting than trading in video games? Going into the store, seeing how much you'd get for your old stuff and then figuring out what new game you could get. Nothing beat it.
When I was a kid, I had a choice between this and Jade Empire at the local game shop. I ended up taking Jade Empire, glad you're here to show me what I missed!
Definitely give it a go if you can mate, 2 and Future Perfect are both fantastic. The original less so, but can be finished in an hour so not a big time sink if you want to see where they came from. Jade Empire is a great game too, so can't blame you for that either. Early BioWare really cooked - coming up with Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, Mass Effect and Dragon Age in basically a decade is absolutely absurd.
Agree completely. I mention Graeme Norgate's work a few times during the video and rightly so, as him managing to create so many different styles of track - including many bangers - is really impressive. Same for the series' other games too. My personal favourite is Chinese's music from the first game (although, I believe it's in every game after too).
@@BenPlaysGames Chinese is a classic. I'd say my personal favourites in TS2 are: Mexican Mission, Hangar, Streets, Ice Station, Scrapyard, Notre Dame, Chicago, Neo Tokyo... It its versatility, Norgate's Magnum Opus kinda reminds me of one of my other favourite pieces of video game music: Frank Klepacki's Red Alert 1. You have the brutal "Hell March", the funky "Workmen", the epic "Running through Pipes"...
TimeSplitters has basically been my life for two weeks now! Played the first through twice and made the video for it, then the same for 2 as well. Got massively carried away with script too, envisaged writing a couple of thousand words and ended up with 12,000 odd. Already done Future Perfect once and continuing my second run today as well.
Having been binging your Halo content recently and absolutely loving it, I have just found myself beyond excited upon finding you made videos on TimeSplitters, my favourite game series of all time, and only a few months ago as well!! Dope!!
Cheers for watching dude! I'll get round to writing about Future Perfect at some point too, have already played it a bit but need to sit down and really get my teeth into it.
i was always too scared to play this game as a kid after i saw the zombie in the first level so i just watched my brother play through it instead lol but i always remember it fondly. we did used to play co op sometimes on the arcade levels though, as long as there weren’t any zombies there 😅
54:08 I must be a genius then, because I had zero issues with this puzzle as the solution was instantly obvious to me. Like less than a second to understand what I had to do. Took only a couple of mins or less to turn the stones to achieve the solution. It's pretty clear all you had to do is to match all the symbols facing each other. You just need to find the combinations.
I'm a GE/PD veteran that played through TS2 for the first time earlier this year. I loved it but I thought it was missing a layer of polish - in some areas it seems to be a backwards step from its predecessors. Poorly explained objectives, awful aiming and the poorly placed checkpoints. The ui/hud was baffling at times - in multi your score only flashes briefly when you score a point. The only other way to check it is to pause and flip past three other menus. The pause menu is also the only reliable way to swap guns. Its an odd choice in such a fast paced game. And space station and robot factory can get in the bin. But I loved the humour, character designs and the incredible creativity on show. I had a blast with it.
It's a great shame that Free Radical seemed resistant to change in certain areas. Combat Evolved came out a year before TimeSplitters 2 and had incredible controls and yet at no point did the studio look at it and think it might be worth mimicking. For a game that often encourages stealth (which needs precise aim and headshots), it's very frustrating. I prefer 2's atmosphere and a lot of the levels but it cannot be denied that Future Perfect is the more modern experience by a distance.
The original is middling but 2 and Future Perfect are fantastic. I personally prefer 2 a little but that's not to take anything away from Future Perfect, as it's also awesome.
You mention that Aztec is the only level that has a change in music, but Siberia, Notre Dame and Robot Factory all have change in music at their respective boss fights. Robot Factory's is a particularly great headbanger called scrapyard! But all of them are faster and more densely orchestrated versions of the rest of the level music and really ramp up the intensity and part of what makes the game so great for me.
replaying this again pn ps5 I came to notice how much the story mode expected you to just psychically know where enemies were. It was very much a feel of "trial and error" which my rewind function on the emulation side ignored. Like the Wild West, for example... that enemy just spawn shooting you and chunking your health is such odd behaviour for a shooter that provides ZERO health pickups.
Love this game so much about this video I disagree with. The opening statement for one. A lot of people didn’t own a PC or Xbox so halo didn’t outshine timesplitters. I still think the timesplitters franchise was far better than halo. Secondly the aiming was not difficult at all, who ever did this gameplay was absolutely terrible at aiming 😂 and the soundtrack for Chicago was great but the first level way better. Miss the days of this game I feel like your review was hindered by modern fps games. Many other points I disagree with but I don’t want to write an essay 😅
There will be a little bit of a wait as I've only played it through once and always do at least two runs for something like this. I have, however, already started making notes and proxying my recordings, so it's in the post!
Slight misunderstanding on the aiming controls for TS2. It's not bullet magnetism, your weapons all have a slight auto aim towards targets in or near the center of the screen. You can watch your gun turn and adjust to targets that would be near your "crosshair". Constantly trying to use the atrocious manual crosshairs will actively IMO harm your overall experience as the game isn't designed around them per say. I see you doing it a lot trying to line up headshots throughout your gameplay and it's just so much easier getting a feel of the weapons' auto aim to get headshots.
Cortez 'Vin Pitch Black Diesel' himself lol if they made a Timesplitters movie, it would have been crap np doubt but Vin would of been the ideal cast.....crap actor though (would have suited).
TimeSplitters 2 is the best and anyone who disagrees is wrong. With the third game I bet every single studio note from EA simply said "Like Halo". Trying to ape an FPS that is a completely different beast definitely hurt the game.
Future Perfect is a great game and they really up the ante in terms of story presentation, but I prefer a lot of 2's levels. Especially the more open ones like NeoTokyo, Chicago etc.
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I thoroughly enjoyed covering TimeSplitters 2, it still holds up brilliantly considering its age.
This game took over my tiny town in 2005. So much so, 8 year old's (Like myself) were trading it to get GTA SA (normally stolen from older brother)
Was there anything more exciting than trading in video games? Going into the store, seeing how much you'd get for your old stuff and then figuring out what new game you could get. Nothing beat it.
Perhaps a omission of guilt
When I was a kid, I had a choice between this and Jade Empire at the local game shop.
I ended up taking Jade Empire, glad you're here to show me what I missed!
Definitely give it a go if you can mate, 2 and Future Perfect are both fantastic. The original less so, but can be finished in an hour so not a big time sink if you want to see where they came from.
Jade Empire is a great game too, so can't blame you for that either. Early BioWare really cooked - coming up with Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, Mass Effect and Dragon Age in basically a decade is absolutely absurd.
@@BenPlaysGames It really was one of the greats on the same level as Obsidian imo! Love you as always Ben
The soundtrack has some of the finest music of all time. I still listen to it.
Agree completely. I mention Graeme Norgate's work a few times during the video and rightly so, as him managing to create so many different styles of track - including many bangers - is really impressive. Same for the series' other games too. My personal favourite is Chinese's music from the first game (although, I believe it's in every game after too).
@@BenPlaysGames Chinese is a classic. I'd say my personal favourites in TS2 are:
Mexican Mission, Hangar, Streets, Ice Station, Scrapyard, Notre Dame, Chicago, Neo Tokyo...
It its versatility, Norgate's Magnum Opus kinda reminds me of one of my other favourite pieces of video game music: Frank Klepacki's Red Alert 1. You have the brutal "Hell March", the funky "Workmen", the epic "Running through Pipes"...
Hour long video of timesplitters??
HOOK IT UP TO MY VEINS!!!!!
TimeSplitters has basically been my life for two weeks now! Played the first through twice and made the video for it, then the same for 2 as well. Got massively carried away with script too, envisaged writing a couple of thousand words and ended up with 12,000 odd. Already done Future Perfect once and continuing my second run today as well.
I have so many great memories of this game as a kid. Thanks for reminding me!
No worries mate, cheers for checking it out!
Having been binging your Halo content recently and absolutely loving it, I have just found myself beyond excited upon finding you made videos on TimeSplitters, my favourite game series of all time, and only a few months ago as well!! Dope!!
Cheers for watching dude! I'll get round to writing about Future Perfect at some point too, have already played it a bit but need to sit down and really get my teeth into it.
i was always too scared to play this game as a kid after i saw the zombie in the first level so i just watched my brother play through it instead lol but i always remember it fondly. we did used to play co op sometimes on the arcade levels though, as long as there weren’t any zombies there 😅
Dude when you go up the elevator of the dam some of the zombies try to walk in behind you and it would scared the absolute mess out of me lol. 😂
I played this game non stop when I was a kid. so much fun
Me too dude, loading up virus on training ground with mates and then trying to sprint from end to end without getting caught was our bag.
54:08 I must be a genius then, because I had zero issues with this puzzle as the solution was instantly obvious to me. Like less than a second to understand what I had to do. Took only a couple of mins or less to turn the stones to achieve the solution. It's pretty clear all you had to do is to match all the symbols facing each other. You just need to find the combinations.
I never knew you could shoot the ropes to 'free' the maiden in the notradame level! The more you know lol
I hope theres a Timesplitters Future Perfect Critique asw, I loves this video
I’m glad that you had a good time!🙂 1:09:37
Love the game, always have the best time with it.
I'm a GE/PD veteran that played through TS2 for the first time earlier this year. I loved it but I thought it was missing a layer of polish - in some areas it seems to be a backwards step from its predecessors.
Poorly explained objectives, awful aiming and the poorly placed checkpoints. The ui/hud was baffling at times - in multi your score only flashes briefly when you score a point. The only other way to check it is to pause and flip past three other menus. The pause menu is also the only reliable way to swap guns. Its an odd choice in such a fast paced game. And space station and robot factory can get in the bin.
But I loved the humour, character designs and the incredible creativity on show. I had a blast with it.
It's a great shame that Free Radical seemed resistant to change in certain areas. Combat Evolved came out a year before TimeSplitters 2 and had incredible controls and yet at no point did the studio look at it and think it might be worth mimicking. For a game that often encourages stealth (which needs precise aim and headshots), it's very frustrating. I prefer 2's atmosphere and a lot of the levels but it cannot be denied that Future Perfect is the more modern experience by a distance.
A classic series. 2 is my favourite but future perfect has the definitive Timesplitters campaign.
The original is middling but 2 and Future Perfect are fantastic. I personally prefer 2 a little but that's not to take anything away from Future Perfect, as it's also awesome.
You mention that Aztec is the only level that has a change in music, but Siberia, Notre Dame and Robot Factory all have change in music at their respective boss fights. Robot Factory's is a particularly great headbanger called scrapyard! But all of them are faster and more densely orchestrated versions of the rest of the level music and really ramp up the intensity and part of what makes the game so great for me.
robot factory is the source of my childhood trauma...
also in neo tokyo you can hide under the stairs in the sewers to "skip" the stealth bit.
I don't remember hating it that much when I was younger but perhaps I repressed the memories, as man alive do I dislike it in the present.
Always nice to see content on this FPS series
"the bar for story telling has been raised since since 2005"
I have to call bs on this.
Also great that you mentioned the Master in NeoTokyo. Its the only way to get enough health on hard mode to get to the time portal, at least to me.
It's strange how easy he is to miss, as he's really tucked in a corner out of the way.
replaying this again pn ps5 I came to notice how much the story mode expected you to just psychically know where enemies were. It was very much a feel of "trial and error" which my rewind function on the emulation side ignored. Like the Wild West, for example... that enemy just spawn shooting you and chunking your health is such odd behaviour for a shooter that provides ZERO health pickups.
Love this game so much about this video I disagree with. The opening statement for one. A lot of people didn’t own a PC or Xbox so halo didn’t outshine timesplitters. I still think the timesplitters franchise was far better than halo. Secondly the aiming was not difficult at all, who ever did this gameplay was absolutely terrible at aiming 😂 and the soundtrack for Chicago was great but the first level way better. Miss the days of this game I feel like your review was hindered by modern fps games. Many other points I disagree with but I don’t want to write an essay 😅
This video shows why Halo fans should never review Timesplitters.
i cant wait till you talk about 3 the best 1
There will be a little bit of a wait as I've only played it through once and always do at least two runs for something like this. I have, however, already started making notes and proxying my recordings, so it's in the post!
@@BenPlaysGames I figured are you enjoying it at least
I never actually noticed that the joystick on the temporal uplink moves when you move your character too that's a neat small detail!
I noticed that too - I'm not sure why but it's a cool detail.
Slight misunderstanding on the aiming controls for TS2. It's not bullet magnetism, your weapons all have a slight auto aim towards targets in or near the center of the screen. You can watch your gun turn and adjust to targets that would be near your "crosshair". Constantly trying to use the atrocious manual crosshairs will actively IMO harm your overall experience as the game isn't designed around them per say. I see you doing it a lot trying to line up headshots throughout your gameplay and it's just so much easier getting a feel of the weapons' auto aim to get headshots.
You didn't bring up the multiplayer. You know, the thing the series is known for. Also, Halo did not outshine Timesplitters.
I never got past Neo-Tokyo. I always got caught haha
The temporal uplink is your friend!
I'm 34 and I still can't finish atom smasher first time 😂
Thanks too this game Timesplitters 2 call of duty 4 online for ps3 was easy for me 😅😅
Cortez 'Vin Pitch Black Diesel' himself lol if they made a Timesplitters movie, it would have been crap np doubt but Vin would of been the ideal cast.....crap actor though (would have suited).
TimeSplitters 2 is the best and anyone who disagrees is wrong. With the third game I bet every single studio note from EA simply said "Like Halo". Trying to ape an FPS that is a completely different beast definitely hurt the game.
Future Perfect is a great game and they really up the ante in terms of story presentation, but I prefer a lot of 2's levels. Especially the more open ones like NeoTokyo, Chicago etc.