Timesplitters 2 Playstation 2 Game Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- TimeSplitters 2 is a first-person shooter video game developed by Free Radical Design and published by Eidos Interactive. It was released for the PlayStation 2, GameCube and Xbox game consoles in October 2002 in North America, Europe and Japan. It is the second game in the TimeSplitters series, and a sequel to the original TimeSplitters.
The game features a single-player mode consisting of ten levels in which the player assumes the role of one of two space marines as they attempt to stop the alien race of TimeSplitters from ruining history by collecting the time crystals in various time periods, ranging from the Wild West to the 25th century. It has several multiplayer modes.
A sequel, TimeSplitters: Future Perfect, was released in 2005, developed by Free Radical and published by EA Games. In June 2007, another sequel was announced to be in development, titled TimeSplitters 4.
This is a game that really deserves a Pc HD remake with some minor fixes here and there. I don't know about you guys but I would buy it.
Cough support timsplitters rewind Cough
Exactly. It sucks so much to play a FPS game with a controller.
that was the joy of timesplitters, it really didnt suck using a controller, if anything using a keyboard and mouse may ruin the fun
fenderman21guitar there exists a mod that lets you play Perfect Dark and GoldenEye 007 with NATIVE mouse & keyboard controls through an emulator. Go try that out for a bit and tell me if that ruins the fun, or take it from videogamedunkey; he says GE aged horribly but he came to fully appreciate it once he played through it that way.
just play it on dolphin with the mouse injector lol
This was probably the most fun multiplayer shooter I ever played.
Tru
Maaaaaaaan this game brings me back, playing this with my cousin and putting like 18 bots in a death match with us and just destroying them. We'd do that for hours on end. sad to see bots don't seem to be in to many games now a days at least none I've played
Did the same, good times haha.
Yeah I did that! :)
Kinda sad that a 15 year old game has more content then most modern FPS
TheGrandRevo if this was released today it would have 5 DLC packs for 15.99 each and another 10 for the map creator, and an annual subscription to upload them and play on line.
Not exactly fair, Call of Duty even with the expansions and loot crates provide more content bang for your buck out of the box than most AAA games in general: single-player campaign, co-op, multiplayer, and wave defense in the form of Nazi Zombies, with plenty of customizations to unlock. Its the matter of the content itself feeling derivative and uncreative that makes it a waste of development most of the time.
Well you can play it with a mouse and keyboard now th-cam.com/video/wiIFqQNPijQ/w-d-xo.html Guide in description
I can easily picture a selling point/slogan for a Remastered TimeSplitters Trilogy that takes the piss out of modern gaming with something like "Remember when games had so much content and charm? No DLC, no Microtransactions, everything is yours right out of the package."
@@kodybuffettwilson Lol, COD sucks, lacks innovation, and is aimed at consumers like public television: make something bland, loud, and addicting for the normies who don't know what good games really are.
*Sips tea and goes back to playing RUINER*
Timesplitters trilogy deserves a remaster, I loved its wealth of content and challenges.
Yess!!!!! Bet if they would make a 3 it would sale like crazy well i would buy it
Christopher Winspear yeah its called timesplitters rewind
@@mellojello43 That shit's not official.
Also, the IP is now in good hands. So there's hope.
@@RoseSupreme
Did anything come of it?
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 Yeah. New TimeSplitters game announced last year.
Though I do wish that before that, we can get a Remaster of the Trilogy so we finally have them to play on modern hardware.
THQ *MUST* release an HD Remastered Trilogy of this series. While one TS game can provide many hours of content, having all three will TRIPLE those hours. The days of couch multiplayer will truly return. And most importantly: If this is marketed right, this could teach a lesson to the modern gaming industry that there were days when games were jam-packed full of content with zero DLC and ESPECIALLY zero microtransactions.
I can easily picture a selling point/slogan for the Remastered Trilogy that takes the piss out of the modern gaming industry with something like "Remember when games had so much content and charm? No DLC, no Microtransactions, everything is yours right out of the package."
Seriously, the gaming industry is in dire need of a hard slap in the face and remastering this Trilogy will provide that very slap. Games so full of content that *CAME* with the game itself and not locked behind a paywall. That is mind-blowing to modern gamers and they'll want to get all in on that.
Me and my older brother spent countless nights playing story cooperation mode, trying to finish the story mode on hard. It took us many months, but eventually we succedded. I miss those days.
Oh man the soundtrack takes me back. To just letting the game chill in the main menu for background music to infuriatingly trying to connect an adapter so I could play 3 player on the Ps2.
Me, my bro, and my cousin used to make our own custom zombie matches before nazi zombies was a thing.
I remember playing this New Years Eve 2004 with my brothers, we spent the whole night from 7 pm all the way til 12:00 am new years day. Alot of good times playing it
So needs a reboot. This on modern consoles would be EPIC
Jamie W. it needs a timeplitters 4 on xbox one, ps4 and pc
Are you ever going to cover Future Perfect?
+Beefmeat Maybe.
+Gggmanlives please do
Why would you even consider not reviewing it after covering the first two? Future Perfect is my favourite of the series by far; would love to hear your thoughts on it.
No! Timesplitters Future Perfect should be left alone...it's the greatest masterpiece ever made.
***** How is it not perfect??? Future Perfect is like, the world leader of fps games.
Still stands as one of my favorite games of all time.
hope to see a review of the next game, Future Perfect. :)
+James Conlon It's much worse than this i reckon, i dunno but TS2's sound track and levels/arcade were just better i reckon
Atom Smasher is one of the hardest things I've ever done in my life.
Have you played the Mansion level in TS1? lol
@@SoftAsABaboonAss that's fucked up man..Zombies with shotguns, that pop out of nowhere, just glad my game save ps2 file, doesn't corrupt..
For me it was Robot Factory lol
The TimeSplitters games were not only incredibly fun but they were technically superb. They looked amazing and the performance was silky smooth. I went back and played the series a few years ago and was seriously impressed by how well they hold up. My one gripe is the manual aiming system in the first two games, however at that time the control schemes for console games were much less standardised than they are today.
If I remember correctly, when I initially played the first TimeSplitters I wasn't even using the now standard control scheme (Left stick: Move. Right stick: Look). I believe I was still using something similar to the controls in GoldenEye/Perfect Dark because that's what I was accustomed to (Something like left stick: Move forward/back and look left/right. Right stick: Strafe and look up/down).
I remember the first time the now standard method clicked with me. It was a complete revelation. I became 10 times better at FPS games pretty much instantly. I remember thinking "Why has it taken me so long to discover this and why doesn't every game use/allow this layout?". It's kind of interesting looking back at control schemes of PS1/PS2 games because they were so different from game to game and learning the controls was a bigger part of the learning curve of each game back then. It does make it a challenge going back to some games though.
I remember the controls too. I got my PS2, Xmas day 2000. Bought Timesplitters on boxing day, went home and was gutted aboutthe controls, made no sense. Tried changing them on settings etc. After a while the set up just clicked amd i got it. Prior to that my only experience with FPS and analogues was Goldeneye 64.
I miss playing these games. It's strange to think how much the world has changed in such a small amount of time
Playing split screen was amazing!!! Guns? Amazing! Story? Amazing! Soundtrack? Amazing? Nostalgia? Amazing but not needed!
I'm pretty sure some of the missions give you more than one checkpoint. I liked how the system worked. It made the missions really tense. You complain about difficulty in games quite a lot. Some games are just supposed to be difficult. There's nothing wrong with it if it's by design. I do agree that the first level of the campaign is the best though. It's one of the best game levels ever.
Okay, so some games are supposed to be difficult, but should that not be something worth mentioning in the review?
Yes, but it's not always a negative. At least not when the design is intentional. Timesplitters 3 featured much more checkpoints, but I think the game suffered a bit for it. It was too easy. Anyway, I agree with most of what you said. It's a good review.
Siberia from Timesplitters 2 and The Exchange (the snowy castle infiltration) from 007 Nightfire are some of my favorite levels in videogames. I would replay those over and over as a kid.
One of the great things about Emulators for these old checkpoint games is State saving. I don't think I could bring myself to play these without that feature (I was raised on PC gaming, not console gaming, and always had quick saving available for my shooting adventures).
Fun Fact: This is made from the same people who made Goldeneye on the N64.
+The Gravemind pew pew
Phantom Drags. we know that jackass
no wtf? rare made goldeneye lmao smart ass
@@blazeshredz6817 oh wooow you're so smart lmao
@@AceticTWO and people from Rare who made Goldeneye left Rare and joined the team that made Timesplitters
I remember looking forward to this constantly reading the TS2 preview showing the hybrid mutant or something, cracking game, great multiplayer too. Virus and Flame Tag were the shit
I definitely remember this game. He should review the game vigilante 8. I don't know if it would be fun anymore but damn that game was amazing when I was a kid.
Solid review. I'm glad you addressed how frustratingly difficult some of the challenges are. Yeah, the level quality is inconsistent, but the only stage I really didn't enjoy was the one set on the alien planet.
To me, the biggest obstacle to enjoying this game was getting accustomed to its strange aiming system. Aiming is VERY different depending on which weapon you're wielding, and makes it difficult to play well until you train yourself adjust to the system (which is completely different from every PC-based FPS I've ever played). TimeSplitters (3): Future Perfect adopted a more conventional aiming system and is thus easier to enjoy the first time you start playing it. TS:FP also features better graphics, online play, and a better (and funnier) plot, so I enjoy it more than TS2.
I'm with you on being biased about this game, it is my childhood on PS2 and I like comparing it to other games I enjoy like Team Fortress 2, where the game doesn't care about logic. Hopefully TS Rewind releases despite the hardships the dev team has gone through.
Spent maaaany maaaany hours on this game... In solo, to get all achievements and in multiplayer with friends also. Hands up, THE BEST Shooter in the PS2 in my book.
Nice review and game, the graphics looks quite good actually for a game of its age, do you capture the footage from a emulator or from the actual console? If I remember it right, last time I tried to play it with a PS2 (with a component cable) in a HD TV, the game looks dull and full of jaggies.
One of my all time favourites on PS2. When you pkayed this there is only a little point on playing the first instalment. I think there is hundreds hours of game play with my friends. Wild West and Chicago were my favourite maps.
The main menu track for this and future perfect are certified slappers
Wish timesplitters would come back, imagine timesplitters with online play? I played the first 1 along time ago but timesplitters 2 is my favourite in the series and i remember playing it on the original xbox when it came out. The soundtrack for this game is damn amazing as well. This is one my fav fps games on console. Would love to see you do a future perfect review as i sadly never got to try that one but to have fond memories reading previews about the game in ps2 magazines
Been waiting for this video since the last Timesplitters one! Love the classic reviews man
Virus on Ice Stations brings back so many memories :) One of the most fun multiplayer games from my childhood! Great review, but you should have mentioned the level editor (or maybe you did, but not in detail)!
One of my fav games ever. Have a ridiculous amount of hours put into it. Still holds up and there really is nothing like it nowdays.
I swear man, good proffesional reviews like this are almost a lost art. You guys are a hidden gem among the bastards that saturated TH-cam with child like humor and lazy fucking videos like Game Grumps, Pewdiepie, Markiplier. God damn man, I swear to god these fuckers target audiences are 6 years old.
Great review, you're really good at these.
I remember playing this game to death when I was younger, I liked the mechanic of creating your own levels.
This is how you do extra content and unlockables in conjunction with single and multiplayer gameplay. There isn't one new game that even tries to implement the same idea
Just played this Saturday and pretty much got a 100% completion in under 8 hours. Hardest elite league challenge we faced was 'Hangar Hats Off' taking us an hour and a half to complete. The worst part about this game is the story on hard and the site level being locked until it's completed. We only had the patience to make it through 3 of the levels. Good review, love this game.
story mode co-op on splitscreen was awesome
excellent review love this game remember playing it with friends for years upon years.
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Fitting, since I'm about to get a copy of the game as an early birthday present. Yes, I've never played ANY of the TimeSplitters games, and I should be ashamed of myself for not playing them sooner.
I absolutely love your videos, usually you can watch someone old videos and see that its overflowing with cringe. Awesomely enough though, I enjoy watching your older reviews as much as the newer ones
Quick question: is it possible for you to review Future Perfect?
I don't have a copy of it, and I hear it's really buggy in PCSX2.
Gggmanlives I can understand that. Thank you for replying.
Gggmanlives Try the dolphin emulator
I got a ps2 with gta sa and timesplitters 2 for just 30 bucks!
+Gggmanlives i have a copy for ps2 i could send you if you want
The zombie roar and slap scene is my fav😅
Great review, I gotta try this sometime. Hey I was wondering: Are you going to do Quake IV or D00M 3 at some point or do you have other plans for reviews?
Hey, I'm working on Doom 3 at the moment, and I'm probably going to be finishing the Quake series soon as well. Got a few backlogged/requests to get done beforehand though,
Gggmanlives Ok. Take you're time, no need for you to feel rushed :)
This in CryEngine would be gorgeous
Best.FPS.EVER.
Yess even though at the tume i would be so scared to play it lol
Hey great review, but im wondering how your running the games so well without it slugging down?
is it your PC setup or just the settings?
Really would like to know! Thanks!
I think it's probably my rig. Also, PCSX2 needs to be tweaked literally for every single different game to get the best possible performance.
Thanks! but what was the main changes you made for something like MOH:F and BLACK
Cheers!
I hated this game way back when. I thought the art style was ugly and the controls were shitty. I gave it to friend and let him keep it. Hopefully he enjoyed more than I did.
This game had soooo much similarities to golden eye it was fantastic ( i mean even the heath bar was similar)
Old Gold.
still have my old save with every character unlocked😃
A console-exclusive FPS that does not suck. Funnily enough, the "GoldenEye style" control scheme works far better in console FPS than the adopted "Halo style" one, yet it seems many console FPS players dislike the GoldenEye style one.
Is there any game similar to this on PS4?
I stopped playing FPS like this after PS2 but wanna get back into it and this was my favorite game
The game is awesome, but I agree with your complaint on unlocks/arcade mode. I ended up using a cheat code disc to unlock everything and saved it to that file for whenever I just wanted to enjoy the full bot mode. I kept open a legit profile to, but still for a game with unlocks this insane I don't regret using a work around for when I just want some fun.
timesplitters online would be great
Although the original Deus Ex and Blade Runner (the Westwood's movie-based action adventure video game Blade Runner) come very close, the first part of the Blade Runner-esque level in this game is the most Blade Runner thing ever seen in a video game. You feel like a Blade Runner agent while you follow that guy as the awesome ambiental Vangelis-like music plays and wonderful rain and neon effects add to the overall immersive feeling. Any BR fans out there owe it to themselves to experience this level of TimeSplitters 2 for themselves. It's a very memorable experience. Too bad the rest of the level is mindless action, but what you gonna do...
The Old West level would've nailed the Eastwood and Leone's Spaghetti Western look IF it had the gameplay of Lucas Arts' Outlaws. The Ennio Morricone-style music is there, the old western-y looks are there, the atmosphere is there, but the level's goals and gameplay just don't match the excellent presentation.
Anyway, if the whole game had levels like these two standouts, beautiful tributes to excellent movies and other pop culture stuff, I'd love this game. However, at least half of the levels in Time Splitters 2 fall flat and become a drag.
Still better than Time Splitters 1 levels, though.
Oh, and that introductory level in Siberia (or wherever) has an excellent James Bond GoldenEye (the Nintendo game) feel to it.
Great review, btw.
Used copies of time splitters games for Xbox are extremely cheap in here in Germany. So I ordered some to try them on my upcoming Xbox Series X. (Or should I say "Emulation-Box series X?)
Love that you can find random game cartridges for really old games n the u can play them
This game really got my blood boiling in a good way for unlocking stuff.
The Challenges mode wasnt to difficult to me and was very varied and fun. The campaign was the real challenge. With levels that practically hadn't got any armor or health packs.
But even with all that, it was one of the best console FPS of all time. Let the creators of Goldeneye 007 make one masterpiece after other.
Great review as always.
Oh hell yeah. I got into Timesplitters first as a former friend had borrowed this Xbox ( _ye olde one_ ) and brought it with him so we sat down and played through Future Perfect ( _which was the game that was on it_ ). Years, many years later ( _over 15 years_ ), namely like this year my currently rl friend tells me to download Timesplitters 2 so we could emulate and play it, and yeah. This game has aged like very very fine cheese or wine or, whatever that ages beautifully. Hilariously he played with a controller and I played using my arcade stick which gimped me in certain areas and yet I still managed to top the score and win on half the maps we played on.
Hands down my favorite is Gretel Mk. II ( _because I love Robots_ ) and dual sawed-off-shotguns. Makes me feel like I snagged them from the Blood universe.
Fantastic, amazing reliable weapon. And I agree. the Sci-fi weapons mostly feel terribly underpowered.
Gretel MK 2, is mine! Back off!
Never played it but I picked this up a few days ago. Looks like a lot like Goldeneye with a way better coat of paint
Incredible game. Spent many hours trying to nail all the challenges on the Gamecube version with my friend.
It's 2020 and I'm posting this after binge playing TimeSplitters 2 on my PlayStation 2. I wish I could just go back to PS2 launch day. Those were the days
Excellent review, great memories, are you reviewing Future Perfect next?
I don't have a copy of it at the moment. But I'd love to!
+Gggmanlives there's so much content in FP. I'm currently replaying it now. :)
hay um have you heard of the game Captain Claw? or Claw depending on where you live? its a monolith game i found a long time ago as a Demo on one of the Blood 2 disks hardly anyone on youtube has made a review on it so might be worth a look if you have the time.
Personally I prefer a game to be hard so that I can choose to win more
So many memories of me, my brother and my cousin yelling at each other whilst trying to get cheap madcatz multitap to work so we could play 3 players on the Ps2.
Best time ever with a Ps2 game.
Future perfect is amazing especially that zombie level though
you rant about enemies having too much health, while showing a serie of 3 arcade league matches where the point is actually to fight a single enemy with a shitload of health.
I would love for them to remaster this or something had so much fun playing this as a kid especially split screen with friends!
One of the best FPS-games with one of the best soundtracks to date
Played the heck out of the MP on Xbox with a buddy. Good memories. Never did bother with SP.
Its a shame Free Radical never got a chance to fully realize Battlefront 3.
I wish this footage was in 60fps not in 30 cause the game maintains 60 fps lock like all the time on all consoles even with two player coop/deathmatch with bots(never had the chance to check it out with more than two players but I assume its still runs really well) I implore you to check out other footage (or possibly the game itself) cause its real charm to look at with all of its wacky animations.
oh man so many awesome memories playinh this all the time with friends actually my uncle showed me this at the time childhood was great
Great review! Love the Timesplitters series :) Shame you still haven't reviewed Future Perfect. That's like talking about Star Wars IV and V but ignoring Return of the Jedi :P Maybe some day...
Played this on a friend's original Xbox last year. Other than getting used to that particular controller, the game itself was still awesome! I still wish we'd get another Timesplitters game! XD
Surely one of the best game sequels and shooters of that era. It totally overshadows the first game and feels like what Timesplitters should have been like from the first time.
I had some of the greatest times playing with my older brothers on this game as the youngest of three. So many options to play and co op too which was always my favorite since my brothers were always better than me
I remember playing this on the original xbox as a kid but I forgot about it! this game was so cool!
The should make a remake of this game. Or a sequel to future perfect
The only TS game I've played so far is TS2. I didn't know about this game until a few years ago. With a name like Timesplitters, little did I know this would be a FPS game.
Great review, Gggmanlives. :)
The best part of Homefront Revolution was playing Timesplitter 2 in the prison as easter egg !
I love this game
Fuck that stealth level tho
Eh, I like the NeoTokyo level. The REAL shit level of the game is Atom Smasher. Oh, God, what the hell were they thinking...
Ben Bell It sucks how you need to beat those levels in hard mode in order to get the Construction site map.
That shits easy, Aztec was hell for me
Just bought this for Gamecube to play again and record. Brilliant game and those mini games on the handle held console kept me busy for hours
PS Gggmanlives, ever thought of reviewing Shadowman and it's sequel 2econd Coming?
Welp, just found a favorite reviewer.
The only real quibble I have with it is the wonky aiming system, which kind of "resets" you as you move to aim. Not as smooth as I'm normally used to, and it throws you off when you're trying to get that perfect shot.
I used to go rent that game every now and then just to build maps and mess with the AI
Can we ever expect a review of any of the other Serious Sam games? Or even the Painkiller games?
I'm playing through SS2 at the moment and I will inevitably review the Painkiller games in the future.
Gggmanlives Sweet. I just played through Serious Sam 2 recently.
How did they change in third one? They look thin as and blue whereas they look like mutants in timespliters 3
You did not mention the level editor ;)
It's hard to beat great old games. I knew Borderlands was awesome but I started with Borderlands 2 and had a blast playing through it all the way through days and late nights. Coming back I got more hooked than anything in the past years. It has so much and the world changes and expands with the story so much plus the unique art style and creativity that makes it so lively that anything realistic feels like grey cardboard. Boring boring boring boring unoriginal boring and dull. Borderlands 2 really skyrocketed my expectations for games like F.E.A.R did with it's mind blowing ai and amazing shooting.
Same with Blood as I downloaded the Deathwish mod which blew me away, it's maps are just as good if not better than the original game. Or rather it has it's own charm but is extremely impressive compared to the original levels. It's impossible to find something as satisfying maybe Shadow Warrior 2 might be good but it lacks variety in it's own formula with too much gore and gory red flesh unlike Painkiller which went from military bases of soldiers to haunted insane asylums with horrific monsters and much more
Borderlands isn’t even that old. It’s PS3 gen, unlike this older PS2 game. The Borderlands franchise isn’t hard either.
Timesplitters 2 and 3 were fantastic games. A remake would be amazing on current gen
the used to be my most favourite game ever!!!!! and i still love it
I still greatly prefer this to Future Perfect. I love the changes that harder difficulties bring. I also actually enjoyed the more free-form style of storytelling in TS2 compared to the third game, and I disliked how the third game suddenly dropped the Quantum Leap-esque body inhabiting aspect of time travel, which felt like one of the more unique things about its predecessors.
Hey GGGManlives, are you gonna review Haze? It was apparently so bad that Free Radical Design went out of business because of it.
***** Free Radical went bankrupt because of all the cash they invested into the version of Battlefront 3 they were working on, before Lucasarts canned the project on them.
Haze didn't have anything to do with it.
Just bought this game today and played it all night with friends
I loved making my own maps on this game