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Free Radical Design have reformed to make TimeSplitters

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It's finally coming THIS YEAR!

I give you the worst teaser trailer of all time:
Q: What is Timesplitters Rewind?

Timesplitters Rewind is a standalone multiplayer game being developed by fans of the original Timesplitters series. It features characters, maps, and weapons from all three games completely rebuilt.

Q: Is this Multiplayer only?

Initially, yes. We'd like to give the Arcade League, Challenges, and even the story a comeback, but let's finish one thing at a time, yeah?

Q: Will there be bots?

It wouldn't be a Timesplitters without 'em. We'll do our best to make them competent, too!

Q: Which platform(s) will Timesplitters Rewind be available on?

Release on Windows is definite; release on other PC platforms and consoles depends on a checklist - Crytek approving the release on the platform, licensing the game for the platform and possible costs of that, and then making the game function properly on the platform, not necessarily in that order.

Q: How much will the game cost?

Free to everyone!
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Re: TimeSplitters: Rewind

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lol that was a terrible teaser, cryengine so might look alright but require some beefy specs.
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TimeSplitters IP sold to Koch Media (THQ Nordic)

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Koch Media has picked up the cult favourite Timesplitters IP from Crytek.

The three games in the series were developed by Free Radical Design, which also created Second Sight - a game that Koch Media has also acquired. The final Free Radical Design product, the disappointing Haze, doesn't appear to be part of the deal.

Free Radical Design hit financial difficulties after Haze and were acquired by Crytek to work on Homefront: The Revolution. The studio and IP were later sold to Koch and rebranded Deep Silver Dambuster.

Koch says it is actively working on products for both brands.

"We are hugely excited to have acquired Timesplitters," said Koch CEO Klemens Kundratitz. "The original games gave fans a massive content offer and provided a pure and genuinely fun arcade shooter experience. We have many fans of the Timesplitters series among our own staff who are passionate about creating a product that will thrill today's gaming audience."

Timesplitters was known for its humour and refusal for taking the genre seriously, but also for its impressive multiplayer. The first Timesplitters was an early hit on PS2. It was created by many of the former team at Rare who worked on GoldenEye and Perfect Dark.

Crytek has always been nervous about the reception a fourth game in the series would receive and had been reluctant to continue the franchise. For its cult popularity, Timesplitters struggled slightly in a market that, at the time, was awash with more serious war and sci-fi shooters.

A fan-made revival project called Timesplitters Rewind, a remake of the best parts of the original games, has been in the works since 2013. The last update was given in December 2017.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-08-15-koch-media-acquires-timesplitters-and-second-sight-ip

As for TimeSplitters: Rewind:
The project continues as normal. The team is in the process of reaching out to THQ to clarify our position. If there are any changes to the current working agreements/conditions for Rewind we will let the community know.
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Re: TimeSplitters IP sold to Koch Media (THQ Nordic)

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Re: TimeSplitters IP sold to Koch Media (THQ Nordic)

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Loved TS and the older N64 games they were involved in.

Microsoft should have bought them imo.

We could have had Perfect Dark 2 on Xbox One X with boob jiggle and a cyberpunk/X-files setting that takes place after all the reptilians were captured and Johanna Dark has gone full cyborg like Makoto in Ghost in the Shell. MS answer to Dues Ex. The difference is it would have more humour. And updated the gameplay with mechas and power armor suits.

Yes would like to see on portable. Although I don't want girls on the bus sexually harassing me just because I own a nintendo and they drop their panties for a chance to play it because everyone has gone MGTOW or hikkikomori like candy and hidden themselves from the outside world.. so yeah release to all the other shit too. :up: Remember these guys were the kings of using more simple cartoony style of graphics so the Switch would be bloody perfect. Fortnite has garbage visuals but all the kids play it because of all the funny dance emotes.

Just make sure if you are a star in the competitive multi scene you don't get flirted with by a fake geek girl gamer trying to accuse you of harassment and take Ninja's advice and follow the Mike Pence rule of avoiding the gold digging females: don't stream with these chameleons. (treat them like Cyclon infiltrators from the new Battlestar Galactica tv show) Protect your cock like its sacred and your wallet/bank account like it's the last metroid in captivity. Don't let them sperm jack you and you have to pay for the unwanted kid which (after DNA analysis) you find isn't even yours and the court still expects you to pay for it.

Spend that money on a sex robot or help the third world economy by going on sex tour to poor area where you can have a harem of prostitutes and be treated like a king. Cost of living is so much cheaper outside the spoiled west with high taxes. The libertarian groups still haven't managed to make government smaller and eliminate feminist society. :down: It's highly likely that if the radical left win in america, that you will get world war III with russia and your kids are conscripted to die for the elites. They are already succeeding on filtering the news on social media sites which is where most people get their news from after they abandoned the mainstream tv as their source of info. (the communist chinese probably own it all now and you can tell the hollywood movies have stopped making them bad guys in action movies) And Alex Jones has been kicked from Youtube. These are signs of the end. The baby boomers sold your souls off to the elites n the 1960s and made you tax cattle. The central banking talmud jews are rubbing their hands with glee at how easy it is to trick people into giving up their labour for virtual wealth and nobody questions if it was even real. Now we are all paying for it as the younger generation want a socialist (think NAZIs and what they had in WWII) and/or communist (you don't own property in that system) rule over free market capitalist one. How do you survive if you are punished for getting ahead and being more sucessful than others? You have to go underground like the Ninja Turtles and exit the plantation. The collapse is coming as soon as the locals are outbred by the foreigners and start enforcing their foreign ideology upon others. If you fight back? The UN troops are ready to strike you for protecting your property. It's all been planned for hundreds of years. And if you are an open militant athiest, you are going to have to do what christians had to do in the crusades and start fighting in self defence. No more intellectual debates because if you try to do public speaking tours the radical left post modernists on the payroll of the communist jews will quickly ban you from speaking in the country like they did to Stefan Molyneux. Start training your kids how to kill stuff or plan how to escape.
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Re: TimeSplitters IP sold to Koch Media (THQ Nordic)

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2-4 player split screen
Bots
A shitload of customisable game modes (playable in single and multiplayer)
Mapmaker
Humour (inc. monkeys and cartoony graphics in that distinctive TimeSplitters style)
Virus mode + Hospital map

Surely that's not too much to ask?
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They could probably get away with 8 player splitscreen today. (4K)

Have the AI bots fill in for players who drop out. And let other players drop in anytime they want. (the AI bot studies the player's behavior and when they drop out again the AI mimicks them and their behavior)

Secret of Mana on the SNES has that shit ages ago back in the days of the multitap. We are regressing thanks to the greedy game companies who are too lazy to keep all the old modes in. Look at what happened to capcom when they forgot to put in arcade mode on Street Fighter 5's release? They can all learn from that: console gamers won't take shit treatment like mobile and pc gamers who can play games for free. Pretend your games have to be released to cartridges and nintendo is blocking them from release until all the bugs and shit and balance issues are worked out. No release before that. In the old days people were excited about PErfect Dark and Golden Eye. And nowadays when a new call of duty comes out? People just say "Meh." Don't forget to polish the game. Remember what happened when Gearbox got the Aliens Colonial Marines job and fucked that up destroying the aliens franchise after that? (I heard sales of Alien Isolation were shit thanks to that) You want your first impression under this new owner to be the best. People remember you more from the first experience so it requires far more care.
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Free Radical Design have reformed to make TimeSplitters

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The original founders of Free Radical Design have reformed the cult studio to work on a new TimeSplitters game.

The new team is led by Steve Ellis and David Doak, who were both key members of the original company, and the office will be based near Nottingham, UK.

Free Radical Design was formed by a number of employees who had worked at UK studio Rare on the GoldenEye and Perfect Dark franchises. It developed three cult favourite shooters called TimeSplitters (and an underrated game called Second Sight).
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/ ... l-founders

Why do they keep doing this to me?

WHY???
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