Crytek: “We’d Love to Do TimeSplitters 4″
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This isn’t the first time Crytek have mentioned how they still have interest in the TimeSplitters series. Many of the veterans from Rare who worked on Goldeneye and Perfect Dark left and made their own company, Free Radical Design. At FRD they created the spiritual successor to those classic games in the Timesplitter series. More recently, though, Free Radical Design became part of Crytek, and are now known as Crytek UK. A little while back, Cevat Yerli, CEO of Crytek, commented:
“Look, I wish we were working on it. I will say that.”
“I think hopes are high, but change has to happen in the platform space. I’m very excited potentially about the idea of a TimeSplitters for G-Face.”
“The thing with TimeSplitters is, if we made a sequel to TimeSplitters, nobody would accept this apart from some fans, and we don’t know how big the fan community is unfortunately.”
“And we don’t want to design this as a packaged goods game that launches on a console, and even if we wanted to I don’t think publishers would like the idea. That is the truth, and that was the truth even before we bought Free Radical.”
After that, fans took it upon themselves to show their interest in the series by beginning a Facebook campaign. The aim was to get 100,000 followers. It is currently holding at around 36,000.
The latest bit of news comes from Crytek producer, Peter Holzapfel, who was hanging around at Euro Gamer in order to take questions about Warface, a new free-to-play FPS by Crytek. (Holzapfel is a producer within the main Frankfurt studio of Crytek.) Straying from the topic of Warface, one of the reporters asked him what is doing with TimeSplitters 4? He replied:
“TimeSplitters eh? We’d love to do that one. We love that game.”
