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Anyone else played these great games so much to do, so if you like the games discuss anything about them here, also what do you think of the upcoming Timesplitters 4.

Yep

Mr. Socky

Unlocked by TSFP: Unlocked by beating Arcade

League match "Sock It To Them"

Species Puppet
Size Large
Accuracy N/A
Agility 5
Stamina 5
Fire Proof 2
Shock Proof 8
Default AI 3
Native TimeZone Unknown
First Appearance TSFP Arcade Mode
Relations None
Games TSFP
Mr. Socky appears in TimeSplitters Future Perfect as an unlockable character. The character appears as a giant sock with two fingers for legs. It's hands are sock puppets. Mr. Socky is unlocked by beating the league match: "Sock It To Them", in which you play as Mr. Socky.

TS1 Gesture None TSFP Gesture Flex's while saying "My friends call me spoony legs"
TS2 Gallery None TSFP Gallery Normally just an ordinary sock, when things get rough he turns into... Mr. Socky, the Psychotic Sock-Monster!

bad picture for Socky but nevermind.

The shoal.

His fish hold the weapons.

The Shoal
From The TimeSplitters Wiki
The Shoal

Unlocked by Default
Species Fish
Size Normal
Accuracy N/A
Agility 5
Stamina 5
Fire Proof 5
Shock Proof 2
Default AI 4
Native TimeZone Unknown
First Appearance TSFP
Relations N/A
Games TSFP
TS1 Gesture None TSFP Gesture "It's time you slept with the fishes"
TS2 Gallery None TSFP Gallery Eat krill...eat krill... eat krill...

The Shoal is, as his name implies, a shoal of fish, gathered around a large whale which acts as the character's 'head'. He sports a black top hat and smokes a gentleman's pipe, and instead of arms, he carries and fires weapons using the multiple smaller fish that are gathered around him. The shoal is one of the few floating characters.

The shoal

Finally Arcade modes.

Arcade Modes
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.
CTB: 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.

There is also a profile where you click on the characters and it gives you a funny Bio on them, the reason the game does so well is that it is funny and you have to unlock stuff.

BTW some of those modes are removed and added in games
So challenge and arcade league
Multiplayer
Story mode with 3 difficulty levels.
Mapmaker
Maps game modes
Kitten racing
Maps
Bots
Weapons
Bios
150 playable characters, then interact both in the game, and when selected.

Timesplitters 3 is all of this and funny + online multiplayer.

In timesplitters 3, instead of the secret minigames, there are 3 challenges dedicated to it and a secret one in the Kahllos express mission.

Basically it is a remote controlled cat that you race through a course. It purrs and makes a humming sound, when it hits something and falls over it makes a cat screeching sound then you have to flip it, you can make race courses in Mapmaker as well as multiplayer and story maps, there is also powerups and 3 vehicles in the game you can use.

Khallos is spelt wrong I think.

You can fight monkeys with exploding melons and shotguns, what did you expect, another one is behead the undead a serious hard challenge to get gold and platinum, TS3 the first behead the undead, is to destroy brains the undead monkeys, how many points can you get before you die, some even have shotguns.

Here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timesplitters
http://www.editthis.info/timesplitterswiki/Main_Page
http://www.frd.co.uk/timesplitters4/index.php

Great set of games, best thing is they never take themselves seriously, it spoofs films and parody's them, and it always makes a joke at some point, one character from 3 is based of Ozzy Osborne, Duckman drake is a duck, you can play as the gingerbread man, who is just what it says the gingerbread man, but the best thing is it gives you long lasting fun, and there are secrets like the minigames in 2, and all of this is in the previous gen consoles, think of what 4 will offer with the new gen consoles.

Character selection part 1 TS3.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yHVNUHQbO4E
Part 2
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=R-oFeq1gSog

Please don't ask why you can play as a

Sock
Hand
Dinosaur
Monkey
Whale
Calamari
Snowman
Whale
Moose
Cactus
see the videos, Mr. Socky funny stuff.

It's a cactus that wears robot legs, here I will post a pic.

Just of his head, Eli Scrubs is his name.

Eli Scrubs
From The TimeSplitters Wiki
Eli Scrubs

Unlocked by TSFP
Species Living Cactus
Size Normal
Accuracy N/A
Agility 5
Stamina 5
Fire Proof 5
Shock Proof 5
Default AI 2
Native TimeZone 1853
First Appearance TSFP
Relations N/A
Games TSFP
TS1 Gesture N/A TSFP Gesture Swings arms down, Soo-weet as Moonshine!
TS2 Gallery N/A TSFP Gallery Bipedal tractors are the latest must-have accessory for the cactusman-about-town.

Eli Scrubs is a playable character in the Arcade League and Multiplayer sections of Timesplitters: Future Perfect.

He resembles a cactus with robotic legs, wearing a boiler cap and shorts and having a cigar.

In the Arcade League match, The Dead, The Bad And The Silly, he is wholed up in the Mexican Mission level with Venus Starr and Jared Slim after 'Causing trouble', he could be part of their gang but this is probably just for a joke and not canon.

Trust me Timesplitters 3 has 150 playable characters.

TimeSplitters
Angel Perez
Badass Cyborg
Brown Zombie
Captain Ash
Chastity Detroit
Chinese Chef
Chinese Waiter
Cultist
Deacon Swain
Det. Harry Tipper
Dr. Katje Nadir
Dr. Seth Graven
Duckman Drake
Eyes Mummy
Farrah Fun-Bunny
Female Alien
Female Cyborg
Female Soldier
Female SWAT
Fingers McKenzie
Fishwife Mutant
Float Alien
Gasmask Soldier
Gasmask SWAT
Gingerbread Man
Girl Zombie
Green Alien
Green Zombie
Gretel
Hick Hyde
Insect Mutant
Jacket Zombie
Jacques Misere
Lady Jayne
Lt. Christine Malone
Lumberjack
Male Soldier
Male SWAT
Malehood
Mary-Beth Casey
Mr. Big
Olga Strom
Overall Mutant
Peekaboo Jones
Pillar Alien
Police Zombie
Priest Mutant
Priestess
R108
Ravelle Velvet
Red Alien
Robofish
Sebastian Photon
Shock Trooper
Siamese Cyborg
Skull Zombie
Spaceways Stewardess
Suit Hoodlum
Teeth Mummy
The Impersonator
TimeSplitter 1
TimeSplitter 2
Tuxedo Cyborg
Veiled SWAT

TimeSplitters 2
Accountant
Ample Sally
Aztec Warrior
Baby Drone
Badass Cyborg
Barby Gimp
Bear
Beetleman
Big Tony
Braces
Calamari
Candi Skyler
Capt. Forest
Capt. Night
Capt. Pain
Capt. Sand
Capt. Snow
Captain Ash
Changeling
ChassisBot
Chastity
Chinese Chef
Consultant
Corp. Hart
Crispin
Crypt Zombie
Cyberfairy
Dark Henchman
Dinosaur
Dr. Peabody
Drone Splitter
Duckman Drake
Elijah Jones
Feeder Zombie
Female Trooper
Gargoyle
Ghost
Gingerbread Man
Gregor Lenko
Gretel Mk II
Handyman
Hank Nova
Harry Tipper
Hatchet Sal
Hector Baboso
Henchman
High Priest
Hybrid Mutant
Insect Mutant
Ilsa Nadir
Jacque de la Morte
Jake Fenton
Jared Slim
Jebediah Crump
Jimmy Needles
Jinki
Jo-Beth Casey
Jungle Queen
Khallos
Kitten Celeste
Krayola
Kypriss
Lady Jane
Lawyer
Lean Molly
Leo Krupps
Lola Varuska
Louie Bignose
Lt. Bush
Lt. Chill
Lt. Frost
Lt. Shade
Lt. Wild
Machinist
Maiden
Male Trooper
Marco the Snitch
Meezor Mox
Mikey Two-guns
Milkbaby
Mischief
Mister Giggles
Monkey
Mr. Underwood
Nikki
Nikolai
Ozor Mox
Private Coal
Private Grass
Private Poorly
Private Sand
R One-Oh-Seven
R-109
Ramona Sosa
Reaper Splitter
Ringmistress
Riot Officer
Robofish
Sadako
Scourge Splitter
SentryBot
Sergio
Sewer Zombie
Sgt. Cortez
Sgt. Rock
Sgt. Shivers
Sgt. Shock
Sgt. Slate
Sgt. Wood
Slick Tommy
Snowman
Stone Golem
Stumpy
The Colonel
The Cropolite
The Hunchback
The Impersonator
The Master
Trooper Black
Trooper Brown
Trooper Green
Trooper Grey
Trooper White
Undead Priest
Venus Starr
Viola
Wood Golem

TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
Amy Chen
Angel Forge
Anya
Arial DaVinci
Arthur Aching
Aztec Warrior
Badass Cyborg
Bear
Berserker Splitter
Blanche Deadwood
Booty Guard
Braces
Brains
Brother Bartholomew
Calamari
Candi Skyler
Captain Ash
Captain Ed Shivers
Captain Fitzgerald
Carrion Carcass
Changeling
Chastity
Chinese Chef
Clip Clamp
Comrade Papadov
Corporal Hart
Cortez
Crispin
Crypt Zombie
Cyborg Chimp
Daisy Dismay
Deadwina
Deep Diver
Dinosaur
Dozer
Dr. Amy
Dr. Cortez
Dr. Lancet
Dr. Peabody
Dr. Pustule
Duckman Drake
Edwina
Eli Scrubs
Elite Henchman
Elite Henchwoman
Envirosuit
Fergal Stack
Gaston Boucher
Ghengis Kant
Ghost
Ghost (NPC)
Gideon Gout
Gilbert Gastric
Gingerbread Man
Gladstone
Goddard
GOLIATH SD/9
Gretel
Handyman
Hans
Harry Tipper
Headsprouter
Henchman Cortez
Henchman
Henchwoman
High Priest
Inceptor
Inceptress
INSETICK SD/12
INSETICK SK/10
Ivor Baddic
Jack Sprocket
Jacob Crow
Jacque de la Morte
Jared Slim
Jed
Jim Smith
Jo-Barf Creepy
Jo-Beth Casey
John Smith
Jungle Queen
Karma Crow
Khallos
Kitten Celeste
Koozer Mox
Kypriss
Lazarus Mumble
Lenny Oldburn
Leo Krupps
Leonid
Lt. Black
Lt. Christine Malone
Mad Old Crow
Maiden
Med-Unit 6
Mischief
Mister Giggles
Monkey
Mordecai Jones
Mr. Fleshcage
Mr. Socky
Mr. Underwood
Neophyte Constance
Neophyte Lucian
Ninja Monkey
Nobby Peters
Nurse Gulag
Nurse Sputum
Nurse Tourniquet
Oleg
Princess
Prison Officer
Private Hicks
Private Jones
PROMETHEUS SD/7
PROMETHEUS SK/8
Pulov Yuran
R One-Oh-Seven
R-110
Renzo
Riot Officer
Robofish
Robot Louis Stevenson
Sapper Johnson
Schmidt
SecuriDroid XP
Security
Sewer Zombie
Sheriff Skullface
Sister Faith
Snowman
Splitter Crow
Stone Golem
Stumpy
Swinging Tipper
Teeth Mummy
The Cropolite
The Deerhaunter
The Freak
The General
The Master
The Shoal
Time Assassin Cortez
Time Assassin
Tin-Legs Tommy
Tommy Jenkins
Undead Priest
Venus
Victorian Crow
Viola
Vlad the Installer
Warrant Officer Cain
Warrant Officer Keely

All you can play as from all 3 games.

And in Timesplitters 3, not only do you have 150 characters when you select one, they do something before the game begins, for instance Jed the zombie is swinging his bat, when you click on him he keeps swinging his bat, then it hits him on the head and he falls down on the platform and moans owwww.

The impersonator, dresses as Elvis all characters speak or do something in the selection mode and the actual game + online play and over 15 game modes, here is the weapons.

Weapons for every game

TimeSplitters
Fists
- - -
Assault Rifle
Assault Shotgun
Blunderbuss
Brick
Colt Pistol
Colt Pistol (x2)
Grenade Launcher
M16
M16 (x2)
Mauser Pistol
Mauser Pistol (x2)
Minigun
Minigun (x2)
Pistol
Pistol (x2)
Proximity Mine
Raygun
Raygun Carbine
Remote Mine
Rocket Launcher
Scifi Autorifle
Scifi Handgun
Scifi Sniper Rifle
Shotgun
Shotgun (x2)
Sniper Rifle
Timed Mine
TNT
Tommy Gun
Tommy Gun (x2)
Uzi
Uzi (x2)

TimeSplitters 2
Fists
- - -
Brick
Crossbow
Electrotool
Fire Extinguisher
Flamethrower
Garrett Revolver
Garrett Revolver (x2)
Grenade Launcher
Homing Launcher
Lasergun
Luger Pistol
Luger Pistol (x2)
Minigun
Plasma Autorifle
Proximity Mine
Remote Mine
Rocket Launcher
SBP90 Machinegun
SBP90 Machinegun (x2)
Sci-fi Handgun
Silenced Pistol
Silenced Pistol (x2)
Silenced Luger
Shotgun
Shotgun (x2)
Sniper Rifle
Soviet S47
Soviet S47 (x2)
Tactical 12 Guage
Timed Mine
TNT
Tommy Gun
Tommy Gun (x2)
Vintage Rifle

TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
Fists
Time Grenade
- - -
Baseball Bat
Brick
Dispersion Gun
ElectroTool
Flamethrower
Flare Gun
Flare Gun (x2)
Ghost Gun
Grenade
Harpoon Gun
HeatSeeker
Injector
K-SMG
K-SMG (x2)
Kruger 9mm
Kruger 9mm (x2)
LX-18
LX-18 (x2)
Machine Gun
Machine Gun (x2)
Mag-Charger
Minigun
Monkey Gun
Pistol 9mm
Pistol 9mm (x2)
Plasma AutoRifle
Plasma Grenade
Proximity Mine
Remote Mine
Revolver
Rocket Launcher
SBP500
Sci-Fi Handgun
Sci-Fi Handgun (x2)
Sci-Fi Sniper
Shotgun
Sniper Rifle
Soviet Rifle
Tactical 12-Guage
Temporal Uplink
TNT
Timed Mine
Vintage Rifle

Did I forget you can make your own missions/multiplayer maps using map editor.

And you can make your own maps.

TimeSplitters
Story
Arcade Custom
Challenge
MapMaker

TimeSplitters 2
Story
Arcade Custom
Network
Arcade League
Challenge
MapMaker

TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
Story
Arcade Custom
Network
Arcade League
Challenge
MapMaker

Items/power ups.

TimeSplitters
Ankh
Basket
Bones
Brain
Briefcase
Disk
Hour Glass

TimeSplitters 2
Armor Pickup
Cloak/Invisibility
Crates
Doors
Game Cartridges
Health Pack
Max Damage
Shrink
Speed
Switch
Teleports
Temporal Uplink

TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
Armor Pickup
Barricade
Cloak/Invisibility
Crates
Decorative
Doors
Generic Large
Generic Small
Health Pack
Max Damage
Ramps
Shrink
Speed
Strudel
Switch
Teleports
Temporal Uplink
Vehicles

Characters - Alien
Characters - Animal
Characters - Bosses
Characters - Cyborg
Characters - Floating
Characters - Large
Characters - Mutant
Characters - NPCs
Characters - Normal
Characters - Robot
Characters - Small
Characters - TimeSplitter
Characters - Zombies/Undead

BTW: the Temporal Uplink lets you pick things up and throw them, in TS2 you can collect 3 minigames, to play Anaconda, racer, and asteroid lander.

Maps not made by people.

TimeSplitters
Bank
Castle
Chemical Plant
Chinese
Compound
Cyberden
Docks
Graveyard
Mall
Mansion
Planet X
Site
Spaceship
Spaceways
Streets
Tomb
Village
Warzone

TimeSplitters 2
Aztec
Chasm
Chinese
Circus
Compound
Hangar
Hospital
Ice Station
Mexican Mission
Nightclub
Robot Factory
Scrapyard
Site
Streets
Training Ground
Ufopia

TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
Bunker
Chinese
Disco
Hotel
Mars Prison
Mexican Mission
Siberia
Spaceport
Subway
Temple
Training Ground
Venice
Vietnam
VR
Zeppelin

TimeSplitters is a 2000 first-person shooter for the Sony PlayStation 2 developed by Free Radical Design and published by Eidos, and the first game in the Timesplitters series. It was released October 26, 2000 as a launch game for the Sony PlayStation 2. The game revolves around the concept of travelling through time, with each level in the story mode occurring in a specified year between 1935 and 2035 with characters and weaponry reflecting each setting. The game featured a Story Mode, Arcade Mode, unlockable Challenge Mode, and Map Maker.

Story Mode
The game's story mode can be played alone or cooperatively. The game features no explicit story, but instead includes nine levels that can be played on three difficulty settings. In each level, the player can choose from one of two characters specific to each mission, and must kill enemies as they move through the level to retrieve an object and then carry that object to the exit portal. After a player picks up the object, TimeSplitters, evil mutant creatures, spawn throughout the level and attack the player.


Arcade Mode
In this mode, up to four players and ten bots can compete individually, or in up to four teams, in any of six game types. The players can set choose from characters, levels, and weapons that have been unlocked by completing story mode and challenge mode missions. The game types are: Deathmatch - The player or team with the highest score, based on kills and possibly deaths (depending on the setting), wins, Bag Tag - The player or team which has possession of the bag for the longest total time during the match wins, Capture the Bag - Players must retrieve the enemy teams' bag(s) and return them to their own base to score points, Knockout - Players compete to collect objects in the level and return them to their own team's base, Escort - A team attempts to protect a bot as it tries to walk to a destination in the level, Last Stand - Players attempt to protect key destructible objects from attacking bots for as long as possible.

Handheld console version
There were plans for a handheld version of TimeSplitters for the Game Boy Advance possibly to coincide with the release of TimeSplitters 2, but this was scrapped. The game would have been titled TimeSplitters Advance and would have been a side scrolling or top down shooter. Not much is known about the game except that there would have been a plane level where you control Captain Ash as he avoided dive-bombing monkeys. There were plans to have the handheld game to be an unlockable mini-game in TimeSplitters: Future Perfect, but they were also scrapped.

Soundtrack
In 2006 Free Radical placed the soundtracks for all of their currently available games up for download on the company website, including printable album artwork.

TimeSplitters 2 is a first-person shooter video game available for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Nintendo GameCube game consoles that is the sequel to TimeSplitters. The game was published by Eidos and developed by Free Radical Design, a company founded by some ex-Rare members. The game was first released in October 2002 in North America and Europe, and later in Japan in 2003.

The game features a single-player mode consisting of ten levels in which the player assumes the role of one of two space marines as they attempt to stop the alien race of TimeSplitters from ruining history by collecting the time crystals in various time periods, ranging from the Wild West to the 25th century. It also has several multiplayer modes.

In 2005, the sequel, TimeSplitters Future Perfect, was released, developed by Free Radical and published by EA Games.

Gameplay
TimeSplitters 2 is a first-person shooter that requires players to kill enemies and complete objectives using a variety of weapons and tactics in different predefined scenarios. Armor and health bars on the sides of the screen lower when the player is shot, which can be increased by walking over body armor and medical kits.

The weapons of TimeSplitters 2 include handguns, rifles, submachine guns, shotguns, rocket launchers, a grenade launcher, various explosives, a crossbow, and a flamethrower. They are of many different time periods, from the historical to the futuristic. Some weapons have an alternate fire which activates a feature such as launching a grenade or detonating a remote mine. Sometimes a player can use two guns simultaneously.


Single player

Screenshot of the Chicago level.The main single player portion of TimeSplitters 2 is divided into ten levels. Each level is in a different time period and contains a series of objectives that must be completed. Some objectives are present at the start of the level, while others are added during play. A few levels have secondary objectives, which are not required to complete. Each level includes a single checkpoint in the middle where the player can restart if they die or fail to complete an objective. For each level, the player must choose from three difficulty levels. Unlike most games, these difficulty levels not only change the strength of the enemies, but also increase the length of the level by adding additional objectives. At the end of nearly every level, a time crystal must be recovered. After it is picked up, a time portal will appear which must be entered in order to complete the level. However, this is sometimes made more difficult by TimeSplitters that teleport to the player's location. In secret places of certain levels, there are cartridges of old school arcade games such as Snake, that can be picked up and played on the player's Temporal Uplink, the device that normally shows the map of the current level.

The game also features a co-operative mode in which two players can play levels together. When playing co-op, in order to balance the game, players' health is lowered.

There is also a Challenge mode in which a specific objective must be completed that depends on the level selected. The objective ranges from collecting bananas to shooting heads off zombies. After the objective is completed, the game will end, and a medal will be awarded depending on the number of points obtained. Certain medals allow the player to play as new characters in multiplayer or use cheats. Cheats can be turned on in the options menu to activate features such as unlimited ammo or the ability to shoot paintballs from guns. Free Radical's website implies that there are also controller-activated cheats that can be activated with the controller that have never been released. They say they like to keep things "as impossible as possible."

Multiplayer
Arcade mode is the main multiplayer section of TimeSplitters 2. It can normally be played with up to four players with each player using a division of the television's screen. However, with a System Link, up to sixteen players can simultaneously play multiplayer. When a player gets killed, they are respawned at a random location on the map with full health. Weapons, armor, and other items that enhance players' abilities are placed in several preset positions scattered about the map. The objective of the game depends on the mode selected. Four are available at the start: Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Bag (a version of Capture the Flag) and BagTag (where a player must survive while in possession of the bag for the longest period of time). There are sixteen game modes in total, but twelve are unavailable until the player beats certain levels of the game.

Several aspects of multiplayer can be customized, such as the weapons, the number of points needed to win, the number of minutes until the end of the game, as well as the music that plays along with the level. There is also a variety of different characters the player can choose to play as, each with their own individual statistics. Some characters are from the Story mode, while there are other more humorous ones such as a dinosaur and an Elvis impersonator. Up to ten computer-controlled bots can be used. Their appearance, difficulty, and team can be customized. The bots can do some acrobatic moves that the player cannot do such as rolls and somersaults.

At the end of each match, the results of the game are shown. This includes the number of points each player or team scored, the weapon the player used most often, as well as awards the player earned. There are nearly 60 awards present in TimeSplitters 2. Players are given them based on what they did in the match. Awards are databased in each player's own saved profile which also keeps track of a variety of other statistics.

There is also an Arcade League mode in which one player is placed in an Arcade match with pre-set bots and weapons. There are three difficulty levels of Arcade League: Amateur, Honorary, and Elite. Players must beat them in consecutive order. After a player beats an Arcade League level, a medal is awarded.

A MapMaker is also available that can create playable levels. Unlike the original TimeSplitters, levels for Story mode can be made as well as levels for Arcade mode. Created Story levels, however, cannot be played co-operatively like the default story levels. Maps are created by selecting and placing different pre-made tiles and rooms onto a grid. Spawn points, weapons, bags, armour, and objectives can then be placed anywhere on the level. There is a bar in the left side of the screen, representing memory, that lowers each time a tile or item is placed. When the bar depletes completely, nothing else can be placed onto the map. However, items can be deleted to increase memory. A theme can be chosen for each map such as Victorian, Industrial, Alien, and Virtual, which changes how the rooms appear.

Only LAN networks are supported, but online play is possible with the use of PC's and third-party networking software.


Plot
TimeSplitters 2 starts off in the year 2401 in the midst of a war between humanity and the TimeSplitters, an alien race bent on the destruction of mankind. However, rather than invade, they are using the special objects called Time Crystals to travel through time changing the course of history, bringing Earth to ruin.


Two TimeSplitters as depicted on the opening sequence before the first level.Two space marines from Earth, Sergeant Cortez and Corporal Hart, are sent out to a space station overrun by TimeSplitters to retrieve the time crystals. However, when they reach the bridge, they are too late as they see the last few TimeSplitters take the time crystals into the past using the time portal. Then, some other TimeSplitters try to break through the door to get into the room. Corporal Hart decides to try to hold them off while Cortez goes into different time periods of the past to retrieve the time crystals.

Upon arrival at each time period, Cortez take the form of a person from that particular period of time, similar to Quantum Leap. For example, when Cortez arrives in the Wild West, he takes the form of a cowboy, and when he arrives in a 24th century robot factory, he takes the form of a robot.

After Cortez retrieves all of the time crystals, he returns to the space station to meet with Hart. The TimeSplitters outside finally break into the room. Corporal Hart is killed in the ensuing battle. Cortez sets the space station to self-destruct and he escapes on his ship before it blows up.


Development
In February of 1999, 20 months before the release of Perfect Dark, several members of Rare that were part of the GoldenEye 007 development team, including Steve Ellis, Karl Hilton, Graeme Norgate, and David Doak, left to form their own company called Free Radical Design. After they developed the first TimeSplitters, TimeSplitters 2 went into development, trying to create a more fulfilling story mode alongside the Arcade and MapMaker modes. It was also one of the first multi-platform games to be re-released on both the PS2 Greatest Hits and Xbox Platinum Hits labels.

The location of the health bar and other gameplay features are reminiscent of Goldeneye and Perfect Dark.The game engine present in TimeSplitters 2 is also very similar to the one present in GoldenEye. They both contain a similar aiming system and both lack the ability to jump.

TimeSplitters Future Perfect

Developer Free Radical Design
Publisher EA Games
Released March 22, 2005
Genre First-person shooter
Mode(s) Single player, Co-op, multiplayer
Ratings ESRB: Mature (M), PEGI: 18+, BBFC: 15
Platform(s) PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube

TimeSplitters: Future Perfect is a first person shooter video game developed by Free Radical Design and published by EA Games for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube video game consoles. It was released on March 22, 2005.

It is the third game in the TimeSplitters series, taking place directly after the end of TimeSplitters 2, released in 2002.

Gameplay
Future Perfect is a first person shooter that takes place through multiple time periods. The player controls Sergeant Cortez and attempts to stop the Timesplitters race from destroying humanity through alteration of the past. A variety of weapons are made available throughout each level, most are from the time period of the specific level. Future Perfect also involves some third-person driving sequences.

Future Perfect included online play for both the PlayStation 2 (up to 8 players) and Xbox (up to 16 players via Xbox Live), but recently EA Games shut down the servers for both systems. The game features co-op play and four player arcade. The Mapmaker allows players to create levels for multiplayer and Story mode.

Unlike previous games in the TimeSplitters series, TimeSplitters: Future Perfect's cross hair is set so it is always visible. This feature can be turned off in the options menu.

Characters
There are a total of 150 characters for arcade playability. Unlike the predecessors there are more default characters in this game, as many as 67 characters. The remaining 83 must be unlocked by completing numerous "challenge", "arcade league" and in a small quantity "Story" levels.

Monkeys
Throughout the TimeSplitters series, the programmers field monkeys as playable characters in various guises, such as a Ninja outfit; one multiplayer mode, "Monkey Assistants," utilizes them as assist the player who is doing the worst on the map. A Curling mini-game uses monkeys instead of the traditional Curling stones. Further, when players examine their "Player Profile", it states how many times they have played as a monkey.

In Future Perfect, there are several Monkey variations you can play as. There is the standard Monkey, but there is also a Ninja Monkey, a "Cyborg Chimp" and a zombie monkey called Brains. A "Girlfriend Monkey" was also planned to be in the game, but removed before the release due to the game already having enough monkeys.

Reception
Future Perfect received favorable reviews with an average critic rating of 86% on Game Rankings. Reviewers praised the multiplayer's wide range of modes and arcade-styled pace, while faulting the lackluster campaign and simple single player experience.

Awards
IGN Best of 2005: Best First-Person Shooter (PS2)

Soundtrack
In 2006, Free Radical placed the soundtracks for all of their currently available games up for download on the company website, including printable album artwork.

Is this all necessary? I was gonna come in here and talk about how I liked the series, but damn.

TimeSplitters 4 is the fourth installment of the TimeSplitters series developed by Free Radical Design.

In June 2007, the Official UK PlayStation Magazine revealed that another installment of the TimeSplitters series was in the works. However, at Kotaku, Rob Yescombe, the scriptwriter for the previous title in the series, said that the systems they were developing the game for were "unsigned at the moment." Free Radical's David Doak has described Wii development in general as "a good thing to do" and followed that up with "I think we want to put it on the Wii", in an interview with Game Informer.

"I'm sure it's possible to do a control scheme that works," Doak added when asked about his thoughts on developing a first-person shooter for Wii.

Steve Ellis reported that "They're gearing up to insert monkeys and guns into all the wrong places." In an interview with David Doak, he alluded to focusing gameplay rather than special effects or graphics.

The logo for the game is currently a spoof of the Gears of War logo with a monkey head replacing the skull. There was also some concept art for a monkey in Master Chief's armour. Because of this, it is expected that there will be more in-game "potshots" of those games as well as other gaming franchises. Yescombe from Free Radical confirmed that prediction.

Release date
No official statement has been made about the date of release for the game. However, in the Letters page of Free Radical's official website, sometimes when asked about TimeSplitters 4, they jokingly said to ask again in 2009.

The game has been officially announced as being in development.

Originally posted by @st
Is this all necessary? I was gonna come in here and talk about how I liked the series, but damn.

OVER DID IT, FINE CLOSE IT.

We don't need an encyclopedia about the games...ermm