Thank you guys so much for watching. I mean it. I’m really happy all this work was worth it. And it shows me that this is a good form of content for me to create. Next video will be a different game, but the same style! See you then.
@@Hydra343 I appreciate the thoughtfulness! I absolutely do want to do a TSFP retrospective as well. Just gotta find the time in between classes and such. I may be able to get some major progress done during my spring break! My next video will be something a little easier / shorter to complete so I can still share love of old games. It’s a smaller, even lesser known title. But hopefully people like it! Just peek back every once in a while :)
What I've observed about the franchise is that a lot of people didn't play it, but everyone who did loved it. I'm hopeful for a Time Splitters resurgence because I've noticed that over the past few years, more and more people have been doing retrospectives on it. The interest seems to be there, and if Free Radical made it more accessible I think there's money to be made. Great vid, bro! God bless!
I feel like they sealed a very solid reputation and left before the era of extremely high expectations. I feel like bungie did that with halo, Even though 343 is still relevant I still feel like its a shell of something that can be memorable. The perfect dark on the xbox 360 and james bond games I can't remember anything about them. 🤷🏻♂️ (just opinion not hating)
We had a unique oldschool traditional early 3D FPS sub-genre era , from (Quake) 1996 - 2005 when the last of this traditional FPS game design was still dominant. It was the best time for the genre overall , It had great single player campaigns as well as local multiplayer/lan parties and early online communities free of toxicity , even though imo early CODs did perfect the multiplayer online experience It wasn't as healthy as a community anymore and single player has suffered ever since , It also homogenized FPS Innovation because everyone just wants to copy or be the next COD , because It arguably has mastered the multiplayer side of the genre which previously had no reliable blueprint for consistent success. I'm not happy about It because I miss the experimental ambition of devs trying to find what works , but I do I think FPS Is the first genre multiplayer-wise that can no longer be Improved beyond what COD offers , It's a perfect feeling gameplay loop that never gets old (If It's one of the good CODs) , but I still prefer oldschool era FPS more because It was less generic , formulaic , streamlined/corporate feeling.
Team Fortress 2 could have been this if it wasn't so PC-centric and focused entirely on online team play, neglecting solo offline story mode and local multiplayer. Always loved TF2's art style but I don't play online games so it was a hard pass for me unfortunately.
Just dropping in to say that my father passed and this game series is quite literally the most fun and loving thing we ever did together. Amazing series. Rest easy pops.
Same man. I'm sorry to hear about your father. My dad bought a 2nd xbox so we could play ts2 together without seeing eachothers screen and we would have big systenlink games between my friends and his friends. At night we would play in his bedroom and take turns playing behead the undead. The whole reason I learned to play inverted was because it was standard layout for ts2 and my dad was a helicopter pilot back in the 80s. So I started playing inverted to be like dad and then eventually it just stuck!
I got both Timesplitters 2 and Future Perfect on sale a year ago and these are some of the best games I have ever played, and I was born in 02. Great job on the retrospective.
This game will always hold a spot in my heart multiple play through a as a kid with my cousin growing up and endless multiplayer matches together which are so damn fun
When I was about 12, I broke my wrist and Timesplitters was the only game I had that let me remap all of the controls i needed to play with one hand. Itll always have a place in my heart
Same here dude this game and future perfect. I put hundreds of hours trying to platinum arcade finish story mode and playing vs with friends and AI Such fun games
I have a specific love for TimeSplitters 2. When I was young and my dad was between jobs we won a PS2 from a radio competition he entered and the only actual games me and my sister had were TimeSplitters 1 and Burnout, but Burnout was so scratched up that it didn't play, pre-owned games right? We just had PS2 magazine demos besides that. So me and my sister would play TimeSplitters split screen vs the bots for hours or play the story - our family couldn't really afford new games so we used to buy the PS2 magazines with demos and play them a lot - but one magazine had an article about TimeSplitters 2, me and my sister used to read it over so many times because it was our absolute favourite game but our family couldn't afford it. Then one day my dad picked us up from school and said we had a new game at home and we were so excited but he wouldn't tell us what it was, we got home and ontop of our PS2 was a brand new copy of TimeSplitters 2, I swear we must have been up until the early hours playing it with our dad now and then coming in to see and asking if we were enjoying it, if it's good etc.
Wasn’t it great how rare getting new games was as a kid? It made us appreciate them more. TimeSplitters 2 was such an obsession with my friends and I. Funny you mention Burnout. Burnout 3 was another favorite of mine. I’ve never played the earlier games, but I’d love to.
Well you blasted the bad guy at the end of Future Perfect. I suppose they could make another, but at this point it's OG Dev's aren't even in market anymore. It's like making a 1980's chevy from scratch, it would be close but not the same.
I love how you actually explained the lore of every mission. Like what exactly happened to the frozen reaper in the first mission. I didn’t know it was thousands of years ago
That shared sense or utter terror as a flaming dinosaur or zombie chases you is unmatched to this day. Myself and my cousin in my room for hours, good times.
Your retrospective of the story missions was really good, there are just two things i have to mention. 1. In 'return to planet X' there is a checkpoint. You hit it when you jump out of the crashed ufo into the green cave below. At least this checkpoint exists in the european version of the game. 2. The mysterious portal inside the Ozor mox base might acctually teleport you inside the big ufo in front of you. I doesn't seem to be a time portal. And by the way have you ever noticed that the tools of the dark machinists battle machine rotate the wrong way?
This is the video I always wanted to make, I love Timesplitters 2 and it was a cornerstone of my childhood too. It goes without saying that you've done more justice to it than I could have. The fact there's a two hour love letter to this game made my week, thanks for this man.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! I want to make more videos like this when I have time. There will be a different title in between this and Future Perfect, but it will come!
I'm coming back now to say two things: First, I have no doubt you could create a wonderful video if you put in the time! I apologize that I missed that the first go round. Second, I am posting the Future Perfect video very soon. I hope you enjoy that as well!
Dooood. This video was so good. I grew up playing time splitters 1-3 with my dad and sister. Now I’m 32 and haven’t played them in forever. Since ps2 days. This video was filled with so many awesome facts and made my nostalgia nut burst. Thank you ❤
dude! keep it up because you have the vibe of a huge creator. love your chill voice and love this game series. it's nice when i can get some chores done and reminisce over one of my favorite game series ever. not even 10 minutes in yet and just had to drop you a comment, before i watch the rest. subscribed and looking forward to your next videos.
I never played Timesplitters 2, but I did play Timesplitters 1. I heard nothing but good things about the sequel, but I never spent the money on it because there were other games I wanted to play, and I had hours of fun just messing around with the level editor of the first one. This is the first time I've seen footage of the second game and yep; can tell at a glance this has loads more polish and thought behind it. I think I get the hype now.
I would love to. Depending on how this one performs. Lol. I spent actual months doing this between multiple jobs and university, so it takes a lot for me to have the motivation.
Phew, glad this video was here I was almost considering time travelling to 1920 to steal an evil time crystal from a mayan temple to prevent a xenophobic alien race from annihilating humanity but im glad you were there to tell me thatd be doing a colonialism
Timesplitters 2 and 3 were a tremendous part of my childhood and it saddens me we never had another. Absolutely fantastic series I can't really more of in the same vein today.
I don't remember the game being *that* hard even on hard difficulty. I do remember really young me not getting past Neo Tokyo though because I was so impatient with stealth stuff (and perhaps not smart enough to realize what I was supposed to do). I remember coming back to the campaign a bit older (still played the game a ton with the challenges and vs bots and waaaaaaaay too much time in the map editor) and when I realized that hard mode *gave more content* I was blown away. So few games did something like that and it made it feel like you got 1.5 campaigns. What I do remember as being super hard were some of those one-off challenge campaign missions. I don't think I ever beat all of those...
Awesome vid. I always preferred 3, but I'll never forget beating this entire game in one sitting with my brother as we hid from our family Thanksgiving. That man knew this game by heart, he was able to shoot the cameras on Siberia without a second glance, and didn't come close to failing atom shmasher
*After reading the first part: "Well, the cameras become routine at a certain point..." *Gets to the Atom Smasher part: He sounds like a friggin champ! lol
just got to the end! you should definitely add the arcade league and challenge videos! epic retrospective. congrats on making it - i'm sure it was a TON of work.
Thank you so much for your comments! They made my night, honestly. I'm really glad you enjoyed and I absolutely plan to make more content along these lines. As for the gameplay videos, I'm thinking of stitching each league together possibly, editing it so as to highlight all the fun bits :) Hope I can continue to entertain over time.
Loved this. Early 2000s, I was about 19 - 20 and me and my mates had two PS2s networked so eight of us could play! Loved it! Got my kids to play it when I found it for £4 at a games market! They liked it too.
it is such a coincidence today i decided to look up Time Splitters from my time with my ps2, and your content was uploaded just a month ago. i had no idea people even played this to this day and i'm so so thankful for this. i enjoyed this so much, thank you
This game had big flaws that only make it more legendary. It makes it hard and a bit frustrating but also more rewarding as a result. I didn't know Free Radical had employees who worked on Donkey Kong, but this game often threw me back to Crash Bandicoot and such with it's colourful and cartoonish aesthetics which makes it even more fun. The mechanics too - of unlocking everything and also earning rewards. It's unique and great, half FPS, half arcade nintendo game. If you've got an xbox one go grab a copy it's backwards compatible now.
This is a great video, ive always felt that Timesplitters as a series is so overlooked considering its one of the best game series there is. I particularly like that you made a point to discuss the music, I'd say Timesplitters 2 and 3 are big reasons that i became a musician. The soundtracks are phenomenal. In regards to the Space Station, I always thought it was a human station that was taken over by the Time Splitters, in the opening curscene you see them moving human corpses and as you mentioned theres signs in english and space suits for humans. I think the reason the time machine in Future Perfect is so dofferent probably just means its a different kind of time machine because that one sends Cortez in his own body through time rather than the one in 2 where it puts him in the bodies of other people.
I grew up with the TimeSplitters franchise, and it's very near and dear to my heart! The way you covered TimeSplitters 2 in this video was great, and I'm hoping you do the same for TimeSplitters Future Perfect, because I love that game a lot also, and the campaign for that game has a special place in my heart. For a 2 hour long video, I was pretty engaged the entire time, and you did a good job covering the many awesome features found in this awesome game! I definitely had to subscribe after seeing this video! I hope to see you make more awesome retrospective videos like this!
@@MikeOnslow I’m so glad you think so! Makes me feel like all this time has been worth it. I hope you have a good day and eventually come back for Future Perfect!
I loved timesplitters 2 and its music. The better fact was it being made by people from rare. This game reminded me of goldeneye and perfect dark so much!
Man timesplitters was my chidlhood. Early morning sleepovers eith everyone eating cereal and screaming while playing virus in 4 player mode. Or trying to beat eachothers highscores on behead the undead. Or me and my friend robert playing the coop on future perfect in between mapmaking sessions. TIME TO UNLEASH THE ASS KICKINATOR. i was so lucky to get rimesplitters 2 when it came out after spending days playing ratchet and clank going commando and ts1 with my friend aaron. By the times ts2 came out my dad bought us a 2nd xbox so we could do huge splitscreen games between me and my friends and his friends in the other room via systemlink as well as halo 2. And playing and trading maps on xbox live with future perfect. Such good years.
A true gem. To see this game getting praise and acknowledgement in today's world is beautiful. Different world back then. Games didn't have to be super violent or gory even if they were shooter. Timesplitters 2 strikes such a balance. So fun, so characterful. Class all the way through. The top hot to handle arcade challenge is a day of fun on its own! Thank you for your views. Its a 10/10
You played it a lot as a kid but you're only 19? Crazy. Most people who played this as kids are my age (30) You must have been a console or two behind as a kid huh?
Unless he played on a console 2 generations back as a kid.. Could be possible.. When all my friends got a gameboy color I finally got the original brick, and when my friends got their playstation and n64, my mum got me a 2nd hand Sega Megadrive ^^
iirc Free Radical was bought by Crytek while they were in development of Timespliters 4 and Star Wars Battlefront 3. They were purchased under the promise that they would be able to complete their games then move on to a new project. Less than a month after the purchase Crytek fired all Free Radical staff and still to this day holds the IP. This was the last I heard of them so unless new info has come up on it there is little chance (knowing Crytek's horrible business practices) that the IP is going to be allowed to be used.
Crytek also have the same sunset clause as disney and will soon have to use that IP or likely will lose it through default in a US court. If you do not use it then you lose it.
I beat Timesplitters 2 on hard as a young teenager, I only really remember my heart being in my throat for the robot factory boss because it took my so long to get that far in that level. Just remember he went down pretty easily and I just legged it to the portal. After watching so many retrospectives I can't believe I did it. But here's hoping for a remake and do it all over again 💪
Timesplitters 2 was one of the first console games that you could set your own soundtrack for by uploading music onto the original XBox hard drive. One of my top video game memories from high school was playing this at 1am with Mt friends, killing each other to Billy Joel haha
One of my favourite games growing up. Ridiculously dense with content. Hours and hours of fun trying to platinum all of the challenges and building maps. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. A really well done retrospective!
This video is dope as fuck, it goes over everything the game has to offer. So much nostalgia! That being said I had never heard of Queensrÿche before this video, so that was a 👌reference
Only played the demo of this. Played the sh*t out of the first one. I liked the fact you could dual wield, I thought it was fairly underused concept at the time. Don't know about the second, but the first had a great map creator. Fun times. Robot fish head, 😄
I remember my father giving me the Xbox and a few games way back when I was a kid. It was obviously Halo CE, The Sega GT and Jet Set Radio Future bundle, and Timesplitters 2. He told me he wasn’t into Timesplitters when I asked him about the game. I kind of know why because the aiming was just outdated even for its time but I got used to it. Timesplitters 2 and Halo CE were my first ever FPS games and they still hold up today. 100% that game is a feel good achievement. Thanks for the video.
35:40 The 'splitter machine will actually attack you, if you're in its room, like any other Reaper Splitter. Acting as some kind of 'turret'. As for the space station. It's potentially just a human research station whose personnel brought the Time Portal aboard for study, likely excavated from the neighbouring planet. The splitters taken over essentially.
I 10000% agree that Nice Threads was the hardest thing in the game. I'm not sure I ever beat it even because of how hard and frustrating it was... Edit: maybe it was the Where Did The Batteries Go? Both of those were a nightmare...
@@OnyxLeviathan You made it look so easy getting the gold there! I do wonder how I'd fare as an adult trying again, maybe I'll have to seek out a copy...
I played it. My young male brain will never forget some of those characters. 😂 Or the gun that saw through walls and one shot you from across the map. Or the ridiculous jokes, awkward moments, time traveling self high-fives, and, and... 🎉🎉🎉 Maybe we can get a remaster one day!
Found this game used for like $15 back in the GameCube days & thought it looked kinda cool. That was probably the best single investment in my games library I made my whole childhood, hidden gem for sure. Doubly so with any future rereleases being questionable :(
Timesplitters 1-3 are some of my oldest and most fond gaming memories of all time, nothing has ever come close to the fun i had with them and i would die to see someone remake them
One of the best sequels to a game that I randomly bought one day after highschool on a Friday at be worlds I’m old so so much content for such a great game
The kid in me got real offended the way you wrote off Virus 😭 I played hours upon hours of virus with my friends and even by myself. I used to rent games from my local video store or Hollywood video all the time, but if the game wasn’t that fun I’d immediately jump back into timesplitters 2, and right back to virus mode. It was always either on training grounds (me and my friends would hunker down in the bases) or Space Station. But once I got an Xbox 360 and a copy of Halo 3, I never went back 😔 I never ever beat Siberian on hard mode… my friend says we did on his copy of the game but I’m not sure if I believe him. I have so many memories with this game
You should give it another go! I bet you could beat it on hard mode now. Also, the virus mode was really creepy to me in how enemies would just silently appear around a corner chasing after you. Such an unsettling feeling!
Loved future perfect aswell but I found #2 a lot harder with the campaign and challenges also anyone remember the glitch on training ground with the waterfall and utopia on 1 of the spaceships glitching out the map xD
I played this game so much on my ps2 that I wore out three copies, I mostly played TDM and FFA with bots and it was challenging like playing against real people
This game was amazing! Once upon a time when Halo came out (but I didn't have an Xbox) and I had finally moved on from Perfect Dark, I decided to remake a lot of the Halo multiplayer levels in TS2. This was SO fun!
NeoTokyo (the song) is very odd. I love it too, but the vocals are some dialect of Chinese, at least to my ears. Certainly not Japanese. I suppose they were going for a multi-cultural NeoTokyo, like Bladerunner's city. Either way, it slaps and I used to play it in my car when I drove around Japan (ironically, around 2019, when this level is set).
