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High expectations failed.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I had high expectations for this game, but was very disappointed by it. First, the story did not interest me at all. It also seemed to make no sense, and went all over the place. Second, the gameplay wasn't good. I got lost many times because it didn't clarify what to do or where to go. The maps were very confusing. I would avoid this game if at all possible.

Time Splitters

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My son liked it a lot. I didn't play it yet, but he seemed to have a good time. He is 14 years old.

"Time to Split"

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The third entry in the "TimeSplitters" series, "Future Perfect" is by far the best. This simplistic yet highly satisfying shooting gallery has excitement and humor in equal parts, and one of the best lead characters to ever grace a game of this type. If you like to bust caps and laugh out loud, then this game is most definitely a bullet with your name on it.

You assume the role of Cortez, who might initially seem like little more than a Riddick (see "Pitch Black") rip-off born from the generic action hero generator. As Cortez finds himself hopping through time in an effort to thwart the evil plans of a madman and the titular alien race known as the Splitters, you gradually come to realize he's got a personality all his own. Despite being a capable bad@$$, he's also a lumbering oaf that would rather dive into a swimming pool headfirst without a second thought than check to see if it's first filled with water. His interactions with other characters in the game, themselves quite memorable, as well as his interactions with himself (yes, I said himself!), range from charming to hilarious. He's not so much as rip-off of other action heroes as he is a parody of them, and that makes him one of the best protagonists in the history of the FPS genre.

Gameplay in "Future Perfect" is similar to previous entries but more polished and, ultimately, more entertaining. Without a jump button of any kind, the game basically tasks you with old school running and gunning the likes of which are rare these days. And the guns themselves, they are plentiful, varied, and fun to use. In fact, if there's one problem with the game's arsenal, it's that there are too many weapons to choose from! For instance, you'll only get to use the so-called time grenades in one mission, and given the slow motion blast that they emit that's truly a shame because they alone or more fun than most entire FPS games' entire catalog of arms. The same can be said of the stake gun, which fires spikes that impale opponents, and these are only two of many examples.

Few games have such delicious variety, point of fact. Each level, or time period, is essentially a lengthy episode that feels like its own self-contained mini-game. Each one has its own very intriguing personalities, storylines, themes, weapons, and opponents. For instance, one episode is essentially a survival horror scenario (or parody, one that successfully rips both "Resident Evil" and "Doom 3" with efficiency) in which you combat zombies and other assorted beasties with baseball bats, flame throwers, and the aforementioned stake gun. The following level is a science fiction futurescape (still in Cortez's past) that puts you up against robots and mutants with high-tech weapons that include the also aforementioned time grenades. The look and feel of each individual episode is exclusive to that episode, so that it feels as though you're playing through vignettes instead of missions. It's brilliant, and more games should take note.

Interestingly, other games in the franchise were rated "T", but this one gets an "M" with its satisfying gouts of blood and cartoonish violence. Scoring a headshot on a enemy is extremely gratifying, while so to is exploding mutants with serum-injected bullets, or burning through undead with a flamethrower. None of this feels overly vicious, however, as the game's tongue in cheek flavor spills over into the bloodletting. It's all in good fun - and good fun it is. It never really asks you to take it seriously, and yet it never really deteriorates into "Serious Sam" ridiculousness either. The balance is almost perfect.

And as fun as playing through the game alone can be, playing co-operatively through the story mode with a friend is sometimes even better -- though both are worth going through, as events in the story and objectives in the game can change depending upon which mode you're using. The landscape of gaming would improve tremendously if more game designers took note and included a co-op mode in every game. And the multiplayer suite on the whole is as attractive as ever, offering plenty of incentive to go beyond the campaign and take on other players head-to-head if that's your cup of tea.

Despite all the praise, though, "Future Perfect" has its problems. For starters, the story mode is brief at best. More would have been appreciated, but that's mainly because what's there is so good. Also, some niggles in co-op play include an annoying "feature" that causes one player to teleport closer to another if he/she has progressed in the level, which can be extremely disorienting and is only rarely helpful. Also, the lack of a jump button keeps you feeling unrealistically grounded, and given the progression of shooters in this day and age, it's time this series let you take both feet off the ground. What's more, a few technical niggles show their ugly faces from time to time. One glitch sent me falling through the floor to my demise.

Despite the fact that it's not revolutionary in the slightest and brings little new to the FPS genre, "Future Perfect" is still an absolute blast. The characters and their antics even make the cut-scenes imminently rewatchable on repeat viewings, despite all the good gameplay to be had around them. As far as console blast fests go, they just don't get much better than this. This is a classic example of how to make a basic run-and-gun fun again, and one of the funniest games ever made to boot. Play it if that sounds at all like your bag.

Better than Timesplitters 2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I love this game. I knew it would be fun but playing with someone else is the best!

just fun to play

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this has to be the funniest shooter i've ever played. it's just fun, whether its the side jokes, the characters (including the dim-witted hero) or the gameplay. its got a good shooter aspect to it as well, including the "must be in a shooter" zombies as well as different time periods with different weapons. did i mention the multiplayer, gingerbreadmen, hippies, zombies, bears, barney like dinosaurs, robots, monkeys, and much more...

don't take it too seriously and you should have a great time.

Excellent Multiplayer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

it should be noted first and foremost that the single-player story mode in this game is weak. it's amusing the first time through, but it doesn't really make you want to come back and play again. The co-op story mode is essentially the same, just with more bad guys (and one of you has to play as the sidekick).

however...

the multiplayer in this game is exceptional. there are about 150 characters to choose from, ranging from Cortez (the main character) to four monkey permutations, a dead deer, a prepubescent girl, a policewoman with a large chest, and a few circus clowns. there are a lot of weapons to choose from, although only six are allowed at once. you dont' need more than six. there are many different multiplayer modes, ranging from simple death matches to assault and defender modes as well as an elimination mode where each player gets a set number of lives and is out when all of them are lost. there is room for up to nine bots per level, so it you only have one friend, it doesn't have to be 1 on 1 all the time.

the mapmaker is simple to use and the best in teh series, but it could have done with more fleshing-out. it's great for making simple levels, but mostly just open spaces with little room for barriers, cover, etc.

all in all, this game is an excellent multiplayer game. the control scheme works well and is completely customizable. if you like shooters to play with friends, then this is your game.

Save Your Money

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 11
Date: February 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

If it were 2001, and this were a Nintendo game, it might be OK. But for an XBOX game it is very lightweight and poorly-implemented. It's on par with some of the late 90s PC shooters, early Nintendo games, or the first versions of "Wolfenstein", but is almost painfully low-tech when it comes to game play on an XBOX. I got it for $30, but I would not recommend you buy it for more than $10

Unbelievably good. Huge improvement from predecessor!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is incredibly fun, and even though timesplitters 2 was an extremely fun game, this game is a lot better. Multiplayer, single player, map maker, you name it. Its graphics aren't cartoony anymore, in fact, they are so good that the graphics in this game are probably in the top 10 for xbox.

If you have a friend over there are few games more fun to play than this one. The multiplayer has upgraded from amazing in timesplitters 2, to ridiculous in this title. Xbox live is maybe even better than split screen.

This game has the complete package: Online play, great single player, and absolutely insane split screen action.

Buy this game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

P.S. This game does not deserve an "M" rating

Just a Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: November 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I owned Timesplitters 2 on the GameCube, and I liked it. The difference between that game and this, the next in the series, is pretty vast.

An important thing to me is that a game have a decent storyline to it. Now, that's important to ME; if you don't find that necessary then that's fine. But with TS2 I was completely lost as to what was going on in the Story Mode. I never played the first installment in the series, so I was without a clue as to why I was playing as all of these different characters in different periods of time. The story to TS3, though, although not necessarily deep, is a lot of fun. The voice acting was done superbly; I found Cortez (the main character) a really likeable character, in that although he's beefed up like every other action character in a videogame, he's a bit of a goof. All of the supporting characters, especially Anya, communicating through a wristband to Cortez throughout the entire course of the game, are very likeable. And for anyone who has already beat this game, they'd understand what I mean when saying it's interesting to play the first mission again and notice all of the small things you didn't notice the first time around. The story was also pretty funny--the game never seems to take itself too seriously. I laughed out loud quite a few times at some of the antics going on, whether it be stoner sidekicks or Snowmen multiplayer characters screaming "I'm melting!" as you shoot them with a flare gun or racing CAT vehicles, it's just a funny game, which is something few videogames ever achieve.

The graphics on this game are very smooth, very defined. The game really establishes an atmosphere when it wants to. One of the Story missions in particular and quite a few of the Multiplayer characters are for a mature audience. Running through the zombie house was truly freaky. The character models really look good, all the way down to the vains on Cortez's arms. Even the voice acting matches up somewhat closely with the mouths of the characters. Somewhat. Not bad.

I played the Story Mode on Normal difficulty, and had little problems beating the game. A couple of the boss characters were difficult, but other than that it wasn't too tough. I've started the game again on Hard difficulty, but so far (just through a few missions) I haven't had too difficult of a time. The AI is more accurate (but still inaccurate), and your health lasts less, and it seems that there are less health packs lying around, but they definitely still exist.

I like the weapons in this game. I wish the standard pistol was a little bit more powerful, but it's not bad. I also liked how the different weapons have different modes, as opposed to secondary fire. You can attach a silencer to your pistol, or a scope. You can attach a grenade launcher to another gun, etc. The left trigger works for throwing grenades. A lot of the weapons have *some* sort of scope, but usually not very much of one.

Inevitably, this game (among a couple of others) is compared with Halo. Where I think there is a huge difference between the two games is vehicles. There is one vehicle in this game, and it's not extremely useful. I guess you could call it the equivalent of a Warthog from Halo, except there's no gunner's position, it doesn't handle nearly as well as the Warthog, and although you can have a gunner sit in the passenger seat, it definitely doesn't feel worth the effort. The multiplayer is also far DIFFERENT from Halo. Not necessarily better or worse, just different. It's much more intense, as you typically end up having tons of characters spawning close to each other and the matches typically are just.....fast-moving. Personally, I think the multiplayer in Halo is more refined, but that's not to say there's anything wrong with the multiplayer in TS3. It's just a different style than Halo's. I like how easy it is to customize the multiplayer games in TS3; it's one of the easiest setups I've ever seen.

There are a lot of modes to this game; they've got some that are fun (and some that are really freaky). There's one mode where one character starts with a virus, and their objective is just to spread it, until one person is left. The screams of the characters 'catching' the virus are pretty scary. Again, this game shows atmosphere when it wants to.

I haven't yet played this game online, so I'm really not able to say anything positive or negative about the online multiplayer. I do like the Mapmaker feature, and they give you the ability to download other peoples' maps they've created, which is a really nice touch. I thought my map was pretty good until I saw the ones created by other people.

One thing I noticed that was EXTREMELY annoying was found in Co-operative play. Like in the previous installment of this game, you're able to play with a friend. There seems to be a glitch to it, of sorts. Maybe it's an option that's able to be disabled; I don't know. It has a 'warping' issue to it. You'll be walking along a corridor and apparently there are these spots you'll run over that end up bringing your partner right up next to you, no matter where he was. I don't understand why the game did this (if it was intentional). It seems like a very crude attempt at keeping the two characters together, but it definitely doesn't work, and is nothing but an annoyance. Again, maybe it's just a glitch in the game I own, or maybe it's an option, but whatever it is, it's a HUGE downer to wanting to play this game with a friend.

I don't remember if there is much music to the game--I don't think there was, but really am not sure, so even if there was it didn't stand out as being incredible. With the voice acting being as good as it is, though--your sidekick talks quite a bit, along with the enemies--it meant little to me that there wasn't much to the music. Sometimes you would sneak up on enemies and you could hear them talking amongst themselves--sometimes it was absolutely hilarious. I know I've mentioned this before, but there was enough humor in this game that I think it warrants repeating it.

No matter what you look for in a first-person shooter, this game delivers. Whether it be a fun, entertaining story, an intense, fully-customizable multiplayer, or a plethora of unlockables, this game delivers. It's frequently fun, and at times scary. Its graphics are crisp, its guns are fun to shoot, and its characters are full of life. Well, MOST of them are living, anyways. Timesplitters 3 is definitely worth the purchase.

Great game, period.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Now I'm not a gamer (or a serious gamer) by any means--I just like playing them occasionally on Xbox, but TimeSplitters has always been one of my favorites. Not only is it intriguing, full of action and super awesome graphics, but it's enjoyable and fun too. Like the Halo series, TimeSplitters is acclaimed and just as animated, but unlike Halo this game has a lot more fun parts to it. Great series=Great game.

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