ThreeSpeech writes:
"Jon Porter of The Clockwork Manual is back with his latest article - a look at Timesplitters 2.
Everyone has their childhood sweetheart of a game. That one series, which made you fall in love with gaming, which you sunk countless hours into instead of perhaps more productive things, that one game that always got played on Friday nights in. Mine was Timesplitters. The simply divine multiplayer mayhem, complete with dozens of bots and complemented by three – in retrospect insane - companions took hold of those blissful Sunday afternoons and refused to give them back, instead displaying them proudly on a statistics page, proof to this day of its undeniable hold over me. "
A secret Timesplitters 2 port was hidden in Homefront: The Revolution and a team of people have finally worked out how to unlock it.
Still have my PS2 copy, and a multi-tap with my PS2 for 4 player split-screen.
"Unfortunately, there's no info on how these codes might work on the PC version of the game, although it wouldn't be surprising for someone to figure it out in the near future." I wonder if the same codes would work if you plugged a controller to the PC.
We've known for years that Homefront: The Revolution hides an arcade cabinet where you can play a couple of levels from TimeSplitters 2. Now, evidence has come to light that the entirety of TimeSplitters 2's campaign was designed to be fully playable in native 4K.
From VGC: "THQ Nordic has claimed that an in-game item put in its latest release referencing “TimeSplitters 2 Remake” was as a joke.
SpellForce 3: Fallen God released for PC last week, and players later discovered that several in-game items could be acquired which refer to upcoming and released THQ Nordic titles."
Unfortunately it seems Timesplitters is trapped in development limbo at the moment.
FPS have changed significantly since Timesplitters came out, so the problem THQ will have is weather or not to modernise the game in line with modern FPS tropes. However, if they do that, then it really won't be a Timesplitters remake, but rather a new game in the Timesplitters franchise.
It would be great if they could do what Bluepoint did with Demon's Souls - keep the core original code, but give it a next gen graphical upgrade.
Cheers for the heads up about the spelling.
Skate_AK's response made me laugh though 🤣
The Timesplitters series is the one game people keep asking THQ Nordic to remake or bring out a new one, so I'm disappointed to hear this news.
Hopefully soon though they'll make a new one.
If you read the article, they do furnish it with info that points to the fact THQ/Koch are likely planning a future release. With recently purchased rights to the title, the hiring of the co-director, and the Koch Media CEO being "hugely excited" about acquiring the rights, it seems like more of a 'when' than an 'if' on a new entry.
I think multiplayer in the style of Timesplitters co op or pvp would work great with this generation. It is not an ordinary shooter, and if done well it could become very successful.
Well a small team at Dambuster UK Directed by Steve Ellis (one of the originals from Free Radical) are working on a Timesplitters game, it's not even a secret:
https://twitter.com/dsdambu...
The only way it won't come to light, is if the prototype they are working on doesn't get the full approval. I would expect more news over the next coming month's for sure.
