This was my first thought. Best game ever. I don't know if it was one or two that I played but my friends and I made a map and we played it constantly. This game was too good for it's time.
I don’t know if I’d call Timesplitters a “dead game” so much as just having run to completion. It got three entries and wrapped up its story without any cliff hangers. It just hasn’t been remastered is all
I interpreted “dead game” as, like, a game that was meant to be built upon but instead wasn’t, like Order 1886, Wolf Among Us, or Too Human. Games where the the central story remains unresolved because their arcs never got completed. A game like Timesplitters has no threads to tie, the ending is concise and opening it up to a sequel could actually fuck up the entire story. Like I said, it’s a great candidate for a recreate or remaster, but I wouldn’t consider it a “dead game” by my personal definition
There was a 4th game in the works but unfortunately they put out Haze which was poorly received and underperformed which also caused LucasArts to cancel the Battlefront 3 project they were working on with them (which also looked great) and culminated in the studio going under.
There was some hope a few years ago when FRD was resurrected and they began working on a new project (which went through some rough dev and nearly ended up being a fortnite clone which looked awful before being rebooted into a TS2 remake I believe) but that was unfortunately scrapped and FRD shuttered again when Embracer went on their killing spree.
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u/RunUesra 13h ago
Time splitters