Hey every one! Thanks for hanging out with me over on twitch. I'm going to be streaming Future Perfect up next so if you want to see that then give a follow! www.twitch.tv/jarek4gamingdragon
*God I'd love a TimeSplitters Remastered for all systems with updated controls and graphics* I played these games for years and years and I miss them so much.
the control are actually still great on the OG xbox, especially if you can find one of those old gamestop controllers with the black and white bumpers. I also have something called an Mcable, its an HDMI cable with a chip in it that adds anti-aliasing without any input lag. Helps smooth out all those jaggies.
Also born in '91. I discovered the Timesplitters series through playing Timesplitters 2 at a friend's house across the street. We played it fanatically. Co-oping, making maps and playing many custom multiplayer games. What a gem of a series. I'll always cherish it and the memories I have of playing it back then in the early to mid 2000s
Man, same! Born in 1990 and when this came out all 5 of my friends and I who lived in the same neighborhood would go our friends how’s a do Multiplayer on that Chinese Map Virus mode and we’d all play as monkeys and I miss the gingerbread man. Hilarious multiplayer times
Multiplayer and map creation was awesome. The playable characters were awesome. When we were kids we used to build unfair forts and mow down the CPUs 😂
It’s mad how when I was a kid I used to play the hell out of this, and was pretty good when I was literally only 6/7 years old.. I tried to go back to it, and struggled soo much with the aiming. Never remembered it being hard as a kid.
That's cause back then we only had that type of controls to master, so we adjusted to it and learned how to use it fluidly. Now we have updated and smoother controls for games so going back to it is jarring cause we have adjusted to the new controls of newer games. This is true for almost every generation of console controls.
Felt the same way last night after playing it for the first time since I was like 5 or 6. It was a hard transition most definitely, and then playing future perfect they made the large change to what controls we use today
Our pea sized 7 year old brains were just more resilient to stress, we probably put in 60 hours into a 7 hour campaign but it felt smooth because we were having fun and knew no better. Now we know it takes 7 hours and we have to judge ourselves on how pathetic our skills have become 😂😅
@@LeFaucheur that happened to me the first time I got that far... I was like... Wtf... What do I do now? Did I miss something? There are no prompts!!! *Cries*
@@rei_cirith I think it's when there is an enemy left and the scientist is scared, but the 10s you have left and the panic ensuing doesn't really help in figuring out what is happening.
That's as far as my run through hard difficulty went :( If anything, Jarek understated how hard this game was, even though he mentioned it a million times. Even on normal difficulty Robot Factory took me days to complete. I never managed to unlock the last 2 characters out of the 126 in the game. Maybe I should have played less 4 player Anaconda haha.
My friends mother bought him timsplitters 1 when it came out, we both tought it would be dumb............ 1000s upon 1000s of hours playing each game in the franchise and that stroke of good luck that his mother who knew nothing about games happened to pick up that game of all games, I'm glad we were wrong
Xbox now has backwards compatibility for Timesplitters 2 and Timesplitters: Future Perfect for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. Each game can even be bought digitally for $9.99 in the marketplace. They're back.
You know there is a remaster for this game that's basically an easter egg in HOME FRONT : REVOLUTION the one thing i have to say about it is the irony that an all time classic is remastered inside of a horrible game WOW
It's no exaggeration that this game is backed to the absolute brim with amazing content. I too put an unhealthy amount of time into the multi-player mode and Virus and Flame tag were some of my favorite game modes. Ah, the time I spent playing with friends is a memory I will always treasure. And those moments and memories are already enough to be super thankful for and I remembered the incredible map maker that even let you make story missions with custom events and enemy behaviors!? All of this and I bought the game in sale back then for $20 It's no joke, the game was worth 5x that to me. Ah, this game will forever live in my heart. ❤️
Ayyo 2 years old and couldn't stand more true . I may be young compared to most growing up with these games but I was poor and all these games turok etc made my child good and who I am as a gamer hands down my favorite game of all time bloodrayne2 nier and miniority report were also up there 😎
I'm 20 but i was lucky that in early 2000's i was able to get my hands on the game and yeah the aiming was horrible but the game was great. I had it on my ps2.
"Men in Grey" was this for me. I don't know if "rage quitting" was a term back in 2002 but I was certainly doing that. Took me well over 50 attempts to beat it.
Great review. I absolutely loved this game as a kid, played it forever on my cube. The difficulty was absolutely brutal, maddeningly so. I cannot remember how long it took me to beat the campaign. The challenges were such fun (but that fight against the handy people can rot in hell) - and that virus mode, bloody hell. Me and my friends had such fun playing that mode. It was absolutely awesome. Definitely one of the games that shaped my young life.
Who would have thought that 2019 would look less like NeoTokyo and more like the break-all-the-glass-in-Notre-Dame challenge? (Never got past Planet X on Hard: later found a strategy guide in, of all places, UK women's magazine "Bella", which literally stopped at the same point in Planet X I reached)
strategy for planet X is pretty much finding good camping spots and letting them come. I think it was one of the easiest levels, especially after the mephistopheles battle where you get slaughtered by undead priests.
I’ve played games in the 80’s, 90’s, early 2000’s up to today and yes the early 2000’s stand out as the best in my opinion. The Dreamcast, GameCube, Xbox and PS2 error was the best in gaming history, the originality and all the new IPs in this error stands above all. The GameCube and Dreamcast were the last two true gaming machines ever made. Timespliiter 2 was awesome, I remember the game I got it on the GameCube. Best memory was the cathedral when you walked up that long stair case and saw the stained glass windows, amazing memory and awesome camera work.
For me it was the N64 PlayStation 1 mixed with the PS2 game cube in Xbox Dreamcast era the reason why I include in 64 and Playstation One is because of a lot of the platforming games were some of the most memorable childhood memories but the N64 was on memory and what the game could hold so experiencing the GameCube was a nice boost and a good transition from platforming and simple FPS games 2 an upgrade like the GameCube
This was one of the first shooters I ever played. My parents were strict about which games I could play, so I'll never forget sneaking to my friends house and playing Timesplitters 😁
I recently tried playing this with controller and HATED the aiming. Learning about the mouse injector is life changing, I actually appreciate you so much for showing that.
Born in 92. I have a ton of memories playing this game and the original with friends and family. The PS2 era was a special time. So many experimental games and hidden gems that wouldn’t even see the light of day in this current era.
this game was so fantastic I still talk about it now to the younger guys that have no idea what they missed, re-bought a PS2 and the game just to play it again!
Memories of playing this with my two best friends from next door, split screen multiplayer everyday for a long time. I never knew this was from the team who made goldeneye, which probably explains why I loved it so much (also obviously played that game a lot too). Watching this video made me realize how ahead of its time this game was. It still looks great. Man, got all nostalgic. Going to text my friends and ask them if they remember playing this.
Great video, the Timesplitters series is probably my favourite in game history. I can remember my very first time ever playing Timesplitters 2 at a friend's house. Didn't realise the same people made goldeneye and another favourite of mine perfect dark.
13:55 Actually, Robot Factory is the ONLY level in the entire game that has a health pick up, but it's like almost nothing. It's on the back of the little floor robot That'in the hallway with the rail robots and where you get the Electrotool, but the health can only be picked up if you sneak behind it while avoiding detection. There was another level that can let you recover health, but it was triggered by an NPC, and not a health pack, and it was from the Neotokyo level.
Timesplitters 2 is one of my favourite games of all time. Capture the bag at the Ice-Station level (my favourite level) with the EPIC music score, the P90, dual-wielding was SO MUCH FUN! The characters of the Elvis impersonator, GingerBread man, the Duck, Chinese Chef etc - was so much fun. I spent HOURS doing that level.
This was my favorite game when I was younger, had such amazing times with it, it's a really good shooter, that doesn't take itself seriously and makes good use of that. Graphic style is superb, still looks really good now.
Me and my buddy used to have sleep overs where we’d stay up all night eating pizza, drinking coke, talking about girls we had no chance with, and playing THE SHIT out of timesplitters 2 and future perfect. The good old days, before adulthood.
I loved this game. But man I could never beat the Neo-Tokyo level. Always kept getting spotted. Loved the multiplayer as well. Lost many hours playing that I always think of games like Timesplitters and Resident Evil 4 and how if they came out now the majority of the content would be dlc and it makes me sad Can't wait to hear your views on Future Perfect
The final level of behad the undead gave me nightmares as a kid. The red flashing rooms, zombies. Yeah. Good times. Also, the "But Where does the battery go?" Fucked me up so bad! Still, love TimeSplitters 2, the first and third as well. One of my favourite franchises of all time.
Man when you showed that aiming improvement in the beginning with the sniper I did a double take. I was like "crosshairs in the center of the screen?!" 😲
Great intro song choice! The soundtrack for that game was outstanding. Incredible game. Loved the way that increasing the difficulty actually extended the level. genius.
Goddamn I loved playing as the monkey lol They gave him a RoboCop skin in Future Perfect and a banana would come out of his leg like Robos gun would 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Just picked this up at the retro game store, I was so stoked on it I bought it game only no case, (Its Time Splitters 2!) came to this video to get hyped. Honestly, games like this are the reason I play almost exclusively older games. They literally just don't make em like they used to. Great upload brother!
Dude I feel you. I was born in 1991 and still considered myself young until I started hanging out with my two 15 year old brother in laws. I've been showing them old games and shows I used to play and watch growing up and they've never heard of them. It's nuts to think about how the experiances we had has kids just don't translate for the newer generations.
Welp, I feel old as shit watching this, thought you were older. And reading the comments and realizing I'm 15+ years older than your base makes it even worse 😅
walk it off. happens all the time. no big deal. I constantly see people who were born after I got out of high school be like "for my 18th birthday I watched that really old movie transformers. anyone remember that?" haha, just walk it off. gonna keep happening, no big.
@@westingtyler1 nah I get it. It's just weird realizing that I'm starting to get to that age where I'm the old guy in our subculture. I grew up with Atari and NES / Sega and SNES, but everyone my age grew up with them, so it's just jarring to see the majority of comments referencing growing up with PS2, Xbox, and GC. It's that weird generational feeling we all go through. I'll rub some dirt on it and try to get through it 😆
@@bigred22685 i feel the same way, and im turning 28 next month. Its crazy when i hear folks say they grew up with the ps2. Hell. I hear some folks saying they grew up playing the xbox 360 when it came out in 2005. Now let that sink in....
It's so funny how much patience we had when we were younger. I dont blame you for using save states for those levels. But it's almost a kick in the dick that you know you've beaten it legitimately before
I still think about the mutant cow carcass or whatever it was. That scared me so much the first time as a kid. I really loved these games so much and put so much time into them
This is the best video ive seen in 2020. It litterally had me welled up with nostalgia and couldnt have agreed more with everything you said about this amazing game. So many good memories with my childhood friends
I always liked the feeling of "wtf do I do" feeling games from this era had. Then once you've beaten it on easy you can't imagine it any harder, but it is. Then your throwing a ps2 controller as it rips out of the console and whips you in the shin, furthering the frustration. That's how games should be.
What I appreciated about this game so much was that you could play multiplayer by yourself. Bros were getting older and had better stuff to do like go clubbing or banging chicks than to hang out with their younger bro so being able to play multiplayer alone was dope.
I LOVED this game when I was younger and still do today. I'd play this with my friends all the time and it was always a welcome fun shift whenever we'd go on a Halo binge (TS2 multiplayer is VERY fast paced lol). I'm very glad you're bringing this to a new audience, because this game with its deep level of detail deserves to be in the great FPS of the past conversation. I will say that it IS very hard (challenge modes especially) and I've never missed being able to ADS so much in my life. It's hard going back. Lol. Quick aside though the Neo Tokyo 2019 part is a DIRECT reference to the move Bladerunner hints the date. Lol. Thanks again for posting. Keep up the great work.
Xbox now has backwards compatibility for Timesplitters 2 and Timesplitters: Future Perfect for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. Each game can even be bought digitally for $9.99 in the marketplace. They're back.
Thanks for this! A couple years younger than you, still put quite a bit of time into this game with my younger sibling when it came out. High nostalgia factor. That planet X song was fantastic
If I remember correctly, this game is so old that when I first played it, I was still using the "Legacy" control scheme grandfathered in from Goldeneye and Perfect Dark on the N64. Left stick was move forward/back and turn left/right. Right stick was strafe left/right and look up/down. I used that for a VERY long time, until I started playing FPS games on PC as well, then I got used to the current standard of Left Stick = Move/Strafe, Right Stick = Look. All the music from TS 2 and Future Perfect is great and I found the composer, Graeme Norgate, on Bandcamp selling the OSTs for the games. link - graemenorgate.bandcamp.com/album/timesplitters-2-ost I'm also surprised you didn't mention the level editor. This was the first game I played that had a level editor. It's not as good as the one in Future Perfect, but I remember making some interesting death arenas and filling my memory card up to the absolute limit with crappy attempts at stages.
I'm younger than you but.. oh man! The hours I put into this game, my brother and I working through every level, every challenge, playing split screen multiplayer with bots for hours on end... The nostalgia couldn't be stronger.
Love this game so much! I was born in 2002 but as a kid I begged for a gamecube and got to play this game and simpsons hit and run on it, seeing all these levels is such a nice trip down memory lane. It's really nice to see you go through the details of the game, thanks for making this video!
I lurk your channel. But today I finally decided to sub to you. When you said you were 28 it all made so much sense to me. I was born in 91 too lol and I finally feel that someone from my Era understands. I feel like me and you come from the same place. I really thought you were just some young guy who hadn't experience fully the childhood of the games you talk about. But now I know that it is real. It comes from your heart bc you lived it too
I'm 31. This game was a masterpiece. Clear Goldeneye influence to both the single and multiplayer (shared employees with Rare). I was very young yet still managed to get all the achievements/medals. I'm all for a high skill ceiling.
Trial and error was a big part of PS1/2 era gaming. It's something I've come to miss lately in games. TimeSplitters 2 was definitely a favorite of mine growing up, it still looks fantastic to this day! I'm very tempted to emulate this.
@@eminemfan50098 Thats some shit logic right there. The other guy is obviously stating that its a console exclusive and it shouldn't be, not that it should be PC exclusive.
Awesome video! I loved this game as a kid. That hand challenge was a pain in the ass too. My brothers and I had so much trouble trying to beat it. Makes me wanna play it again. Thanks for the memories
On your feeling old comment, I'm 23 and I loved TS2 as a kid, rediscovered it recently through emulation and Timesplitters Rewind. Never stopped loving it, and it's as good as I remembered it PS. I remember almost every story intro in the game still to this day
I built two haunted attraction maps using the map creator: one with zombies and very dark, maze-like hallways, the other a circus theme with clowns. Good times, my friends. Good times.
Haven't heard that menu theme song in so long... I picked up Timesplitters 2 from a pawnshop for the Xbox in like 2008 if I can remember. I would come home from school eager to play. I would always setup TDM in the Mexican Mansion using rockets, flamethrowers, and bricks lmfao. I loved the characters and how their animations of them doing back flips, getting shot, the noises they would make, etc. I miss this game.
Oh man, that music from Siberia :'-) takes me back Also my brother and I got used to the aiming system. We were eventually able to use it fluidly while moving.
I was super impressed with your controller aiming remembering how awful it was, but then you explained the mouse and emulator setup. Still, thanks for bringing this game back up!
timesplitters 2/dynasty warriors 4/DBZ budakai tenkaichi 3 were the games that me and my brother's played on our ps2 at the time, I'm actually going to get a ps2 to play the original games just because old games (in my opinion) are better than new games coming out
This was my childhood. Im so glad you made this. Tho im surprised you didnt mention the robot factory boss and its awesome percussion theme Scrapyard. I remember geting there the first time and was like "holy crap what is that!?" And standing in the inbetween room fir an unbelievabley terrifyingly amount of time. Virus is my favorite game mode to! And nice work on the video glad you finally 100% after all these years!
I'm 20 and this game was so nostalgic for me even though my copy wouldn't let me destroy the container in the first level. I would still remember the levels layout to this day.
Liked hanging out in the streams for this bro. Sad you didn't mention the mapmaker. That was still one of my favorite parts. Looking forward to catching the Future Perfect stream(s)
I'm 26 and it was my favorite game growing up. It was so fun and I have great memories playing the game with my Brothers. I even brag to them that I was the first to finish TS2, this video certainly brings me back.
I remember the first time I played TimeSplitters 2. We had a ton of Gamecube games that nobody really played, and it was among them. I picked it up one day, thought it looked cool, and was pleasantly surprised. I got my brothers into it as well, and all of the sudden, this game that had been collecting dust for years had difficulties being read in our Gamecube because we were playing it _that much_ . Thanks for bringing me back lol
I’ve never played any free radical games or any game cube games (mostly due to me being “extremely” young). It’s thanks to UA-cam channels like yours that I’ve fallen in love with these classics of yesteryear. so thank you jarek; thank you for doing what you do.
Hey every one! Thanks for hanging out with me over on twitch. I'm going to be streaming Future Perfect up next so if you want to see that then give a follow! www.twitch.tv/jarek4gamingdragon
Can you make a video about the Brothers in arms games next please?
What month were you born in 91 I'm also born in 91
Bad wifi connectivity ☹
finally some1 question where are local coop in shooters
To be fair, that 2019 Tokyo is a different timeline....that has higher technology earlier than our own.
Timesplitters is a series made with love.
It certainly is.
actually still miss timesplitters, always wish that kickstarter was made.
TimeSplitters*
Yes
Just join timesplitters rewind discord, there is a few dudes that makes a remake of these games.
I always talked about timesplitters and noone ever knows what im talking about
Bruh 😭nobody ever knew what I'm talking about
I hate it lol smh
Time Splitters Fan man stfu. You bein extra
Time Splitters Fan I never said I hated the game, I was saying how I hate how no one talks about time splitters 🤦🏾♂️ dumbass
EllisD some people homie 🙄
*God I'd love a TimeSplitters Remastered for all systems with updated controls and graphics*
I played these games for years and years and I miss them so much.
they are working on it it's called timesplitters rewind, can check them out here ua-cam.com/video/HkltJm1lWMc/v-deo.html
Along with Rewind, the rights to Timesplitters was bought by THQ Nordic last year.
@@trickydog3933 I know about it, but that doesn't help me as it's PC only.
the control are actually still great on the OG xbox, especially if you can find one of those old gamestop controllers with the black and white bumpers. I also have something called an Mcable, its an HDMI cable with a chip in it that adds anti-aliasing without any input lag. Helps smooth out all those jaggies.
Joseph Gigglez Timesplitters 4 is being made with some of the original devs. I’d love to see a remaster of the older games too
Timesplitters 2 soundtrack was amazing
Everything on that game was perfect.... best game ever
Time splitters and Halo have some of the best soundtracks of any game ever made. Except for Halo 4 and 5.
Yesss
Indeed it was, the whole game was amazing
they just don't make games like these anymore, this game is gold man
Well, there's Maximum Action...
tbh im happy ts2 happened in 2002. imagine it released nowadays with lame ass dlc content that costs actual money. 🙈
@@SunlitSonata14272 Lets not forget the hundreds of skins and characters in those multiplayer games.
@@SunlitSonata14272 tbh I would prefer if they made a remake of TS2 with DLC and all today than not at all.
They do, you just haven't tried looking
Also born in '91. I discovered the Timesplitters series through playing Timesplitters 2 at a friend's house across the street. We played it fanatically. Co-oping, making maps and playing many custom multiplayer games. What a gem of a series. I'll always cherish it and the memories I have of playing it back then in the early to mid 2000s
Man, same! Born in 1990 and when this came out all 5 of my friends and I who lived in the same neighborhood would go our friends how’s a do Multiplayer on that Chinese Map Virus mode and we’d all play as monkeys and I miss the gingerbread man. Hilarious multiplayer times
Multiplayer and map creation was awesome. The playable characters were awesome. When we were kids we used to build unfair forts and mow down the CPUs 😂
I love how there are some ways that only Humans can walk on (Core industrial, and Double Height Room Victorian), it was great in Virus.
Had 3 buddies and all 4 of us played multiplayer for hours. It was bad ass
from what I recall, in Timesplitters 2, the npc's dont even reload lmao
That was the more fun! Made us into developers too.
It’s mad how when I was a kid I used to play the hell out of this, and was pretty good when I was literally only 6/7 years old.. I tried to go back to it, and struggled soo much with the aiming. Never remembered it being hard as a kid.
That's cause back then we only had that type of controls to master, so we adjusted to it and learned how to use it fluidly. Now we have updated and smoother controls for games so going back to it is jarring cause we have adjusted to the new controls of newer games. This is true for almost every generation of console controls.
Felt the same way last night after playing it for the first time since I was like 5 or 6. It was a hard transition most definitely, and then playing future perfect they made the large change to what controls we use today
Every time I went to my friend's house, we went straight to TS2, All Bricks 1-shot, it was so good
Our pea sized 7 year old brains were just more resilient to stress, we probably put in 60 hours into a 7 hour campaign but it felt smooth because we were having fun and knew no better. Now we know it takes 7 hours and we have to judge ourselves on how pathetic our skills have become 😂😅
@@Zoggyboyzimmy that’s actually very true 😂😂😂
That Siberia theme. Nostalgia trip. These were my all time favorite games back in the day.
The Siberia boss theme is actually a slowed down version of Donkey Kong Country 2's Run Rambi Run~
Anaconda mini game music best music :P
The level editor on this game was so cool
"I'll take care of that bomb for ya" *shudders*
Andrew Ortiz Atom Smasher made me wanna end it all.
When you reach the last scientist in hard mode... and he doesn't react!!!
@@LeFaucheur that happened to me the first time I got that far... I was like... Wtf... What do I do now? Did I miss something? There are no prompts!!! *Cries*
@@rei_cirith I think it's when there is an enemy left and the scientist is scared, but the 10s you have left and the panic ensuing doesn't really help in figuring out what is happening.
That's as far as my run through hard difficulty went :( If anything, Jarek understated how hard this game was, even though he mentioned it a million times. Even on normal difficulty Robot Factory took me days to complete. I never managed to unlock the last 2 characters out of the 126 in the game. Maybe I should have played less 4 player Anaconda haha.
My friends mother bought him timsplitters 1 when it came out, we both tought it would be dumb............
1000s upon 1000s of hours playing each game in the franchise and that stroke of good luck that his mother who knew nothing about games happened to pick up that game of all games, I'm glad we were wrong
PaulM68322 timsplitters
The moms a legend
Even as a child I was "aiming for gold"
God I love this game. If it had a remastered version, hands down I would buy it
Xbox now has backwards compatibility for Timesplitters 2 and Timesplitters: Future Perfect for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. Each game can even be bought digitally for $9.99 in the marketplace. They're back.
You know there is a remaster for this game that's basically an easter egg in HOME FRONT : REVOLUTION the one thing i have to say about it is the irony that an all time classic is remastered inside of a horrible game WOW
It's no exaggeration that this game is backed to the absolute brim with amazing content. I too put an unhealthy amount of time into the multi-player mode and Virus and Flame tag were some of my favorite game modes.
Ah, the time I spent playing with friends is a memory I will always treasure.
And those moments and memories are already enough to be super thankful for and I remembered the incredible map maker that even let you make story missions with custom events and enemy behaviors!?
All of this and I bought the game in sale back then for $20
It's no joke, the game was worth 5x that to me.
Ah, this game will forever live in my heart. ❤️
Ayyo 2 years old and couldn't stand more true . I may be young compared to most growing up with these games but I was poor and all these games turok etc made my child good and who I am as a gamer hands down my favorite game of all time bloodrayne2 nier and miniority report were also up there 😎
I'm 20 but i was lucky that in early 2000's i was able to get my hands on the game and yeah the aiming was horrible but the game was great. I had it on my ps2.
come on son u never had a ps2 or the game u just wanted to be a part of the group here
@@fireboy1996 I hope this is bait. If it's not, you're a clown.
Gamecube for me
@@fireboy1996 Bro. Judging by your username you were born in 96 and you can't even spell properly. Sit down please
@@DenGuleBalje your response to him was so unoriginal. This isnt a classroom, this a fucking comment section. You knew exactly what he said
I’m 23 and this was one of my favorite games after school me and my twin was playing this gta or twisted metal black
TWISTED METAL BLACK WAS FUCKED UP
Same, my cus and I played all the games together. It was so fun
Hahahaha TMB damn haven’t thought of that for easily over a decade. How bout that intro would always get stuck in my head 😛
Getting the gold medal on "can't handle this" back on PS2 legitimately traumatized me.
It's a pretty easy trophy to get, actually.
@@TheSonic497 shut the fuck up
@@raehdoncramer2273 No u.
fiftybottles i never got it :( too hard
"Men in Grey" was this for me. I don't know if "rage quitting" was a term back in 2002 but I was certainly doing that. Took me well over 50 attempts to beat it.
Great review. I absolutely loved this game as a kid, played it forever on my cube. The difficulty was absolutely brutal, maddeningly so. I cannot remember how long it took me to beat the campaign. The challenges were such fun (but that fight against the handy people can rot in hell) - and that virus mode, bloody hell. Me and my friends had such fun playing that mode. It was absolutely awesome. Definitely one of the games that shaped my young life.
Who would have thought that 2019 would look less like NeoTokyo and more like the break-all-the-glass-in-Notre-Dame challenge?
(Never got past Planet X on Hard: later found a strategy guide in, of all places, UK women's magazine "Bella", which literally stopped at the same point in Planet X I reached)
A womans magazine you say..... i want to believe, but i cannot compute
strategy for planet X is pretty much finding good camping spots and letting them come. I think it was one of the easiest levels, especially after the mephistopheles battle where you get slaughtered by undead priests.
One thing I liked about 2 over Future Perfect is that is was a true anthology of levels, Each one was a unique mission.
I’ve played games in the 80’s, 90’s, early 2000’s up to today and yes the early 2000’s stand out as the best in my opinion. The Dreamcast, GameCube, Xbox and PS2 error was the best in gaming history, the originality and all the new IPs in this error stands above all. The GameCube and Dreamcast were the last two true gaming machines ever made.
Timespliiter 2 was awesome, I remember the game I got it on the GameCube. Best memory was the cathedral when you walked up that long stair case and saw the stained glass windows, amazing memory and awesome camera work.
the game cube omg this honestly brought feels back.
Inkling nice to hear that!
Yup, and don't forget Spyro!
For me it was the N64 PlayStation 1 mixed with the PS2 game cube in Xbox Dreamcast era the reason why I include in 64 and Playstation One is because of a lot of the platforming games were some of the most memorable childhood memories but the N64 was on memory and what the game could hold so experiencing the GameCube was a nice boost and a good transition from platforming and simple FPS games 2 an upgrade like the GameCube
I bought a GameCube just for Metroid prime
Hearing the music of this game makes me feel anxious, nostalgic, and as if my brain has had the songs burned into my brain completing the challenges.
This was one of the first shooters I ever played. My parents were strict about which games I could play, so I'll never forget sneaking to my friends house and playing Timesplitters 😁
I recently tried playing this with controller and HATED the aiming. Learning about the mouse injector is life changing, I actually appreciate you so much for showing that.
Holy shit the nostalgia is real. The theme music started playing and I just got a huge grin on my face.
God hearing that menu music just gave me a hardcore nostalgia trip to when I was a kid. I’m 30 now and sad how fast life goes.
Born in 92. I have a ton of memories playing this game and the original with friends and family. The PS2 era was a special time. So many experimental games and hidden gems that wouldn’t even see the light of day in this current era.
this game was so fantastic I still talk about it now to the younger guys that have no idea what they missed, re-bought a PS2 and the game just to play it again!
Memories of playing this with my two best friends from next door, split screen multiplayer everyday for a long time. I never knew this was from the team who made goldeneye, which probably explains why I loved it so much (also obviously played that game a lot too). Watching this video made me realize how ahead of its time this game was. It still looks great. Man, got all nostalgic. Going to text my friends and ask them if they remember playing this.
Great video, the Timesplitters series is probably my favourite in game history. I can remember my very first time ever playing Timesplitters 2 at a friend's house. Didn't realise the same people made goldeneye and another favourite of mine perfect dark.
Now that timesplitters has been unlocked in "Homefront Revolution" more people will be giving it a go. :)
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Actually, Robot Factory is the ONLY level in the entire game that has a health pick up, but it's like almost nothing. It's on the back of the little floor robot That'in the hallway with the rail robots and where you get the Electrotool, but the health can only be picked up if you sneak behind it while avoiding detection.
There was another level that can let you recover health, but it was triggered by an NPC, and not a health pack, and it was from the Neotokyo level.
Timesplitters 2 is one of my favourite games of all time. Capture the bag at the Ice-Station level (my favourite level) with the EPIC music score, the P90, dual-wielding was SO MUCH FUN! The characters of the Elvis impersonator, GingerBread man, the Duck, Chinese Chef etc - was so much fun. I spent HOURS doing that level.
This was my favorite game when I was younger, had such amazing times with it, it's a really good shooter, that doesn't take itself seriously and makes good use of that. Graphic style is superb, still looks really good now.
Me and my buddy used to have sleep overs where we’d stay up all night eating pizza, drinking coke, talking about girls we had no chance with, and playing THE SHIT out of timesplitters 2 and future perfect. The good old days, before adulthood.
I loved this game. But man I could never beat the Neo-Tokyo level. Always kept getting spotted. Loved the multiplayer as well. Lost many hours playing that
I always think of games like Timesplitters and Resident Evil 4 and how if they came out now the majority of the content would be dlc and it makes me sad
Can't wait to hear your views on Future Perfect
AlexGreat321 that neo Tokyo level bro wtf like impossible
I assume you're talking about hard mode of it? I remember beating it but not the robot factory.
Use your giant ass gps that shows you the map. The enemies will show up on the radar, just follow the target from afar and you should be all good.
Tokyo level was ridiculously hard
The final level of behad the undead gave me nightmares as a kid. The red flashing rooms, zombies. Yeah. Good times.
Also, the "But Where does the battery go?" Fucked me up so bad!
Still, love TimeSplitters 2, the first and third as well. One of my favourite franchises of all time.
Man when you showed that aiming improvement in the beginning with the sniper I did a double take. I was like "crosshairs in the center of the screen?!" 😲
Great intro song choice! The soundtrack for that game was outstanding. Incredible game. Loved the way that increasing the difficulty actually extended the level. genius.
I still miss this game to this day. Im as old as you. I remember the music, the multiplayer and custom maps, and the monkeys...
Goddamn I loved playing as the monkey lol They gave him a RoboCop skin in Future Perfect and a banana would come out of his leg like Robos gun would 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Just picked this up at the retro game store, I was so stoked on it I bought it game only no case, (Its Time Splitters 2!) came to this video to get hyped. Honestly, games like this are the reason I play almost exclusively older games. They literally just don't make em like they used to. Great upload brother!
Dude I feel you. I was born in 1991 and still considered myself young until I started hanging out with my two 15 year old brother in laws. I've been showing them old games and shows I used to play and watch growing up and they've never heard of them. It's nuts to think about how the experiances we had has kids just don't translate for the newer generations.
Yeah...
I'm 33 dude. Trust me, I feel old
I was born in 1994 and I know exactly what you mean
Welp, I feel old as shit watching this, thought you were older. And reading the comments and realizing I'm 15+ years older than your base makes it even worse 😅
walk it off. happens all the time. no big deal. I constantly see people who were born after I got out of high school be like "for my 18th birthday I watched that really old movie transformers. anyone remember that?" haha, just walk it off. gonna keep happening, no big.
@@westingtyler1 nah I get it. It's just weird realizing that I'm starting to get to that age where I'm the old guy in our subculture. I grew up with Atari and NES / Sega and SNES, but everyone my age grew up with them, so it's just jarring to see the majority of comments referencing growing up with PS2, Xbox, and GC. It's that weird generational feeling we all go through. I'll rub some dirt on it and try to get through it 😆
@@bigred22685 i feel the same way, and im turning 28 next month. Its crazy when i hear folks say they grew up with the ps2. Hell. I hear some folks saying they grew up playing the xbox 360 when it came out in 2005. Now let that sink in....
im going on 34 this nov
I’m 41 and still feel 18 mentally lol. I still love video games the same but barely have any time to spend on them, like I used to. 😭
It's so funny how much patience we had when we were younger. I dont blame you for using save states for those levels. But it's almost a kick in the dick that you know you've beaten it legitimately before
I never thought I’d be in 2019 with neotokyo but here I am!!
Great vid btw
Loved timesplitters. The level editor was really fun, we would make challenge levels for one another to complete.
I still think about the mutant cow carcass or whatever it was. That scared me so much the first time as a kid. I really loved these games so much and put so much time into them
absolutely loved this series as a child. goofy as hell but was so fun. that Cyberpunk campaign map still looks amazing
This is the best video ive seen in 2020. It litterally had me welled up with nostalgia and couldnt have agreed more with everything you said about this amazing game. So many good memories with my childhood friends
I always liked the feeling of "wtf do I do" feeling games from this era had. Then once you've beaten it on easy you can't imagine it any harder, but it is. Then your throwing a ps2 controller as it rips out of the console and whips you in the shin, furthering the frustration. That's how games should be.
What I appreciated about this game so much was that you could play multiplayer by yourself. Bros were getting older and had better stuff to do like go clubbing or banging chicks than to hang out with their younger bro so being able to play multiplayer alone was dope.
No idea how we beat these difficult games as kids and struggle now. :D
I LOVED this game when I was younger and still do today. I'd play this with my friends all the time and it was always a welcome fun shift whenever we'd go on a Halo binge (TS2 multiplayer is VERY fast paced lol). I'm very glad you're bringing this to a new audience, because this game with its deep level of detail deserves to be in the great FPS of the past conversation. I will say that it IS very hard (challenge modes especially) and I've never missed being able to ADS so much in my life. It's hard going back. Lol. Quick aside though the Neo Tokyo 2019 part is a DIRECT reference to the move Bladerunner hints the date. Lol. Thanks again for posting. Keep up the great work.
One thing:
This trilogy needs a remaster or remake ASAP
Xbox now has backwards compatibility for Timesplitters 2 and Timesplitters: Future Perfect for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. Each game can even be bought digitally for $9.99 in the marketplace. They're back.
Thanks for this! A couple years younger than you, still put quite a bit of time into this game with my younger sibling when it came out. High nostalgia factor. That planet X song was fantastic
This was the game that got me and all my friends good at fps as kids. Such a fun game in all modes
If I remember correctly, this game is so old that when I first played it, I was still using the "Legacy" control scheme grandfathered in from Goldeneye and Perfect Dark on the N64.
Left stick was move forward/back and turn left/right. Right stick was strafe left/right and look up/down.
I used that for a VERY long time, until I started playing FPS games on PC as well, then I got used to the current standard of Left Stick = Move/Strafe, Right Stick = Look.
All the music from TS 2 and Future Perfect is great and I found the composer, Graeme Norgate, on Bandcamp selling the OSTs for the games.
link - graemenorgate.bandcamp.com/album/timesplitters-2-ost
I'm also surprised you didn't mention the level editor. This was the first game I played that had a level editor. It's not as good as the one in Future Perfect, but I remember making some interesting death arenas and filling my memory card up to the absolute limit with crappy attempts at stages.
The Wild West music is my all time favorite game soundtrack! ❤
I'm younger than you but.. oh man! The hours I put into this game, my brother and I working through every level, every challenge, playing split screen multiplayer with bots for hours on end... The nostalgia couldn't be stronger.
Same here. Played this everyday after school
Love this game so much! I was born in 2002 but as a kid I begged for a gamecube and got to play this game and simpsons hit and run on it, seeing all these levels is such a nice trip down memory lane. It's really nice to see you go through the details of the game, thanks for making this video!
I lurk your channel. But today I finally decided to sub to you. When you said you were 28 it all made so much sense to me. I was born in 91 too lol and I finally feel that someone from my Era understands. I feel like me and you come from the same place. I really thought you were just some young guy who hadn't experience fully the childhood of the games you talk about. But now I know that it is real. It comes from your heart bc you lived it too
im lucky to have older brothers who passed this down
Me too..
What a childhood game for me. Hours upon hours of playing the levels and arcade.
I loved Perfect Dark and Golden Eye but never played this game
Definitely play it. It's a more refined version of the goldeneye formula that's easier to go back to these days.
Tried it afew years ago and it did not hold up well, when it first come out that's another thing.😂
I'm 31. This game was a masterpiece. Clear Goldeneye influence to both the single and multiplayer (shared employees with Rare). I was very young yet still managed to get all the achievements/medals. I'm all for a high skill ceiling.
I remember trying to aim when i first played and it was irritating coz of that weird ass dead aim but it didnt stop me from enjoying it
Trial and error was a big part of PS1/2 era gaming. It's something I've come to miss lately in games. TimeSplitters 2 was definitely a favorite of mine growing up, it still looks fantastic to this day! I'm very tempted to emulate this.
I miss your talking about FOV.
Its a console game :(
Erick Norskr Sadly.......
I'm glad it's a console game, otherwise I wouldn't be able to play it.
@@eminemfan50098 Thats some shit logic right there. The other guy is obviously stating that its a console exclusive and it shouldn't be, not that it should be PC exclusive.
born in 88 and i think timesplitters, abes oddysee, and metal gear solid are my all time favorites, early 2000's was gaming heaven.
That beginning level looks exactly like The Dam on Goldeneye 007.
They were both made by the same devs actually, and infact ran on the same engine
@@penguinlordalan well, it's more like an updated version of the goldeneye engine, not the exact same one.
Awesome video! I loved this game as a kid. That hand challenge was a pain in the ass too. My brothers and I had so much trouble trying to beat it. Makes me wanna play it again. Thanks for the memories
"Instead 2019 looks like this.... Kill me please" I died haha
But I gotta agree that Return to Planet X is a complete TUNEEEEEEEEE
@Marcin Jechorek Kids doing Fortnite dances
On your feeling old comment, I'm 23 and I loved TS2 as a kid, rediscovered it recently through emulation and Timesplitters Rewind. Never stopped loving it, and it's as good as I remembered it
PS. I remember almost every story intro in the game still to this day
Wow,I was just thinking about this game the other day,then UA-cam recommended this video..I getting overly suspicious ..
I built two haunted attraction maps using the map creator: one with zombies and very dark, maze-like hallways, the other a circus theme with clowns. Good times, my friends. Good times.
you should review psy ops on the ps2 that game was amazing back in the day when i played it around 5ish but i remember it being really good
I'm 16 and I remember Timesplitters Future Perfect from when I was younger, and it really brings back great memories.
Future perfect is my favorite game
Haven't heard that menu theme song in so long... I picked up Timesplitters 2 from a pawnshop for the Xbox in like 2008 if I can remember. I would come home from school eager to play. I would always setup TDM in the Mexican Mansion using rockets, flamethrowers, and bricks lmfao. I loved the characters and how their animations of them doing back flips, getting shot, the noises they would make, etc. I miss this game.
The multiplayer split screen with bots was the best. My cousin and I would play this all night long at holidays.
My older brother gave me this game for Christmas when I was in high school. Watching this video really brings me back
That handyman challenge is bringing back traumatic memories. I just picked up a copy for the cube so I'll see if I can beat it.... 20 years later
Oh man, that music from Siberia :'-) takes me back
Also my brother and I got used to the aiming system. We were eventually able to use it fluidly while moving.
I was super impressed with your controller aiming remembering how awful it was, but then you explained the mouse and emulator setup. Still, thanks for bringing this game back up!
17:03 Pretty sure this is the part Ed was playing in Shaun of the Dead.
timesplitters 2/dynasty warriors 4/DBZ budakai tenkaichi 3 were the games that me and my brother's played on our ps2 at the time, I'm actually going to get a ps2 to play the original games just because old games (in my opinion) are better than new games coming out
This was my childhood. Im so glad you made this. Tho im surprised you didnt mention the robot factory boss and its awesome percussion theme Scrapyard. I remember geting there the first time and was like "holy crap what is that!?" And standing in the inbetween room fir an unbelievabley terrifyingly amount of time. Virus is my favorite game mode to! And nice work on the video glad you finally 100% after all these years!
This is the perfect ts2 video memorial, ty for sharing 💪❤
This was one of my favorite games as a kid. Lots of great memories grinding that story mode and trying harder difficulties
Man im glad there is still a community for this game me an my cousin brandon loved this game. First game i ever got people mad for sniping.
I'm 20 and this game was so nostalgic for me even though my copy wouldn't let me destroy the container in the first level. I would still remember the levels layout to this day.
This franchise was LEGENDARY!! I still haven’t experienced a game with this much character!
A HD remaster of this game is on homefront revolution its the only port and that games been patched its decent now.
Liked hanging out in the streams for this bro. Sad you didn't mention the mapmaker. That was still one of my favorite parts. Looking forward to catching the Future Perfect stream(s)
I'm 26 and it was my favorite game growing up. It was so fun and I have great memories playing the game with my Brothers. I even brag to them that I was the first to finish TS2, this video certainly brings me back.
I remember the first time I played TimeSplitters 2. We had a ton of Gamecube games that nobody really played, and it was among them. I picked it up one day, thought it looked cool, and was pleasantly surprised. I got my brothers into it as well, and all of the sudden, this game that had been collecting dust for years had difficulties being read in our Gamecube because we were playing it _that much_ .
Thanks for bringing me back lol
Born in 2005,same year FP released and played the everloving out of both 2 and FP, still holds a spot in my heart and always will
That timesplitters music in the background is flooding my brain with nostalgia.... holyyyy
I’ve never played any free radical games or any game cube games (mostly due to me being “extremely” young).
It’s thanks to UA-cam channels like yours that I’ve fallen in love with these classics of yesteryear. so thank you jarek; thank you for doing what you do.