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The Halo Killer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 15
Date: April 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Timesplitters 3:Future Perfect is a first-person-shooter (FPS) for the Xbox. One thing you should understand: this is not a simulation like (Rainbow Six or Ghost Recon), this is an arcadey type of shooter. Timesplitters (TS) has always been fast-paced, featured lots of weapons and characters. Everything looks cartoony and has a sense of humor. This third installment has an improved story mode, where you travel through time and even help your Future self and your Past self fight enemies! The graphics turned a bit gritty and the characters models look better for it. Blood splatters the walls when you shoot them! Headshots are fatal one hit kills which adds a tactical element not present in previous TS. The weapons all have cool reload animations now also adding another tactical element because you need to hide yourself to reload your weapon. The weapons themselves look bigger and sound more mean! You can also play story mode co-op with a friend, or play arcade mode, challange mode, split-screen, XBOX Live and a total of 14 game modes that you can even play with BOTS! Timeplitters 3 is the complete shooter, it has so many game modes and options that you'll be exploring it for many days! And most importantly, this game is a blast to play! What are you doing wasting your time reading this review? Go buy this amazing shooter Today!

Pros:
+better than Halo
+excellent story
+excellent action
+excellent graphics
+excellent animation
+excellent controls
+excellent sound effects
+excellent weapons
+still has a sense of humor
+lots of unlockable goodies
+Create your own Maps
+Mapmaker improved
+tons of characters
+14 game modes
+blood splatters
+headshots
+reload animation look cool
+co-op or versus gameplay
+Xbox Live
+Play with BOTS offline
+cool cheat modes

Cons:
-puzzles suck
-weak music
-BOTS are still dumb

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.

More fun from Free Radical

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: March 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The TimeSplitters series is easily my favorite in the FPS genre. These games have so much personality, and they don't take themselves too seriously. Future Perfect is no different. The controls are tight and precise, the mini games are goofy yet challenging, and the graphics are gorgeous. The stages are also very well-built, but if you don't like them, you can go build your own with likely the most detailed mapmaker I've ever seen for a console game.

I haven't played it online yet, but if anything will make me interested in getting XBL, this is it! I spent countless hours on TS2 just unlocking all the characters and challenges, and I foresee myself doing the same with this one.

Highly recommend, even at the steep price.

Time Splitters Future Perfect

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: April 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

TS Future perfect was everything i expected and more. It has a rare trait of being an official descendant of Goldeneye 007 which will please any old school gamer. It features our hero, sergeant Cortez, travelling through history to stop the time splitters before they ever started the war. The Story will take through many places like haunted mansions, ghost infested underground caverns, a terminator reminisent future with robots terrorizing the streets, and a train reminisent of the old Goldeneye favorite. The variety of weapons is wast featuring anything from the revolver, multiple shotguns, machine guns, and futuristic laser and plasma rifles. The multiplayer is anything but short lived. Over 14 modes of multiplayer action including our favorites like team death match, capture the flag, and assault where you attack or defend the base while completing objectives along the way. There are 150 playable characters, of course you must unlock some of them. This is accomplished in the arcade leage and challenges where you have a set amount of time to get so many kills,come in 1st place, or anything inbetween. Bored with all of that? No problem, make your own multiplayer maps, assault missions, and story missions. But theres still more! Play online with friends and compare your stats with others to see how good you really are. Another thing I enjoy is the music, its creative and matches the time period you play in and the mood of the level. So try it out, this definitly isnt a game your gonna rent and be done with in a few days. I see long hours of play ahead for me. I has over 2 days of play alone in Time Splitters 2!

As much as I'd like to deny it, better than Halo.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: July 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

When I heard this game was better than Halo, I naturally dismised the comment. I got the game, and now I'm a believer. Halo is better the first time you play it, but time splitters has something Halo lacks. Replay value. The guns are made so well, along with a ridiculous amount of charactors. There is even a map editor, letting you make your own skirmish, campaign, capture the falg, ect. maps.

the new halo

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 13
Date: June 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Ok people, if you have never played this game... You are probably the biggest idiot I know. It's the funnest most well made game I've ever played. It mixed gun action with light comedy and if you actually want to beat the game (which is doing and beating everything) it would take a year of obssesive playing. The characters are the best characters I've ever had the honor to play with. I mean you can be a ninja monkey. a freakin' ninja monkey! And the guns (especially the monkey gun) are the greatest.

"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 its predecessor

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: September 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Timesplitters Future Perfect just flatout blew me away. I'd already been playing and loving Timesplitters 2 and so I of course had to get this.

It's a bit easier than TS 2, but that's okay because TS 2 was aggravatingly hard in most parts. It's also gorier, now with bloodspray! Hot! The weapons are cool, but nothing I wasn't expecting from a TS game. The addition of a baseball bat makes for some interesting rounds.

The story mode actually has a well-thought out story this time, and it's incredibly fun to play. You run through castles in the 1920s, trains in the 60s, Terminator-esque landscapes, futuristic canyons, and plenty of other cool places in an effort to stop general destruction of humanity and time and all that good stuff.

The controls have been improved since TS 2, as well. Somewhat. It's harder to fire the secondary functions of weapons now, but I guess they made up for that by making the number of guns with secondary functions far less than in TS 2. But aiming is so much better now. I never even bothered to try to manual aim in TS 2 because the crosshairs would just rocket around on the screen. It was next to impossible. This has been fixed, much to my delight.

Many of the classic characters are back, too, so I doubt anyone will be too upset over the loss of one of their favorite characters.

I haven't gotten much into the new mapmaker, but it definitely looks to have improved as promised.

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.

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.

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