Crytek UK making original FPS

by Justin McElroy { Oct 8th 2009 at 3:30PM }

If you were holding out hope that Crytek UK (formerly Free Radical) would be finishing up TimeSplitters 4 any time soon, you may want to store it way down in your heart. We're talking like way down, back where you keep your secret wish to find an unopened box of Nintendo Cereal System at your local grocer.

Studio manager Karl Hilton recently told Develop that the company is working on an original FPS. While the news is good on one hand (it's not Haze) it's also bad, because it likely means TimeSplitters 4 is either a long ways off or dead altogether.

[Via GoGamingGiant]

Tags: crytek, crytek-uk, fps, free-radical, timesplitters-4

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

CTC XBL-supapaypamawio [Planeteer | Power of the Anti-Fanboy Bitch Slap] @ Oct 8th 2009 3:35PM

Eh, after Haze I really could care less about these guys. I do miss the fun times had with Timesplitters though.

Brainless @ Oct 8th 2009 3:36PM

NUUUUU!!
thats is all i have to say.
you have failed me once again crytek.
first was the awful haze.
noah this?!
phail-sauce :(

Platinum_Skeet @ Oct 8th 2009 3:37PM

Am I the only one that doesn't want a Timesplitters sequel? I think it could wait until later...

Neuromancer @ Oct 8th 2009 3:42PM

I don't know you but I hate you.

charlie b. @ Oct 8th 2009 4:07PM

yes. you are the only one.

Special Agent Steve @ Oct 8th 2009 4:37PM

Because the future is so much better than the present? I hate you and your future self.

AoE @ Oct 8th 2009 5:00PM

I have to agree with Neuromancer on this one.

David @ Oct 8th 2009 5:20PM

downvoting as hard as i possibly can.....

R (Planeteers | Power of Penile Pulse) @ Oct 8th 2009 6:53PM

Skeet, I think its time...

*puts on sunglasses*

..for you to split.

YEAAHHHHHHHH

Damian @ Oct 8th 2009 3:38PM

I just want Time splitters 4 with Cryengine 3, that's all i want.
Get to it Crytek UK!

Cheesus Crust @ Oct 8th 2009 6:16PM

Hopefully CryEngine3 will be better optimized for PC.

Neuromancer @ Oct 8th 2009 3:44PM

Timesplitters 2 was maybe the greatest game ever made. That is not opinion, it's actually a fact.

gobo @ Oct 8th 2009 3:56PM

By George, that is quite possibly the sexiest fact I've ever tasted! All FPS games need arcade challenge scenarios, and Chasm is quite possibly my second favorite FPS map ever (after Facility on GoldenEye of course).

Archwright @ Oct 14th 2009 2:59PM

I missed the Chasm so much in TS3. It was a really good 3D maze o' death. The Airship in TS3 was still pretty cool, but Chasm still takes the cake.

Hyams @ Oct 8th 2009 3:48PM

As much as I

Hyams @ Oct 8th 2009 3:49PM

[heart symbol] Timesplitters 2 (best FPS evah? quite possibly), I'm actually finding it quite hard to care.

My own apathy saddens me.

(Also, silly comment system, eating half my comment.)

Neuromancer @ Oct 8th 2009 3:57PM

Yeah TS3 was pretty mediocre. But somewhere deep down in my heart I think the magic could still be there for a sequel.

Hyamzy @ Oct 8th 2009 4:16PM

Are you mad??? Who doesn't want a new Timesplitters. Virus mode online would be awesome.

Hyams @ Oct 8th 2009 4:26PM

Haven't you basically been playing that anyway, with that zombie thing on Counter Strike?

Hyamzy @ Oct 8th 2009 5:03PM

Yes, like every day lol

Phizzy @ Oct 8th 2009 3:57PM

A single tear falls from my eye.

dogmaticatheist @ Oct 8th 2009 3:58PM

Isn't "original shooter" and oxymoron?

dogmaticatheist @ Oct 8th 2009 3:58PM

AN oxymoron

Discotheque @ Oct 8th 2009 4:29PM

What a stupid comment. You could apply that to every genre of everything.

koehler83 @ Oct 8th 2009 3:59PM

Didn't they just do that and ruin their company?

Neuromancer @ Oct 8th 2009 4:01PM

Hey oh!

But, yes

Sir Kero @ Oct 8th 2009 4:02PM

That's no secret! I really do want a box of Nintendo Cereal! Or at least Ninja Turtles... mmm, delicious nostalgia

Maverick Saturn (Igor) @ Oct 8th 2009 4:06PM

Darn! And here I was all excited for Haze 2, damn you crytek for destroying my dreams.

James @ Oct 8th 2009 4:36PM

MY MOTHER SUCKS LOLLIPOPS IN HELLLL

Hyams @ Oct 8th 2009 5:05PM

*cocks

Cheesus Crust @ Oct 8th 2009 7:37PM

You say it like everybody doesn't already know it.

Storm Eagle [Resident Capcom Megafan] @ Oct 8th 2009 4:44PM

Just stick to what you know Free Radical: TimeSpitters. I swear to God, if they put out an original shooter on the same level or worse than Haze instead of finishing TS4, I'm gonna cry.

I will. I'll literally cry.

I'm gonna go home and play TimeSplitters 2 now.

IcelandTerrorist (stormtrooper190) @ Oct 8th 2009 7:54PM

well im going to ho home and play haze! timespitters is not a game i like. haze is one of the best games i've played. and is as good as halo killzone 2 and most other shooters. i also hate call of duty.

IslandLife @ Oct 8th 2009 4:44PM

Aaaarrgh, I hate you Joystiq!! You really got me excited when I saw that photo, only to be utterly disappointed when I read the text.

What is Crytek's problem?! They are sitting on a freakin' goldmine with the perfect tools and technology to retrieve that gold, but noooo they prefer to walk away from it and say, "Uh-uh, we don't like your money. Not...one...bit."

Why the heck did you buy Free Radical, was it just to build up our dreams of a new timesplitters only to crush them?!! WAS IT?!!!

anthony @ Oct 8th 2009 5:38PM

please let there be a timesplitters 4 , ive been waiting for another one and i praise this be it

Stone @ Oct 8th 2009 6:51PM

It is not to say they are not taking all of the fun and aspects that made Timesplitters such a bad ass game and applying it to a brand new story. Maybe it's everything they did for Timesplitters already under a new name launching as a new 'franchise'. As long as it is what makes us love Timesplitters - the insane amount of charactrers and multiplayer options, engaging maps and map editors and more then we all have something to look forward to

rahmenxnoodles69 @ Oct 8th 2009 6:57PM

Dammit to hell..

I don't WANT another shitty original FPS like Haze. I don't think anyone does.

TimeSplitters 4 has been long overdue, and I would buy it day fucking one.

Future Perfect was probably the most fun multiplayer game I've ever played.

I'm sick of developers thinking they know what we want and not listening to us.

IF YOU MAKE TIMESPLITTERS 4 I WILL BUY IT, I PROMISE

IcelandTerrorist (stormtrooper190) @ Oct 8th 2009 7:46PM

am i the only one that wants to see another haze?

DBuck_Eye @ Oct 8th 2009 7:56PM

In the words of the apparently-late-but-still-great Cortez, "Damn it!"

Jesus (PSN: Luttdawg) @ Oct 8th 2009 8:00PM

Scre you Joystiq, I just saw the picture and got all excited.

TheElderFrog @ Oct 10th 2009 12:21AM

That wishing star lied to me...HE GUARANTEED TS4 BEFORE !!!
*single tear*

acme @ Oct 8th 2009 9:20PM

do they even own the rights to timesplitters anymore?

Mr.ESC @ Oct 8th 2009 9:23PM

Timesplitters 4 YE...wait,what?

Awww f**k you joystiq.

I was so happy for a seoncd there before I read the headline and the article.

Not cool guys,not cool.

Playace @ Oct 11th 2009 2:36AM

Isn't Time Splitters an original IP? They didn't say it was a NEW IP.

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