Developer Free Radical has double-confirmed what we already pretty much already new:
TimeSplitters 4 is on the way!
A post on Free Radical's website reads,
"It's back! Featuring even more crazy characters, devastating weapons and heart pounding hot sweaty action. It's funny, it's frantic and it'll do things you've never seen before! No, not naked girls, even better than that! We can't tell you the details yet, the monkeys have a loaded banana pressed against our skull, but this game will take the first person shooter to gaming nirvana. Save the world or die laughing, Timesplitters 4 is coming to getcha!"
The announcement comes with a nifty flash intro to the website with... actually, we recommend you
check it out for yourself.
SPOnG managed to catch up with Free Radical's screenwriter, Rob Yescombe, just as news of
TimeSplitters 4 first broke. You can find out what he had to say
here.
SPOnG is mightily looking forward to
TimeSplitters 4, much as we are Free Radical's nearly-released
Haze. you can read SPOnG's epic interview with the above mentioned Rob Yescombe and
Haze project leader Derek 'Sizzlin' Littlewood
here. When you're done, check out the
outtakes for a taste of what being holed up in Nottingham can do to a games developer's brain...