Crytek UK Not Ruling Out TimeSplitters 4

The development studio of Crytek UK, formerly known as Free Radical, recently revealed in an interview with Develop that while they are prepared to move forward with a TimeSplitters 4, no such project is actually underway. This came in reply to the notion that the company won’t be able to shake the rumor that they’ve been working on something.

“”Going forward, we’ve always made it very clear that we want to build original games and we’re going to do that, and we are concepting some of that up at the moment,” Crytek UK MD Karl Hilton responded. “It’s early days, but there’s some really exciting stuff that we’re concepting.”

“When we’re ready we’ll talk to publishers, and hopefully publishers will like it, and we’ll own and produce those games in our own studio.”

Presently, the group is focused on Crysis 2, which he describes as a “AAA game” they are delighted to be working on. “It is a dream project.”

Hilton replied to a question as to whether or not TimeSplitters would fit with the “hyper-realistic leaning” Crytek group, stating “Going forward with future projects, it will be up to us to talk to publishers about what they want, be it the old TimeSplitters or Team Fortress route of slightly stylized or comic characters, or whether they want hyper-realistic games.”

“”Like with all businesses, content is dictated by the desires of the market,” he continued. “These days the mass-market shooters tend to be aimed at the hyper-realistic stuff. If developers had free reign with the CryEngine, they would easily be able to produce really bizarre, wacky wonderful stuff.”

“We have artists who can make super-realistic games but we also have a team that has experience making completely bizarre stuff too,” he notes. “If the time comes, if there is a demand for that type of game, I’m confident we’d be ready for it.”

You can read the interview in full here.