ADDENDUM: It was brought to my attention that the TimeSplitters Rewind discord is active, and that development is still ongoing. During the production of this video, I decided to prioritize my time to attempt to reach out to as many former Free Radical staffers who were recently let go as I could (although unfortunately the only one who got back back to me didn't feel comfortable sharing any details regarding the project) but I should have made more effort to speak to someone on the TSR team as well. Like I said in the video, it'll be exciting when it's finished, as the wider fanbase of the franchise could use it now more than ever. Best of luck to the team, and I apologize to any members or supporters of TSR for the lack of details in this area. I'll be lightly trimming some of the video to better reflect this new information. The best way to stay informed on their progress is through their Discord: discord.com/invite/nyUPVFwF84 Also, for tons more additional info about everything Free Radical Design, check out: freeradical.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page
Hang on a tic- is this for real? "That for LucasArts an 'alpha build' meant a content complete and almost bug free game?" "Star Wars Battlefront 3 Build For Modding (NO PAK FILES).RAR" Initiating cautious download...
I love that you have no problem making these corrections and such in the rare occasion they crop up. thanks for your openness and honesty and hard work!
It makes no sense not to. It’s super super easy for them to monetise the game as well, given that they can literally add ANY character from history or fiction. Its fun cartoony style would appeal to kids especially if they can get this onto Switch and Mobile platforms with Xplay!
TimeSplitters has such a staying power, because it is one of the last remnants of First Person Shooters that valued fun above all, and seeing it thrown under the bus like this is beyond depressing.
Knowing that multiplayer could see a duck walking around with a rocket, a cowboy with a AK-47 or even modern riot cop using a hand grenade gun, the utter novelty of various oddball combos like that alone never gets old.
No kidding eh? Like it wouldn't kill Embracer Group to just do a rerelease of the three TimeSplitters games, cause there's enough people out there that would buy it, me included especially if it's priced fairly. Like if Sony brought back their PS2 classics program easily TimeSplitters would one that would highly benefit from that program and since it's one of many games the company hasn't bothered ported despite the demand for it, it's easy money.
Exactly mate@@Noperare , if they can do it on Homefront the Revolution they can do a quick port on Modern Systems, also I played the first Homefront and I liked it, the campaign is too short but is a good time, I haven't played the second game, yet.
I remember getting stoked in high school bc I saw an IGN listing for an untitled timesplitters game that never came out for Ps3/X360 I think... so many good memories even though I discovered the series way after it was gone.
Timesplitters rewind was mentioned several times in this very video. It's been a ghost for over a decade. It's never coming out and if it did, it would just get C&Ded by Koch.
I feel tremendously bad for Ellis and Doak who came back to work on the new game. It's very rare for the original talent to come back for a project like that, I really can't imagine that they would be willing to try again in the modern industry after such treatment.
Happens way too often. Guys like them are hardy though. They do the work for the love of the art and I believe they'd form a studio again. But I won't disagree with you that the game "industry" has become a hellscape. Just seeing all the once greatest IP's being pissed away due to too many executives messing with the creative process is rage inducing.
"Embracer Group" sounds like a name of a generically evil corporation in a cheesy dystopian movie. Actually heartbroken from the whole story, it's obscenely frustrating that an industry is allowed to act so soullessly. Thanks as always for the content.
The big reveal in the third act is that Ebracer Corp is actually run be a Beholder from D&D, and the name of the corporation is ultimately just from a slight mistranslation of the name of the monster.
I knew Matt would make a "What Happened?" video on TimeSpliters almost immediately after Free Radical Design got shutdown by Embracer. Makes sense because Matt followed Free Radical pretty closely every since their announcement of a new TimeSpliters. You work fast, Matt! Keep it up!
I'm more curious if Matt is in touch with the Devs on the then "Current" TimeSplitters project that got binned, cause the devs could continue the project in all but the TimeSplitters name, if they play their cards right they could turn this Spiritual Successor into a profitable Business Venture, cause again Matt could throw the idea at the devs on such a project and even team up with a good Publisher that would support them all the way, maybe Humble Bundle or something.
My brother and I owned a copy of TS2 for the GameCube. It was without a doubt the most played game on our GameCube besides Smash Bros. We loved the game and tried to complete every challenge the game had and we played the multiplayer to death. So many memories of that game summed up our teenage years. If anything, I'm just grateful it existed in the first place.
I'll never stop being upset about what happened with Embracer. I've been wanting more Timesplitters for years and I finally thought it was going to happen...
Had somewhat high hopes when Embracer formed (then as THQ Nordic) as a publisher for oddball mid-shelf stuff. They then went to fatten themselves up by buying everything under the goddamn sun and bet everything on a deal instead of building a stable of developers and making money that way, but I suppose gambling with people's jobs is considered more business-savvy these days.
Timesplitters 2 and Future Perfect are available digitally via Xbox back compat right now, they play pretty well. Hopefully they can come to other platforms too.
If they dropped a Timesplitters Collection I'd buy it in a heartbeat. TS2 is still one of my favorite games and the amount of hours my cousin and I invested will never be forgotten
It doesnt. Embracer has nothing to do with how other acquisitions work. Its just a badly managed company. What shows is how bad regulators are at their job, once again. They spent almost 2 years for a fuckin COD/Cloud deal no one cared about, while this other shitty company kept taking up companies without any consequence.
The other week, I was walking past Free Radical Design's office. I noticed the sign on the door was removed, and the office looked empty. I had thought they had just moved, but no, they are gone once again.
Being a massive fan of the series, but not even knowing free radical reformed, just to hear its dead again is heartbreaking. So many good memories with this series. Thank you for creating this video.
Man it’s been a while since we’ve had a tragic WhatHappened episode but honestly the Time Splitter development story and the entire Embracer Group shitshow might just be the most unfair and tragic story from this series.
It should be noted Timesplitters Rewind is still being worked on and can be kept up with from their Discord server. Since Rewind is entirely fan made the people working on it can only do so during free time and when they have the energy to do so. Since they have work, family, future employment, etc to focus on before it and those obviously come first. Rewind definitely had major hurdles in the past though. From what I recall Crytek forced them to use the Cryengine for it as part of the deal of making a free fan game. I believe they originally tried making it in Unreal then had to move to Cryengine when Crytek told them to. Which caused a lot of work to be thrown out. After the buyout of the Timesplitters franchise again, by another corpo, they were eventually able to go back to Unreal engine to work with but that meant again restarting their work. Per their own words though the game is further along in development then ever before. They do have a section on their Discord server where people can try and apply to assist with the project but you need to show previous work in the field and they need certain types of work than others. And as terrible as it is for Free Radical being shut down by Embracer their closure doesn't harm the project of Rewind at all. Not unless the owner of the Timesplitters IP tells them they can no longer work on the project which hasn't happened yet (and hopefully doesn't).
I wouldn't hold your breath on TS Rewind. There's less than 10 people working on it in their spare time. I've been keeping up to date on it for like 6 years and last I checked they hadn't even finished the first game yet. Plus with all these acquisition changes even if they did release it, it'd be CCd in a hot minute.
@@bobbyevans8136 Not sure where you heard that; but i call bullshit on that Lol, this was an official comment by one of the testers of rewind *"we've mentioned several times that the initial release version of TSR (with TS1) is fairly close to finished now. we don't know how long it will take until it can be released since the whole team consists of volunteers, but yes, it is very much playable."* so progress may be a little on the slow side, but they're still working, and they're working hard, You should be staying positive and supportive; bobbyevans8136, even if you're being a "realistic pessimistic" be glad that something even TimeSplitters related IS being worked on, AND shown, to many fans like to fall apart even before something is out the door, and that's bullshit, Smarten up.
I hope Agent 64: Spies Never Die is a success that Embracer Group will regret. It's truly sad to see how Embracer Group has turned into a terrible company recently.
From BF3 to everything that’s happened with Timesplitters since, no dev has suffered as needlessly as Free Radical. Makes me wonder if their original studio was built on an ancient Indian burial ground or something.
I put more hours into TimeSplitters 2 than any other game in my life, with TimeSplitters 3 probably being a distant 2nd. You never felt cheated when you got killed, you respawned into the action almost immediately, and you couldn't get through a match without laughing at least once. It was always fun, win or lose. If some company put out an HD release with online play, maybe even mapmaker levels with fewer memory restrictions, I'd throw money at it, no question.
If there's anything I've learned regarding Embracer Group being covered on this show, it's that they have death sentences in their pocket whenever things don't go their way and will hand them out like candy just to stay afloat. I remember getting sucked into doing those bot deathmatches for TS2 on Gamecube and just having an absolute blast! Gonna have to revisit the game someday soon in honor of this video.
Free Radical is just one of many casualties of the death of mid-shelf games. Games like Fracture, Time Splitters, Timeshift, Th3 Plan, The Saboteur, Red Faction, Matt Hazard, Driver San Francisco, Homefront, Singularity, etc. etc. are not allowed to simply exist, be fun, and end any more. Publishers don't entertain anything that can't spawn a decade of franchise sequels or bilk players for microtransactions ad nauseam.
You wanna know how much this series means to me? I’ve only played Future Perfect when I was 11 and loved the fuckle out of it. It only took one game for me to have permanent memories and fondness for this series. I didn’t even know it had 3 games in the series until this video. Hell, I didn’t even know what Timespliters 1 looked like until this video. It’s a damn shame Embracer Group embraced their stupidity instead of embracing empathy.
Love your use of the TimeSplitters soundtrack in this video. Using the Chicago theme just as you're telling about Free Radical going behind Eidos' back really made the story that much better.
I remember when I first played TimeSplitters future perfect, and it blew my mind with just how many things that you could do in the game and the amount of playable characters. I remember finally when I saw at the game store they had time splitters too and since future perfect didn't have a number in the title I assumed it was the first one and then I realized future perfect was actually the 3rd. Ever since then I've been eagerly awaiting a new one. It's by far my favorite multiplayer game on GameCube. The nostalgia is absolutely overwhelming and it's soooooo sad how things have played out for the franchise.
I think TS2 and TS:FP are objectively perfect games, so much content and so much love poured into them. Probably my favorite console FPS games next to Bungie's Halo
Great video also the most worrying thing is that Embracer Group has Crystal Dynamics so I wouldn't be suprised if Crystal Dynamics goes through some shit
I made a retrospective on this series a few years ago. Great games. What’s sad though is that right when the series was starting too find its identity, we never got another game. Cortez was the best badass goofball ever!
Unless you’re Nintendo tbat is, AAA games are dead outside of Nintendo because Nintendo’s never foolishly spent $100 million on a Mario and Zelda game and they’ve outsold their competitors 3 - 1.
I knew this would eventually end up on What Happened. I remember *SO* many people up in arms in regards to... well, what happened to the series. Actually, last week, I actually saw a news article about what happened to this series, and how people were bummed out by the idea that we'll likely never see a sequel to this series. "Unbelievably fair" is putting it mildly. This series is one I want to see come back, and one that I think NEEDS to come back.
TS2 is 1 of my favourite video games of all time (Even though I do love the series as a whole). The absolute insanity of being so close so many times & having the rug pulled out from under us every time is incredibly heart breaking. I can only dream of what a TS4 would've looked like at this point 😢😢😢
My nickname alone is a testament of how much I love the FPS games made by Mr.Doak and I am so sad that we didn't get another entry in the awesome Time Splitters franchise...the latest news only make it worse... If anyone of the original TS team reads this: You guys are awesome and your games won't be forgotten! Now I need to play TS2 again and shoot me sum monkeys...
We live in the worst timeline. Timesplitters deserves so much more love. I’ve been playing TS2 on the PS5 through the new emulated versions on the store but they deserved to be proper remasters.
I was absolutely shocked when I heard that this company was the one that worked on Star Wars Battlefront III. That game is a legend to me and my friends. Absolutely astounding that it was canned so close to the finish line.
The saddest What Happened (so far), on my birthday no less, thanks Embracer Group, I guess... it really sucks being a Game Developer with "Radical" in your name, huh?
Studios getting shut down, people losing jobs, ever increasing dev costs, $70 games, likely to only get higher in the future...I feel like the game industry long term is going to be in trouble...that shit is unsustainable to me long term
I genuinely feel like Timesplitters is the true sequel to Goldeneye and Perfect Dark. It took all the components that made those games great and ran full speed with them into the horizon. My god do I miss it.
If I ever get a divorce I'm just going to jump out with papers in hand and say "It's Time to Split". I'll then wait in awkward silence as reality sinks in.
I just went through the link for all the TimeSplitters 4 artwork. There were almost 1000 images. I felt so many things scrolling through that. It is beyond a shame we won’t see that put into a new release
I can just about remember everything in Timesplitters 2 and FP cause thats how much me and my family played it. Unforgettable memories and a true treasure of a game. My goal was always 100% these games and unlock all characters, a much more fun challenge instead of micro transactions
This was such a fun video game franchise to play growing up that it shocks me that, in a world full of industries trying to capitalize on nostalgia, has yet to bring this series back
My sister and I played the TimeSplitters games to death growing up, and I still consider it the best example of the FPS genre I've played - fun, creative, and infinitely replayable. This was depressing to watch. Thanks for your hard work researching everything, even if you made me sad!
I absolutely loved time splitters 2 and 3 the graphics the gameplay the humor. It was just a really fun experience I didn’t want to end. It sucks when things like this happen especially around holiday time I feel for all those people and I’m glad development is still going on. I wish them all success
It's really up to us, the fans, to make our own mods, fangames, spiritual successors to this franchise, because if Embracer won't, who else will? The closest one I could find is Timeshifters, though there's also Goldeneye: Source, Perfect Dark: Source, Agent 64, Operation Pinkeye, Dark Data, The Spy who Shot Me and TimeWarp, among others I missed.
I'd love to see an episode of What Happaned about Lord of the Rings: The third Age. Lately, I looked into the code and files from the game and there are a lot of unused skills, enemies and also there is equipment in the game you can only aquire via hacking. People always used to say it was because time restraints. I wouldn't be surprised if this is really the case, since it's an EA title, but maybe there are other factors, too. The game also feels rushed in the second half and it's also underwhelming that after Pellenor, you instantly fight Sauron, instead of fighting at the Black Gate, which Aragorn said, sooo ... yeah. I'd definitely recommend that one for you, but information is scarce on this one. At least from my searches. Happy Holidays Matt!
Timesplitters 2 scratched my Goldeneye/Perfect Dark itch when the other attempts to continue those IPs let me down. This team deserved better than what Embracer Group did to them 😢
This is a PHENOMENAL video! As a major TS fan, thank you for breaking this down in such a fantastic way! It's so frustrating to see this series suffer basically because of publishers. A series this good deserves better.
Back in the previous episode (Thief 2014) you mentioned how Deus Ex: Mankind Divided might qualify for a What Happened? episode given its disastrous launch. Well, the whole series deserves a What Happened? because all four games had a turbulent development and/or release. The first game was conceived in 1994 but Warren Spector had trouble trying to get the game made at Origin Systems (they rejected it) and Looking Glass Studios (too strapped for cash to afford it). Then John Romero and Mike Wilson saved Spector from consigning himself to EA by giving him a lucrative deal to make his dream game, leading to the establishment of Ion Storm Austin in early 1997 from the remains of Looking Glass Studios Austin. Then more people from Origin showed up and Spector made two teams: an RPG-oriented team led by Robert White and an immersive sim-oriented team led by Harvey Smith. These two teams clashed heavily. When Deus Ex was privately tested in 1999, the reception was not good, which led to Ion Storm Austin scaling it back. Not helping was the increasingly negative reputation Ion Storm was getting over Daikatana and Anachronox, which hurt the morale and made prospective developers wary of working at Ion Storm. When the game finally came out it was a critical and commercial success. It's a miracle considering everything that happened in its development. The second game Invisible War was built on a modified version of Unreal Engine 2 dubbed "Flesh", which allowed for better visuals but it was a pain in the ass to program. Things only got worse when the engine programmer left and there wasn't any documentation left behind, which forced the team to scramble to fix the engine, plus Eidos mandating that Ion Storm make it also for the Xbox in tandem with the PC and the Xbox proved to be less powerful than expected. All of this forced Ion Storm Austin to severely water down the game to make it run any reliably on the Xbox. Unlike the first Deus Ex game where it ultimately hit it out of the park in spite of its development issues, Invisible War performed poorly both critically and commercially (not helping was that it came right after the juggernaut that is Call of Duty). The overall poor performance destroyed Warren Spector's reputation and whatever remaining goodwill there was towards Immersive Sims, and forced Eidos to cancel future installments in the franchise and retool an in-development spinoff by Crystal Dynamics into its own game called Project Snowblind to distance itself from the franchise whose reputation got destroyed by Invisible War's failure. It wouldn't be until BioShock that immersive sims would begin the road to recovery. The third game, while not as troubled in development as the previous two titles, still had a number of planned features that were cut due to constraints. In addition, the Immersive Sim pedigree is very, very limited, being limited to those who can trace their heritage to Origin Systems and Looking Glass Studios (as is the case with Ion Storm Austin, Irrational Games and Arkane Studios). Eidos-Montreal, in contrast, was established completely from scratch, with none of the developers having any pedigrees in Immersive Sims, so they had to navigate on their own to "learn" immersive sims. This navigation included playing (in addition to the original two Deus Ex titles) games such as Metal Gear Solid, Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, BioShock, F.E.A.R. and Rainbow Six: Vegas, and their influences show in the final product. Like the first game, Human Revolution was a critical and commercial success. The fourth game didn't have any troubled development but was subject to meddling from Square Enix, most notably the monetization model that tainted prospective players from buying it and it fairly likely contributed to the game not doing well commercially. Not helping was that there was going to be a sequel to conclude the Adam Jensen story but Manking Divided's failure put a roadblock to that. After Mankind Divided, Eidos-Montreal took a break and worked on Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. With the studio's and Deus Ex IP's transfer from Square Enix to Embracer Group via a new company called CDE Entertainment and Embracer's current drama, Deus Ex is in a very uncertain position. There's a rumor going around that Eidos-Montreal is working on a new Deus Ex game that will feature co-op gameplay but I wouldn't hold my breath on it. There may also be a possibility that Embracer might merge CDE into Plaion/Koch Media in the coming months.
The current world of big business and shareholders wouldn't let a game like this come out these days. They only want games that have potential to sell DLC and addon content. A big part of the series was how much different and varied stuff, features, modes, maps, characters that it came with. If they gated all that stuff behind DLC, then the fans wouldn't buy it, but they also won't release that much with a game, because they won't have that continued money maker from it.
This whole video was heartbreaking, been a TS fan ever since I played the second one on my gamecube back in the day. Thank you Matt for shedding some light on 'What Happened' here.
Me and my brother have a deep love to TS3, the story got us really engaged with laughs and epic moments, the multiplayer easily got us playing over a thousand hours, specially because the game itself have like 10+ game mode to enjoy with a lot of customization in weapons, winning points, amounts of bots... So much customization that we probably had like 1 in a 100 match to be similar than one we had before, add to that the insane amount of characters to choose, skins to unlock... TS3 probably is hated or not liked as much as TS2 but damn that it was packed with so much content that it was and endless game, one that i always used to go back and play alone or with my brother or stay all night creating a map to later play in our cousins house in a 4player match. It would be such a dream to come true if that serie comes back one day
We need more coverage of just how poorly people are treated in the industry. I know it isn't the fun side of gamint, but thats kind of the point. We need to be consuming with as much knowledge as we can, and pull our money away from the worst actors and reward the ones who actually treat human beings with a little respect and dignity.
I remember getting legitimately excited when Free Radical was bought by Crytek, thinking that Timesplitters could get a sequel using the Cryengine.... and then nothing happened.
A modern day TS game would absolutely KILL with its online multiplayer. All the crazy characters, fun game modes, plenty of maps, it'd thrive. Thankful to hear TSR is still in development
Some of my best memories are of playing Future Perfect as a teenager. A friend of mine that lived in another state came over to visit his family and he would come to my house almost everyday to play the game. We had a blast playing through the campaing and later messing around on deathmatch. Good times...
Back when we were a bunch of unemployed young adults with a ton free time, me and my friends would play 'Time splitters 2' ALL NIGHT LONG . We'd get a bunch of snacks , get comfortable, boot up TS2 and spend the whole night playing through all of the different multiplayer modes the game had to offer and it was just so much fun . The Time splitters trilogy (particularly Time splitters 2 ) are among the best FPS games ever made .
I wish this series returns one day. So many hours were spent among my friends as we played story in co-op and then deathmatch in TimeSplitters 2 and TS: Future Perfect. :)
I don’t know if this counts as the “movie” industry, but I’m incredibly happy to see Brandon Rogers’s Theater Class making a come back after a 10 year hiatus.
A few tidbits worth mentioning: Haze was being developed multi-platform, but a deal was struck to make an exclusive launch title for the console with the lowest priority and least finished version: the PS3. The version we got was practically cobbled together. TSR originally had to make their project on the Cry Engine as part of the deal, which many devs found difficult to work on. Communication issues and some changes to their working relationship led to the project restarting in Unreal and the team going through a bunch of staff changes. Hence why it's taken so long, even for a fan project. Shiny new FRD was allegedly tasked to make a Battle Royal out of Timesplitters and may have been trying to pull a "forgiveness rather than permission" move a second time. Their plan was to remake TS2 with an alternate timeline... imo, a great way to jumpstart the old series. TSR is our only hope now, but I've little confidence the IP holder won't shoot them a take down and abandon the franchise to IP limbo.
Great video, and its nice that it got so many views so quick, because TS4 definitely should've happened and its been shown the door more times than any other game I can think of.
Free Radical wasn't only a hub for creativity. It was a hub for extremely talented engineers who could create things really fast. "Steve [Ellis, lead programmer] got something up and running really quickly. I think Sony were really impressed; their experience had been that people would take six months, eight months, a year to get anything working at all on PS2. It was down to Steve's technical ability: he had a first-person thing up and running fairly quickly."
The one "what happened" I didn't wanna see, not because I doubt Matt's abilities to make an amazing and well informed video no, not at all. No the reason is that this particular game series needs a new game so bad because it's the most fun multiplayer mayhem deathmatch game you could ever play, and bringing Cortez back would be fantastic too (love that dude).
ADDENDUM: It was brought to my attention that the TimeSplitters Rewind discord is active, and that development is still ongoing. During the production of this video, I decided to prioritize my time to attempt to reach out to as many former Free Radical staffers who were recently let go as I could (although unfortunately the only one who got back back to me didn't feel comfortable sharing any details regarding the project) but I should have made more effort to speak to someone on the TSR team as well. Like I said in the video, it'll be exciting when it's finished, as the wider fanbase of the franchise could use it now more than ever. Best of luck to the team, and I apologize to any members or supporters of TSR for the lack of details in this area. I'll be lightly trimming some of the video to better reflect this new information.
The best way to stay informed on their progress is through their Discord: discord.com/invite/nyUPVFwF84
Also, for tons more additional info about everything Free Radical Design, check out: freeradical.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page
Are you thinking about covering Travelers Tales eventually?
Hang on a tic- is this for real?
"That for LucasArts an 'alpha build' meant a content complete and almost bug free game?"
"Star Wars Battlefront 3 Build For Modding (NO PAK FILES).RAR"
Initiating cautious download...
I've got all 3 original games on PS2 and i still have high hopes for Rewind down the road
Thank you for everything you do Matt. It's really appreciated by us gamers in the dark. Keep up the great work man!!
I love that you have no problem making these corrections and such in the rare occasion they crop up. thanks for your openness and honesty and hard work!
This is the one franchise that I want to see a comeback.
Rayman is the biggest one for me.
They recently closed down the studio that was making a new one
It makes no sense not to. It’s super super easy for them to monetise the game as well, given that they can literally add ANY character from history or fiction. Its fun cartoony style would appeal to kids especially if they can get this onto Switch and Mobile platforms with Xplay!
Free Radical Design was recently closed
They would have woked the shit out of it.
TimeSplitters has such a staying power, because it is one of the last remnants of First Person Shooters that valued fun above all, and seeing it thrown under the bus like this is beyond depressing.
Knowing that multiplayer could see a duck walking around with a rocket, a cowboy with a AK-47 or even modern riot cop using a hand grenade gun, the utter novelty of various oddball combos like that alone never gets old.
No kidding eh? Like it wouldn't kill Embracer Group to just do a rerelease of the three TimeSplitters games, cause there's enough people out there that would buy it, me included especially if it's priced fairly. Like if Sony brought back their PS2 classics program easily TimeSplitters would one that would highly benefit from that program and since it's one of many games the company hasn't bothered ported despite the demand for it, it's easy money.
@@bobafett4265I mean Homefront is only famous because you can play Time splitters 2 on it. How hard it is to do full PC port?
Exactly mate@@Noperare , if they can do it on Homefront the Revolution they can do a quick port on Modern Systems, also I played the first Homefront and I liked it, the campaign is too short but is a good time, I haven't played the second game, yet.
@@NoperareI’ve had home front revolution for years I didn’t know I’m gonna have to take a second look
This series can't catch a break, can it? It's a shame that we're likely never gonna see it again.
I remember getting stoked in high school bc I saw an IGN listing for an untitled timesplitters game that never came out for Ps3/X360 I think... so many good memories even though I discovered the series way after it was gone.
@@KUPSMusicthey don’t post on TH-cam often but I’m pretty sure that their discord is still active
@@KUPSMusic i will when it stops being vaporware
Haha, see you in a couple years.
Timesplitters rewind was mentioned several times in this very video. It's been a ghost for over a decade. It's never coming out and if it did, it would just get C&Ded by Koch.
I feel tremendously bad for Ellis and Doak who came back to work on the new game. It's very rare for the original talent to come back for a project like that, I really can't imagine that they would be willing to try again in the modern industry after such treatment.
Happens way too often. Guys like them are hardy though. They do the work for the love of the art and I believe they'd form a studio again. But I won't disagree with you that the game "industry" has become a hellscape. Just seeing all the once greatest IP's being pissed away due to too many executives messing with the creative process is rage inducing.
"Embracer Group" sounds like a name of a generically evil corporation in a cheesy dystopian movie. Actually heartbroken from the whole story, it's obscenely frustrating that an industry is allowed to act so soullessly. Thanks as always for the content.
Disgracer group lol
The big reveal in the third act is that Ebracer Corp is actually run be a Beholder from D&D, and the name of the corporation is ultimately just from a slight mistranslation of the name of the monster.
Embraced Group are one of many things that’s wrong with modern gaming.
The protagonist sabotaged their big business deal to foil their evil plot.
I knew Matt would make a "What Happened?" video on TimeSpliters almost immediately after Free Radical Design got shutdown by Embracer. Makes sense because Matt followed Free Radical pretty closely every since their announcement of a new TimeSpliters. You work fast, Matt! Keep it up!
The Cardi B reference made me do a spit take🤣👍
Can't wait for the inevitable embracer group wha happun 😅🤣
I'm more curious if Matt is in touch with the Devs on the then "Current" TimeSplitters project that got binned, cause the devs could continue the project in all but the TimeSplitters name, if they play their cards right they could turn this Spiritual Successor into a profitable Business Venture, cause again Matt could throw the idea at the devs on such a project and even team up with a good Publisher that would support them all the way, maybe Humble Bundle or something.
My brother and I owned a copy of TS2 for the GameCube. It was without a doubt the most played game on our GameCube besides Smash Bros. We loved the game and tried to complete every challenge the game had and we played the multiplayer to death. So many memories of that game summed up our teenage years. If anything, I'm just grateful it existed in the first place.
My brothers and I had a very similar experience as you and your brother. Melee and TS2 was our most played too
Exactly the same for me too ! Haha
Same here and Bloody Roar and Metal Arms
@@StanDaMan4487 ooooo primal fury was played a lot too. My boy Yugo the wolf 🐺
Same
Tom Clarke Hill was so happy and eager to be Cortez again too... My favorite shooter series of all time, and it ends like this... Again.
I'll never stop being upset about what happened with Embracer. I've been wanting more Timesplitters for years and I finally thought it was going to happen...
Embracer group: the kiss of death for studios.
Had somewhat high hopes when Embracer formed (then as THQ Nordic) as a publisher for oddball mid-shelf stuff.
They then went to fatten themselves up by buying everything under the goddamn sun and bet everything on a deal instead of building a stable of developers and making money that way, but I suppose gambling with people's jobs is considered more business-savvy these days.
@@freedomseekr It's all about the tax write-offs
I love this franchise so much. It has so much character and soul.
And so much great content that todays modern FPS's lacks!
TimeSplitters deserves a comeback!
Here's hoping that a studio like Nightdive can scoop up the IP and at least put out a modern port that isn't trapped inside a bad game
Timesplitters 2 and Future Perfect are available digitally via Xbox back compat right now, they play pretty well. Hopefully they can come to other platforms too.
Nightdive hardly touch games from the 2000s unfortunately. Blind Squirrel or Virtuous seem like they would be more suited to the task
If they dropped a Timesplitters Collection I'd buy it in a heartbeat. TS2 is still one of my favorite games and the amount of hours my cousin and I invested will never be forgotten
They have part 2 and future perfect on Xbox for download
You're in luck cuz all 3 games got ported to PS5
Not quite remastered nor is there online but they are on PlayStation
Timesplitters 2 and Future Perfect are really great games. They should have gotten much more attention and recognition!
Embracer Group happened, now every damn studio they acquired is shutting down, it speaks to a bigger problem with acquisitions in general
That there is why you should never buy too many franchises at once
And be careful with who you choose
It doesnt. Embracer has nothing to do with how other acquisitions work. Its just a badly managed company. What shows is how bad regulators are at their job, once again. They spent almost 2 years for a fuckin COD/Cloud deal no one cared about, while this other shitty company kept taking up companies without any consequence.
Top 5 FPS series hands-down. Everybody loves the 2nd and 3rd game, but I think the 1st one still holds up really well too.
The other week, I was walking past Free Radical Design's office. I noticed the sign on the door was removed, and the office looked empty. I had thought they had just moved, but no, they are gone once again.
I am so pissed at Embracer. They killed Timesplitters 4.
Timesplitters as a franchise has the some of the best music out there in terms of video game soundtracks
From the first time I played TS to now, there is no month where i don't dive in a playlist of those bangers. All praises to Graeme Norgate !
@@Lord_LodanumIce Station, Siberia Boss, Spaceways, Spaceport, Chicago, Scotland the Brave, Tank Boss, Venice, Hangar, Wild West, Disco-a-gogo, Notre Dame...
Classic tunes...
Even the anaconda soundtrack goes HARD
Being a massive fan of the series, but not even knowing free radical reformed, just to hear its dead again is heartbreaking. So many good memories with this series. Thank you for creating this video.
Time splitters 1 and 2 defined my teenage years. Brilliant games that made the centre of many sleep overs
Man it’s been a while since we’ve had a tragic WhatHappened episode but honestly the Time Splitter development story and the entire Embracer Group shitshow might just be the most unfair and tragic story from this series.
It should be noted Timesplitters Rewind is still being worked on and can be kept up with from their Discord server. Since Rewind is entirely fan made the people working on it can only do so during free time and when they have the energy to do so. Since they have work, family, future employment, etc to focus on before it and those obviously come first.
Rewind definitely had major hurdles in the past though. From what I recall Crytek forced them to use the Cryengine for it as part of the deal of making a free fan game. I believe they originally tried making it in Unreal then had to move to Cryengine when Crytek told them to. Which caused a lot of work to be thrown out. After the buyout of the Timesplitters franchise again, by another corpo, they were eventually able to go back to Unreal engine to work with but that meant again restarting their work. Per their own words though the game is further along in development then ever before.
They do have a section on their Discord server where people can try and apply to assist with the project but you need to show previous work in the field and they need certain types of work than others.
And as terrible as it is for Free Radical being shut down by Embracer their closure doesn't harm the project of Rewind at all. Not unless the owner of the Timesplitters IP tells them they can no longer work on the project which hasn't happened yet (and hopefully doesn't).
I wouldn't hold your breath on TS Rewind. There's less than 10 people working on it in their spare time. I've been keeping up to date on it for like 6 years and last I checked they hadn't even finished the first game yet. Plus with all these acquisition changes even if they did release it, it'd be CCd in a hot minute.
Timesplitters Rewind is never going to happen.
@@bobbyevans8136 Not sure where you heard that; but i call bullshit on that Lol, this was an official comment by one of the testers of rewind *"we've mentioned several times that the initial release version of TSR (with TS1) is fairly close to finished now. we don't know how long it will take until it can be released since the whole team consists of volunteers, but yes, it is very much playable."*
so progress may be a little on the slow side, but they're still working, and they're working hard, You should be staying positive and supportive; bobbyevans8136, even if you're being a "realistic pessimistic" be glad that something even TimeSplitters related IS being worked on, AND shown, to many fans like to fall apart even before something is out the door, and that's bullshit, Smarten up.
Yes it is@@halolasomaster3900
My gosh I can hear that teleport animation. And I can definitely hear that lion dude screaming still to this day. I hope this gets a comeback one day.
I hope Agent 64: Spies Never Die is a success that Embracer Group will regret. It's truly sad to see how Embracer Group has turned into a terrible company recently.
Never heard of this til I saw your comment, and know I'm excited after looking into it. Thank you, internet stranger
Can't wait for the "Embracer - What Happened" episode, hopefully in the near future ... Happy Holidays, Matt :)
Time splitters was so ridiculously full of content. I think about it any time nickel and dime DLC comes up.
From BF3 to everything that’s happened with Timesplitters since, no dev has suffered as needlessly as Free Radical.
Makes me wonder if their original studio was built on an ancient Indian burial ground or something.
I put more hours into TimeSplitters 2 than any other game in my life, with TimeSplitters 3 probably being a distant 2nd. You never felt cheated when you got killed, you respawned into the action almost immediately, and you couldn't get through a match without laughing at least once. It was always fun, win or lose. If some company put out an HD release with online play, maybe even mapmaker levels with fewer memory restrictions, I'd throw money at it, no question.
Me too.
I was an early TSFP speed runner on TSElite.
If there's anything I've learned regarding Embracer Group being covered on this show, it's that they have death sentences in their pocket whenever things don't go their way and will hand them out like candy just to stay afloat.
I remember getting sucked into doing those bot deathmatches for TS2 on Gamecube and just having an absolute blast! Gonna have to revisit the game someday soon in honor of this video.
Free Radical is just one of many casualties of the death of mid-shelf games. Games like Fracture, Time Splitters, Timeshift, Th3 Plan, The Saboteur, Red Faction, Matt Hazard, Driver San Francisco, Homefront, Singularity, etc. etc. are not allowed to simply exist, be fun, and end any more. Publishers don't entertain anything that can't spawn a decade of franchise sequels or bilk players for microtransactions ad nauseam.
You wanna know how much this series means to me? I’ve only played Future Perfect when I was 11 and loved the fuckle out of it. It only took one game for me to have permanent memories and fondness for this series. I didn’t even know it had 3 games in the series until this video. Hell, I didn’t even know what Timespliters 1 looked like until this video.
It’s a damn shame Embracer Group embraced their stupidity instead of embracing empathy.
Love your use of the TimeSplitters soundtrack in this video. Using the Chicago theme just as you're telling about Free Radical going behind Eidos' back really made the story that much better.
I remember when I first played TimeSplitters future perfect, and it blew my mind with just how many things that you could do in the game and the amount of playable characters. I remember finally when I saw at the game store they had time splitters too and since future perfect didn't have a number in the title I assumed it was the first one and then I realized future perfect was actually the 3rd. Ever since then I've been eagerly awaiting a new one. It's by far my favorite multiplayer game on GameCube. The nostalgia is absolutely overwhelming and it's soooooo sad how things have played out for the franchise.
I think TS2 and TS:FP are objectively perfect games, so much content and so much love poured into them. Probably my favorite console FPS games next to Bungie's Halo
This....this was the episode I was dreading to see pop up in my feed. Losing Free Radical just hurts man.
Free Radical would've thrived in today's indie market, I think. You can easily self publish on a platform like Steam these days.
Great video also the most worrying thing is that Embracer Group has Crystal Dynamics so I wouldn't be suprised if Crystal Dynamics goes through some shit
I made a retrospective on this series a few years ago. Great games. What’s sad though is that right when the series was starting too find its identity, we never got another game. Cortez was the best badass goofball ever!
Eidos sure has a lot to say about multiplayer elements. I'm sure that until then they had a quite stellar catalog of multiplayer releases
Stuff like this make it really hard to not feel like the AAA industry is cooked
Unless you’re Nintendo tbat is, AAA games are dead outside of Nintendo because Nintendo’s never foolishly spent $100 million on a Mario and Zelda game and they’ve outsold their competitors 3 - 1.
I knew this would eventually end up on What Happened. I remember *SO* many people up in arms in regards to... well, what happened to the series. Actually, last week, I actually saw a news article about what happened to this series, and how people were bummed out by the idea that we'll likely never see a sequel to this series.
"Unbelievably fair" is putting it mildly. This series is one I want to see come back, and one that I think NEEDS to come back.
Actually, on second thought, scratch "need."
It *DESERVES* to come back.
The artwork for the unfinished TimeSplitters 4 is so depressing because so much of it looks amazing 😢
TS2 is 1 of my favourite video games of all time (Even though I do love the series as a whole). The absolute insanity of being so close so many times & having the rug pulled out from under us every time is incredibly heart breaking. I can only dream of what a TS4 would've looked like at this point 😢😢😢
My nickname alone is a testament of how much I love the FPS games made by Mr.Doak and I am so sad that we didn't get another entry in the awesome Time Splitters franchise...the latest news only make it worse...
If anyone of the original TS team reads this: You guys are awesome and your games won't be forgotten!
Now I need to play TS2 again and shoot me sum monkeys...
We live in the worst timeline. Timesplitters deserves so much more love. I’ve been playing TS2 on the PS5 through the new emulated versions on the store but they deserved to be proper remasters.
I was absolutely shocked when I heard that this company was the one that worked on Star Wars Battlefront III. That game is a legend to me and my friends. Absolutely astounding that it was canned so close to the finish line.
The soundtrack for TS2 is gold.
The saddest What Happened (so far), on my birthday no less, thanks Embracer Group, I guess... it really sucks being a Game Developer with "Radical" in your name, huh?
Studios getting shut down, people losing jobs, ever increasing dev costs, $70 games, likely to only get higher in the future...I feel like the game industry long term is going to be in trouble...that shit is unsustainable to me long term
I genuinely feel like Timesplitters is the true sequel to Goldeneye and Perfect Dark.
It took all the components that made those games great and ran full speed with them into the horizon.
My god do I miss it.
If I ever get a divorce I'm just going to jump out with papers in hand and say "It's Time to Split". I'll then wait in awkward silence as reality sinks in.
I just went through the link for all the TimeSplitters 4 artwork. There were almost 1000 images. I felt so many things scrolling through that.
It is beyond a shame we won’t see that put into a new release
TimeSplitters 2 was my first original Xbox game when I was a kid and it was one of the best games I'd ever played. I still would play it any day.
I can just about remember everything in Timesplitters 2 and FP cause thats how much me and my family played it. Unforgettable memories and a true treasure of a game. My goal was always 100% these games and unlock all characters, a much more fun challenge instead of micro transactions
This was such a fun video game franchise to play growing up that it shocks me that, in a world full of industries trying to capitalize on nostalgia, has yet to bring this series back
I really wanna see this game make a comeback one day 🙏, wasn't there a article years ago mentioning a "Remake" or a "Re-Release" for this series?
My sister and I played the TimeSplitters games to death growing up, and I still consider it the best example of the FPS genre I've played - fun, creative, and infinitely replayable. This was depressing to watch. Thanks for your hard work researching everything, even if you made me sad!
I grew up with Timesplitters and every time I had hope for the series to return it is always brought with sad news. The dream is over.
I absolutely loved time splitters 2 and 3 the graphics the gameplay the humor. It was just a really fun experience I didn’t want to end. It sucks when things like this happen especially around holiday time I feel for all those people and I’m glad development is still going on. I wish them all success
So many good memories of this series, I would love to find myself spending money on controllers and pizza again for this game
It's really up to us, the fans, to make our own mods, fangames, spiritual successors to this franchise, because if Embracer won't, who else will?
The closest one I could find is Timeshifters, though there's also Goldeneye: Source, Perfect Dark: Source, Agent 64, Operation Pinkeye, Dark Data, The Spy who Shot Me and TimeWarp, among others I missed.
I'd love to see an episode of What Happaned about Lord of the Rings: The third Age. Lately, I looked into the code and files from the game and there are a lot of unused skills, enemies and also there is equipment in the game you can only aquire via hacking. People always used to say it was because time restraints. I wouldn't be surprised if this is really the case, since it's an EA title, but maybe there are other factors, too. The game also feels rushed in the second half and it's also underwhelming that after Pellenor, you instantly fight Sauron, instead of fighting at the Black Gate, which Aragorn said, sooo ... yeah.
I'd definitely recommend that one for you, but information is scarce on this one. At least from my searches.
Happy Holidays Matt!
Timesplitters 2 scratched my Goldeneye/Perfect Dark itch when the other attempts to continue those IPs let me down. This team deserved better than what Embracer Group did to them 😢
This is a PHENOMENAL video! As a major TS fan, thank you for breaking this down in such a fantastic way! It's so frustrating to see this series suffer basically because of publishers. A series this good deserves better.
Check out TimeSplitters Resurgence Project! Future perfect mod and mini series!
Back in the previous episode (Thief 2014) you mentioned how Deus Ex: Mankind Divided might qualify for a What Happened? episode given its disastrous launch. Well, the whole series deserves a What Happened? because all four games had a turbulent development and/or release.
The first game was conceived in 1994 but Warren Spector had trouble trying to get the game made at Origin Systems (they rejected it) and Looking Glass Studios (too strapped for cash to afford it). Then John Romero and Mike Wilson saved Spector from consigning himself to EA by giving him a lucrative deal to make his dream game, leading to the establishment of Ion Storm Austin in early 1997 from the remains of Looking Glass Studios Austin. Then more people from Origin showed up and Spector made two teams: an RPG-oriented team led by Robert White and an immersive sim-oriented team led by Harvey Smith. These two teams clashed heavily. When Deus Ex was privately tested in 1999, the reception was not good, which led to Ion Storm Austin scaling it back. Not helping was the increasingly negative reputation Ion Storm was getting over Daikatana and Anachronox, which hurt the morale and made prospective developers wary of working at Ion Storm. When the game finally came out it was a critical and commercial success. It's a miracle considering everything that happened in its development.
The second game Invisible War was built on a modified version of Unreal Engine 2 dubbed "Flesh", which allowed for better visuals but it was a pain in the ass to program. Things only got worse when the engine programmer left and there wasn't any documentation left behind, which forced the team to scramble to fix the engine, plus Eidos mandating that Ion Storm make it also for the Xbox in tandem with the PC and the Xbox proved to be less powerful than expected. All of this forced Ion Storm Austin to severely water down the game to make it run any reliably on the Xbox. Unlike the first Deus Ex game where it ultimately hit it out of the park in spite of its development issues, Invisible War performed poorly both critically and commercially (not helping was that it came right after the juggernaut that is Call of Duty). The overall poor performance destroyed Warren Spector's reputation and whatever remaining goodwill there was towards Immersive Sims, and forced Eidos to cancel future installments in the franchise and retool an in-development spinoff by Crystal Dynamics into its own game called Project Snowblind to distance itself from the franchise whose reputation got destroyed by Invisible War's failure. It wouldn't be until BioShock that immersive sims would begin the road to recovery.
The third game, while not as troubled in development as the previous two titles, still had a number of planned features that were cut due to constraints. In addition, the Immersive Sim pedigree is very, very limited, being limited to those who can trace their heritage to Origin Systems and Looking Glass Studios (as is the case with Ion Storm Austin, Irrational Games and Arkane Studios). Eidos-Montreal, in contrast, was established completely from scratch, with none of the developers having any pedigrees in Immersive Sims, so they had to navigate on their own to "learn" immersive sims. This navigation included playing (in addition to the original two Deus Ex titles) games such as Metal Gear Solid, Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, BioShock, F.E.A.R. and Rainbow Six: Vegas, and their influences show in the final product. Like the first game, Human Revolution was a critical and commercial success.
The fourth game didn't have any troubled development but was subject to meddling from Square Enix, most notably the monetization model that tainted prospective players from buying it and it fairly likely contributed to the game not doing well commercially. Not helping was that there was going to be a sequel to conclude the Adam Jensen story but Manking Divided's failure put a roadblock to that.
After Mankind Divided, Eidos-Montreal took a break and worked on Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. With the studio's and Deus Ex IP's transfer from Square Enix to Embracer Group via a new company called CDE Entertainment and Embracer's current drama, Deus Ex is in a very uncertain position. There's a rumor going around that Eidos-Montreal is working on a new Deus Ex game that will feature co-op gameplay but I wouldn't hold my breath on it. There may also be a possibility that Embracer might merge CDE into Plaion/Koch Media in the coming months.
I'd love to see you do a video on Gametap or Myst Online: Uru Live (which has connections with Gametap). Keep up the great work!
This series needs to return on current or next gen consoles, and be the bold, imaginative, fun and raucous ride it was back in the day!!!
Future Perfect was my favorite. I remember spending HOURS on the map maker alone.
The current world of big business and shareholders wouldn't let a game like this come out these days. They only want games that have potential to sell DLC and addon content. A big part of the series was how much different and varied stuff, features, modes, maps, characters that it came with. If they gated all that stuff behind DLC, then the fans wouldn't buy it, but they also won't release that much with a game, because they won't have that continued money maker from it.
this franchise deserved so much better
Holy shit, Embracer really are shitting on everything in the most incompetent fashion.
I like to think, one day, a group of passionate gamers will actually get together not to create a game studio, but a publisher that gives a damn.
This episode made me sad. I think I need to call a friend of mine and see if I can convince him to Marathon the campaigns from TS 2 and 3
This whole video was heartbreaking, been a TS fan ever since I played the second one on my gamecube back in the day. Thank you Matt for shedding some light on 'What Happened' here.
Me and my brother have a deep love to TS3, the story got us really engaged with laughs and epic moments, the multiplayer easily got us playing over a thousand hours, specially because the game itself have like 10+ game mode to enjoy with a lot of customization in weapons, winning points, amounts of bots... So much customization that we probably had like 1 in a 100 match to be similar than one we had before, add to that the insane amount of characters to choose, skins to unlock...
TS3 probably is hated or not liked as much as TS2 but damn that it was packed with so much content that it was and endless game, one that i always used to go back and play alone or with my brother or stay all night creating a map to later play in our cousins house in a 4player match.
It would be such a dream to come true if that serie comes back one day
The most depressing What Happened episode that I sat through.
We need more coverage of just how poorly people are treated in the industry. I know it isn't the fun side of gamint, but thats kind of the point. We need to be consuming with as much knowledge as we can, and pull our money away from the worst actors and reward the ones who actually treat human beings with a little respect and dignity.
I remember getting legitimately excited when Free Radical was bought by Crytek, thinking that Timesplitters could get a sequel using the Cryengine.... and then nothing happened.
It'd be interesting to see you covering No One Lives Forever on What Happened
A modern day TS game would absolutely KILL with its online multiplayer. All the crazy characters, fun game modes, plenty of maps, it'd thrive. Thankful to hear TSR is still in development
I feel like at this point we need a full video just on Embracer Group.
TimeSplitters 2 is the greatest first person shooter ever made and I will happily die on that hill.
Some of my best memories are of playing Future Perfect as a teenager. A friend of mine that lived in another state came over to visit his family and he would come to my house almost everyday to play the game. We had a blast playing through the campaing and later messing around on deathmatch. Good times...
I love timesplitters to my very core and I don't want it to come back. It will be forever remembered as a great and I can still play it!
Back when we were a bunch of unemployed young adults with a ton free time, me and my friends would play 'Time splitters 2' ALL NIGHT LONG . We'd get a bunch of snacks , get comfortable, boot up TS2 and spend the whole night playing through all of the different multiplayer modes the game had to offer and it was just so much fun . The Time splitters trilogy (particularly Time splitters 2 ) are among the best FPS games ever made .
I wish this series returns one day. So many hours were spent among my friends as we played story in co-op and then deathmatch in TimeSplitters 2 and TS: Future Perfect. :)
I don’t know if this counts as the “movie” industry, but I’m incredibly happy to see Brandon Rogers’s Theater Class making a come back after a 10 year hiatus.
A few tidbits worth mentioning:
Haze was being developed multi-platform, but a deal was struck to make an exclusive launch title for the console with the lowest priority and least finished version: the PS3. The version we got was practically cobbled together.
TSR originally had to make their project on the Cry Engine as part of the deal, which many devs found difficult to work on. Communication issues and some changes to their working relationship led to the project restarting in Unreal and the team going through a bunch of staff changes. Hence why it's taken so long, even for a fan project.
Shiny new FRD was allegedly tasked to make a Battle Royal out of Timesplitters and may have been trying to pull a "forgiveness rather than permission" move a second time. Their plan was to remake TS2 with an alternate timeline... imo, a great way to jumpstart the old series.
TSR is our only hope now, but I've little confidence the IP holder won't shoot them a take down and abandon the franchise to IP limbo.
Great video, and its nice that it got so many views so quick, because TS4 definitely should've happened and its been shown the door more times than any other game I can think of.
Have such fond memories of playing 2 and future perfect with my brother. Really a golden era of couchplay
Timesplitters 2 is one of my favorite all time games and im glad i still have it
Time Splitters 2 was my favorite game to play with my friends since Perfect Dark. Truly ahead of its time just like Perfect Dark was.
Yeah, this really hurt, but thank you for the video as always Matt, you always bring it 😁❣
I'm so pissed at that company that bought so many studios it went under and forced them to close. We were SO close to a Timesplitters 4.
Free Radical wasn't only a hub for creativity. It was a hub for extremely talented engineers who could create things really fast.
"Steve [Ellis, lead programmer] got something up and running really quickly. I think Sony were really impressed; their experience had been that people would take six months, eight months, a year to get anything working at all on PS2. It was down to Steve's technical ability: he had a first-person thing up and running fairly quickly."
I used to play TimeSplitters 2 all the time! I have the third game on the OG Xbox and it's backwards compatible!
i missed how quickly sequels came out back then. They released 3 TS games in what 4 years and each one felt like a big enough upgrade visually.
God, that map maker + the AI ate soooooo much of my childhood. Worth it!
The one "what happened" I didn't wanna see, not because I doubt Matt's abilities to make an amazing and well informed video no, not at all. No the reason is that this particular game series needs a new game so bad because it's the most fun multiplayer mayhem deathmatch game you could ever play, and bringing Cortez back would be fantastic too (love that dude).