Timesplitters Retrospective Part 2: Timesplitters 1+2

So, after leaving Rare, the Goldeneye team became Free Radical and their first game they released was Timesplitters.

The first Timesplitters game is wellllllll..... CRAP.
I'm not kidding if this was the first game I played in the series, I wouldn't of touched the damn series, seriously, for one it's story mode lacks a story. This game has no story just random levels of time attack, where you grab an item and run back to the start with said item when shit gets real as the splitters come after you, rinse and repeat.

The controls in the game feel rather clumsy and while there are a huge bunch of levels, they all play the same and the only real difference is some enemies, the weapons of the era and the map shape which are all basically the same maps used in multiplayer... basically you can remake the entire first game on the sequal's map maker. When you start the game you start with 3 levels, 1935 Tomb, 1970 Chinese and...

2005 Cyberden, so androids and cybernetics, 2005, yeah I remember my arm getting blown off and getting this cool cyberarm, jesus, talk about a bad guess.

That's right Azelf it's time to dick whip some bad predictions, it's time to play Poor Future Sight!
Start Playing:

Space: 1999, a space colony on the moon, way off on that one.

Back to the Future's hoverboard

"The Queen has died today. The world mourns, as on days like these, we are all Brits." 4:2 March 19, 2014 prediction from Fallout 3.

Escape from New York

I am Legend, you guys remember 2009.

Timecop 2004- no time travel!

And so much for Mad Max, so much for getting BEYOND THUNDERDOME! BOOYAH TRY AND STOP ME BITCHES!!!

Anyway so ultimately Timesplitters hasn't aged well, hell Goldeneye has always been better than it. It's sequel on the other hand.

Timesplitters 2 was the game that was needed, the game that surpassed the games that came before it and the first in the series I played. It's multiplayer is still to this day hailed as one of the best multiplayers of all time, you see theses are the true shooters, no hiding in corners for health, you get hit, you get hit, go find some health packs or armour or you're fucked.

And do you know what Timesplitters 2 had that 1 didn't, a goddamn fucking story, with a goddamn main hero, I present to you the man himself, SGT. CORTEZ!

Voiced by Tom Clarke Hill, and if you don't know who that is, he's Tony The Tiger.

And as a main hero, HE'SSSSS GREAT!
Story mode begins as Cortez and his sidekick the cyborg, Corporal Hart break into the space station belonging to the Timesplitters who use 9 time crystals to fuck with history via a time machine, and I suppose this sort of explains the first one, sort of. The splitters flee through time with the crystals and Cortez must travel back to 9 locations to get back the crystals. How he does this however, is well...

That's right, Cortez jumps into people like Quantum Leap, which makes him the 2nd person to leap into someone's body via time travel. Anyway these levels vary from Siberia in the 90's, the far future with robots, battles on an alien world, 1930s Chicago, just like the original but there's a narrative holding them together, thinly, but together, nonetheless.

Though there is one issue and SPOILERS, but Corp Hart well... she kinda dies, but if you're playing 2p player mode, player 2 plays as her, because that makes sense if you choose not to think about it.

The game's multiplayer was improved like heck and the controls were much better and it came with a mapmaker which for it's time was the best mapmaker around.

And of course much much more wacky characters as with this series rather than Goldeneye or Perfect Dark, there is a lot more emphasis on the wacky and nonsensical, which is what gives the series it's charm.

Of course the QUOTE ON QUOTE Story mode returns from 1 as well, but now called Arcade Challenges, which is what they are by the way and the multiplayer itself comes with a ton of modes such as:

• Deathmatch: Every man for themselves. The players with the most kills at the end wins.

• Team Deathmatch': Team up with friends and fight the other teams, or go it and face everyone. No restrictions. Details in Deathmatch.

• Capture the Bag: Capture the bag? In TimeSplitters, they forget using a flag and replace it with a bag!

• Bag Tag: Everyone vies for one bag in the center of the map. Hold on to the bag for the longest! Some restrictions apply in this game.

• Flame Tag: It's like a game of tag, only the person that is tagged spontaneously combusts! Try not to get touched.

• Virus: It's a game of tag, but once you're tagged by an "infected" player, you stay tagged. Try not to become a virus.

• Assault: Conquer the enemy's base or defend your own.

• Elimination: A Deathmatch with limited respawns. The last man standing wins.

• Escort: Two teams play to defend or kill the escortee. The Attackers must try and kill the Escort Bot, and the Defenders must protect it at all costs.

• Knockout: Retrieve the single bag from the map and bring it back to your team's base to score.

• Last Stand: Complete Phases and fend off enemies in different scenarios.

• Vampire: Health is gained by killing enemies.

• Shrink: Your height reflects your rank in the game. The person with the most kills is the tallest, the person with the least kills is the smallest.

• Thief: Collect coins left over by enemies when you frag them.

• Leech: Gain health from shooting your enemies.

• Regeneration: Slowly recover your health.

• Zones: Score by capturing and holding the most command posts.

• Gladiator: Only the gladiator can score. The person who kills the gladiator becomes the new gladiator. If a non-gladiator kills another non-gladiator, no points/kills are awarded.

• Monkey Assistant: The person in last place gets a squad of monkeys to help them get kills.

Yes, you can play a mode where everyone is on fire, why, because you can, that is the nature of Timesplitters, no other FPS has even tried to live up to. I'm The Joel MH and next time, we take a look at the final Timesplitters game.