Timesplitters 2 Review - The Perfect Sequel
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0:00 Intro
02:27 The Gameplay
06:31 Story Mode
15:35 Arcade League
20:10 Challenge Maps
23:43 Closing Remarks
24:54 Amazingly Awesome Patrons - Ігри
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I thought Elijah Jones was based off Morgan Freeman, who'd been in a few Western flicks by then.
I know this might be a far cry since this isn't a first person shooter but would you ever cover jet force Gemini?
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Future Perfect was even better. Brilliant sense of humour throughout the story
Go away now
Future Perfect probably aged better with the more modernized gameplay, but I always preferred the more fast paced, arcadey feel of TS2.
Something always kept me playing way more of TS2 than future perfect. Idk what it was about it.
Either way I played the multiplayer against bots more than anything
Been playing it on my wii this year since it released on Gamecube and god did I miss Future Perfect its so well written and the levels are great
Critical drinker is my movie review guy and gman is my gaming review guy.
I assume you guys are brothers and someday I'll get to treat you both to a beer.
I can assure you, 4 guys sitting on the couch together, Virus matches were hysterical.
Had it on GameCube with a 27in CRT. We still did the 4 player thing. There was no other way!
Virus can only be properly played with weapons turned off IMO
"better pedestrian AI than cyberpunk" daaaamn son.
Schwacked!
that. was. S A V A G E !
Couch Co-op is a feature that really needs to come back to modern video games. Online multiplayer is fine and all, but sharing a good game with close friends in the same room is an experience that just isn't matched.
or even just an option to have a splitscreen display while playing coop online.
@@jamescollinge5043 Me and a buddy usualy just use discord video share and throw it in another monitor.
Really makes playing games like ARK or RUST even better when you dont have to ask 100 questions every minute.
Video games aren't made just to be fun anymore. Of all the games I've played in the last few years, there's two that I can say I have good memories of- Journey, and Rocket League. Journey was beautiful and came in an important moment in my life, and Rocket League I've played and played with friends, and had actual fun with my actual friends.
@@samwiseshanti There are more out there, subjectively speaking of course. But 100 percent right, you can feel a lot of the love has been sucked out of the design philosophies at large. I mean, how many times have you looked back at a certain game from the past and said "they'd never make this today". Fuck the whole nostalgia goggles argument, some old games hold up, some don't.
Part of the issue is splitscreen requires the game to effectively be rendered twice. Back in the day that could slide but now a lot of games are pushing the system to the limit just rendering it once
God timesplitters 2 and future perfect are incredibly solid games.
I've only played an Xbox demo of Future Perfect, but I loved it. It was cinematic from what I can recall.
Aye, FP was a timehopping adventure movie basically. The game nailed the humour even more than TS2 (which was already great) and the mission progressions were great - I recall some fantastic stuff with Harry Tipper and Kitten Celete, also a train level.
@@Houldey not to mentions the ludicrous variety in weapons selection
Glad to see this game is not forgotten.
Everytime you mention it to someone who played it, they just light up.
(Also the Siberia-soundtrack is the fucking dopest)
@@henriksandbacka9442
The western theme is _such_ a banger too (nuff said)
hangar theme as it builds up, good times
Return to planet x is the best
Dude, truest statement ever. When I met this guy, he’s my best friend now, we talked about many things but once I asked him the random question of “hey, you ever play TS2?” His eyes lit up like a Christmas tree. We both proceeded to talk about timesplitters for 2 freaking hours straight. TS2 is still my favorite game of all time, it never gets old.
I loved virus mode against snowmen, hearing "I'm melting!" hauntingly said as you roam the level was a laugh.
Or "OY IT BURNS"
Timesplitters 2? I should finish editing but I GUUUESS I'll take a break to watch this. TimeSplitters 2 kicked my ass when I was younger. It kicks every ones ass of all ages but god damn if it isn't so good.
You're damn right. The whole TS trilogy is awesome.
Easy Mode is for those of us who don't want to break our controllers or keyboards. You have no idea how expensive they are!
Super great games. However I wouldn't say it was hard. Just trial and error to get those platinum awards on the arcade. And when you finally did felt so good
This platinum medals though
Let me guess.......
Atom Smasher and Robot Factory
The number of references to other games and movies were great. Golden eye, perfect dark, resident evil, terminator, etc.
Bloody Dambusters even 😂
Also, keep in mind, these were the days when the final version was when it was sold. No updates. That is amazing when you think about it. What a solid game.
Crazy concept, releasing a complete game.
@@vintagecapgunsatyourmomshouse I miss when games released completely when I buy the game.
Kind of ironic for Timesplitters 2, being a timeless classic.
Many sleepovers with this game. 4 of us crowded around a way-too-small tv trying to see our corner as we slay monkeys and zombies is one of my fondest childhood memories.
I wish we got a new timesplitters game
Timesplitters Rewind is on the way
Granted, but it’s got micro transactions, going to be delayed at least seven times and It’s going to be written to pander to the lowest common denominator of Twitter.
@@vito8870 i just learned that
@@vito8870 How many times has that been delayed now?
@@Snakedude4life Micro transactions? Go watch the September update video and stop spreading shit.
A friend and I 100%'d this game way back when. Fond memories of en entire summer spent hammering every last difficulty, game mode and challenge. I think we sunk more hours into TS2 than any other game of that generation.
How this game and future perfect never got a Remaster I will never know.
Sometimes it's very unclear who actually holds the legal rights to a franchise, due to companies being sold, but their franchises being sold separately, etc. Maybe that is the case here too?
No publishers thought it was worth their time. Everyone rejected it because they didnt know how to market it.
@@retro2vr looking at the state of gaming today, I kinda understand that sentiment
@@retro2vr THQ Nordic says that they are planning on remastering the 3 games. Expect more news later this year
Rewind is gonna turn that around trust me
The Robot Factory level on hard was traumatically difficult.
Agreed. It took me 2 weeks to do just that level. Then the last level was piss easy in comparison.
Atom smasher. I felt like a king when i.beat that on hard.
That moment when you finally got to the boss only to die there and have to go back to the only checkpoint of the level.
I miss this game. The hours I put in just on the map maker was insane.
Sadly we will never be able to see such a thing agaim
@@steverobinson4609 So freaking true my good dude. So freaking true.
Don't lose hope just yet
Prophecies have said a remake of TS will be coming and will have all content from the trilogy itself
Dood! Same, I used to love making my own missions!
That map creator was life as a kid me and my cousins had so much fun
I remember there being a lot of frustrating and unclear levels and objectives in this game. But the multiplayer was a blast!
Best part of the game:
It keeps you motivated without stupid achievements to get or DLCs being sold
Tbh it will be that way now matter how wacky most games are now
Timesplitters will still keep the functionality as a good old free to play fps game
Amazing game! :) It also had one of the most comprehensive level/mission editors you could get on console. Really gave me the game design bug.
Yes! Now hope we can get a remaster for new consoles. I miss this franchise.
Isn't it getting a reboot?
@@lolcat Unsure but it was bought by thq nordic so hoping they do something with it haha.
I would love a remake, and a reboot (hopefully) would be even better.
Theres Timesplitters Rewind re making all 3 games from scratch for the PC. Other than that i wouldnt hold your breath on anything official ever.
@@benkilla THQ Nordic said that they will remaster them. I wouldn’t give up hope
Can't forget the hours I've put into this game vs bots with no weapons feeling like it was a zombie mod
People who owned the original XBox version are going to be so pleased since Microsoft added this gem into the backwards compatibility library along with Future Perfect, that means 4K with HDR on the Series X.
Heard such rumors on it
It was amazing Xbox actually did this unlike playstation 4 or 5 nowadays
And same for Nintendo switch as well
When I was like 12, my friend and I would spend hours as monkeys playing virus on the hangar map, one of my favourite memories, let alone gaming memories
This is my childhood, I remember playing multiplayer against bots for hours upon end
Was there split screen multiplayer too? I swear I remember playing against my brothers on this one
@@alexmurphy5289 I'm near sure there was bro
TF2 one of my favourite games of all time. The story mode was brilliant, the deathmatch with friends was another level, not to mention the arcade mode and map maker. I will say although the bots are fun, they know where you are at all times, so all you have to do is wait around the corner and they will run straight into your gunfire. Takes the fun away when you realise that.
*talks about the music in neo tokyo, but skips over the wild west theme* : HERESY!
Such an amazing yet underrated series. I really hope they bring it back with another game, one that sticks with the original theme and that doesn't try to fuck it up with micro transactions and other modern bullshittery.
This comment aged well
I just realized that if this game ever got remade or remastered by a major dev/pub, all those unlockables in this game that you earn for just playing the game would likely be paid for DLC.
Yeah that's just sad ...
-$15 season pass to unlock characters that are already in the base game
-$2.99 for cheats
-Mapmaker added post launch
And dont forget the game is now 200GBs and crashes ever hour of continual play
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I loved all the Timesplitters games, I remember on the third they managed to add proper reload animations to all the guns and even added character arm models for all the characters which was nuts!
Just one of the reasons why the third game is the best in the series
@@DiegoStClair-wz5xj Every game is better than the last, as it should be
I just watched the older reviews this week. What a weirdass coincidence.
Same. Freaky collective consciousness shit. People missing couch co-op
@@mst40k miss couch co op ssoooooooo much
I read the eldery reviews lol
When people talk about the best FPS franchise and they don’t mention Timesplitters, they’re opinion can be ignored
I think the reason Siberia was such a damn good level on the campaign, was because it was also the showcase on one of the PS2 demo disks that came out, pretty early in the Playstation 2's life cycle. Siberia had so much to show off, what an awesome game Timesplitters 2 was, hands down one of my favorite console FPS games.
Man, the facial expresisons in that first cutscene really is impressive for the time, it's stylized for sure, but perfectly readable.
It’s so weird to think that Neotokyo is based in the past
Well, Bladerunner is based in the past.
When I was little, it was my favorite level because I'd be around to see 2019. I can't believe it's already passed too!
So.much for.flying cars lol
@@chrisstanley9477 and sci fi handguns
"Heir apparent to Goldeneye"
These are still my favorites from my childhood. So often I think about Time Splitters and you’re the first youtuber I’ve seen with that same love for them. Thank you
The way you said fucking sadistic and even similar lines in other videos always get me. Even though I live in Australia and hear that kind of talk near daily I still find it hilarious.
“call you right back bae, gman just uploaded a new vid”
I've been trying to decide on a game to play for the last few weeks, and this is definitely going to be the one. I missed out on it when I was younger, and there's no better way to experience an FPS than with mouse and keyboard. Thank you for once again leading me to a game I'm sure I'll enjoy. Don't ever forget how much we appreciate what you do!
How are you going to enjoy the _console_ release of TimeSplitters with mouse and keyboard? Are you emulating and then assigning those controls? I know of a very small number of titles on the PS2 that supported mouse for the generation but haven't read anything of the sort being supported on the original Xbox and the GameCube. Would like to be proven wrong and / or told emulators can successfully map to mouse.
Thanks for always plugging this game series over the years, Not sure we would have gotten today's announcement without people like you keeping TS alive
Adding the Geiger counter ticker to virus mode on future perfect was such an improvement
I remember my dad and I played this splitscreen on the ps2, such good times and such a good game.
Should do a review of Second Sight, created by the same people as Timesplitters with the same art style and a really underrated game
Not to mention the developers so loved the telekinesis from that game that they found a way to bring it over to timesplitters in the form of that one device whose name I've forgotten.
Hidden gem
The only memories I have of Timesplitters was versus vs bot and my stepfather and I. We had an aboslute blast and god do I wish I could go back to those days so I could truly appreciate them. Doing deathmatches and struggling on challenges (Hearing the snowman scream "I'm Melting" was hysterical to us, we'd repeat it all day.".) Especially the golem one. The only one we could never complete with platinum or w/e the highest was. Miss you Phil, you wonderful dude.
I don't know if it was timeplitters 1, 2 or future perfect, but the level with a bunch of scientists going through some sort of laboratory, and the western where you had to plant bombs over and over. We played those over and over because I loved em, he kept playing them with me cause I enjoyed them so much. Shout out to him for putting up with that.
Hey mate, love your work, you hit me deep in thems nostalgic feels. Sweet outro too!
Absolutely loved this on the Gamecube. I was in high school when it was new, and it was easy to gather around buddies for some matches. Still, even playing solo was a blast. It pains me that I don't have my copy any more, but I'd pay top dollar for a re-release.
2 and FP on on Xbox 4K 60fps
@@aidenbodycoat3681 ,
If not online-MP, I don't suppose LAN-MP / system-link is still available at 4k 60fps? If so, 2-4 P splitscreen, too?
Yeah I also played it on Gamecube, still got it at my parents house. I'm not sure it was the best version but we didn't have a PS2 or an Xbox (until like 2012 lol).
Ahhhh the Schwacked, Mom was missing it again :)
I can confirm that setting up custom bot matches was where the real fun started.
As a kid I remember picking the nightclub stage, swapping the stage music for some kickass music and then making it team deathmatch with 3 teams.
One team was full of mobsters in suits, 1 team was full of soldier guys in black (posing as the police) and third team was me and plus an AI friend. I had a custom scenario in my mind where the police raid the nightclub and you are caught in the crossfire and man I could play that scenario for hours. It was really cool seeing the bots fight each other despite me, sometimes direct their attention to me and my AI friend.
I also remember playing the chinese restaurant with just characters from Neo Tokoy and chinese chefs and leaving out all the guns so everyone would around punching each other real kung-fu style.
Am definitely planning on adding this to my kill count library. Awesome video thanks!
What a great game this was , future perfect was great and even an improvement: but somehow I had more fun with timesplitters 2 . Must have been the right time in my life to enjoy console games more .
The Legendary Masterpiece.
Virus in arcade league was torture. Virus in arcade league with friends was different. Back in the day, we would often play "Helm's Deep" -- where we rush at the top of the center building on ice station and enact the siege from LOTR2 - fighting off the infected. Oh great now I'm crying.
Such a classic game! Been waiting a while for you to do this one Gman, many thanks :)
huh, I always thought Elijah was clearly based off Denzel Washington
The whole trilogy deserve to be remastered and released on consoles and PC!
I remember completing TimeSplitters 2 and Future Perfect so many times in co-op with my dad. Such fond memories of this game with it's supremely fun story mode and amazingly flexible multi-player. Virus is still an amazing time even in 2021.
So glad to see that my favorite game series as a kid still holds up perfectly, to this day.
TS Future Perfect was me and my friends childhood, God I wish we got a fourth game
Can we see a future perfect review sometime in the future? That still remains one of my favourite games of all time :D
he already reviewed those
The new outro music is amazing
My favorite memory of TS2 is playing the Virus mode in Hanger map with my 3 friends and the 16 bots til like 6 AM in middle and high school, shooting each other with Miniguns and rocket launchers. Our rule was if you got infected in the first 10 seconds you could request a restart of the round, but being an infected chasing your mates around was so much fun!
Since you brought it up, can you please do an updated review on Medal of Honor: Frontlines? First FPS game I ever played at 5 years old, that D-Day level is the best introduction to gaming possible.
I imagine it's aged badly nowadays but at the time it was pretty groundbreaking.
I played this with my friend who had a ps2. Absolute banger honestly
So strange. I was JUST talking with a friend a few days ago about the hours we used to spend on this game back in '03-'04. What lovely, lovely memories.
5:35 love the IT crowd scene put in there 😂
Didn't he review this already? i'm getting deja vu here.
That's what I figured, but maybe he talked too much about 2 in his review of 1? Don't know and don't *really* care :p
@@hawkevick9184 did I miss the update of the first game?
A truly fantastic series! Love every single entry this franchise has released, if only the 4th actually happened 😪
The shwacked gag never gets old lmao
I just downloaded this game in my Xbox One, and the 1st level reminded me so much from the N64 Goldeneye! The similarities! I can't believe this game is 20 years old and it's retro and it's still fun!
"It's got charm and personality" You mean the things that not AAA game achieves anymore?
“Since I’m always happy to go back and tongue this game’s asshole” is one of my new favorite quotes of yours. Another great video! Seeing this game again brings me way back, hopefully it does get a proper remake/remaster/continuation sometime in the near future.
This game remembers me of my old times, playing with my best friends on 4 player split screen sessions. This was the way to go. Just recently I bought and modded a vintage ps2... Gooooood old times! Much kudos and many thanks for mentioning this gem in gman style. Much love ❤️
"But where do the batteries go" is still one of the most brutally difficult levels ever designed
Timesplitters 2 is one of the games i have exclusively good memories of, and I had alot of good games for the PS2, too many.
Shame we're drowning in open world games. Give me a good level select screen again.
Did anyone find it weird that Scrapyard was a massive level but you could only see the interior on Assault or the TS Story Classic challenge. The map's thumbnail is of the hidden interior.
Graeme Norgate was the composer for all the Timesplitters series. He also did Goldeneye and Perfect Dark so it's no surprise that this game reminded them. Great OSTs.
Legendary game, played the shit out of it.
When gaming was about fun and creativity.
Not about money like the last 10 years.
I miss Timesplitters so much, i used to have friends come over all the time to play multiplayer and coop in TS2. When i first bought the original Xbox console the first game i bought was Future Perfect and we were addicted to playing it, really hope we see a new game someday...
Love the clip from IT crowd at 5:35
Also depending on the difficulty, the levels change drastically. If you play on normal, only half the map is open to you. If you play on hard then the whole map is open with more objectives. I wish more games did this. In my top games of all time that's for sure!
You know what though- if they remade this they would monetise the shit out of the extra content these days, and it would probably be super grindy.
It's better that it's a time capsule of how content packed some games were, in my opinion
One of my most favourite games of ALL TIME. The memories of playing capture the bag on the Ice-Station level - with its EPIC music - with the funny characters of Gingerbread man, Chinese Chef, the Duck, Elvis impersonator etc - are some of my favourite gaming moments. Or capturing the bag in the 'Hangar' level, with my brother & I, & listening to Propellerheads' MATRIX track 'Spy-Break' was a legendary moment.
Super happy you did this review. This was such a solid game and in my opinion, still holds up quite well. I wonder how many other people had to replace more than one controller while trying to get thru all the content xD
Back when sequels brought improvements...
“Perfect sequel”
*Proceeds to criticise the game repeatedly*
“That mission inside the mansion” you speak of was, at the time, the most fun I’ve had tackling a challenge in any game up to that point, admittedly I stopped playing because I couldn’t beat but I’ll be damned if I didn’t have fun running through it 100+ times, all while remembering to aim for the head! Not to mention the fact that (thanks to the lack of ipods/legal digital music downloads) I used to boot up the game just to let those songs play on replay in the background... no joke I would crank the TV to 100 volume and just sit at the beginning of a level letting it play over and over while me and my friends fought with laser tag/nerf guns , it was that good!
YES! THE BARRELS! I just recently played this game for the first time, and that realization genuinely blew my mind. I've seen enough high-budget effects done in modern games that I'm seldom impressed anymore, but for whatever reason, seeing things like this done in older games always makes me smile. Very cool effect.
I guess they didn't have gamefaqs in kiwi land in the way back.
git gud; sincerely, the blood community
Says the guy with a Halo PFP.
Damn what a burn lol
@@miguelrobb5719 SCHWACKED
@@Gggmanlives did you forget about halo 2 legendary?
I remember being the only one of my friends down here in Argentina that knew this game franchise ever existed and this video just brought me back so many good memories
THE KING IS BACK, FREE RADICAL DEVELOPING A NEW TIMESPLITTER IP.
One of my all-time-favourite games, completed it 100% with all Platinum trophies on PS2 and Xbox (Which almost killed me) and remember making some great maps in the map maker.
Great review pick! :)
Doing those challenges with a gamecube controller was actually stupidly difficult.
Still tho the amount of content in this game in the era of having 1 game at a time for months was amazing.
Best memories of hanging a bedsheet in the middle of the tv to divide your friends into 2 teams was incredible.
I remember that my older cousin had the Gamecube disc for this and a Wii that was backwards-compatible. Any time id be over at his house we would always play all of the co-op stuff constantly, or id watch him do the arcade stuff/challenges.
That intro by the way, was hilarious