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Timesplitter 3 Future Perfect Review

Timesplitters 3 review

By Cyraxis

Well I’ve done a few reviews where I've ranted a little but for the most part I’ve been pretty fair about the games reviewed..well not CoD but I’m sure by now you all know how I feel about...that...series (don't worry I'm kidding, I know nobody reads these) but I decided I’m going to do a review on my favourite game of all time, then after that I shall review a game I really fucking despise do the point of wanting to advance my plan of killing everyone on the planet so that there is no chance that there will ever be another, and I mean a hatred worse than for CoD and I have a special place in hell for everyone who plays that.

But to start with the positive, Timesplitters 3. there are many reasons that I would call this game my favourite game, and I can honestly think of no point where this game goes wrong. I said stupidly in my Deus Ex review that no game will ever get a perfect score from me, but that Deus Ex will probably come closer than any other game I have played and for that I shall carve another line into my flesh to remind me what happens when I do something stupid...also I guess I’ll edit the Deus Ex review.

So anyway Timesplitters does everything right. The controls are fluid with no need to edit them. Also this was the first game that I player that used the back triggers to fire and zoom (R2 and L2) instead of the shoulder buttons (R1 and L1) which is now standard for most first person shooter games. There is slight issue with the fact that there is no button...no character in the game can jump at all, in fact their feet refuse to ever leave the floor for anything other then falling off an edge. However the game gets over this by never having any reason for you to need to jump ever so really there is no drawback to this and in the long run I guess its better as it stops people trying to bunny hop around.

Moving onto the story of the game it mainly focuses around time travel, but unlike many games that include time travel Timesplitters 3 doesn’t bother trying to explain any of the complexities of it, and there are only about three times where a paradox is mentioned and the game gets over it by just not making one...simple. This stops the games story getting tangled up and loosing track of itself and this is a refreshing change from all the games nowadays for example Resident Evil, who's story is so complex now that I don't think even the creators could tell you what’s happening.

The characters in this game are however the main selling point of this game. The interaction between them in the cut scenes is hilarious, with every line being pure gold, the voice acting is done really well and while it isn't realistic for them to talk the ways they do I really don't think that this game is going for the realism factor what with the time travel, zombies, robots, a gigantic fried chicken with robot limbs, invisible time travelling monsters that shoot electricity and have no purpose other than to wipe out humans. One scene that always stands out to me for character interaction is the introduction to Jo Beth Casey, the main character, Cortez, grabs her from behind to talk to her, she turns round and kicks him in the bollocks.

Usually I try to avoid talking about multiplayer because usually I try and avoid it and games that are primarily focused on multiplayer really fuck me off as it is just pointless to make a game like that. However the multiplayer in Timesplitters is built, like the rest of the game, for pure comedy value. The announcer is the best I have ever heard with comments like “skull-buster” “lobotomy” and my personal favourite when you kill yourself “you suck!”. Not to mention the array of 150 characters each of which have their own sayings when you select them to play as.

So to conclude Timesplitters 3 is my favourite game and I believe that it is a game that can do no wrong. I still don't think it deserves a perfect score because I still get tired of playing it and if there was a perfect game then surely I’d never stop playing it. Unfortunately Timesplitters creator, Free Radical, has gone bust in the early stages of production on Timesplitters 4 and it is unlikely that we will ever see that game. But I will happily still play the third one and maybe if I keep hoping, one day I will get my sequel. 9/10

Final Thought: doing positive review aren't very fun and probably not very entertaining to read as I don't swear or anything and nobody is going to read a review of an old ps2 game and decide to play it themselves. But fear not, the next review will be angry, abusive and banned from the internet.