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Not for Children

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Not good for children. I thought it would be a great game for my son with time traveling. I saw my son and my daughter running around shooting and flamethrowing eachother and laughing when they killed eachother off. It really bothered me and I took it away. The graphics are pretty gross. Wait until they are teens to buy this one

Tons of options and unlockables combined with solid action.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: August 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

THE SHORT: A pretty good story mode, and tons of things to unlock in the addictive challenges and combat modes- all of which can be played alone or with multiple players. Decent but limited mapmaker.

THE LONG: I flat out didn't like TS1. The single player or "story" mode consisted of running back and forth for fetch quests, and the mapmaker let me set up corridors but gave me just a tiny handful of patterns to design it with. It was fast and it was pretty (minus the overly stylized goofy characters) but I didn't think it was much of a game.

This first sequel improves on almost all of what I had issue with. For starters, the game's just as pretty and runs very smooth and very fast (keeping fairly consistent in multiplayer as well). The storyline is better too- it's like Goldeneye with actual mission goals that change or grow as the level progresses. But I personally had the most fun with "arcade mode", which is multiplayer combat. I want to specify here that this is where the game excels over such titles as even the much hyped Halo (and even more recent games): like Perfect Dark, this is one of the very few games where I can play multiplayer matches against computer opponents. If you're like me you don't always have enough people around for 16-player, 4 system links and whatnot. Frankly I usually prefer to play alone anyway. And in this way, Timesplitters 2 accommodated me.

For example, like Perfect Dark, this game features some levels that I liked more than others and so, not wanting to play the story mode, I wanted to just jump into that cool level and fight some opponents. This game allowed me to do so, picking not only what opponents I fought but also how tough they were and what weapons were used. In addition, I could set parameters such as time/kill limits, and by the time I unlocked them, could choose among more than a dozen different combat variations such as "Flame Tag". In other words, this game lets you play multiplayer, storyline stuff, or plain old combat- with or against other humans in each case.

There are loads of unlockables, as well. There are more than 100 different characters in the game, with at least half of that number representing legitimately unique and interesting choices. Each has their own stat rating such as speed and accuracy, and some characters such as robots have extra advantages like immunity to fire. This adds even more strategy to deathmatches but can be turned off as well.

In addition to unlocking the characters, you'll be unlocking goofy cheats such as pirate hats or practical things such as new levels and combat modes. This is one of those games where every level, challenge, or combat scenario rewards you with new stuff once completed, so there's a very satisfying feeling of constant progress and perpetual motivation to try to meet each goal. Some of it is tough- sometimes tuned to be just barely within your grasp, but there seems to always be other stuff to accomplish if you get stuck. For each of three nights, I went to bed satisfied that I unlocked some of the cool stuff I'd wanted, then played the next day and opened up even more. It was addicting.

Thankfully, this was all set up within a very pretty package. The stylized, exaggerated look from the first game is still here for those that liked it, but for people like me it's nice that characters are a little less goofy looking. And with more than a hundred, it's easy to develop favorites. The graphics during gameplay itself are solid and the game moves quite fast for being several years old, even during multiplayer combat with a
handful of AI opponents thrown in.

And again, that's where the game gets its highest marks from me. While the storyline is interesting enough and fairly engaging in its disparate levels, it was that combat that made me keep playing this game. By the time I played through most of the basic and "arcade league" challenges, I'd unlocked around 15 different deathmatch types- modes such as capture the flag, king of the hill, last man standing, and more bizarre stuff such as monkey helpers- in which the person in last place gets monkeys with heavy weaponry. When you figure that you can pick from a dozen or so stages, add up to 10 AI opponents whose difficulty you set, throw in weapons of your choice, and then pick the score type and combat parameters, that's a huge amount of customization. As I said, it's a level of single-player control and immersion the likes of which I haven't seen since Perfect Dark.

Controls feel natural and very intuitive, the graphics and sound are appropriate (and downright amusing) and the options are very thorough. The pace of unlocking stuff is great, with a couple dozen hours of perpetual new stuff. Altogether this is a fine game, which at this point you can grab for just $10-15 bucks. Do it, especially if you're a guy like me and doesn't want to rely on a bunch of others to have some good interactivity with your first-person shooters.

The best shooter you can get for this price

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is the best multiplayer game i have ever had. The single player is a lot of fun but not quite as good as multiplayer. The campaign works with co-op which makes it better also. Multiplayer has bots, which is also a very good thing to have, and aside from being great, the characters are funny. My fav characyers name is robofish, which sounds about as funny as he looks. I counted 126 unlockable characters, plus extra game modes, cheats, and levels make this a great 10-20 bucks. Buy this instead 0f any other shooter your considering, believe me, this games great.

Playstation version rocks, XBOX one must be even better!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

What can I say about this game... I do not own the XBOX version myself, but I am interested in getting it within the next hour.

Anyhow - it is a great game, the XBOX version I recommend. I have played both (rentals), and they ROCK!

Go against your friends in a LAN party, have some fun, it rules!

Do not compare it to Halo or Halo 2, they are two different games.

XBOX games are in GENERAL, better quality than PS2 ones when it goes into this catagory. I am not dissing the PS2 fans, but XBOX is the best for FPS, due to the graphics, and the processor.

Gaming on this game is nice, I do not really personally enjoy the map editor, because I do not exactly know how to build maps that well.

The only thing that could be better is a nicer online gaming interface.

hard

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

When I was going to get Timesplitters, I was thinking I was going to be getting it and just shooting stuff like crazy having a good time. However, what really becomes addictive about this game is attempting to unlock all of the characters(there are 130, I think.) You start out with 20 or so by default, and from there you earn more in one of three ways:

Beating levels in Story Mode. I haven't played too much of the story mode, and only really on easy(I played some of the first level on Normal, and it was going good until I got to the boss, which is a helicopter gunship, and I got torn apart). It's a time travelling game so you go from 1990 Siberia to 1920s Chicago to alien planets, Tokyo in the future, the old west, etc, etc. There's AMAZING variety in the levels. Each has its own special characters and, in something of an ode to classic gaming, each level has a boss.

Next, you can unlock characters in Challenge mode. You get series of events based on one action. For instance, the first series is glass breaking. The first event has you breaking out all the glass in the area with the grenade launcher on your soviet machine gun. The next one puts you in the same place with a brick. The final one has you using a normal grenade launcher in Notre Dame Cathedral. You have to complete the challenges within certain time limits to pass with Bronze, Silver, Gold, or Platinum. The medal you get determines what things you unlock. Platinum doesn't unlock anything Gold doesn't, it just gives you bragging rights if your friends are playing and can't achieve it.

Finally comes the best mode. Arcade League. Arcade is the regular multiplayer mode you play with friends, Arcade League is preset challenges within the mode. If you've played the challenges in Perfect Dark, it's pretty much like that only more of them, and it's set up like the challenges--there's several series, and each series has 3 events. Also, Arcade League is split into Amatuer(Easy), Honorary(Medium), and Elite(Hard). You have to go in order. You can breeze through Amatuer League, and probably only have to go back for better medals on the flame tag/virus levels and the assault level.

Assault. Oh man, this is quite easily one of the hardest modes I've ever encountered. It's only on 3 maps, and this is what happens. You spawn as part of an assualt team and you have to accomplish certain actions, such as gaining ground, shooting barrels and computers, and taking out autoguns. Within a nerve-rattling time limit.

There are some parts of the game that will have you screaming and cursing, but 85% of it, though hard, is great to just play over and over until you get it down. What makes the really difficult parts more frustrating to me is that I know with just a little extra effort I can make it, but I never seem to be able to reach that magic point.

My only complaint about this game is that there aren't really enough guns. I hardly notice that amidst all the insanity. This game moves INCREDIBLY fast.

Oh, and it has a mapmaker. It's pretty restrcited, but you can still pull off some awesome maps.

Worth the discounted price...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: October 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

...of under $15, $20 max. I bought this game at Walmart because of the low price and the favourable comparison to Halo that was on the game cover. Who says advertising doesn't work? :D

As one previous reviewer said, the only comparison between this and Halo is that they're both FPSs with a sci-fi bent and both a single player and multiplayer game. Other than that, don't play this game with the expectations you may have when playing Halo.

I'm writing this review after playing the game for the first time. I started to play it with the story game with Halo in mind, and the cartoony feel plus more than two weapons at a time, as well as offbeat humor threw me off track and got me pissed off. Then I got through the first level and went to the second level set in ganster Chicago, thought "maybe this game doesn't suck so bad." Then I went to multiplayer, and finished playing it with a grin on my face saying "hey, this game is pretty good!" On its own terms, of course.

Make no mistake, Halo is a GREATER game than Timesplitters 2 in terms of story, gameplay, realism, and ability to involve the player in the game. However, it is not a BETTER game than Timesplitters 2. Timesplitters isn't better than Halo either, but both have advantages over the other to tweak gameplay. For someone like myself who doesn't have that many other people to play with, the ability to use bots in Timesplitters 2 is quite welcome for arena battles, and the weapons/characters are a hoot. Halo multiplayer is for serious contenders who want tactical gameplay; TS2 multiplayer is for people who want to waste everything in sight (ergo, it's more fun).

I don't like the aiming system, the game still seems a bit corny to me and the controls are pretty weird, but I am now willing to give it a chance. Judge it on its own merits and don't compare it to Halo, and you'll see it's a pretty decent game for the price it goes for.

Excellent FPS with a lot of variety.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: July 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I consider this game a must-have for XBOX or PS2.

Personally, I have gotten more gameplay out of Timsplitters than Halo. It's a solid game with a lot of things to do.

The storyline is a bit weak, but, who cares (the original Timesplitters didn't even have one)? It offers what few FPS do: variety. One level you're handling a futuristic plasma rifle, the next it's a crossbow, and then six-shooters. The variety of weapons and locations means that you can have a different experience depending on what you feel like. I'm partial to the retro weapons myself.

If you feel like doing something other than the story mode, try the challenge or arcade modes. They are often intended to be a bit tongue-in-cheek, so here is where you pick up off-the-wall characters, like the gingerbread man (one of my favorites). There is more to unlock, and getting a high enough score can sometimes be pretty hard.

Multiplayer offers Bots, and you can customize the character set to change difficulty, so you can still have a fun multiplayer experience by yourself or with just a couple of friends.

Some have complained about the cartoony look, but I feel that is a strength. I can play this around people where I might feel a little guilty pulling out Halo. The violence takes on a Wile E. Coyote feel.

My main complaint is that the controls are often a little twitchy when compared to Halo. If they had been more polished, it would probably take top billing, in my opinion. It's problematic, but not enough to make me dislike the game.

Ultimately Timesplitters is not a game that takes itself seriously. Really, what else can I say with challenges like "Behead the Undead"?

I've noticed that even the people that complain endlessly about the game still give it about 4 stars. This game is definitely worth buying, especially at the current pricing.

Not good.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: July 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I rented this game from blockbuster. It is bad. It is so hard because you never feel like you are holding the gun and it is too hard. I can't get past the first level because I have no idea what to do. There is one objective I can't do. MAKE SURE YOU DON'T GET FOOLED BY THE "First Halo, Now This" I own Halo and have finished it on easy, normal, heroic, and legendary. (Thank You) And it is a much better game than this.

AWFUL GAME

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: June 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this game is a complete waste of the xbox shooter market. awful graphics. awful gameplay. a lame story. no exploration. a completely pathetic multiplayer. and enemies more retarted than a brain dead monkey. all nicely complemented by horrible control and boring missions. the game is a HALO wannabe. and the fu]]]ng moron. oh and to the guy who put first halo now this. when is your phyciatrist meeting schedule for?

Great Multiplayer

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First off, never compare this to Halo, okay. The only true similarity is that they're FPS's. Just to give a warning to those who desire a game with an excellent story mode, don't get this. It just doesn't make sense as to why the Time Splitters would have any interest in putting a crystal(which u must collect) in places like Chicago, Siberia, ect. The game really takes place in 3000, or something. It's like they wanted to make tons of levels in different eras and could only tie them together with time travel. And who are the people u kill? They look human-are they, or are they ts's in disguise? Much goes unexplained, and the only motivation to beat Story is to unlock new characters(126 of them) Aah, but the multiplayer-so many things to do. There is AI, so u can play multiplayer by yourself. If you just want an excellent MP game to play with ur friends, get this now! It won't dissapoint anyone. In not one review has there been a complaint about it. U can do a co op mission in Story mode and defeat the levels with a friend; this kind of saves the Story mode. There are ten Arcade levels, which u can do 10 different things in; deathmatch, bag tag(similar to capture the flag in Halo),zones, gladiator, ect. Finally, you can make ur own single or multiplayer levels in Map Maker, though u can't be too creative. You can't make levels with grass or snow or sand! They are basically levels with concrete walls, though you can change the lighting; I love blood red! Finally, the last few cons:
1 Crosshairs are messed up and move before you do and don't stay towards the center, though they can be switched off with L
2 Only one powerfull story level, Notre Dame. You have to kill zombies, and towards the end you must kill priest at a Black Mass, though it's not as bad as it sounds. It's music combined with dead dudes walking at me gave me chills from time to time.
3 No blood, gore, and it's a little cartoonish for some veteran FPS players.
But multiplayer saves the game big time!

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