Timesplitters Series Retrospective: The Best FPS Series? 

Man the nostalgia I have for these games. Religiously playing them back to back back in the early 2000s with the halo games, while me and my mates were collecting bionicle, yu-go-oh, bayblade, while watching robot wars the the prequel Star Wars trilogy. It was a beautiful time to be alive. I think that was just a decade of pure joy for me

Me and my brother playing split screen on Future Perfect, on the Dam, Spaceport music, bots, Flair guns only, just perfect times, excellent video

Watching this on the day Free Radical shut down again. RIP Timesplitters. Hopefully Rewind sees the light of day.

I was introduced to the series with Future Perfect at a friends house who had an Xbox and his other friend came to visit with a copy of it. Let's just say after 36 hours of not sleeping while wrapping up the SP and Coop and playing endless deathmatch and challenges, we eventually took "shifts" as one of us would stay up making levels for the others to play when they woke. I loved it so much it was one of the first games I bought when I picked up my own Xbox. The humor and animation, as a fan of humor and 3d animation, were perfectly tailored to me and what I valued in a video game. The insane amount of shit to do in the game only helped solidify it, and the packed in level editor made the whole disc one hell of a value proposition for the dollar. I've never really played the 2nd and 1st, honestly Future Perfect spoiled me so much it's hard to even watch footage of the first two. I was so excited for a new TimeSplitters after Haze. So unfortunate what happened.. and all efforts to try and do something with the franchise falling through with tease after tease hasn't exactly been fun to sit through either.

Timesplitters 2 remains my personal favorite game of all time. As a kid, this game awed me to the core. Growing up and playing it after 10 plus years? I think it’s even better than what it was as when I was a kid… and that’s a special type of rare. I pray for a remastered collection

Fun fact, if you are on fire and have a fire extinguisher, if you aim down and fire, you can put the fire out if you are caught ablaze

This video has been sitting in my feed for a couple of weeks now! As a HUGE TimeSplitters fan, seeing the effort you put into this one makes me happy! You deserve way more support. Consider me subbed!

I was first introduced to TS2 as a kid through one of my cousins, and later my best friend picked it up and we made many childhood memories with both TS2 and TSFP. My friend and I would “make video games” with their own lore and back stories for each other to play using the map maker mode (yes we were dorks). As an adult with kids now, I was excited to see them put both of these games in the Microsoft store for download on the modern Xbox consoles. I’m currently reliving my childhood and working on unlocking all the characters. My plan is to introduce my kids to this game someday.

My favourite way to play time splitters 2 multiplayer - I think the map was training ground. All weapons are remote mines. Absolute banger.

I had the fortune to play future perfect while growing up and it's one of the best memories I have from childhood videogaming!! The atmosphere was perfect cheese, fun and hilarious, I hope the remake will do justice to the original 😊😊

1:03:31 Hey that's me! Great video btw. I glad people still appreciate these old games.

Dude, this channel is so underrated! Great job on this. I loved the Timesplitters series as a kid, and still love it today

I only played Timesplitters a bit when I was younger, but funnily enough it was the multiplayer death matches. Just running around aimlessly as funny characters shooting each other, so it was really nice to get a full context history of the developers and entire game series! I still can't believe how much effort you put into your videos, it's part of the reason I watch them - you can really feel your passion, and your use of constant video and meme references really makes your humour relatable. Keep making videos man, I've been following you since your Pokemon Nuzlockes and every video since has been a blast.

How did you manage to get through the whole video without mentioning the following 2 points: The anaconda game on the map in Timesplitters 2 The fact the whole game was remade in HD and hidden in Homefront: The Revolution Minor gripes aside this is an excellent video and a very in-depth and informative deep dive into the series, in fact one of my favourite FPS games of all time. It's sad we never got a 4th game but the magic that was had across the trilogy of games was enough to cement it as one of my favourite series' of all time. I remember constantly playing multiplayer on both 2 and FP, even venturing into online for the first time on console on FP. So many fond memories with some of the most insane loadouts and customisation around. What a series and a great video. You have earned yourself a subscribe!

Through these trying times I've been searching for retrospective videos about my childhood games, and this truly hits the spot. Thank you for the amazing shot of nostalgia!

loved timesplitters so much, endless of hours of fun as a kid. Also love the Final Fantasy 9 music you put on in the background

Man so glad to see you make another gem regarding the world of the timesplitter series man! Your original video on the older channel was amazing this version here with is updated view points is bloody legendary. All I can say is love love love the work man here’s to hoping one day we get a number 4 because the world fucking needs it! Solid work my man. Glad to see the favourite character is still the blissful Captain Ash 💪🏻🔥

Very nice review, loved that clip of Lemmy.

An amazing video for an amazing series. You did it justice my guy.

The gobbo's got good taste! Time Splitters is definitely one of the most underrated games I've ever played, it's an English national treasure.

Such a great retrospective video! I'm trying TS for the first time, and had to see what the hubbub is all about. Hilarious meme clips man!

No series can compare to the EXTREMELY FUN gameplay, AMAZING story & music, insane variety amount of characters, the absolute wackiness and craziness, and the absolute perfection of Timesplitters.. I grew up on this series and it seriously is the most fun games I’ve ever played !!! Not to Mention laugh out loud hilarious, there is so much heart and soul put into the Timesplitters games and it hurts so much how free radical has went through so much crap.

Played Timesplitters 2 and future perfect practicaly every day for months when I was a teen that listened to Korn, Deftones and Slipknot. With my brother and a couple of friends we had a blast to complete the storie modes and in all the ridiculous deathmatches! Great video on a much loved videogame series!

Brilliant rereview btw i still revisit both this one and ur old one. Love them both!

Love the deepdives mate top quality as always

Amazing video, thanks for it! Loved the game. My favorite shooting game ever.

God I loved these games when I was a kid, the monsters in future perfect scared the shit out of me.

Funny enough I was just watching this on your old RU-vid account. Smart idea putting your new one in the comments

This British humor hits so well for the editing of this video Yooo lolol 🙏👁🙏

Had no idea there was a Timesplitters reference in Shawn of the Dead! Cheers for bringing that to my attention! Great video

Thanks for this video. Brings back fond memories and nostalgia. Got Future Perfect downloading, why not 👍

Bioshock is HIGHLY underrated in my opinion. That small clip at the beginning is enough to make me revisit it

Did not expect to see a random Lolo clip pop up in a timesplitter retrospective lol

Great retrospective video. I am going through all kind of TS content to ease the pain

timesplitters 1 fit on a CD, where as other ps2 games were on a DVD. thats insane.

yo this brought back some memories. Great video, goblin

Well done mate, great video this

I can. And do. I am probably the only exception, though. While I can play Turok on the N64 with the original controller and set up, I can't be bothered to learn to play FPS's with a modern control scheme. The feeling is just so off to me. Lol! Great video, man.

Yes!!! Awesome video!! I love Timesplitters. Its a shame not many people know about it these days.

I still play these fabulous games. And quote them on a daily

One of the best games ive ever played, this was literally my childhood, holy shit such great series.... so sad they never got a remake or a sequel..... one of the absolute best game series to ever be made without a doubt.

The goblin is back.

Great editing mate keep up the good work

Hell yeah, Jake with the midweek upload!

Really glad I stumbled on your videos a couple of months ago with the first Digimon one you uploaded because the more I watch and listen to you talk about older games and series the more it makes me smile I often feel like the only guy who remembers half of these games like time splitters onimusha and Digimon so it’s wonderful hearing you give honest and personal reviews on them =) keep up the great work and if your ever wanting some other old games or Dormant series there’s loads to choose from like spawn in the demons hand or the breath of fire games that I grew up playing in the 90s again though keep up the great work

Playing Future Perfect first probably helped me get over some pet peeves. For instance, I always liked the first level and its guns were among my favorites in the game.

I was introduced to the series when i got my ps2 and a copy of timesplitters 1. That game also introduced me to two stick shooters😊

Mapmaker is life.

Honestly Timesplitters 2 is goat material. I loved Future Perfect as well but there was something about the second game that was too good! I wont lie I only just 100% completed Timesplitters 2 last year on ps2 and I tell you what, unlocking every character, level and gamemode through the arcade leauge had me wanting to smash my balls with a hammer. But lucky enough it didn't ever get to that stage hahaha

Another great vid bro

Nice vid man

Great video mate. You've come a long way from 2018. I still cringe when I think of that dance skit sequence I took part in, but it was funny at the time! I was never a huge fan of the genre, but I've been enjoying fps games a lot more lately. It could be cause this is my 40th year, maybe my tastes have changed somewhat. I just purchased the Turok remasters on a sale and it's prompted me to go and play the lot, including the GB versions which are a lot better than I remember. I'm also revisiting Doom as I more or less missed out on the whole legendary franchise. Timesplitters 2 and 3 are getting a play through next I rekon, thanks to this fantastic video. Bring on the FPS!

the grab glove also allows you to throw stuff at enemies, I literally killed zombies and other enemies throwing stuff such a cueballs off pool tables in the mansion level to crates in others at enemies and metal bins, havnt tried exosivd barrels yet

Too hard on Neo-Tokyo my man. The best atmosphere of any mission of the series only second to Future Perfect's steampunk missions.

They got to bring timesplitters back

lol holy shit a cut of clints reptiles. Instant sub

lmfao the Snow shoutout was so random

Nice, thanks! I'm still playing the $#!& out of TS2 & TSFP (mostly splitscreen on series x) but recently been hacking TSFP mapmaker to find hidden NPCs ... still fun and finding new stuff almost 20years later! Fantastic games.

18:09 beautiful use of the word 'wafty' 10/10 video

Planet X in TS2 was easily one of my favorite missions, but certainly Siberia was IT. I also hated Neo Tokyo to begin with but eventually loved playing it, the atmosphere is like no other. Fantastic music, visuals, and sound effects. Also the shimmering road was beyond impressive to me graphically back then (GC version, this was before always-wet NFSU launched lol)

I grow up playing TimeSplitters 2 in my PS2 console and was so enjoyable to play this franchise. Its good to know FRD is back to make a new TS Game, I hope they can keep the essence from the previous games into modern audience.

just a heads up, the neotokyo level has an incredibly easy way to skip like 90% of the stealth section, you just go past the lady you're supposed to be following and hide in this one spot at the entrance to the sewers then wait for her to walk past you and follow her inside.

Great video

Great video, loved this game! I recommend Deus Ex the original think you'd enjoy it and would make a sick video.

I didn't play to much of this series, but I liked what I did play. The shooter game I loved when I was younger was Metal Arms. Have you ever played that one? I think you'd get a kick out of it.

Never completed Timesplitters 2 because I never got past the Neo-Tokyo level haha. Future Perfect I played constantly one of the few games I actually completed on hard as a teen back in the day

Love timesplitters 1

the only way i can play this game nowadays is through emulation. I would love to be apart of a community where we netplay the multiplayer together. Great content, though. I really appreciate the relaxed video essays without a bunch of loud memes being tossed on screen.

ah shit i promised to caption the original vid once you uploaded this lol. i'll get to it eventually and put it as an edit!

I only just managed to sneak the tipper level on Future Perfect last week. Lmao.

Best games ever!

You mention in the video multiple times that the series is done, so I assume you're unaware that Deep Silver reformed Free Radical under Steve Ellis and David Doak and have greenlit a new TimeSplitters entry which began development in 2021. With the gaming industry being... well, what it is, I try not to get my hopes up, buuuut... At any rate, glad to see someone who agrees that TS:FP is the series' peak. TS2 is excellent, but FP is just the superior overall package. With that said, my feelings on the approach to the story are complex. What FP does works and damn well for that matter, it's a thoroughly entertaining experience throughout and is incredibly consistent and well paced. It does a far better job of executing a narrative than 2 ever could. With all that said however, TS2's story mode had the beginnings of something special in it's game design where the levels wound up feeling like something vaguely resembling a sandbox or the beginnings of an immersive sim. The wide array of objectives and expanded levels on higher difficulties was very neat, and the story stayed mostly out of the way of the gameplay which allowed many of the games levels to achieve this fantastic atmosphere and degree of immersion that FP just couldn't hold a candle to. TS2 didn't realize the potential of this design, it didn't even come close, but the foundations were absolutely there and for the upcoming game, it is my hope they take TS2's format and iterate on it. Done right, I think the results could be downright incredible.

Left-handed early 30s woo!! Team team team

I'm also left handed, I play mouse on right hand, it is a permanent disadvantage, but it's too ingrained to correct my hands

Lore of Timesplitters Series Retrospective momentum 100

No commentary on the level editor? I spent HOURS as a kid making impossible levels with as many enemies as I could put in it and then try to survive.

Never played. Wish i had looks fun

They should make a movie about timesplitters 2 or future perfect , I’d pick van diesel or the rock to play Cortez .

Really can't say much for Timesplitters 1, but I put a bunch of time into Timesplitters 2 on PS2. I hope it and Timesplitters Future Perfect can be remastered for both current consoles and pc. I'm pretty burned out with most indie FPS games being based off Doom/Quake game design. I'd like to see the objective based design of Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, or Timesplitters return. Plus, they often had great shot reactions and death animations for enemies.

Future perfect is loaded in my Xbox rn and I’m grinding to 100% it, then back to 2 to keep the grind going,

Where is the clip of “I have no strength left. Let this end or let me die” from? 13:00

wish they ported the first one on the box og, only own 2 and future perfection

Can we get these 3 games remastered or a different trilogy from the same company

cant believe Siberia had the most dev time. It feels like the story maps just get better and better until robot factory.

I was nuts about future perfect and I never knew it was a series until I was in my 20s lol and now I'm sad I missed out of the other games and there's no way to buy the games on modern console

1:00 I’m fucking crying 🤣🤣🤣

Only realistic looking shooter I liked was COD World at War, probably cause it’s WW2 and it was before that sorta game outstayed it’s welcome for me. Timesplitters 2 and Team Fortress 2 are still my favorite shooters, cartoonier games can even get away with gruesome stuff like gibbing that the “realistic” ones where you can slide and run on walls and shit don’t seem to include.

Shit me and my neighbor play waw he brings his tv and system and we squad up online to play tdm the gang of neighbors play diablo 3 me and 2 others couch cooping i cover chips dip and sodas other two brink smoke and booze sometimes we trade places 1v2ing each other in Conker live and reloaded couch cooping and same room squading up is so much fun reminds me of that iconic dude duck taped to the ceiling counter strike 1 meme

I really don't like fps that much, but I f-ing loved Timesplitters. Me and my friends would play the shit out of them. Creating stupid levels with the level editor.

How much to bring back the afro

Just beat ts2 on easy again on series x lol

Oh you poor thing, playing Timesplitters 1 and 2 with auto lookahead on Please turn that rubbish feature off, I hate it and it saddens me to see anybody with it on Otherwise, excellent review!

Do you have twitch, Goblin?

No leftie I know uses the mouse with their left hand, wtf...

Game sack meme 💕

Dude it's not hard to use the N64 controller. I played TS1's story mode, and it isn't insanely hard. Unlike many people, I like TS1 a lot. I consider it and Future Perfect the best ones. As for Future Perfect's story mode, you didn't seem to realize that as a result of the focus on story and characters, the level design became linear, with objectives being the same on every difficulty. You didn't even talk about the customization in multiplayer and the map maker.

Goldeneye, Perfect Dark & Time Splitters are brothers

I have PS2 I have timespliters2 disk TIMESPLITERSFUTUREPERFECT disk rouge trooper disk area51 disk Spartan total warrior disk god of war disk and redfaction2 disk

Mate, you can run away from Kalos, only way that I could do Atom Smasher on hard, trick the fucker.

3 is the best game 2 is very flawed with the outdated precision controls