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Get some friends, then get this!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Do not buy this game if you don't have any friends. If you DO have friends (especially if you are lucky enough to have four or more friends!), then buy it. Now. The multiplayer game is the best on any console or pc. It is really smooth, there are loads of different weapons, tons of different modes, brilliant level design and you can design your own levels with the mapmaker. The one player mode isn't amazing, but it is still rewarding to play because through it you can unlock more levels, cheats and playable characters for the multiplayer game. So, get some mates, get some beers in (or fizzy pop, depending on your age), get a multitap, get some mates and get timesplitters!
WARNING: After the resulting 200 hour playing fest, non-splitters may tell you to get a life.

Don't let them lure you in!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: December 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I was in the store one day, and I picked up the game "TimeSplitters". I had just traveled an hour to get to the store, and I had fifty burning dollars in my pocket. I scanned the back of the box to see what it said... Saying how it goes at a smooth 60-frames per second, I thought 'Wow! That pretty good!' Also it had a level editor! I told myself how not many platform-systems had this diversity found in it. Me, being a big first-person shooter fan (such as Half-Life, Quake, and Unreal Tournament, to name a few), I thought that this was something good. I decided to show it to my brother, who was also a fan of such games. He told me to wait and read reviews. I bought it anyway.

I get home and put it into my PS2... I'm sitting there having bullets shoot into me from every direction, but I said that I was just not used to the controls. If someone asked me if I liked the game, I lied and telled them I did. I had just spent (...money) on it, so I wanted to like it. I have beaten Quake 3 on nightmare, Unreal Tournament on godlike, and Half-Life on multi-player games, single player, and all the rest. But THIS game... the controls are EXTREMELY awkward. You have to press a button just to bring out your crosshair, while the enemies easily shoot you. I have beaten this game (only on the easier modes, I had not the patience to go through again), and believe me, I made a mistake.

CONS:
-Cartoon-like graphics
-Poor control configuration system
-Cruddy storyline (which is normally be compensated by good play)
-It costs (...) money
-Eidos apoligized publicly for making such a crumby game

PROS:
-Collects a lot of dust

Most promising game of PS2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: August 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

From the creators of Goldeneye, and Perfect Dark; Timesplitters is the most promising game of PS2. With a framerate of 60fps, a level creator, and tons of multiplayer options, this should be the first game you should buy.

Very fun to play

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: October 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is very fun, worth your money. Its got a nice level editor and a very nice 4 player mode. The 1 player modes ok, but 2 player coop is the best and its fast! also, The controls are clunky, but its still pretty good. Worth your money.

disappointed.........

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

After reading the reams of good reviews on this game, I became quite hopeful. I am a HUGE fan of 1st person shooters like Goldeneye, and Medal of Honour. Most of the still screens I had seen of Timesplitters looked kind of quirky, not that I mind quirky, but when I eventually rented the game I was really disappointed. I couldn't get into the whole "time" theme at all. I don't like enemies materializing next to and behind me. I don't like the level designs. The controls are difficult to catch on to. I could appreciate the graphics and the speed, but these considerations are subsidiary to me. This game is neither reality based, like Goldeneye, nor is it fantasy-based, like Doom. It is kind of a hybrid, with fantasy-type creatures in places like Chinese gardens. Stealth is NOT needed in this game. If you don't get into the theme, or the locales (which I didn't), you likely will not enjoy it, despite the advanced gameplay. Mind you, I didn't try the multiplayer mode, which seems to be the real highlight. Even if you love 1st person games, RENT it first.

Want a helpful review or do you want sugar high gamers?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I'll tell you what you really want to know about this game. First of all there isn't really much of a storyline, all you know is that a race called TimeSplitters wants to destroy earth, or manipulate time or make ice cream, you just don't know. The game spans a century with a bunch of amusingly zany characters. EVERY SINGLE LEVEL is about finding an item and bringing it back to the starting point, I don't mean this in a bad way the Story mode is only there to get more characters and levels. Story mode is fun but if you don't have a memory card you will hate replaying the same mission over and over. The most amusing level is the Mansion where you have to return the murder's carcass to the gallows, rather gruesome isn't it? This level is even a little bit frightening as half eaten zombies lurch towards you with their bloody wounds yawning open. I wish the zombies were poorly animated so I wouldn't be so grossed out.

Multiplayer mode is just amazing, you will play it forever. There are the options of Capture the Flag, Deathmatch, Knockout (retrieving an item, Escort (keeping a defenceless teamate safe) and Last Stand (guarding a base for a certain amount of time. You can respawn in a second making the game very fast paced.

Hey there is also a mapmaker, which is amusing so you can have an endless amount of maps to fool around with.

The controls are a little bit annoying, you can't exactly turn on a dime and the aiming system is difficult to maneuver so I suggest you choose levels that have only one level until you learn how to aim at those annoying snipers above you.

Anyway this game is lots of fun, especially punching zombies heads off and shooting giant ducks but you'll find about that later. I gave it four stars because the controls are a little bit awkard but I would give it a 4.5 if I could.

bad control

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 22
Date: November 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

this game seems to have been rushed out to make the deadline. the control is very bad, and that kills the game. but there are people still lineing up in front of best buy target and any other place that sells the playstation 2. On ebay 500 bucks is at least the going rate, why well its all just hype just like the dreamcast there wont be any great games for 1 or 2 months. until then people just feel thay have to have it, because its so hard to get they feel like their missing out on something. Back in may I preordered one on-line, my friends laughed and said they would wait for the release, then came the word of delays and not being able to ship as many as they wanted to, well I got one on the release day and the only thing i can say is the dvd player works ok, the games out now are not must haves. maden not any better then nfl 2k1. just because you cant find one in any store please dont waste your money and pay any more then 299 its just not worth it, the system is good and in one or two months the games will get better,and you will be able to walk into any store and buy one. the scumbags who get them and sell them online, for 250 more then they paid for them, are not worth dealing with, avoid the hype and just wait its your money you know how hard you work for it.

Unoriginal and Bland

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: May 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

My brother-in-law got this game for free, and I still think he overpaid. I spent an hour trying to play it, and found it a tired retread of "Doom" or "Wolfenstein 3D". In fact, I wished I could just pop Wolfenstein into his Playstation 2.

If you need a good FPS for your PS2, try "Red Faction" or even any of the "Medal of Honor" games. The FPS genre has evolved too much to settle for inferior game design and execution. If you want something with "Doom"-style game play, I suggest playing "Doom". At least the PC controls were pretty simple with that game. "TimeSplitters" suffers from poor control mechanics, particularly when it comes to aiming, and vague mission objectives. Usually, you have to find something, but you don't get told up front (you actually have to pause the game to get your mission directives). The graphics are very smooth and once the level loads, and assuming you can survive long enough to enjoy the framerate, there is no disruption in gameplay.

Maybe "TimeSplitters 2" will improve the formula, but it's too late to win me over. There's just too much competition to ever have to worry about a clunky shooter.

Great Game, but depends on what you prefer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I must begin by stating this game, and all others, are prefered by some, hated by others. I absolutley loved this game. It's exactly what i thought a First Person Shooter should be. Great multiplayer, with the solo missions existing to unlock better things in the multiplayer. I really didn't like all those missions in goldeneye and the world is not enough where you had to sneak around undetected. This is my kind of game, get in there, blow up up a bunch of people, and get out. I thought goldeneye and TWINE to be too slow and secretive in their missions. My friends felt the exact opposite, they thought this to be too fast and open. It all comes down to personal preference in the end. In this case, most people like it, a few don't. All in all, a very good game, there could have been more solo missions, but i'm still quite happy with my purchase.

A must-have for any FPS fan

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

TimeSplitters was one of the first games released for PS2, and it's the only game for the system that I really like so far.

Do NOT go into this game thinking you know what to expect, because it's actualy 4 FPS-type games rolled into one. Some levels are ones where you have to sneak around, and try not to be noticed, like in Goleneye. Others are horror levels, where you have to fight zombies, mutants, and other demonic beings, like in Resident Evil. Then there are sci-fi levels, where you get plasma guns and other advanced weaponry and fight cyborgs and aliens, I can't think of an example here but I'm sure there is one. Once you've beaten story mode (if you can call it a story) try challenge mode, where you can earn funny bots for use in multiplayer, which include a cute little robot called Robotfish, and I THINK even a giant duck. Then there's multiplayer, which is better than some games that were actualy designed for multiplayer.

Take all of this and throw in the ability to create your own multiplayer map, and you've got a game that could only be made better by adding online play.

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