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TimeSplitters 2

Developer: Free Radical Design

Publisher: Eidos Interactive

Console: GameCube

Genre: FPS

Number of Players: 4

Release Date (USA): September 2002

ESRB Rating: T

Features

The game offers a more involving single player and co-operative story mode, featuring a complex narrative with multiple objective-based episodes and superbly animated cut-scenes.

The game engine has been extensively upgraded to accommodate bigger, better backgrounds and special graphical effects while still providing the distinctive smooth fast paced action of the original.

A completely rewritten animation system incorporating inverse kinematics brings even more lifelike movement and dynamism to a new collection of 'loveable rogue' characters.

The unique MapMaker is back in an enhanced form which opens up even more potential for user customised game scenarios.

Blast your way through time with entirely new weapons or steroid upgrades of the original arsenal.

Company Line / Game Summary

The evil race of TimeSplitters are traveling back into human history authoring events that are leading to the enslavement of mankind. In Control of a motley crew of renegade characters you must hunt down the TimeSplitters across time in historical eras like the gangster- Ridden 1920’S, the lush jungles of Aztec temples, soviet military installations of the cold war and Futuristic robot factories in space. To end the evil plot of the TimeSplitters, seek and recover the crystals required to seal the rift in time. The Fate of humanity is in your hands.

David Doak, Managing Director of Free Radical Design says: "With TimeSplitters we were just finding our feet, now we can go to town and show people what we're really capable of doing - TimeSplitters 2 will be an exceptional game."

My Take

Although I never did play the first Timesplitters on the Playstation 2, I am greatly anticipating Timesplitters 2. This game looks like it could be similar to Goldeneye and Perfect Dark because some of the guys who helped develop Goldeneye are now working on Timesplitters 2. The GameCube is lacking an exceptional first-person shooter right now and hopefully this game will be the game to fill the void before Metroid Prime is released.

Anticipation: 9.5/10

Previewed by: Eric Brown on May 31, 2002

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