13 years on, TimeSplitters Rewind will finally launch this November, smooshing all three Free Radical games together

Enough clip has passed, and capable disappointment endured, that each I tin retrieve of the Timesplitters bid is simply a map's worthy of landmine-throwing monkeys. It's imaginable this is an existent traumatic lawsuit from my youth, warped into a harmless videogame anecdote by years of acold h2o therapy and hypnosis.

We'll find retired connected November 23rd, erstwhile Cinder Interactive merchandise TimeSplitters Rewind - a instrumentality revival task that stirs unneurotic modes, maps, and communicative worldly from each 3 archetypal TimeSplitters games. Oh look, they've published a trailer. Let's person a ticker and spot if it dredges up immoderate further explosive, hairy, hooting memories.

Why, I recognise that electrozapper! I recognise those Tommy guns! Oh god, it was each real. They're coming for me! I perceive them pawing and chattering astatine the windows. I perceive them nibbling connected sticks of dynamite successful the pantry. I odor their hideous banana enactment arsenic I settee down to sleep. Save me! No wait, I was remembering a videogame aft all.

A bully videogame, even. Created by Free Radical and released backmost successful 2000, TimeSplitters is fundamentally GoldenEye but sillier and without the burdensome Brosnan component. It uses clip question and alternate dimensions arsenic an excuse to slap a clump of daft weapons, maps and characters together. The sequels changed small astir this premise beyond adding other daftness and, eventually, online multiplayer.

The instrumentality remake has been successful improvement since 2012, having been fixed the greenlight by then-license proprietor Crytek, and present runs connected Unreal Engine. The developers were successful pugnacious straits past year, putting retired a telephone for assistance arsenic they sought to battalion successful worldly from TimeSplitters 2 and TimeSplitters: Future Perfect. I'm not definite what's happened since, but they've evidently fared amended than the creators of the authoritative games.

Reporting connected TimeSplitters successful the years since Future Perfect has been perfectly torturous. Free Radical announced TimeSplitters 4 successful 2007, but past they went into medication successful 2008, aft a dismal effect to piss-visor FPS Haze. Crytek subsequently bought Free Radical and rebranded them arsenic Crytek UK. In 2011, it was reported that Crytek mightiness revive TimeSplitters 4, but the Crysis developers poured acold h2o connected the thought successful 2012, and yet closed Crytek UK successful 2014.

A fig of Crytek UK unit were transferred to Homefront devs Dambuster Studios, who someway snuck a afloat 4K remake of TimeSplitters 2 into their passable unfastened satellite shooter Homefront: The Revolution. Then Embracer came on successful 2018 and bought the rights to TimeSplitters via their Deep Silver label. In 2021, Embracer refounded Free Radical, hiring backmost TimeSplitters co-creators David Doak and Steve Ellis. Then they closed it again successful 2023 aft their full concern went sideways for privation of Saudi petrodollars.

TimeSplitters Rewind volition connection 28 maps, 50 arcade leagues, 32 challenges, 41 weapons (inc landmines), 20 arcade crippled modes, and 91 characters (inc monkeys). That's a batch of game. Congratulations to each astatine Cinder for seeing it through.