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With extra helping of satire.

Developer Free Radical has confirmed that TimeSplitters 4 is in development.

The news came from script writer Rob Yescombe, who told Kotaku the team was hard at work on the new game.

TimeSplitters is a first-person shooter series that lets you travel back and forth in time like Marty McFly and Doc Brown. Inherent to the list of ingredients is a hefty dose of satire, and Yescombe promises this time will be no different.

"In the past TimeSplitters has been very satirical at the expense of movies, [and] this time it will be satirical at the expense of videogames," said Yescombe.

Other details are still scarce, with platforms and tentative release dates still kept behind closed doors.

Free Radical is currently working on Haze, which tells the story of a rebellion against a military global mega-corporation by a former soldier. It's being described as a thinking man's shooter, and is PS3-exclusive until the end of the year (with PC and Xbox 360 releases sometime in 2008).

Head over to our Haze gamepage for all of our coverage to date.

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mkreku #1 5 years ago

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Oohh, too bad it won't come to the PS2 though.
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Beano #2 5 years ago

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Nice - looking forward to travel back in time and kill Pac-man
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Fernando #3 5 years ago

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TS4 will probably use the PS3 as its base console
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Benno #4 5 years ago

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been waiting for this
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myiagros #5 5 years ago

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If it doesn't come to Xbox360 I'll hunt Neko down with large pointy sticks.

I will do the same if it doesn't come to PS3!!

Get it sorted for both please nekotcha, or pointy sticks will be headed your way.
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MENTAL1ST Verified Senior Software Engineer, Picsel UK Ltd. #6 5 years ago

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this time it will be satirical at the expense of videogames

So the game is going to be full to the brim of tired genre cliches, except attention will be drawn to them specifically in-game to prove they're only there for reasons of 'satire'...
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FooAtari #7 5 years ago

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Less like TS3 more like TS2 please.
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Rodriguez #8 5 years ago

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Great News!!
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Darren #9 5 years ago

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I preferred TimeSplitters 3 to 2 actually but only because the single player was so much better. I didn't really play the former much online, jesus it was as laggy as fook most of the time, and the latter I only played a couple of time in splitscreen with a friend, although it was reasonable fun. The TimeSplitter series is a bit overrated in my opinion.
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Steroyd #10 5 years ago

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w00t w00t w00t w00t w00t

*ahem*

w00t.
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tonynibbles #11 5 years ago

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Good news!
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tonynibbles #12 5 years ago

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Please make TS4 more like TS1
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thejeek #13 5 years ago

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@squarejawhero: I still haven't forgiven then for not releasing TS3 on the Cube. If TS4 doesn't come out on the 360, I'll have to burn their house down...
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Killerbee #14 5 years ago

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Less like TS3 more like TS2 please.

Seconded. Actually, to qualify that - no Neo Tokyo "if you're spotted it's game over" stuff. That sucked.

With Future Perfect, I liked the fact they'd tried to put a bit more story and character into it, but the level design was nowhere near as good as TS2. The opening Siberia level of TS2 is still one of my favourite FPS levels ever.
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Monkey_Puncher #15 5 years ago

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Sweet!

A first person shooter that's actually fun to play online instead of being insanely realistic and inhabited by L33t screamy kiddies.
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Yaster #16 5 years ago

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I kind of get the impression from an interview in OPM recently that Free Radical don't want EA to have anything to do with this version so it looks like we will be able to play it online for a good while after it comes out.

Also from what we've heard about the game before it sounds like TS4 will be having a couple of digs at Gears and Halo so I'm not sure MS will want to touch it
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bdgr #17 5 years ago

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Timesplitters on the wii please!!!!!
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the creeper #18 5 years ago

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@thejeek
TS3 was released on Cube...
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I don't understand Free Radical's comments if they're implying EA stopped supporting the game online. There has never been any servers for Future Perfect as it worked entirely P2P on both PS2 and Xbox. That means as long as there are other likeminded individuals out there, people should be able to play it online forever (at least theoretically).
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DodgyPast #19 5 years ago

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PC version please

Actually why not... and make pad only... and split screen.

/is serious.
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Hughes. #20 5 years ago

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I thought Future Perfect was a bit flat as a single player campaign, quite good online though.

1 & 2 were the best.
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Yaster #21 5 years ago

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@ the creeper

I dont have the mag in front of me now but it went something like this

"Q: Will you re-release an online version of TS2?

FR: Not is EA have anything to do with it"
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the creeper #22 5 years ago

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@Yaster

That's interesting (although presumably it was TS3 as TS2 was published by Eidos). Could they have been talking about releasing a downloadable version of the game on PlayStation Store (or whatever it's called)? Because I'm sure EA would have to have a big hand in that decision, whereas there's physically nothing they could do to stop people playing TS3 online. Unless they have the power to switch off the internet. And while they're big, I don't think they're quite that big
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Dr_Rofl #23 5 years ago

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Yeah, I hope this is on 360 for Live, because thats the best place for online console games, (atm of course). And I hope its more like TS2 than TS3.
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thejeek #24 5 years ago

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Oh bugger! I'll let them off then... mumble mumble... no idea how that got past me.
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drunkymonkey #25 5 years ago

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I am happy.
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Sveppi #26 5 years ago

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yeah!!! i love timesplitters....and now i can love it more
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