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Time Splitters 2 | 
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| From: Eidos Interactive
Category: Video Games
List Price: $9.99
Buy Used: $1.25
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Avg. Customer Rating:  88 reviews
Sales Rank: 7397
Platform: Xbox
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Xbox
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7 x 5 x 1
MPN: Unknown
UPC: 788687200097
EAN: 0788687200097
ASIN: B00006C28W
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | Platform: Xbox | | • | Genre: Action/Adventure | | • | ESRB Rating: Teen |
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Product Description
The evil race of the TimeSplitters travels back into human history, instigating events that lead to the enslavement of mankind. In control ofa motley crew of renegade characters, you must hunt down the TimeSplitters across time in historical eras like the gangster-ridden 1920s, the lush jungles of Aztec temples, Soviet military installations of the cold war and futuristic robot factories in outer space.
Amazon.com Product Description
Members of the evil race of TimeSplitters are traveling back in time through human history, authoring events that will lead to the enslavement of mankind. Controlling a motley crew of renegade characters, you must hunt down the TimeSplitters across a variety of environments, such as the gangster-filled 1920s, the lush jungles of Aztec temples, Soviet military installations of the cold war, and futuristic robot factories in space. The game delivers an involved single-player and a cooperative story mode, with a complex narrative, multiple objective-based episodes, and animated cutscenes. The game engine has been extensively upgraded to accommodate bigger environments and special graphic effects. The Mapmaker has been enhanced, opening up even more potential for the advanced gamer looking for customizable game scenarios.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 83 more reviews...
 Not for Children December 31, 2007
Not good for children. I thought it would be a great game for my son with time traveling. I saw my son and my daughter running around shooting and flamethrowing eachother and laughing when they killed eachother off. It really bothered me and I took it away. The graphics are pretty gross. Wait until they are teens to buy this one
 Tons of options and unlockables combined with solid action. August 31, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
THE SHORT: A pretty good story mode, and tons of things to unlock in the addictive challenges and combat modes- all of which can be played alone or with multiple players. Decent but limited mapmaker.
THE LONG: I flat out didn't like TS1. The single player or "story" mode consisted of running back and forth for fetch quests, and the mapmaker let me set up corridors but gave me just a tiny handful of patterns to design it with. It was fast and it was pretty (minus the overly stylized goofy characters) but I didn't think it was much of a game.
This first sequel improves on almost all of what I had issue with. For starters, the game's just as pretty and runs very smooth and very fast (keeping fairly consistent in multiplayer as well). The storyline is better too- it's like Goldeneye with actual mission goals that change or grow as the level progresses. But I personally had the most fun with "arcade mode", which is multiplayer combat. I want to specify here that this is where the game excels over such titles as even the much hyped Halo (and even more recent games): like Perfect Dark, this is one of the very few games where I can play multiplayer matches against computer opponents. If you're like me you don't always have enough people around for 16-player, 4 system links and whatnot. Frankly I usually prefer to play alone anyway. And in this way, Timesplitters 2 accommodated me.
For example, like Perfect Dark, this game features some levels that I liked more than others and so, not wanting to play the story mode, I wanted to just jump into that cool level and fight some opponents. This game allowed me to do so, picking not only what opponents I fought but also how tough they were and what weapons were used. In addition, I could set parameters such as time/kill limits, and by the time I unlocked them, could choose among more than a dozen different combat variations such as "Flame Tag". In other words, this game lets you play multiplayer, storyline stuff, or plain old combat- with or against other humans in each case.
There are loads of unlockables, as well. There are more than 100 different characters in the game, with at least half of that number representing legitimately unique and interesting choices. Each has their own stat rating such as speed and accuracy, and some characters such as robots have extra advantages like immunity to fire. This adds even more strategy to deathmatches but can be turned off as well.
In addition to unlocking the characters, you'll be unlocking goofy cheats such as pirate hats or practical things such as new levels and combat modes. This is one of those games where every level, challenge, or combat scenario rewards you with new stuff once completed, so there's a very satisfying feeling of constant progress and perpetual motivation to try to meet each goal. Some of it is tough- sometimes tuned to be just barely within your grasp, but there seems to always be other stuff to accomplish if you get stuck. For each of three nights, I went to bed satisfied that I unlocked some of the cool stuff I'd wanted, then played the next day and opened up even more. It was addicting.
Thankfully, this was all set up within a very pretty package. The stylized, exaggerated look from the first game is still here for those that liked it, but for people like me it's nice that characters are a little less goofy looking. And with more than a hundred, it's easy to develop favorites. The graphics during gameplay itself are solid and the game moves quite fast for being several years old, even during multiplayer combat with a
handful of AI opponents thrown in.
And again, that's where the game gets its highest marks from me. While the storyline is interesting enough and fairly engaging in its disparate levels, it was that combat that made me keep playing this game. By the time I played through most of the basic and "arcade league" challenges, I'd unlocked around 15 different deathmatch types- modes such as capture the flag, king of the hill, last man standing, and more bizarre stuff such as monkey helpers- in which the person in last place gets monkeys with heavy weaponry. When you figure that you can pick from a dozen or so stages, add up to 10 AI opponents whose difficulty you set, throw in weapons of your choice, and then pick the score type and combat parameters, that's a huge amount of customization. As I said, it's a level of single-player control and immersion the likes of which I haven't seen since Perfect Dark.
Controls feel natural and very intuitive, the graphics and sound are appropriate (and downright amusing) and the options are very thorough. The pace of unlocking stuff is great, with a couple dozen hours of perpetual new stuff. Altogether this is a fine game, which at this point you can grab for just $10-15 bucks. Do it, especially if you're a guy like me and doesn't want to rely on a bunch of others to have some good interactivity with your first-person shooters.
The best shooter you can get for this price March 1, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is the best multiplayer game i have ever had. The single player is a lot of fun but not quite as good as multiplayer. The campaign works with co-op which makes it better also. Multiplayer has bots, which is also a very good thing to have, and aside from being great, the characters are funny. My fav characyers name is robofish, which sounds about as funny as he looks. I counted 126 unlockable characters, plus extra game modes, cheats, and levels make this a great 10-20 bucks. Buy this instead 0f any other shooter your considering, believe me, this games great.
Playstation version rocks, XBOX one must be even better! February 17, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
What can I say about this game... I do not own the XBOX version myself, but I am interested in getting it within the next hour.
Anyhow - it is a great game, the XBOX version I recommend. I have played both (rentals), and they ROCK!
Go against your friends in a LAN party, have some fun, it rules!
Do not compare it to Halo or Halo 2, they are two different games.
XBOX games are in GENERAL, better quality than PS2 ones when it goes into this catagory. I am not dissing the PS2 fans, but XBOX is the best for FPS, due to the graphics, and the processor.
Gaming on this game is nice, I do not really personally enjoy the map editor, because I do not exactly know how to build maps that well.
The only thing that could be better is a nicer online gaming interface.
hard January 29, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
When I was going to get Timesplitters, I was thinking I was going to be getting it and just shooting stuff like crazy having a good time. However, what really becomes addictive about this game is attempting to unlock all of the characters(there are 130, I think.) You start out with 20 or so by default, and from there you earn more in one of three ways:
Beating levels in Story Mode. I haven't played too much of the story mode, and only really on easy(I played some of the first level on Normal, and it was going good until I got to the boss, which is a helicopter gunship, and I got torn apart). It's a time travelling game so you go from 1990 Siberia to 1920s Chicago to alien planets, Tokyo in the future, the old west, etc, etc. There's AMAZING variety in the levels. Each has its own special characters and, in something of an ode to classic gaming, each level has a boss.
Next, you can unlock characters in Challenge mode. You get series of events based on one action. For instance, the first series is glass breaking. The first event has you breaking out all the glass in the area with the grenade launcher on your soviet machine gun. The next one puts you in the same place with a brick. The final one has you using a normal grenade launcher in Notre Dame Cathedral. You have to complete the challenges within certain time limits to pass with Bronze, Silver, Gold, or Platinum. The medal you get determines what things you unlock. Platinum doesn't unlock anything Gold doesn't, it just gives you bragging rights if your friends are playing and can't achieve it.
Finally comes the best mode. Arcade League. Arcade is the regular multiplayer mode you play with friends, Arcade League is preset challenges within the mode. If you've played the challenges in Perfect Dark, it's pretty much like that only more of them, and it's set up like the challenges--there's several series, and each series has 3 events. Also, Arcade League is split into Amatuer(Easy), Honorary(Medium), and Elite(Hard). You have to go in order. You can breeze through Amatuer League, and probably only have to go back for better medals on the flame tag/virus levels and the assault level.
Assault. Oh man, this is quite easily one of the hardest modes I've ever encountered. It's only on 3 maps, and this is what happens. You spawn as part of an assualt team and you have to accomplish certain actions, such as gaining ground, shooting barrels and computers, and taking out autoguns. Within a nerve-rattling time limit.
There are some parts of the game that will have you screaming and cursing, but 85% of it, though hard, is great to just play over and over until you get it down. What makes the really difficult parts more frustrating to me is that I know with just a little extra effort I can make it, but I never seem to be able to reach that magic point.
My only complaint about this game is that there aren't really enough guns. I hardly notice that amidst all the insanity. This game moves INCREDIBLY fast.
Oh, and it has a mapmaker. It's pretty restrcited, but you can still pull off some awesome maps.
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