TimeSplitters
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- This article is about the 2000 video game. For the series of video games, see TimeSplitters (series).
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| Developer(s) | Free Radical Design |
| Publisher(s) | Eidos Interactive |
| Designer(s) | David Doak |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 2 |
| Release date | October 26, 2000 |
| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single player, multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | ESRB: Teen (T) ELSPA: 15+ |
| Media | CD-ROM |
| Input methods | DualShock 2 Controller |
TimeSplitters is a 2000 first-person shooter 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 PlayStation 2 launch game. 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 features a story mode, arcade mode, unlockable challenge mode, and map maker.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Map Maker
Map Maker is a tool that allows the player to create their own arena from a selection of 21 pre-made tiles. They are able to add these tiles to the map in any quantity and place. Light settings of the tiles can be edited individually and the map can be given any one of five themes. These themes change the interior shape of the tiles and their appearance. This along with all of the other map settings can be edited at any time. Items can be added to the map to make gameplay more interesting. Once created, the player can play either a "Deathmatch", "Bag Tag", "Capture the Bag" or "Knock out" game in their arena.
[edit] 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.[1] 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.[2]
[edit] 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. The TimeSplitters Music Box also offers such songs for download.
[edit] References
- ^ TS Resource on TSA
- ^ IAQ question mentioning the handheld version
[edit] External links
- TimeSplitters at MobyGames
- TimeSplitters at the TimeSplitters Wikia
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