TimeSplitters game.Last December, it was confirmed that Free Radical Design would be closing down with immediate effect, with owners Embracer Group carrying out a fierce restructuring program.Since the studio was relaunched in 2021, it had been working on a fourth Timesplitters game. “You asked us and we listened.
We have been working on plans to bring the TimeSplitters franchise back to life,” parent company Embracer said at the time.Follow-up details were scarce and while a new TimeSplitters game hasn’t been officially cancelled, everyone who was working on it has since been laid off.However Steptoe shared a five-minute video featuring footage of the game in a now-deleted post on LinkedIn.
The game was being developed under the title TimeSplitters Next, and the footage was captured in July 2023. The video has been archived here.Saw a ex-dev posted time splitters 2 gameplay and figured I'd re-upload it before embracer nuke it pic.twitter.com/qJeYuKqtrk— Zac Preece (@zac2806) March 5, 2024Following the closure of Free Radicals, an anonymous developer spoke to the Free Radical Archive project, revealing that the original plan for TimeSplitters 4 was to create a “Fortnite clone” with a number of microtransactions. “Nobody wanted that really, not even us, but we didn’t have much of a choice for a long time,” they said.They went on to say development shifted at some point in 2023, with the team pivoting to create a TimeSplitters 2 Remake that would feature reworked levels, a What If-style storyline, and levels from both the original TimeSplitters and TimeSplitters: Future Perfect.They claimed the game was still two years away from being finished but “as of this moment in time, it’s cancelled.”In other news, Warner Bros.
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