That pedigree shows when you look at games like Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay developed by Starbreeze, which is/was in part made up out of former Triton people. Developed by Triton (a former demo group from Sweden) in the mid-nineties and planned to release on PC, Saturn and PS1, it was a hand-to-hand fighting game with exploration aspects to it. I didn't find out about it until years after its cancellation, but it's one of the cancelled games I most would've liked to play. It had some pretty impressive graphics and more than a few similarities to Deus Ex, which was released a year later. A cancelled PC-only first-person action/adventure game, developed by Cavedog (they of Total Annihilation) and slated for a Q3 1999 release. I could post these for days on end, but I'll just throw in a couple for nowĪmen: The Awakening.
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I'm pretty confident that it could be hacked into a full version. Regardless, all the assets of the full game are sitting in HFTR's archives. Whatever loophole let them keep a "demo" of TimeSplitters 2 in HFTR, it wouldn't extend to the full game. My theory is that TimeSplitters 2 Redux is a full port of TimeSplitters 2 for PC/PS4/XBO, but Dambuster Studios were forced to cripple it in order to stop Crytek from doing what Crytek does best. And the exe has a lot of text baked into it that extends way beyond the content in the demo. In Homefront's exe file, the demo is referred to as TimeSplitters 2 Redux. Even random bits and bobs from Second Sight. I'm sitting here looking at the file list and everything is here. That kinda thing.īut there's something very off about the TimeSplitters 2 demo. This resulted in the TimeSplitters 2 arcade cabinet in HFTR. I think it was some kind of technicality where all HFTR assets were sold. Somehow when Crytek sold HFTR to Deep Silver, who proceeded to hire the entire development team as a new in-house studio Dambuster Studios, the TimeSplitters 2 "demo" was included. I'd love to get my hands on that version, BTW. Homefront: The Revolution was still in development under THQ/Crytek at this point. Totally different to the old remaster project. A programmer named Matt Phillips (creator of that awesome looking Mega Drive Tanglewood game) and a few other Crytek UK programmers created a NEW source port of TimeSplitters 2. What happened after this remains a bit unclear. This disappeared without a trace because, you know, Crytek and stuff.
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Just putting that out there.)Īround this period, Free Radical/Crytek UK worked on a remaster of TimeSplitters 2. (BTW, HFTR is a great game all things considered. Afterwards, they were put to work on Homefront: The Revolution. So they assigned Free Radical, now Crytek UK, to work on Crysis multiplayer and the console port of Crysis 1.
For all their crap, Crytek were not exactly wrong about the state of the market. Also by 2010-ish gamers had decided that "colour" was poison and everything had to be as dark and gritty and moody as possible. Only around 300-400,000 people bought TimeSplitters: Future Perfect. In their infinite wisdom, Crytek decided that TimeSplitters was too much of a risk and killed the project. They went back to their old engine, and were aiming for a 60fps next generation TimeSplitters sequel. After Haze did not turn out well, Free Radical drifted around a bit and started working on TimeSplitters 4. It looked great, it sounded great, and if PD XBLA is anything to go by, it would have played great.īut then.
You could switch between modern and classic graphics at the press of a button. Even better than 4J's Perfect Dark remaster from a technical/art perspective. Nintendo killing Project Bean, otherwise known as GoldenEye XBLA, around 2008 was a travesty.
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