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Will it be crowned the Best Shooter Ever?
It's a tough call considering that I'm no expert in the shoot 'em up genre, although I've played Half-Life, Unreal Tournament, Counter Strike, a little bit of Halo, Agent Under Fire, and a few other titles.
Time Splitters 2 has a great background. Developed by Free Radical Design (who formerly worked on GoldenEye), incorporating a 'homage level' to that particular game (the first level is based on the Dam Level from GoldenEye), and the original Time Splitters got rave reviews at launch (it was one of the first games out on the PS2).
The gaming press have been raving about TS2 for a few months, and now that most of the reviews have been done, TS2 appears to score highly in all of them bar Edge, I haven't read Edge this month. Knowing them they probably gave it a 3/10 just to be different.
I personally don't feel that the TS2 storyline could live up to that of Half Life's, but then on a console Half Life is pretty much a single player game anyway, so the story is more important. What seems to be catching everyone's attention is the TS2 multiplayer options, level editing features, game modes and sheer speed of running.
And possibly the one thing that makes one shooter better than the other is how much fun it involves when you frag your mates instead of a bot.
The one outstanding shooter on XBox so far has been Halo
The one outstanding shooter on PS2 is yet to arrive, MGS2 perhaps been the closest, or maybe even Medal of Honour, I can't think of better ones at the moment.
So the question to think on today is: Will Time Splitters 2 be better than Halo, MGS2 and Medal of Honour.
Tomorrow I'd like to see some answers.
Then in 2 weeks time when it comes out on the Gamecube I'd like to see some more opinions, even if they are written in crayon.
It's a tough call considering that I'm no expert in the shoot 'em up genre, although I've played Half-Life, Unreal Tournament, Counter Strike, a little bit of Halo, Agent Under Fire, and a few other titles.
Time Splitters 2 has a great background. Developed by Free Radical Design (who formerly worked on GoldenEye), incorporating a 'homage level' to that particular game (the first level is based on the Dam Level from GoldenEye), and the original Time Splitters got rave reviews at launch (it was one of the first games out on the PS2).
The gaming press have been raving about TS2 for a few months, and now that most of the reviews have been done, TS2 appears to score highly in all of them bar Edge, I haven't read Edge this month. Knowing them they probably gave it a 3/10 just to be different.
I personally don't feel that the TS2 storyline could live up to that of Half Life's, but then on a console Half Life is pretty much a single player game anyway, so the story is more important. What seems to be catching everyone's attention is the TS2 multiplayer options, level editing features, game modes and sheer speed of running.
And possibly the one thing that makes one shooter better than the other is how much fun it involves when you frag your mates instead of a bot.
The one outstanding shooter on XBox so far has been Halo
The one outstanding shooter on PS2 is yet to arrive, MGS2 perhaps been the closest, or maybe even Medal of Honour, I can't think of better ones at the moment.
So the question to think on today is: Will Time Splitters 2 be better than Halo, MGS2 and Medal of Honour.
Tomorrow I'd like to see some answers.
Then in 2 weeks time when it comes out on the Gamecube I'd like to see some more opinions, even if they are written in crayon.
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Just out of curiosity, is anyone here going to give this game a miss and wait until next month for the likes of James Bond: Nightfire, Medal of Honour & Unreal Championship (Xbox)? Personally, I prefer visual realism in FPS games rather than the (average looking) cartoon style graphics featured in TS2. Developed by the guys behind Goldeneye, I have no doubt that the game will play extremely well. However, seeing the preview footage of Nightfire, I am optimistic that it will be a superiour single player game to TS2, and not too far behind it in the multiplayer stakes.
Halo was a massive disappointment for me. I played it expecting a brilliant game but it all seemed a bit simple. I played a lot on multiplayer, breifly on one player and then a bit on co-operative (which ended in a deathmatch anyway).
The one thing that I hated about multiplayer was that it took so little skill. It was so easy to get a head shot every time and crap players could just get on a vehicle and either run a skilled player down or blow him up.
The one-player didn't seem bad although I didn't get into it enough to be able to fully tell.
I thought it was supposed to be revolutionary but there was nothing there. The way of controlling the vehicles was really good but I didn't like the ideas of vehicles in the first place so it didn't matter as I never used them.
I was disapointed with Medal of Honor Frontline too. I waited for that for ages and it's not even that good. It isn't bad but it's not THAT fun to play. If I die on a level, I can never be bothered to play through the level again like I would do on a great game. It was more a thing I had to do than wanted to do.
Plus, there was no multiplayer and that's unforgivable.
Timesplitters isn't bad. I got it for a tenner a while ago and although the single player is truly sh*te, the multiplayer does make up for it. Sort of. It's just it doesn't seem as skillful or as involving as Goldeneye or Perfect Dark (which I would still say are the best FPSs available).
I'm hoping TS2 will be the first absolutely fantastic FPS since Perfect Dark and from the demo, it looks like it might be.
I'll wait for the GC version though I think. Even though I don't yet have a GC of my own. :-(
The one thing that I hated about multiplayer was that it took so little skill. It was so easy to get a head shot every time and crap players could just get on a vehicle and either run a skilled player down or blow him up.
The one-player didn't seem bad although I didn't get into it enough to be able to fully tell.
I thought it was supposed to be revolutionary but there was nothing there. The way of controlling the vehicles was really good but I didn't like the ideas of vehicles in the first place so it didn't matter as I never used them.
I was disapointed with Medal of Honor Frontline too. I waited for that for ages and it's not even that good. It isn't bad but it's not THAT fun to play. If I die on a level, I can never be bothered to play through the level again like I would do on a great game. It was more a thing I had to do than wanted to do.
Plus, there was no multiplayer and that's unforgivable.
Timesplitters isn't bad. I got it for a tenner a while ago and although the single player is truly sh*te, the multiplayer does make up for it. Sort of. It's just it doesn't seem as skillful or as involving as Goldeneye or Perfect Dark (which I would still say are the best FPSs available).
I'm hoping TS2 will be the first absolutely fantastic FPS since Perfect Dark and from the demo, it looks like it might be.
I'll wait for the GC version though I think. Even though I don't yet have a GC of my own. :-(
FantasyMeister wrote:
> Yes, it was too jerky. It was like playing a laggy FPS on my PC on a
> particularly laggy day in lag town. That was my main gripe, hence
> 'diabolical'.
Lol! Hi Mir.
> Yes, it was too jerky. It was like playing a laggy FPS on my PC on a
> particularly laggy day in lag town. That was my main gripe, hence
> 'diabolical'.
Lol! Hi Mir.
Well I don't know out it being the best shooter, I'll just have to wait tommrow when I get my copy. :)
Laggy McLag went to buy a Lag in Lag Toon
Ant wrote:
> FantasyMeister wrote:
> I thought Red Faction was (Alan Hansen mode) diabolical.
*
> You really thought it was that bad?
Yes, it was too jerky. It was like playing a laggy FPS on my PC on a particularly laggy day in lag town. That was my main gripe, hence 'diabolical'.
I didn't really like the original Time Splitters much either, it was a bit 'bland' looking for my tastes and there was no continuity nor the ability to take one character through all the levels from the start.
However having played the demo of TS2 I have high hopes for the sequel.
> FantasyMeister wrote:
> I thought Red Faction was (Alan Hansen mode) diabolical.
*
> You really thought it was that bad?
Yes, it was too jerky. It was like playing a laggy FPS on my PC on a particularly laggy day in lag town. That was my main gripe, hence 'diabolical'.
I didn't really like the original Time Splitters much either, it was a bit 'bland' looking for my tastes and there was no continuity nor the ability to take one character through all the levels from the start.
However having played the demo of TS2 I have high hopes for the sequel.
Yes, I do.
er-no wrote:
> There Ant goes answering himself again :-D
Do I do that a lot?
> There Ant goes answering himself again :-D
Do I do that a lot?
Mr.Snuggly wrote:
> TimeSplitters 2 rocks, I already have my copy.
>
> *booyah*
>
> Booyah.
Played Red Faction 2 yet? :D
> TimeSplitters 2 rocks, I already have my copy.
>
> *booyah*
>
> Booyah.
Played Red Faction 2 yet? :D
Krieger wrote:
> Ant wrote:
> Red Faction wasn't bad.
>
>
> HAHAHA!!
Shush. :D
> Ant wrote:
> Red Faction wasn't bad.
>
>
> HAHAHA!!
Shush. :D
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