“We are currently concepting up an original IP that we hope will become a defining game series for the UK studio,” reveals Karl Hilton, studio manager. “However, in reality, the opportunity to make any kind of original FPS genre game where we get to focus on the quality of both the multiplayer and single player experience is what drives people at the studio. We have a strong history of creativity here, and we want to take that forward with Crytek and the CryENGINE 3.”

I love the passion that the TimeSplitters community representative has, however, you shouldn't come to a forum demanding a game. The decision to either develop or produce the next game will be up to more informed and better suited people than you or myself.

Development times for games can and do vary, these include announcements and teasers. When we have news regarding TimeSplitters you will hear it here first!

Quizzed as to whether or not a series such as TimeSplitters would fit in alongside the likes of the ultra realistic Crysis, Hilton replied: “Going forward with future projects, it will be up to us to talk to publishers about what they want, be it the old TimeSplitters or Team Fortress route of slightly stylized or comic characters, or whether they want hyper-realistic games.”

He added that the fate of TimeSplitters would ultimately be decided by whether or not there was still a demand for the comical shooter: “Like with all businesses, content is dictated by the desires of the market,” he said.

“These days the mass-market shooters tend to be aimed at the hyper-realistic stuff. If developers had free reign with the CryEngine, they would easily be able to produce really bizarre, wacky wonderful stuff.”

“We have artists who...

TimeSplitters developer Free Radical (now Crytek UK) has said that the group is prepared to create the next edition of the TimeSplitters series, but no such project is currently underway.

In the second part of an exclusive interview, Develop put to Crytek UK MD Karl Hilton that the studio won’t be able to shake off speculation that it’s working on a new TimeSplitters title, to which he replied,

“Going forward, we’ve always made it very clear that we want to build original games and we’re going to do that, and we are concepting some of that up at the moment.

“It’s early days, but there’s some really exciting stuff that we’re concepting. When we’re ready we’ll talk to publishers, and hopefully publishers will like it, and we’ll own and produce those games in our own studio.”

Crytek UK’s sixty-plus staff is presently focused on developing t...

I have received information from two sources, which suggest TimeSplitters 4 has been put on hold. Not only this but all of the projects from Free Radical Design have been stalled. According to one of the sources, Crytek has bought Free Radical Design specifically to help them move to console development with their own games. This can be backed by what Cevat Yerli said in an interview, referring to Free Radical Design,

    I was really impressed with their development talent, and it was effectively a 100 per cent console studio, whereas Crytek in Frankfurt is clearly the exact opposite.

    When I went up there the first time it was just console, console, console, and no PC. There were more consoles than I’ve ever seen. So with us developing the CryEngine 3, we saw it as a perfect fit for our future plans.

    What I expect is that the team will kick ass on c...

Hello,

Currently at this time we are unable to comment on any projects that we may or may not be working on unless otherwise mentioned on our press site or official community portals. For further information please be sure to check our website found at www.mycrysis.com for any more information.

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Lee Wymer
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Could you clarify whether Crytek also purchased rights to Timesplitters 4 and other Free Radical I.P.?

Yes, the rights for their major IPs now belong to Crytek.