While Electronic Arts may be taking over the role of publisher for Free Radical Design's third installment in its praised FPS series, TimeSplitters Future Perfect, that certainly doesn't ensure the game is going to have any unwelcome, drastic changes to it. This we found out for ourselves after giving Future Perfect a little test run at E3 2004, though what we played was only the tip of the iceberg in terms of what game will be bringing to the table.



In the demo we played through, the main character, Cortez, and who looked to be Harry Tipper from the original TimeSplitters were onboard a train where a group of enemies were already up to no good. In comparison to previous installments, the game felt extremely familiar and comfortable, with the same, and by now intuitive, control scheme and playability as we've grown accustomed to. After gunning down hoards of enemies alongside Tipper (or so we hypothesize), out of nowhere emerged a monstrous the chopper that began firing in our direction, and of course, demanded retribution.



Although our time with TimeSplitters Future Perfect was rather short, we can surely get your hopes up with following features that have been promised by EA to be in the final version of the game:

[list][li] An improved Story mode ties all the missions together, immersing gamers in an epic adventure between the years of 1914 and 2401.[/li]

[li]A single player Co-op mode allows you to play with a time travel companion throughout Story mode.[/li]

[li]The extensive Arcade mode features endless hours of gameplay from mini-games to extra bonus content and challenge maps.[/li]

[li]Players get the best rankings in Challenge mode to unlock special items and brag about scores to their friends.[/li]

[li]Multiplayer mode allows gamers to battle in 16-player death match or co-op play online on the PlayStation 2 game console. With Online play gamers can create their own tournaments or play in arcade leagues.[/li]

[li]Hundreds of unlockables can be used in all gameplay modes with new characters, weapons, and maps.[/li]

[li]An improved map-maker interface allows gamers to create maps more easily. Maps can be shared and played online with other players.[/li]

[li]Innovative "meet yourself time travel gameplay lets players be their own ally by teaming up with past and future versions of themselves. Gamers are warned to be careful of time paradoxes![/li]

[li]The game features more realistic environments, spectacular special effects, high quality animated cut scenes, an improved physics engine, and smarter enemy AI.[/li]

[li]Players blast their way through time with more weapons and gadgets. From a gravity gun, which can levitate objects, vehicles and people, to rocket launchers and machine guns, the game will feature a more than 20 different weapons.[/li]

[li]Gamers will have the ability to take control of land vehicles such as trucks, tanks, and cars equipped with weaponry.[/li][/list]TimeSplitters Future Perfect has the release dial for its time machine currently set on 2005. We'll be sure to keep you updated on the specifics and new details as they become available.



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