TimeSplitters 2 Comments by Rob Fahey

sounds great. never did play the original tho....

with this and Turok both due, I better hurry up and finish Halo on Legendary!!!

any word on a co-op split screen as seen in Halo ??

looking forward to it already!!

still got TS1 that still gets the odd play :)

"game that came from left of field to steal the PS2 launch crown."
Not much of a accolade that now is it..
The first one was a little bit on the crap side. Hopefully this will be a bit better.

Id rather have the GC version for 4 player fun. I refuse to buy a Multitap to play 4 players games, even M$ had the sense to have 4 joypad ports.

I recently bought it the original for 16 quid and it's certainly a fun game that doesn't take itself seriously, which after the usual po-faced PC FPS games, is quite refreshing.

w00t shinji!!

Version I played of TS2 felt incredibly like Goldeneye. Which is great news.

And if it keeps the fantastic multiplayer aspects from GE and TS1, this should be a doozy ;o)

Looking forward to it...

got a demo from my PS mag and from what i have played its pretty cool(controls really suck, but i never played the 1st one)
Im still looking for a 2 player(or more)game for my GC im gittin for my birthday.

Here's a crazy idea - maybe he said that because he really, really liked it? :)

Buying a multitap and Pro Evolution Soccer was the best thing I ever did!!

"It really annoyed me that i couldn’t get an honest review of it anywhere"

You're deluded.

I refuse to buy a multitap because I don't have any friends. :-)

I'm surprised they didn't show you the network version.

:)

Disagree with the bit about Halo being better than MoH - maybe on single player you're right but for multiplayer you can't beat the Objective missions on MoH.

I have to say that I really don't like multiplayer FPS games on consoles though - you can always see where the other people are by looking at their part of the screen which takes a huge element of the skill out of it. Sure it's fun for a quick blast but it definitely can't replace a decent PC FPS multiplayer game on a broadband connection [okay, I'm spoilt with the broadband bit but then I do pay for it ;-)]

Halo! rules over any first person game on console and even HL and MoH on PC

I think that poor (the guy who said that, forgot his last name, it should be "Taste".

"TS1 was a very over hyped pile of crap, i really don’t expect alot more from this."

Nor did I. For what it's worth, I didn't actually like the original TimeSplitters that much - it was certainly the best of the PS2 launch titles, which was quite a surprise when it was stacked up against a Tekken game and a Ridge Racer game, but I still didn't think it was fantastic. Which is why it was so nice to discover that the second one looks set to be bloody brilliant.

"Judging by the title "we've played it, and it's really, really good" it will be impossible to get an honest review of number 2."

Oh really? For a start, it's a preview. I state pretty clearly just how much of the game I've seen. I fail to see how a positive preview prevents the review down the line from being honest?


"I have to say that I really don't like multiplayer FPS games on consoles though"

Nor do I, for the same reason you just said. However, this is allegedly going to support i-link play on the PS2, so as long as you have a few PS2s and TVs, that could be a right blast. Goldeneye-style multiplayer but with everyone on a different screen. How much would that rule?

Game, set and match - Shinji.

"I have to say that I really don't like multiplayer FPS games on consoles though"

Halo is a lot of fun with 4 TVs 4 Consoles and 16 players all linked up. Sharing the TV with three others does not allow much same screen cheating as there are still another 12 players to worry about.


I heard that GT3 had some wonderful linked console options anyone tried it?

Anyone know if linking a chipped NTSC PS2 to a UK PS2 works?

"so as long as you have a few PS2s and TVs"

I reckon not many people do. Sure, you can get a mate to bring their PS2 and a telly round, but how often is that going to happen?

I just hope they include a normal split-screen 2-player option. Preferably with some kind of cooperative play as well as the usual deathmatch stuff.

I've never played TS1, but I loved N64 Goldeneye, so this one looks very interesting indeed...

"Sure, you can get a mate to bring their PS2 and a telly round, but how often is that going to happen? ": -

Surely its becoming more common to have more than 1 TV in the house in the first place? I have two in my living room so that one can be used for games and the other one for watching TV.

It's bound to be good, it's got some of the original goldeneye development team working on it nuff said.

"I have two in my living room so that one can be used for games and the other one for watching TV."

lol! What, at the same time?? I suppose in theory that's possible with headphones, but still...

We have one pretty old TV in the house and persuading my missus that we need a new one is going to be such an uphill struggle that I don't think I'll even bother for a while...

"What, at the same time?? " - yes, my woman normally watches hollyoaks or whatever listening with some headphones. Before I moved in with her I already had a TV in the living room, one in my bedroom and an old black + white portable. She had the same in her house so we are now a 6 TV household. We have a surplus of just about everything - kitchen stuff, bedding, stereos, video recorders etc.

My workmates dad waited until his wife had gone to work and then went out an bought a new TV. He dumped his old one with my workmate and then told his wife that the old TV had broken and was beyond economic repair.

I've done that trick of dumping unwanted equipment on my dad too many times now for it to work again... :)

'What, at the same time?? " - yes, my woman normally watches hollyoaks or whatever listening with some headphones.'

Spooky, have had the same 'TV in lounge' set up myself, and for the same reason! :o) Although it was me with the headphones. Bad Girls and Corrie were other reasons for me to do the 'phones.

Well, my solution when Eastenders comes on is to shut the door tightly and head upstairs to my PC.

"Well, my solution when Eastenders" - make a trade she stops watching the soaps and you don't start watching porn, or disapeering upstairs to download it.

Uh, that would be a 'no'

Timesplitters MP with a multitap and custom map was one of the best experiences I've ever had on a console. The game had a few flaws, not a classic by any rate, but it was still a damn fine games. And I'll defend it till I die.

By the way, any chance of getting an ignore feature for unregistered posters? The vast majority seem to be comprised of utter morons, sadly.

"any chance of getting an ignore feature for unregistered posters"

It's on the wishlist, but our tech guys are all busy at the moment.

Busy downloading porn ?

[ssuelid] I heard that GT3 had some wonderful linked console options anyone tried it?
You can link u to 6 consoles (iirc). It's a pity that if you link two ps2's, you only get two cars on the track (no cpu cars). There's a cool feature allowing you to link three consoles and three tv's, and then play solo on it: you get a whole surround view then.

*burpp*

eh ?

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