A first-person shooter from Free Radical Design, originally a PlayStation 2 launch title in 2000 and now playable on PS4 and PS5 via PS Plus Premium's Classics range. Its centre of gravity is local multiplayer: up to four players sharing one screen across competitive modes like deathmatch and capture-the-bag, fed by a large cast of offbeat characters, ten configurable bots, and a tile-based map maker that kept couch sessions fresh long after the campaign ended.
Critics received it warmly — Metacritic 81, with GameSpot at 8.4 and IGN at 8.6 — singling out the fast, arcade-pure split-screen as ahead of its console-FPS peers. The standing criticism is the single-player: a short, story-light campaign of fetch-and-exit missions, a gap Free Radical openly addressed in TimeSplitters 2. It rewards a group at four-player split-screen; players hoping for a campaign-driven shooter are better served elsewhere.
TIMESPLITTERS 2 PS5 Gameplay
