TimeSplitters 4

[Space Pirate Roberts]

Joystiq:

Though Haze is still deep in development, Nottingham-based developers Free Radical have taken a moment out of their busy days to announce Timesplitters 4, the latest in their tongue-in-cheek FPS series of tom-foolery and time-foolery (did you see what I did there?).

Not a lot of information about the game is available, except that Free Radical's site promises more crazy characters, weapons, and monkeys. The site also features a few cute pokes at major action franchises, including Halo 3 and Gears of War, but it's unknown if satire will play a role in the game (since we all know how well games parodying other games seems to go over these days).

Free Radical also reminds their fans that they are hiring, and considering their recent decision to start paying overtime, it might not be a bad place to get that industry job you've been hoping for.

[Glitch]

Hopefully you can fucking JUMP this time.

GOD! I know jumping is a pretty useless feature in shooters, but something about not having it is SO ANNOYING.

Also, more cool techno music and map-making goodness please.

[arjue]

And tone down the auto-aim.

[jyoung]

And for god's sake, fix the combat so it doesn't feel so stiff and robotic.

I want people to actually react to me shooting them, dammit, instead of having them continuing to fire away unflinchingly.

Whatever, it's hard to care about this series right now with Quake Wars, Team Fortress, and UT3 already on my plate.

[ElCapichan]

And for god's sake, fix the combat so it doesn't feel so stiff and robotic.

I want people to actually react to me shooting them, dammit, instead of having them continuing to fire away unflinchingly.

Whatever, it's hard to care about this series right now with Quake Wars, Team Fortress, and UT3 already on my plate.

You do realize this game is still a ways off. Even with all the hot goodness coming out now, I really enjoyed TS 2 and 3 enough to be looking forward enough to this as its time draws closer.

[SpoDaddy]

TimeSplitters 2 was an amazing game and 3 was great too. The series has that fun Goldeneye feel nailed (Rare should take notes if they ever do another Perfect Dark sequel).

[Space Pirate Roberts]

Rare will most likely never make another good FPS; pretty much the whole GE007/PD team left to form... Free Radical, i.e. the makers of TimeSplitters.