"A decade is a long time in video games. It's enough time for original ideas to become trends, wear out their welcome, disappear. Or enough time for a developer to have a messy first try and refine it into something great. Or, in one case, almost enough time for a huge mod of a game series that's also been defunct for decades to get off the ground."
""Sorry it's taken us so long," the website for TimeSplitters Rewind's release reads. "We've only been making the largest free content videogame ever." After 13 years in development, TimeSplitters Rewind is finally out, collecting the TimeSplitters trilogy from the early 2000s into one remixed package. Rather than directly remaking any of the games in the series, TimeSplitters Rewind is "a greatest hits collection," as development team Pantheonyx puts it, mashing the best parts of all three games together."
"At launch, that means it has an impressive 28 maps and 20 game modes to play with, and 96 characters to bring into them. It also includes the entire campaign mode of the original TimeSplitters, which is all playable in singleplayer or co-op. And that's evidently just the start. Pantheonyx considers TimeSplitters Rewind's release an early access game, and it's planning more maps, characters, and modes for the future, in case the dozens of each available already aren't quite enough."
TimeSplitters Rewind assembles and remixes the TimeSplitters trilogy into a greatest-hits style package rather than remaking any single title. The release features 28 maps, 20 game modes, and 96 playable characters, plus the full campaign of the original TimeSplitters playable in singleplayer or co-op. Development team Pantheonyx labels the release early access and plans ongoing additions including more maps, characters, and entirely new modes created specifically for Rewind. The project emerged after 13 years of development and presents itself as a very large free-content mod that captures the series' goofy, maximalist arcade-shooter spirit.
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