TimeSplitters

[Toty54]

A lot of today's gamers usually tend to stick to mainstream games such as the halo franchise or the Metal Gear Solid series and avoid or have never heard of a lot of the wacky fun FPS's. This is where TimeSplitters comes in. It was one of my first FPS's and i enjoyed and still enjoy it a lot, but sadly it is either unknown or does not get a lot of recognition by gamers that i have met. So do YOU know about the TimeSplitters

EDIT: yeah sorry about the first post cant get used to my laptops keyboard

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

What? I think you hit enter and accidentally posted. Hurry and edit it before anyone sees!

 

[D_987]

Timesplitters was mainstream back in the day...

Every "gamer" I know, has at least heard of TimeSplitters.

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

Timesplitters was mainstream back in the day...

It was also godlike, with a great mapmaker mode and some intense modes. But let's be honest though, for TS2 all you needed was one mode and one map: Virus and Hangar. Me and three of my friends used to scramble for miniguns and get to a corner and murder everyone who approached, to hell with L4D, we were playing that shit long before.

 

[InvisibleSeal]

But let's be honest though, for TS2 all you needed was one mode and one map: Virus and Hangar. Me and three of my friends used to scramble for miniguns and get to a corner and murder everyone who approached, to hell with L4D, we were playing that shit long before.

Wow I loved virus - the suspense was just so well done, especiall with the right maps.

I still play timesplitters whenever my brother is round and we'e bored. It's nostalgic, and at the same time it's an actually good game. You could play through the story really quick, then spend ages on the maps and arcade .

Pretty much everyone I know has played it though... even the non-gamers. I don't know about it not being mainstream or whatever, but maybe people just rave about other games more?

 

[Dark Link]

TimeSplitters is what more games SHOULD be like. I honestly got bored of several 360 FPS games within a week, and I pulled out the PS2 and fired up TS2, almost 4 years after I first played it. If a game has that much of a lasting effect upon me, then it has a truly god-like status. Free Radical need to stop trying to fit in with the mainstream (fuck off, Haze) and actually get to work on what they do best: making hilariously fun and addictive games with evil monkeys of death.

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

But let's be honest though, for TS2 all you needed was one mode and one map: Virus and Hangar. Me and three of my friends used to scramble for miniguns and get to a corner and murder everyone who approached, to hell with L4D, we were playing that shit long before.

Wow I loved virus - the suspense was just so well done, especiall with the right maps.

I still play timesplitters whenever my brother is round and we'e bored. It's nostalgic, and at the same time it's an actually good game. You could play through the story really quick, then spend ages on the maps and arcade .

Pretty much everyone I know has played it though... even the non-gamers. I don't know about it not being mainstream or whatever, but maybe people just rave about other games more?

You know what I never ever finished? It was I think a challenge, a scrapyard assault level where you are against pretty much just robots and thread lasers, it was ridiculous and must have been put in there for a joke. Do you remember which one I'm talking about?

 

[Get Jiggy]

Free Radical have unfortunately, gone bust, so no new splitters i'm afraid, apparently they were working on Timesplitters 4 but that'll never see the light of day. The world will be a darker place.

 

[fix-the-spade]

It was also godlike, with a great mapmaker mode and some intense modes. But let's be honest though, for TS2 all you needed was one mode and one map: Virus and Hangar.

PFFfff... it was all about Assualt and Scrapyard for us.

Why do no current FPS have such awesome objective based modes? Even TF2's only half way there.

 

[Irridium]

Timesplitters was mainstream back in the day...

It was also godlike, with a great mapmaker mode and some intense modes. But let's be honest though, for TS2 all you needed was one mode and one map: Virus and Hangar. Me and three of my friends used to scramble for miniguns and get to a corner and murder everyone who approached, to hell with L4D, we were playing that shit long before.

I would spend hours making maze maps for Virus, with a hidden room full of weapons.

Any game that lets you pit a Duck, a tree, The Gingerbread man, a ninja monkey, Badass Robot, and Calamarie against each other in 1 game is the greatest game ever.


Its even more of a travesty since Timesplitters Future Perfect doesn't work on the 360

 

[Dory16]

Time Splitters 2 is the only one I own and I still think it's a brilliant FPS. The single player campaign had one of the thinnest stories ever, but it beautifully linked together all of the totally different levels the game threw at you, each with their own enemies, weapons, locations and gameplay types (stealth was usually either forced or encouraged). But it was the multiplayer and arcade modes that made the game epic. Where else can you have a glowing green gargoyle chase a gingerbread man, a snowman, a couple of zombies, some aliens, a riot officer, a monkey and a Calamari around a Chinese restaurant for 2 minutes, armed with miniguns, crossbows, lazer guns, rocket launchers and bricks!?!? So much fun, especially when you're all a little drunk.

Sadly, if another Time Splitters game does come along, it almost certainly won't be available on PS2.

 

[Mezrev]

Now you made me wish my old Xbox worked... TimeSplitters 2 was (is) one of the greatest games I've ever played. Never got around to playing TimeSplitters 3 unfortunately. Might have to try and get my hands on it somehow now that you reminded me of it.

 

[Doc Theta Sigma]

Plus, TimeSplitters had bots. There are practically no games for this generation that have bots. I can still go back to TimeSplitters and have more fun than I would have in any online multiplayer you care to name. I love the game and it loves me.

 

[The Maddest March Hare]

The Deerhaunter genuinely fucked me up. I kept staring at the head on the wall telling my Co-op partner that it was suspicious, and he just told me to stop being such an idiot and concentrate on the doorway that had locked. He then set off the trigger, and the wall in front of me exploded in a mass of wood and flesh to leave behind some towering creature with the glazed, dead eyes of a deer.

Fuck you deerhaunter. Just, fuck you.

And I also spent absolutely forever on custom set up with nothing but Flare Guns and Flamers against snowmen. "ARGH! I'm melting". Absolutely fantastic.

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

It was also godlike, with a great mapmaker mode and some intense modes. But let's be honest though, for TS2 all you needed was one mode and one map: Virus and Hangar.

PFFfff... it was all about Assualt and Scrapyard for us.

Why do no current FPS have such awesome objective based modes? Even TF2's only half way there.

Scrapyard?? NAY! Assualt on the Training Ground was easily the best IMHO. 4 of you, 10 of them, all at levels four and a few at five, it's epic. If I'm honest it was Assault and virus we played a lot.

 

[MrDeano89]

TS3 one of my favourite games ever made

 

[DazZ.]

I'm really regretting trading TS2 for Future Perfect. It's not a better game in any way that I can see. I've never had more fun 4 player split screen ever with TS2.

Us as ninja monkeys with a horde of angry snowmen plowing over the hill trying to take our little hut only to be doused in flames and melt.

Just one of the many epic situations I found myself in.

 

[Aunel]

I still have Timesplitters 3 somewhere, but I threw out my old Xbox, so I can't play it
makes me want to wish for a sequel even more

 

[BolognaBaloney]

Timesplitters was very mainstream, it just didn't have as much lasting appeal.