Hopes are High for Timesplitters 4… but Nobody Would Accept it

Timesplitters was a great series of games, and it's fairly disappointing that they haven't been updated for modern consoles. That hasn't stopped there being almost constant rumblings though; back when Free Radical owned the series and since Crytek bought them out there have been rumours galore. So with so many people interested in the next title, just why isn't it in development?

In an interview with CVG, CEO Cevat Yerli weighed in on the idea of a new entry in the series.

“I think hopes are high, but change has to happen in the platform space. I’m very excited potentially about the idea of a TimeSplitters for [Crytek’s free-to-play gaming platform] G-Face.

“The thing with TimeSplitters is, if we made a sequel to TimeSplitters, nobody would accept this apart from some fans, and we don’t know how big the fan community is unfortunately.

“And we don’t want to design this as a packaged goods game that launches on a console, and even if we wanted to I don’t think publishers would like the idea. That is the truth, and that was the truth even before we bought Free Radical.”

While Crytek are moving away from the console world anyway, a good way of weighing in on the potential success of a sequel would be to release a HD collection of the already released titles, although given that the rights have shifted I'm sure there would be quite a few licencing issues.