TimeSplitters: Future Perfect is a frantic and hilarious first-person shooter that throws you headfirst into a time-traveling adventure. It boasts a wacky, self-aware story, a massive cast of quirky characters, and a near-endless array of customization options across its frenetic multiplayer modes. The map creator is incredibly robust, encouraging boundless creativity. While the single-player campaign can feel a bit unpolished in places, TimeSplitters: Future Perfect delivers pure, chaotic fun with exceptional replay value.

TimeSplitters: Future Perfect is a bog-standard evolution of TimeSplitters 2. In reality it's not much bigger than its predecessor, but it has a finer attention to detail. There are more characters with lots more personality, a new selection of arcade maps and challenges and a much more focused story. Even the map maker had a bit of a glow up.

If you had to pick one game from the series to play, TimeSplitters: Future Perfect is probably the one. The only downside to this sequel, for me, was the reduced variety of story level locations. TimeSplitters 2 transported you to 10 different time periods each with a very unique flair, whereas TimeSplitters: Future Perfect takes you to a measly 6, the earliest of which is 1924.

I bought this game on the Xbox store for £1.67, and it's probably one of the best purchases I've ever made. I was, up until this point, completely unaware of the TimeSplitters franchise. Less still, that it was so highly regarded. While I have started with the third and final entry in the trilogy, I intend on going back and playing the second game as well. This game worked well enough as a self-contained narrative so I didn't feel like I was missing context.

The gimmick of the game is that across the game's 13 levels you travel to 6 distinct timelines, all with their own "period accurate" weaponry. This leads to great gameplay and visual variety across the different levels - it's that constant flow of creative and unique ideas that elevates this game to such heights.

The problem with the game is that it's too short, but that is just because there is absolutely no filler. Every level is a string of all the good ideas and set pieces back-to-back, and then the level ends. That's the trade-off for the short runtime. I would, however, be inclined to replay this game on its higher difficulties for fun, because it really is about 4 hours of exceptionally paced creativity.

The story is also surprisingly enjoyable. All the characters are great and distinct, while all being charmingly funny, and the cutscenes are very well animated - especially considering the game came out in 2005. And while I won't spoil anything, the use of time in the narrative has a very satisfying moment towards the endgame that really took me by surprise, and I loved it.

Play this game, if you have the ability to do so. There is nothing to hate here. Nothing to even dislike. It's pure fun that this industry simply cannot produce anymore.

Gonna be honest and say I had no idea this was the third game in the series. After the studio that made TimeSplitters shut down I wanted to try out the series so I looked at the Microsoft store and saw only Future Perfect and 2 were on there. So I assumed this was the first game in the series. If I had looked at the screenshots on the store page probably could have avoided that mishap.

Either ways despite starting this game at the end I still enjoyed the story and characters. I was a little lost at some points but I was still able to follow along with everything. There were parts where I was thinking the game felt like I should know these people but I just assumed that was the point. In the end this is mostly a comedic story so it doesn't take it self super serious so neither should you.

As for the gameplay it's mostly a first person shooter. The guns can feel a little floaty but that's meant to help with the controller aiming and it still felt satisfying to me. Also the game has a decent amount of weapon variety since you time travel to different eras with different guns. As for mission to mission gameplay it's pretty much just linear corridors but since the shooting is fun that's not an issue.

Unfortunatly I didn't grow up with this game so I'm not sure how fun the multiplayer was but from just playing the single player and playing bots it seems like it would be a ton of fun. Also there are bonus challenges missions that help increase single player replay value. But I didn't really play them since I was satisfied with the story mode.

Overall I was impressed with how well the game held up. The graphics are cartoonish so it's hard for that to ever age terribly. Although I did play this on the Series X so it was upscaled and that probably made it look way better than it originally did.

I love media which features many different periods of time, especially if they're brave enough to include future time periods. Timesplitters 2 is always a title I use as an example of this, and while I love that game, I never played any of the others in the series. The original Timesplitters (apparently) doesn't have much of a story, the second has an overarching plot with some flavor text, but the third has an actual story campaign with voice acting and cutscenes. The story takes place directly after the events of the second game, and while the humor can be a little... dated, it does have its moments. Rather than playing as native people to each time period, you play the entire game as Sgt. Cortez as he travels through time to stop the creator of the Timesplitters. There are more levels set in each time period than the second game, which means there's fewer periods overall, but the selection they've created is really great. A 1960s train level, a 1990s haunted mansion, a 1920s underwater city, and even the speculative future examples I mentioned -- a near future office complex and far future war zone. The combat is really fun, although it's slightly ruined by being a twin stick shooter on the Gamecube. The accuracy you have with the second stick isn't as tight as you would hope. They definitely fudge the enemy hitboxes to help, but it's still rough. There's only one part that this really becomes a problem, and I would say it's the only bad level in the game. An infamous escort sniper mission, where your enemies are all invisible. It's horrible. That level aside though, this is a really fun game with loads of extra content. The series has been promised a sequel for nearly two decades now, and while I doubt it'll happen, I'll eagerly play it if it does.