TIMESPLITTERS FUTURE PERFECT

Timesplitters 3:Future Perfect is a first-person-shooter (FPS) for the Xbox. One thing you should understand: this is not a simulation like (Rainbow Six or Ghost Recon), this is an arcadey type of shooter. Timesplitters (TS) has always been fast-paced, featured lots of weapons and characters. Everything looks cartoony and has a sense of humor. This third installment has an improved story mode, where you travel through time and even help your Future self and your Past self fight enemies! The graphics turned a bit gritty and the characters models look better for it. Blood splatters the walls when you shoot them! Headshots are fatal one hit kills which adds a tactical element not present in previous TS. The weapons all have cool reload animations now also adding another tactical element because you need to hide yourself to reload your weapon. The weapons themselves look bigger and sound more mean! You can also play story mode co-op with a friend, or play arcade mode, challange mode, split-screen, XBOX Live and a total of 14 game modes that you can even play with BOTS! Timeplitters 3 is the complete shooter, it has so many game modes and options that you'll be exploring it for many days! And most importantly, this game is a blast to play! What are you doing wasting your time reading this review? Go buy this amazing shooter Today!

Pros:

+better than Halo

+excellent story

+excellent action

+excellent graphics

+excellent animation

+excellent controls

+excellent sound effects

+excellent weapons

+still has a sense of humor

+lots of unlockable goodies

+Create your own Maps

+Mapmaker improved

+tons of characters

+14 game modes

+blood splatters

+headshots

+reload animation look cool

+co-op or versus gameplay

+Xbox Live

+Play with BOTS offline

+cool cheat modes

Cons:

-puzzles suck

-weak music

-BOTS are still dumb

I owned Timesplitters 2 on the GameCube, and I liked it. The difference between that game and this, the next in the series, is pretty vast.

An important thing to me is that a game have a decent storyline to it. Now, that's important to ME; if you don't find that necessary then that's fine. But with TS2 I was completely lost as to what was going on in the Story Mode. I never played the first installment in the series, so I was without a clue as to why I was playing as all of these different characters in different periods of time. The story to TS3, though, although not necessarily deep, is a lot of fun. The voice acting was done superbly; I found Cortez (the main character) a really likeable character, in that although he's beefed up like every other action character in a videogame, he's a bit of a goof. All of the supporting characters, especially Anya, communicating through a wristband to Cortez throughout the entire course of the game, are very likeable. And for anyone who has already beat this game, they'd understand what I mean when saying it's interesting to play the first mission again and notice all of the small things you didn't notice the first time around. The story was also pretty funny--the game never seems to take itself too seriously. I laughed out loud quite a few times at some of the antics going on, whether it be stoner sidekicks or Snowmen multiplayer characters screaming "I'm melting!" as you shoot them with a flare gun or racing CAT vehicles, it's just a funny game, which is something few videogames ever achieve.

The graphics on this game are very smooth, very defined. The game really establishes an atmosphere when it wants to. One of the Story missions in particular and quite a few of the Multiplayer characters are for a mature audience. Running through the zombie house was truly freaky. The character models really look good, all the way down to the vains on Cortez's arms. Even the voice acting matches up somewhat closely with the mouths of the characters. Somewhat. Not bad.

I played the Story Mode on Normal difficulty, and had little problems beating the game. A couple of the boss characters were difficult, but other than that it wasn't too tough. I've started the game again on Hard difficulty, but so far (just through a few missions) I haven't had too difficult of a time. The AI is more accurate (but still inaccurate), and your health lasts less, and it seems that there are less health packs lying around, but they definitely still exist.

I like the weapons in this game. I wish the standard pistol was a little bit more powerful, but it's not bad. I also liked how the different weapons have different modes, as opposed to secondary fire. You can attach a silencer to your pistol, or a scope. You can attach a grenade launcher to another gun, etc. The left trigger works for throwing grenades. A lot of the weapons have *some* sort of scope, but usually not very much of one.

Inevitably, this game (among a couple of others) is compared with Halo. Where I think there is a huge difference between the two games is vehicles. There is one vehicle in this game, and it's not extremely useful. I guess you could call it the equivalent of a Warthog from Halo, except there's no gunner's position, it doesn't handle nearly as well as the Warthog, and although you can have a gunner sit in the passenger seat, it definitely doesn't feel worth the effort. The multiplayer is also far DIFFERENT from Halo. Not necessarily better or worse, just different. It's much more intense, as you typically end up having tons of characters spawning close to each other and the matches typically are just.....fast-moving. Personally, I think the multiplayer in Halo is more refined, but that's not to say there's anything wrong with the multiplayer in TS3. It's just a different style than Halo's. I like how easy it is to customize the multiplayer games in TS3; it's one of the easiest setups I've ever seen.

There are a lot of modes to this game; they've got some that are fun (and some that are really freaky). There's one mode where one character starts with a virus, and their objective is just to spread it, until one person is left. The screams of the characters 'catching' the virus are pretty scary. Again, this game shows atmosphere when it wants to.

I haven't yet played this game online, so I'm really not able to say anything positive or negative about the online multiplayer. I do like the Mapmaker feature, and they give you the ability to download other peoples' maps they've created, which is a really nice touch. I thought my map was pretty good until I saw the ones created by other people.

One thing I noticed that was EXTREMELY annoying was found in Co-operative play. Like in the previous installment of this game, you're able to play with a friend. There seems to be a glitch to it, of sorts. Maybe it's an option that's able to be disabled; I don't know. It has a 'warping' issue to it. You'll be walking along a corridor and apparently there are these spots you'll run over that end up bringing your partner right up next to you, no matter where he was. I don't understand why the game did this (if it was intentional). It seems like a very crude attempt at keeping the two characters together, but it definitely doesn't work, and is nothing but an annoyance. Again, maybe it's just a glitch in the game I own, or maybe it's an option, but whatever it is, it's a HUGE downer to wanting to play this game with a friend.

I don't remember if there is much music to the game--I don't think there was, but really am not sure, so even if there was it didn't stand out as being incredible. With the voice acting being as good as it is, though--your sidekick talks quite a bit, along with the enemies--it meant little to me that there wasn't much to the music. Sometimes you would sneak up on enemies and you could hear them talking amongst themselves--sometimes it was absolutely hilarious. I know I've mentioned this before, but there was enough humor in this game that I think it warrants repeating it.

No matter what you look for in a first-person shooter, this game delivers. Whether it be a fun, entertaining story, an intense, fully-customizable multiplayer, or a plethora of unlockables, this game delivers. It's frequently fun, and at times scary. Its graphics are crisp, its guns are fun to shoot, and its characters are full of life. Well, MOST of them are living, anyways. Timesplitters 3 is definitely worth the purchase.

TS Future perfect was everything i expected and more. It has a rare trait of being an official descendant of Goldeneye 007 which will please any old school gamer. It features our hero, sergeant Cortez, travelling through history to stop the time splitters before they ever started the war. The Story will take through many places like haunted mansions, ghost infested underground caverns, a terminator reminisent future with robots terrorizing the streets, and a train reminisent of the old Goldeneye favorite. The variety of weapons is wast featuring anything from the revolver, multiple shotguns, machine guns, and futuristic laser and plasma rifles. The multiplayer is anything but short lived. Over 14 modes of multiplayer action including our favorites like team death match, capture the flag, and assault where you attack or defend the base while completing objectives along the way. There are 150 playable characters, of course you must unlock some of them. This is accomplished in the arcade leage and challenges where you have a set amount of time to get so many kills,come in 1st place, or anything inbetween. Bored with all of that? No problem, make your own multiplayer maps, assault missions, and story missions. But theres still more! Play online with friends and compare your stats with others to see how good you really are. Another thing I enjoy is the music, its creative and matches the time period you play in and the mood of the level. So try it out, this definitly isnt a game your gonna rent and be done with in a few days. I see long hours of play ahead for me. I has over 2 days of play alone in Time Splitters 2!