TimeSplitters (video game)

TimeSplitters
European cover art
Developer(s)Free Radical Design
Publisher(s)Eidos Interactive
Designer(s)David Doak
Programmer(s)Steve Ellis
Hasit Zala
Joe Moulding
Artist(s)Karl Hilton
Rob Steptoe
Composer(s)Graeme Norgate
SeriesTimeSplitters
Platform(s)PlayStation 2
Release
  • NA: 26 October 2000
  • EU: 24 November 2000
Genre(s)First-person shooter
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

TimeSplitters is a first-person shooter video game, developed by Free Radical Design, published by Eidos Interactive, and released in 2000 as a PlayStation 2 launch title. The game's premise focuses on players controlling a variety of different characters across different time periods over a span of 100 years, seeking to resolve a personal matter involving their own foes, which brings them into contact with an alien race known as the TimeSplitters, who seek to interfere.

Much of the gameplay bears similar aspects to previous FPS games, primarily GoldenEye 007 and Perfect Dark. Alongside the story mode, the game features additional game modes, including multiplayer, as well as a map maker for players to create custom maps. The game received favorable reviews upon release, and later spawned two sequels  – TimeSplitters 2 in 2002; and TimeSplitters: Future Perfect in 2005.