The Revolution was a full 4K port of TimeSplitters 2 – review addiction

Matt Phillips, studio lead programmer Double eleven, whose last work was the upcoming console port Rust, toldthat while working on Homefront: The Revolution created a playable 4K port of the whole shooter TimeSplitters 2

TimeSplitters 2 was released in October 2002 for PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube. The game was developed by a British studio Free Radical Designfounded by former employees Rareworking on GoldenEye 007

Later Crytek bought Free Radical Design and renamed it Crytek UK. Following the closure of Crytek UK in 2014, the rights to the TimeSplitters series received Koch Media, the parent company of the publishing house Deep silverwhich founded Dambuster Studios

Former Crytek UK employees involved in the development of Homefront: The Revolution joined Dambuster Studios.

Shortly after the release of Homefront: The Revolution, players discovered a slot machine in which you can complete two missions of the TimeSplitters 2 story campaign. However, Phillips said that the shooter does not hide two levels, but the entire game.

The rest of the levels were activated using a special code that was lost over time. According to Phillips, he once gave the code to a friend of his to lease it to one of the Discord channels. But the friend was called a liar and his account was banned.

In addition to the storyline campaign, players were able to play multiplayer, which could be launched in the co-op mode of Homefront: The Revolution.

Since the release of Homefront: The Revolution, players have found other TimeSplitters 2 levels in the game files, so they guessed that they could be accessed. However, so far it has been possible to do this only by manipulating the game files.

Now the rights to the TimeSplitters series belong to Embracer Groupformerly known as THQ Nordic, which bought Koch Media in early 2018.

In 2019, Free Radical Design co-founder and TimeSplitters co-founder Steve Ellis joined THQ Nordic to help chart a course for the future for the franchise. In an interview VGC Ellis stated that he has always viewed the TimeSplitters series as unfinished business.

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