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TimeSplitters
''TimeSplitters'' is a series of first-person shooter video games developed by Free Radical Design. The games are often considered spiritual successors to the Nintendo 64 titles ''GoldenEye 007 (1997 video game), GoldenEye 007'' (1997) and ''Perfect Dark'' (2000), due to overlapping elements in gameplay, design, and development team. Each game features a time travelling element in which players battle across a diverse number of locations and periods in history. The series' three games were released between 2000 and 2005, with the first as an exclusive launch title for the PlayStation 2. Development on a fourth game was being undertaken by a reformed version of Free Radical, owned by Deep Silver, a subsidiary of Embracer Group, before its closure in 2023. The trilogy was rereleased on the PS4 and PS5 as a PS2 classic in 2024, with trophy support, a rewind feature and improved loading times. Games ''TimeSplitters'' The first game in the series was developed by Free Radical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TimeSplitters 2
''TimeSplitters 2'' is a first-person shooter video game, developed by Free Radical Design, published by Eidos Interactive, and released in October 2002 for PlayStation 2, Xbox (console), Xbox and GameCube. The game's story focuses on the efforts of a space marine who seeks to recover powerful time crystals from a race of alien mutants called TimeSplitters, which leads them to taking on the form of an individual dealing with their own problems across different time periods between the 19th and 25th century. The developers focused on expanding the story element following 2000's ''TimeSplitters (video game), TimeSplitters'', and features influences from various film genres, including horror film, horror, action film, action and science fiction. Alongside the story mode, which can be played solo or co-operatively, players can also engage in multiplayer modes and create their own maps. The game received generally favorable reviews from critics, who praised its improvements on its pred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TimeSplitters (video Game)
''TimeSplitters'' is a first-person shooter video game, developed by Free Radical Design, published by Eidos Interactive, and released in 2000 as a PlayStation 2 launch title. The game's premise focuses on players controlling a variety of different characters across different time periods over a span of 100 years, seeking to resolve a personal matter involving their own foes, which brings them into contact with an alien race known as the TimeSplitters, who seek to interfere. Much of the gameplay bears similar aspects to previous FPS games, primarily '' GoldenEye 007'' and ''Perfect Dark''. Alongside the story mode, the game features additional game modes, including multiplayer, as well as a map maker for players to create custom maps. The game received favorable reviews upon release, and later spawned two sequels ''TimeSplitters 2'' in 2002; and '' TimeSplitters: Future Perfect'' in 2005. ''TimeSplitters'', along with the other games in the trilogy, were rereleased on the PS4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free Radical Design
Free Radical Design Ltd. was a British video game developer based in Nottingham. Founded by David Doak, Steve Ellis, Karl Hilton and Graeme Norgate in Stoke-on-Trent in April 1999, it is best known for its ''TimeSplitters'' series of games. After going into financial administration, it was announced on 3 February 2009 that the studio had been acquired by German video game developer Crytek and would be renamed Crytek UK. Crytek had a good relationship with the city of Nottingham due in part to its sponsorship of the Gamecity festival and its recruitment drives with Nottingham Trent University. In 2014, the studio was closed, with a majority of the staff transferred to the newly formed Dambuster Studios. In May 2021, two of the original founders, Doak and Ellis, reformed Free Radical Design under Deep Silver to create a new entry in the ''TimeSplitters'' series. Two years later, the second iteration was shut down on 11 December 2023. History Most of Free Radical Design's i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GoldenEye 007 (1997 Video Game)
''GoldenEye 007'' is a 1997 first-person shooter video game developed by Rare (company), Rare and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. It is based on the 1995 ''James Bond'' film ''GoldenEye'', with the player controlling the secret agent James Bond (literary character), James Bond to prevent a criminal syndicate from using a Space weapon, satellite weapon. They navigate a series of Level (video gaming), levels to complete objectives, such as recovering or destroying objects, while shooting enemies. In a Multiplayer video game, multiplayer mode, up to four players compete in several Deathmatch (video games), deathmatch scenarios via Split screen (video games), split-screen. Development began in January 1995. An inexperienced team led by Martin Hollis (video game designer), Martin Hollis developed ''GoldenEye 007'' over two and a half years. The game was conceived initially as a rail shooter in the style of SEGA's ''Virtua Cop'' (1994), later developing into a first-person ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perfect Dark
''Perfect Dark'' is a 2000 first-person shooter developed and published by Rare for the Nintendo 64. The first game of the '' Perfect Dark'' series, it follows Joanna Dark, an agent of the Carrington Institute research centre, as she attempts to stop an extraterrestrial conspiracy by rival corporation dataDyne. The game features a campaign mode where the player must complete a series of levels to progress through the story, as well as a range of multiplayer options, including a co-operative mode and traditional deathmatch settings with computer-controlled bots. As a spiritual successor to Rare's 1997 first-person shooter '' GoldenEye 007'', ''Perfect Dark'' shares many features with its predecessor and runs on an upgraded version of its game engine. ''GoldenEye 007'' director Martin Hollis led the game's production for the first fourteen months of its near three-year development cycle before he left Rare to start Free Radical Design. The game is one of the most tec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Doak
David Doak ( ) is a Northern Irish video game designer. Biography Originally from Belfast, he later moved to England, where he studied at Oxford University on biochemistry specialty and worked as a research scientist. Doak began his video game career working with Rare where he provided network support for '' Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!'' and helped develop the critically acclaimed '' GoldenEye 007'' and ''Perfect Dark'' for the Nintendo 64. His facial likeness and name were used for a non-player character in ''GoldenEye 007'', a scientist named Dr. Doak. Several of the guards also bear his likeness. Doak and video game composer Graeme Norgate left Rare in 1998 to start Free Radical Design. From there he worked on the video game series ''TimeSplitters'' and two other video games called ''Haze'' and ''Second Sight''. Doak left Free Radical - now known as Deep Silver Dambuster Studios - in 2009 and set up his own Nottingham-based studio, Zinkyzonk, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deep Silver
Deep Silver is an Austrian video game publisher and a division of Plaion. History Deep Silver was announced in November 2002, with their first release to be '' Anarchy Online: The Notum Wars''. According to Craig McNichol, who ran Koch Media's England branch, the idea behind Deep Silver was to have a business segment that would develop games that would complement the games Koch Media was distributing on behalf of other publishers. McNichol also stated that Deep Silver's name was subject to much internal discussion. Koch Media invested in Deep Silver in July 2003, and in November 2003, all of Koch Media's game publishing operations (excluding distribution) were reallocated to Deep Silver. The division had been continuously active since, primarily in Europe. In April 2008, Koch Media opened Deep Silver, Inc., a subsidiary branch based in Los Angeles, under Deep Silver's name. In August 2007, Games That Matter, a studio founded by former Rockstar Vienna employees in 2006, was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Embracer Group
Embracer Group AB (formerly Nordic Games Licensing AB and THQ Nordic AB) is a Swedish video game and media holding company based in Karlstad. The company comprises 8 operative groups: Amplifier Game Invest, CDE Entertainment, Coffee Stain Studios, Dark Horse Media, Deca Games, Freemode, Plaion and THQ Nordic. Embracer Group was established as Nordic Games Licensing within Nordic Games Group in 2011. The latter had previously purchased assets from the bankrupt publisher JoWooD and established Nordic Games GmbH (a subsidiary of Nordic Games Licensing) to manage them. Nordic Games Licensing continued to purchase intellectual property from defunct publishers, notably several THQ products in 2013, followed by the "THQ" trademark in 2014. In August 2016, Nordic Games Licensing and Nordic Games GmbH changed their names to THQ Nordic. The parent company became a public company in 2016 and changed its name to Embracer Group in 2019. Until 2023, Embracer Group rapidly grew through major a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xbox (console)
The Xbox is a home video game console manufactured by Microsoft that is the first installment in the Xbox series of video game consoles. It was released as Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console market on November 15, 2001, in North America, followed by Australia, Europe and Japan in 2002. It is classified as a sixth-generation console, competing with Sony's PlayStation 2, Sega's Dreamcast and Nintendo's GameCube. It was also the first major console produced by an American company since the release of the Atari Jaguar in 1993. The console was announced in March 2000. With the release of the PlayStation 2, which featured the ability to playback CD-ROMs and DVDs in addition to playing games, Microsoft became concerned that game consoles would threaten the personal computer as an entertainment device for living rooms. Whereas most games consoles to that point were built from custom hardware components, the Xbox was built around standard personal computer components, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Future Perfect
The future perfect is a grammatical construction. Future perfect may also refer to: * ''Future Perfect'' (Autolux album) (2004) * ''Future Perfect'' (Loadstar album) (2013) * ''Future Perfect'' (book), by Steven Johnson (2012) * ''Future Perfect'' (video game), in development * ''Future Perfect'' (Vox column), a column on the ''Vox'' website launched in 2018 * "Future Perfect (Pass The Mic)", a 2022 song by Enhypen on the EP ''Manifesto: Day 1'' * ''Futureperfect'', a 2002 album by VNV Nation * '' TimeSplitters Future Perfect'', a 2005 video game developed by Free Radical Design See also * Future tense * Perfect (grammar) The perfect tense or aspect ( abbreviated or ) is a verb form that indicates that an action or circumstance occurred earlier than the time under consideration, often focusing attention on the resulting state rather than on the occurrence itself. ... * '' Past Perfect Future Tense'', a Magne F. album * " Future Imperfect", an episode of ''Star Trek: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riddick (character)
Richard B. Riddick, commonly known as Riddick, is a fictional character and the protagonist of the ''Chronicles of Riddick'' series. This series includes the animated short film '' Dark Fury'' and the video games '' Escape from Butcher Bay'' and '' Assault on Dark Athena''. Actor Vin Diesel has portrayed Riddick in all film and video game adaptations. Within the series, Riddick is depicted as having a wide range of skills, including exceptional mobility, stealth, combat abilities, survival in harsh conditions, prison escape, and piloting. Despite his criminal background, he occasionally performs moral or heroic actions, often against his own survivalist instincts. Originally shown as a human in ''Pitch Black'', Riddick's race is later revealed to be Furyan in subsequent sequels. The Furyans are a warrior race nearly exterminated by a military campaign that left their home planet, Furya, desolate. Riddick is one of the last surviving members of this race. His eyes, a defining fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GamesRadar+
''GamesRadar+'' (formerly ''GamesRadar'') is an entertainment website for video game-related news, previews, and reviews. It is owned by Future plc. In late 2014, Future Publishing-owned sites ''Total Film'', '' SFX'', '' Edge'' and '' Computer and Video Games'' were merged into ''GamesRadar'', with the resulting, expanded website being renamed ''GamesRadar+'' in November that year. Format and style ''GamesRadar+'' publishes numerous articles each day, including official video game news, reviews, previews, and interviews with publishers and developers. One of the site's features was their "Top 7" lists, a weekly countdown detailing negative aspects of video games themselves, the industry and/or culture. Today, they also publish "best games" lists segmented by genre, platform, or theme. These are divided into living lists, for consoles and platforms that are still active, and legacy lists, for consoles and platforms that are no longer a target for commercial game development. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
