Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
TimeSplitters is a series of first-person shooter video games developed by Free Radical Design.The games are often considered spiritual successors to the Nintendo 64 titles GoldenEye 007 (1997) and Perfect Dark (2000), due to overlapping elements in gameplay, design, and development team.
Free Radical Design Ltd. was a British video game developer based in Nottingham. Founded by David Doak , Steve Ellis, Karl Hilton and Graeme Norgate in Stoke-on-Trent in April 1999, it is best known for its TimeSplitters series of games.
TimeSplitters is a first-person shooter video game, developed by Free Radical Design, published by Eidos Interactive, and released in 2000 as a PlayStation 2 launch title. The game's premise focuses on players controlling a variety of different characters across different time periods over a span of 100 years, seeking to resolve a personal ...
After the original TimeSplitters, Free Radical Design decided to include a level creator in the TimeSplitters series. It includes tiles, character spawns, items for specific game-modes (such as a briefcase in "capture the bag" game mode) as well as the option to change the lighting and also add pre-determined "bot sets", that is a group of up to ten characters to regularly appear on the map.
TimeSplitters 2 is a first-person shooter video game, developed by Free Radical Design, published by Eidos Interactive, and released in October 2002 for PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube. The game's story focuses on the efforts of a space marine who seeks to recover powerful time crystals from a race of alien mutants called TimeSplitters, which ...
In May 2021, Deep Silver and Koch Media, part of Embracer Group since 2018, announced that Free Radical Design had been re-founded. Work on a new part of the TimeSplitters series is to begin before the end of 2021. [21] In November 2022, Volition was transferred to Gearbox Entertainment, another company under Embracer Group.
On 19 May 2021, Deep Silver announced the reformation of Free Radical Design with David Doak and Steve Ellis as studio heads to make a new TimeSplitters game. [14] On 11 December 2023, the reformed Free Radical Design was closed down, and the new TimeSplitters game has been cancelled as a result.
Following Free Radical's closure in 2014, the studio was re-established in 2021 under the Embracer Group and once again began work on a new TimeSplitters game, but this too was cancelled in 2023 after Embracer closed the studio down. A prototype of the PlayStation 3 version was later discovered in 2024. [158] [159] Free Radical Design: Crytek ...