In an era filled with overly serious and hyper-competitive first-person shooters, a return of TimeSplitters would be a welcome change of pace, gaming columnist Jake Magee writes.
Unveiled footage of the cancelled TimeSplitters game emerges after Free Radical's closure, igniting fans' nostalgia and hopes for a revival.
From looking at the gameplay, it just looks like Fortnite, this would have been very poorly received by timesplitters fans.
I'm glad this got cancelled, what's with the Fornite knockoff? TimeSplitters was an FPS, not a 3rd person battle royale.
What were they thinking?
I got into a minor disagreement with their staff shortly after the closure, after i commented about a Timesplitters HD remaster to gauge public reception before such a big project here:
https://www.linkedin.com/fe...
Looking at the gameplay footage, it's clear that the staff (no matter what level) we're out of their depth, putting lots of hours into a game that would of been DOA if Embracer didn't shut it down.
They removed the footage. Here it is if anyone's interested: https://youtu.be/BesmfPD8fj...
It's basically a Fortnite clone. Seems like a good decision to cancel this game.
TimeSplitters got cancelled for a second time recently, but for what reason? And is there any hope for another comeback?
To be honest the odds of this ever being good or recapturing the original trilogy were always going to be slim to none. The franchise was a product of its time. Look at how misplaced nostalgia met reality with Goldeneye and Perfect Dark. If you have to use old IP then most of the time you have to completely reinvent it from the ground up.
TimeSplitters studio Free Radical Design faces closure before Christmas, Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors has privately acknowledged.
I hope those (selectively) against acquisition of studios are now satisfied.
The embrace of Embracer feels more like a death squeeze. ☠ Hopefully the Time Splitter property doesn't get abandoned completely, and I would hope at least some of the key creative minds behind the originals are sought within a new studio taking the helm.
you hate to see it... if only there was someone capable of bailing them out and providing them with the capital to make new games in the franchise.
If the studios were bought, the studio leaders got paid right? Millions...
Let them help out their teams now...
Very sad news :-( I was really looking forward to the return of TimeSplitters. I had a blast with those games
AW SHIT, IT'S TIME TO SPLIT!!!
I love TimeSplitters even to this day. Those games had a perfect blend of bizarre, cheeky, absurdist humor, and had shit-loads of content as well. The third game literally had 150 playable characters in the multiplayer. I remember how you could create your own maps and then upload them online for others to test out/enjoy. TS2 was also amazing. It had LAN support so you could have up to 16 players in a multiplayer frag-fest if you wanted. In fact, with VPN-style tunneling you can technically still play that game online if you've got friends to play it with!
If you guys are interested, check out a fan project called TimeSplitters Rewind. It's being developed for PC and the devs plan to do a console release at some point when the game is finished. It's pretty much a multiplayer-focused composite of TS2 & 3 with modern-day visuals. It's gonna be sick. http://www.tsrewind.com/ind...
It is coming back. It's called Timesplitters rewind coming to PC and PS4.
Love this series, still play them regularly as they have bots and the single player and co-op which are fun.
Would love to see the Timesplitters rewind actuallt happening.
Or rerelease all 3 on PS4 PS2 classics with HD upscaling.
Would love to see a new one. Unfortunately I feel like the bizarre and cheeky humor has left the gaming industry.