I take it you know that they have given rights to the fan community to create a timesplitters game, they were creating a multi player pc game with the possibility of console ports later, I haven't checked on it in a while though since my laptop doesn't like gaming, and i thought it might make me even sadder that the devs have had to drop the game
After watching this review I picked up a used copy of this game to goof off with... I love shooters and I like, uhm, herbal therapy ;) and this game matches those two things together beautifully! I wish I had known about the game a few years back, I would have loved to play it online, but the fact that you can play multiplayer on one console with bots is something that's been lost in almost all modern shooters these days. Thanks for reviewing this one!
The most fun I have ever had playing a video game bar none. I remember literally staying up all night at my friends house whilst we set the deathmatch mode to the max amount of kills and had competitions to see who could kill the most bots. The Arcade mode was amazing too.
Everyone in my school thinks I talk like captain ash, even though I'm from the uk and a he'll of a lot of them have never seen the game. Spiffing old bean.
god its good to see that other people loved this game as much as i do i swear i played this game constantly for years and i can Still pick it up and play today with total satisfaction
ahhh timesplitters. Such memorable characters and a massive variety of game modes, this would be perfect for next gen consoles. love the timesplitters series (virus mode was such an adrenaline rush lol)
As of August 17th 2009, Timesplitters 4 has officially been declared as on hold. In a recent interview, Crytek UK claimed that they would continue the project once there is a high industry demand for such a game.
I just bought Timesplitters Future Perfect for Xbox, but I also have Timesplitters 2 for PS2. Just so y'know Mark, this game does still have online support for the XBox, but they have not released a patch allowing compatibility with the 360. Of course, being an older game, and Xbox supported only, there is no one playing it. But the maps that people made, that were uploaded to the Xbox Live service, are still available.
What was funny about the map maker in timesplitters 1 is if you make a horrible 1 room map all of the bots will be looking at you like "Oh god look what you've done"
Though it may seem unlikely, a Timesplitters 4 would be a dream come true. Timesplitters 2 was amazing and I now seriously want to get Future Perfect; I had thought 3 leaded more towards 1 player but after seeing this video I just have to find this game. Best characters = Dinosaur, Bear, Duckman Drake, Leo Grumps(hopefully he returned in 3), and certainly Mr. Giggles.
Aw yes, Tron 2.0... You know, you made me cry. I love that game. I played it back in 2003, it was awesome. Why kill it? And yes, I'm totally agree with you about Timesplitters, although, I would wish, that they whould make something like level editor features in Portal 2, where you can make a level and put it online and everybody can play and rate it.
this is why PC rules as a platform, had this game been a PC game, there would still be a dedicated community running improved graphical mods and dedicated servers
This was one of my favourite games of all time!! I was an absolute gem! Free Radicals had some of the best talent in the business. People do not even realise that Free Radicals made Rare what it was. If not for them then GoldenEye 64 and the first Perfect Dark would of not existed! Then when they left Rare went poo! Please let 4 be as good plus they need to put up their TS3 servers again! Or at least do a HD remake of this!
I think the MP just works as it's got the same GoldenEye-esque gameplay that made that so great, even RARE couldn't get it right with Perfect Dark Zero (possibly due to the fact the made the weapons so frickin' weak) But I used to play this online a lot, great online, no lag whatsoever either! BTW Mark, have you tried The Club on 360 or PS3 yet? That might be up your alley if you like TimeSplitters.
I started with TS3 and haven't been able to find any of the others :S. TS is just one of those few games where you get so much innovation it could give you hours of fun for exp the hundreds of characters and the map maker was what brought me back. Though they weren't the only things though I loved the story in TS3 and FP, the humour was just good fun, it didn't have continuity errors (really hard for a game that spands across different time zones) and the difficulty levels gave extra sections.
the only thing i can think of to make it better wud be a team elimination mode, where all players hav a certain number of lives and one team must completely wipe out the other,but then agen, you can alredy set handicapped teams, and even as it is, its still the best game ever created
@FergusonGames I believe Crytek have the rights over the series now since Free Radical was shut down. Perhaps they'll re-release 2 or Future Perfect for XBLA? One can hope =[
I LOVE this game as a kid. I would always set the all the enemies to deerhunter and just set the weapons as a sniper rifle and the map would be that ice place and me and my friend would be either the little girl or the monkeys :D
I got this at Gamestop for 15 dollars and When i played It I couldnt believe it was that cheap. It was the most fun I had in months lol with video games that is. It also lasted me a while!
the intro shows the major brands in a kinda rough timeline, so NES represents Nintendo, 360 Microsoft and PS3 Sony etc...It skips a couple of generations but you get the idea.
When I saw that first shot of the telly in Shaun of the Dead and recognised that they were playing the holiest of holies, Timesplitters 2, I basically exploded in fanboy delight. I wonder how much doing that cost them? Or maybe they got away with it, saying that they were promoting the game. I dunno, BUT IT'S AWESOME.
I don't think there's gonna be a 4 the company made that shitty game haze and it did so badly they went bust and closed, unless some other developer takes over thats the end of timesplitters
Amazing game wish they would continue the series and progress further they could do SO much for the ps3 and xbox360 especially with Online game play the ideas are countless I hope within the next few years or so they consider creating Timesplitters4 because most of the newer games of today can't even touch the Timesplitters series of games
dear lord your review made me realize just how much i did not unlock like i think i much of only unlock maybe 10 percent i might have to dig my copy out it hopefully fix that
VavA , It should as it had onboard PS2 hardware ( not later emulation ) prior to giving up PS2 support completely, With this title, you should be able to LAN multiplayer on the above PS3 as well with another supporting PS3 or even PS2 but not sure about gaming speed comparison of same title between two systems.
I also have a question, what are you playing this game on? I noticed it's in widescreen, and you mentioned playing Warhawk, and I've seen your intro video tens of times now. So I'm guessing this was running on your PS3?
yeah, and you can even change the cross hair, so you can just have it stationary like most modern FPS's, or you can have it move around like in Perfect Dark, Or you can have no cross hair, like Goldeneye!
Yes. It supported four-player split screen gameplay.
All this talk and whishful anticipation of TimeSplitters 4 is just breaking my heart.
I take it you know that they have given rights to the fan community to create a timesplitters game, they were creating a multi player pc game with the possibility of console ports later,
I haven't checked on it in a while though since my laptop doesn't like gaming, and i thought it might make me even sadder that the devs have had to drop the game
you missed out calamaris phrase
"someone pinched me winkles"
still great vid
I never got to play this game online. Even so I own all three games. I love them X3
Tis a shame we'll never see TS4. :[
Before I had the internet, I had Arial DaVinci
Lt. Christine Malone. Damn!
They did that years ago.
I loved assault mode, sort of like rush in Battlefield
@Linkinpork989 The save files for the profiles aren't that big, but the custom maps take up a ton of space.
Online was good. You could play cooperatively with friends in the same console against some online folks.
Online could be fun, but there were SO MANY cheaters
now if EA would kindly get those servers back online....
dude i used to have it when i was 8 its was fucken awsome im giving up my xbox 360 for it i loved it im eleven now though
After watching this review I picked up a used copy of this game to goof off with... I love shooters and I like, uhm, herbal therapy ;) and this game matches those two things together beautifully! I wish I had known about the game a few years back, I would have loved to play it online, but the fact that you can play multiplayer on one console with bots is something that's been lost in almost all modern shooters these days. Thanks for reviewing this one!
The fact that you have compared this to Halo 3 throughout shows that Future Perfect was way beyond its time.
The most fun I have ever had playing a video game bar none. I remember literally staying up all night at my friends house whilst we set the deathmatch mode to the max amount of kills and had competitions to see who could kill the most bots. The Arcade mode was amazing too.
Everyone in my school thinks I talk like captain ash, even though I'm from the uk and a he'll of a lot of them have never seen the game. Spiffing old bean.
Where was Mr. Giggles? That's my friend's favorite and whenever he does an impersonation, its hilariously disturbing lol.
i remember my friend would come over everyday and we would play this game for hours and hours, still my all time favorite game ever!
assault on mars prison was the freakin best
get the xbox version classic game room guy I think it still has online play but the gamecube version doesnt have online.
great point on the shawn of the dead movie reference
"Do i have red on me?..."
Best line of any video game ever :D
handyman was my fav character he just made the most entertaining noises
god its good to see that other people loved this game as much as i do
i swear i played this game constantly for years and i can Still pick it up and play today with total satisfaction
I have great memories of this game from a few years back.
I liked the glove dude the most
I like Crispin, when you select him he lets out a humourous cry of "BURN BABY' BURN!"
"Piece me I am quite handy" I love the humer in this game
actually, free radical no longer exists. The last 40 employees were actually bought by Activision.
Classic Game Room and Timesplitters are the two best things EVER! when Timesplitters 4 comes out, my life will be complete
Jed definitely has the best multiplayer intro.
ahhh timesplitters. Such memorable characters and a massive variety of game modes, this would be perfect for next gen consoles. love the timesplitters series (virus mode was such an adrenaline rush lol)
Perhaps the greatest Soundtrack and FX of any game EVER
Me and my bros and cousins still play this game on four player split screen one of are favorites ever
one of my alltime favs 2
they really needed multiplayer to keep people playing it
As of August 17th 2009, Timesplitters 4 has officially been declared as on hold. In a recent interview, Crytek UK claimed that they would continue the project once there is a high industry demand for such a game.
I just bought Timesplitters Future Perfect for Xbox, but I also have Timesplitters 2 for PS2.
Just so y'know Mark, this game does still have online support for the XBox, but they have not released a patch allowing compatibility with the 360. Of course, being an older game, and Xbox supported only, there is no one playing it. But the maps that people made, that were uploaded to the Xbox Live service, are still available.
the bear punch line would be
''You cant bear me''
This is what I loved about Timesplitters
they balance out the multiplayer and singleplayer and both are equally fun.
What was funny about the map maker in timesplitters 1 is if you make a horrible 1 room map all of the bots will be looking at you like "Oh god look what you've done"
epic intro. Mark, Bring it Back
Though it may seem unlikely, a Timesplitters 4 would be a dream come true. Timesplitters 2 was amazing and I now seriously want to get Future Perfect; I had thought 3 leaded more towards 1 player but after seeing this video I just have to find this game. Best characters = Dinosaur, Bear, Duckman Drake, Leo Grumps(hopefully he returned in 3), and certainly Mr. Giggles.
Hangar in TS 2 was the best Ts multiplayer map.
Captain Ed Shivers had me talking like a pirate for weeks
I love virus on this game, that's what me and my friends and family play so much! It's especially good on maps you make.
favourite video game, best plot, best guns, best characters in any game
I always liked Shrink mode. I just wished I could have stomped on them when they're all tiny!
I just got my copy of TS:FP delivered today! I have to say this is the best GC FPS ever.
Aw yes, Tron 2.0... You know, you made me cry. I love that game. I played it back in 2003, it was awesome. Why kill it?
And yes, I'm totally agree with you about Timesplitters, although, I would wish, that they whould make something like level editor features in Portal 2, where you can make a level and put it online and everybody can play and rate it.
this is why PC rules as a platform, had this game been a PC game, there would still be a dedicated community running improved graphical mods and dedicated servers
This was one of my favourite games of all time!! I was an absolute gem! Free Radicals had some of the best talent in the business. People do not even realise that Free Radicals made Rare what it was. If not for them then GoldenEye 64 and the first Perfect Dark would of not existed! Then when they left Rare went poo! Please let 4 be as good plus they need to put up their TS3 servers again! Or at least do a HD remake of this!
Med-Unit 6. High mobility, tiny hitbox, so much fun to play on disco with rocket launchers only, oh man I want to play this game right now
I played the TS2 with my friend on his gamecube, it was so awesome, I don't now why I never buyed one of these games.
I always used Harry Tipper, the monkey or Securidroid on multiplayer on the Siberia level with the 9mm, it was too much fun.
I absolutely loved this game, though I played it on Gamecube, and I'm extremely excited about Timesplitters Rewind
aaahh damn i loved this game so much, used to play this with few of my friends for hours and hours again. good times
that weapon at the end is a beast! O_O
My favorite FPS, also the only PS2 game I played online (not that there were many). Mostly played it online, was so good, the music was fantastic.
"I am the glovinor! Pick me - I'm quite handy!"
I think the MP just works as it's got the same GoldenEye-esque gameplay that made that so great, even RARE couldn't get it right with Perfect Dark Zero (possibly due to the fact the made the weapons so frickin' weak)
But I used to play this online a lot, great online, no lag whatsoever either!
BTW Mark, have you tried The Club on 360 or PS3 yet? That might be up your alley if you like TimeSplitters.
"Bite my crunchy brown ass". LMAO that gingerbread character.
I started with TS3 and haven't been able to find any of the others :S. TS is just one of those few games where you get so much innovation it could give you hours of fun for exp the hundreds of characters and the map maker was what brought me back. Though they weren't the only things though I loved the story in TS3 and FP, the humour was just good fun, it didn't have continuity errors (really hard for a game that spands across different time zones) and the difficulty levels gave extra sections.
yes it's on there :)
mine favorite was sheriff skull face at first now i roll with private hicks
The Farcry games also have an AMAZING map maker/editor. Does anyone remeber that?
i remember when i first played this at a friends house and then i had to buy it cus it was so fun
since timesplitters 1 robofish is my favourite character :)
You forgot to mention the injector! Such a fun weapon..
the multiplayer is like Unreal Tournament with a sense of humor
the only thing i can think of to make it better wud be a team elimination mode, where all players hav a certain number of lives and one team must completely wipe out the other,but then agen, you can alredy set handicapped teams, and even as it is, its still the best game ever created
@FergusonGames
I believe Crytek have the rights over the series now since Free Radical was shut down. Perhaps they'll re-release 2 or Future Perfect for XBLA? One can hope =[
I am a Cyborg Chimp fan myself. I like all of the weapons but if I had to pick a fav, I would go with the Scifi Sniper all the way.
Jet force gemini and timesplitters are my favorite shooters.
I always loved the deerhaunter's dialoge: wooshisnoessh
Why, WHY did I miss this when it first came out!?
I LOVE this game as a kid. I would always set the all the enemies to deerhunter and just set the weapons as a sniper rifle and the map would be that ice place and me and my friend would be either the little girl or the monkeys :D
Siberia is my favorite timesplitters 3 map
I got this at Gamestop for 15 dollars and When i played It I couldnt believe it was that cheap. It was the most fun I had in months lol with video games that is. It also lasted me a while!
the intro shows the major brands in a kinda rough timeline, so NES represents Nintendo, 360 Microsoft and PS3 Sony etc...It skips a couple of generations but you get the idea.
yeah whenever me and my cousin got hit by one we ran into the enemy BOOM blood and guts everywhere!
oh, happy days...
This is defenitely by far my favorite game of all times!!!
When I saw that first shot of the telly in Shaun of the Dead and recognised that they were playing the holiest of holies, Timesplitters 2, I basically exploded in fanboy delight. I wonder how much doing that cost them? Or maybe they got away with it, saying that they were promoting the game. I dunno, BUT IT'S AWESOME.
best multiplayer game ever created. i remember i would spend countless days and nights playing multiplayer with bots. more games nowadays need bots.
I don't think there's gonna be a 4 the company made that shitty game haze and it did so badly they went bust and closed, unless some other developer takes over thats the end of timesplitters
I don't think they have gone public about TS4 yet, but you never know.
Amazing game wish they would continue the series and progress further they could do SO much for the ps3 and xbox360 especially with Online game play the ideas are countless I hope within the next few years or so they consider creating Timesplitters4 because most of the newer games of today can't even touch the Timesplitters series of games
dear lord your review made me realize just how much i did not unlock like i think i much of only unlock maybe 10 percent i might have to dig my copy out it hopefully fix that
5:42 i would never forget that
This game is so awesome, it takes him 3 videos (which are 11:00 minutes long) to show this game. TIMESPLITTERS RULES!!!!
They kinda broke the Shotgun in Future Perfect: Timesplitters 2's shotgun is one of my fave game weapons ever, but FP's just feels off.
Whenever Timesplitters 4 comes out, it will be on the Wii, PS3, and 360.
I cannot believe I forgot about Headsprouter...
does this work on the first ps3?
VavA ,
It should as it had onboard PS2 hardware ( not later emulation ) prior to giving up PS2 support completely,
With this title, you should be able to LAN multiplayer on the above PS3 as well with another supporting PS3 or even PS2 but not sure about gaming speed comparison of same title between two systems.
I also have a question, what are you playing this game on? I noticed it's in widescreen, and you mentioned playing Warhawk, and I've seen your intro video tens of times now. So I'm guessing this was running on your PS3?
Recently acquired this amazing game
time splitters 4 is probably going to get game of the year
You should rep the petition for the HD collection, just google it and sign it were at 79,040 we need 220,960 more to get this project started.
duckman drake is donald's long lost brother
yeah, and you can even change the cross hair, so you can just have it stationary like most modern FPS's, or you can have it move around like in Perfect Dark, Or you can have no cross hair, like Goldeneye!