Timesplitters 4 not in development – for now

In a recent interview with CVG, Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli revealed that while he “wish[es] we were working on [Timesplitters 4],” his company is unsure about how well the game would be received in today’s crowded marketplace: “The thing with TimeSplitters is, if we made a sequel to TimeSplitters, nobody would accept this apart from some fans, and we don’t know how big the fan community is unfortunately.”

This news quenches industry rumors that the game has been in development, which is a shame to many of us who remember how enjoyably different the Timesplitters series is from any other. While Yerli didn’t rule out the possibility of the game happening in the future, we may only see a new game on a universal gaming platform like G-Face rather than a traditional console: “I think hopes are high, but change has to happen in the platform space. I’m very excited potentially about the idea of a TimeSplitters for G-Face . . . [a]nd we don’t want to design this as a packaged goods game that launches on a console, and even if we wanted to I don’t think publishers would like the idea. That is the truth, and that was the truth even before we bought Free Radical.”

While unsurprising, the news is disappointing to those of us who’ve been expecting some validity to the rumors of it being developed. The mentioning of G-Face (currently in beta testing) could entail a release within the next few years, but until we have a definitive date, don’t expect time jumping and monkeys anytime soon.