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Miraculously, Timesplitters 4 A Possibility!

Posted on Friday, January 28 @ 18:30:00 Eastern by Daniel Bischoff

Funniest-Name-of-the-Year award winner and Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli recently spoke with CVG on the topic of Crysis 2, the sequel to the PC-brain-boiling Crysis. Of course, Crysis 2 will be appearing on consoles, and that means multiplayer!

You've already played the Crysis 2 multiplayer demo, or at least I showed you what it's all about, but just how much work went into the multiplayer side of the game? Cevat commented on that:

Today we have around 70 plus team members working on multiplayer only. That's a huge commitment from our company and was only possible because Free Radical had that capacity and was able to grow quite fast after we took over.

Free Radical, you say? You might remember them as the developers behind Timesplitters: Future Perfect. If you remember them for that, you're dumb. You should remember them for Timesplitters 2, a true PS2-era successor to Goldeneye and Perfect Dark.

You know, it's no coincidence that the Timesplitters series seems familiar to those who dedicated hours and hours to those great Nintendo 64 shooters. Free Radical was originally comprised of developers from Rare who broke off after the company was sold to Microsoft. Just think, they could be developing avatar props right now!

(Pictured: Timesplitters rising back from the grave.)

Free Radical is now named Crytek UK (who would've guessed?). Cevat seems pleased with their work:

The team has been performing up to the quality bar easily. Our thinking was that the team had done 80-85 rated games, and we thought that with the right technology, IP and global IP direction they could reach the 90 barrier. I'm very confident that they can do that.

When asked about the Timesplitters series, which Crytek now owns, Yerli simply said:

Yeah, we have been discussing it, but nothing has been confirmed yet, so let's see after Crysis 2.

Hope.

[Source]

Comments

Nether
Joined: Jul 2007

Posted: Jan 28th, 2011 at 7:34 pm
Hope. Yes, lets hope.

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TheDiesel
Joined: May 2009

Posted: Jan 29th, 2011 at 1:27 am
I still have Timesplitters 2. I will always have hope for TS4.

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JCD
Joined: Sep 2006

Posted: Jan 29th, 2011 at 7:14 am
Why do you post things like this? Why does everyone always post things like this? Until TS4 is in my hands, I don't want to hear about it. Getting my damn hopes up.

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Lien
Joined: Feb 2008

Posted: Jan 29th, 2011 at 2:22 pm
But... i love future perfect :(

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UghRochester
Joined: Jun 2006

Posted: Jan 29th, 2011 at 2:29 pm
I always loved TimeSplitter for map making abilities. At least there's hope.

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warmaster670
Joined: Jun 2007

Posted: Jan 30th, 2011 at 6:55 am
If it ever comes out hopefully the map maker wont be gimp, and the ai will work properly in it, nothing like trying to make a stargate map, but not being able to place enough peices to do it, then having the bot be too stupid to go through the "stargate"(teleporter) into the base.

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sandineyes
Joined: May 2008

Posted: Jan 31st, 2011 at 9:08 am
Dumb for remembering them for Future Perfect? At least that game had a story, and a hilarious one at that. The Timesplitters 2 story was nothing more than arbitrary objectives and mysterious gender changing.

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