| Timesplitters: Future Perfect is the third release in the Timesplitters series. As a newbie to the series I am unable to comment on how this title has improved from past titles, however I can say that Future Perfect is an incredible game! Before I continue I must mention that the game is rated M (mature) for blood and gore.
In Future Perfect humanity is on the brink of destruction from the malevolent TimeSplitters. You will be playing as Cortez who finds himself in a frantic race against time in a desperate bid to trace the origin of the TimeSplitters. The game is set in a range of time periods from 1914 to 2401 and in various locations around the world.
Before I talk about the very cool story mode that the game offers, I would like to talk about my favorite part and that is the multiplayer mode. Myself and several other Teen Scene staffers had a great time reviewing this mode. In multiplayer there are eleven unique game modes, including Deathmatch, Shrink, Thief, Capture the Bag, Virus, Vampire and many more. I have tried out most, but not all of these modes, my personal favorite being Deathmatch which is probably the most simple of the modes listed. In this mode there is not a direct mission, except to hunt down the enemy bots and kill them. You get to kill them with a mass amount of weapons, 20 weapons in all, from a gravity gun to rocket launchers and machine guns. While I enjoyed a lot of the weapons I feel that there needs to be some improvement in this area of the game. I think the weapon concepts are terrific, but the launchers are slow and other weapons even get in the way of playing. To make sure that you avoid the weapons you dislike you can create custom lists to pick and choose which weapons you want to use during multiplayer missions. In some locations you also have vehicles, which allows for you to simply runover your enemies.
The story mode is absolutely amazing and addicting. Due to mishaps in time travel you not only play as Cortez, but you also run into past or future versions of yourself as well. This gets to be very interesting because you can change the way the past and future unfolds - if only we could do that in real life. Throughout the game I found myself looking forward to when I would meet a different version of myself and how it would happen.
The soundtrack to Future Perfect is alright, but nothing worth much applause. I expect from games that either the music or sound effects should be amazing, but this seemed to fail on both ends. The biggest failure is not being able to hear your enemies' footsteps or even your own. This makes it very difficult to judge when you may unexpectedly run into an enemy and forces you to rely on the map. The game is far from a failure though some of the better points to the game are the more than 150 characters you can choose to play as. Each of the characters has a short audio clip when you select them which brings a sense of humor to the game.
Overall, TimeSplitters: Future Perfect is an amazing game that like all games has great points and great flaws, but is worth buying because you will enjoy countless hours of challenges and neverending fun. As I mentioned at the beginning, Future Perfect is rated M for its violence, however in my own opinion I feel that the rating is completely out-of-line. You will not find a teenager that hasn't been subjected and isn't mature enough to play this game. For those of you under-17 and unable to rent or buy this game due to the rating I would suggest having your parents play the game and decide for themselves whether you are mature enough to play this.
- Chad Kennedy, Publisher/Editor-in-Chief
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