It's seems as of late most of my video game wishes have come true (Still waiting for a Golden Sun Final Mix and Kingdom Hearts 3. Sue me). A fun dungeon crawler with awesome skills? Path of Exile.
I'd sure love another Batman game....Batman: Arkham Origins.
Then comes word that Crytek has given the ok for all three Timesplitter games to be brought to PC, updated and improved.
Timesplitters in a nutshell, is pretty much what it sounds like. You're Cortez, going through time doing various things such as destroying zombie samples in Russia to runnin' around gangster controlled Chicago hunting Al Capone all while trying to stop the titular TimeSplitters from using SPACE CRYSTALS to change Earth's past. Think shooter with wacky time traveling story slammed with the style of Borderlands and a little of the comedy. Then again, plots of shooters rarely matter. BUT SPACE CRYSTALS
What drew me in as a 16 year old on Timesplitters was the various characters, weapons, scenarios and mods. Moon Base, Virus (fire tag pretty much), paintball mode as the Monkey. Wild Wild West, BagTag (hold the bag), Sticky Mines only as Robert One-oh-Seven. The amount of ways you could play the game blew my mind at the time. I believe that every character in the game could be unlocked to play as, along with some very, very weird other ones.
By far my favorite was the assault mode. Capture point A, blow up point B and defend point C. The bots were fairly smart and would actually cut you off at choke points. Damn bots could also roll and dodge your shots (which the player character was not allowed to do)
There were also scenarios alongside the main missions and multiplayer. Kill 18 monkeys while being swarmed with a ton of dudes. Only kill the guys. Flamethrower snowmen to death. Shoot the hats off NPCs. Then you were graded on your time taken and given a reward based on that, be it a new character, multiplayer map unlock or even game cheats.
I never got into using it but there was also a map creation mode. I just wanted to kill shit, you understand?
While Im on the subject a few little sidenotes. Most rediculous character? The fucking Calamari. A giant Cala-fucking-mari. My friend had the game too, so when he brought his save pack over his account was named "PigFucker" which when I was 16 was soooo funny to me.
tl;dr Meeting adjourned.
The remake is going to be free, so there is no reason why you shouldn't check this out when it drops sometime next year or if your interest has been peaked there is a supposed demo to come in December. It would even be worth your while to look for a copy of one of these games. I recommend Timesplitters 2, because the origional shows it's age very badly from the PS1 and :Future Perfect pulls a Diablo 3 - Yes it's got the title but not the spirit.
Gonna be a hell of a long wait for this gamer.
I'd sure love another Batman game....Batman: Arkham Origins.
Then comes word that Crytek has given the ok for all three Timesplitter games to be brought to PC, updated and improved.
Timesplitters in a nutshell, is pretty much what it sounds like. You're Cortez, going through time doing various things such as destroying zombie samples in Russia to runnin' around gangster controlled Chicago hunting Al Capone all while trying to stop the titular TimeSplitters from using SPACE CRYSTALS to change Earth's past. Think shooter with wacky time traveling story slammed with the style of Borderlands and a little of the comedy. Then again, plots of shooters rarely matter. BUT SPACE CRYSTALS
What drew me in as a 16 year old on Timesplitters was the various characters, weapons, scenarios and mods. Moon Base, Virus (fire tag pretty much), paintball mode as the Monkey. Wild Wild West, BagTag (hold the bag), Sticky Mines only as Robert One-oh-Seven. The amount of ways you could play the game blew my mind at the time. I believe that every character in the game could be unlocked to play as, along with some very, very weird other ones.
By far my favorite was the assault mode. Capture point A, blow up point B and defend point C. The bots were fairly smart and would actually cut you off at choke points. Damn bots could also roll and dodge your shots (which the player character was not allowed to do)
There were also scenarios alongside the main missions and multiplayer. Kill 18 monkeys while being swarmed with a ton of dudes. Only kill the guys. Flamethrower snowmen to death. Shoot the hats off NPCs. Then you were graded on your time taken and given a reward based on that, be it a new character, multiplayer map unlock or even game cheats.
I never got into using it but there was also a map creation mode. I just wanted to kill shit, you understand?
While Im on the subject a few little sidenotes. Most rediculous character? The fucking Calamari. A giant Cala-fucking-mari. My friend had the game too, so when he brought his save pack over his account was named "PigFucker" which when I was 16 was soooo funny to me.
tl;dr Meeting adjourned.
The remake is going to be free, so there is no reason why you shouldn't check this out when it drops sometime next year or if your interest has been peaked there is a supposed demo to come in December. It would even be worth your while to look for a copy of one of these games. I recommend Timesplitters 2, because the origional shows it's age very badly from the PS1 and :Future Perfect pulls a Diablo 3 - Yes it's got the title but not the spirit.
Gonna be a hell of a long wait for this gamer.
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