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Contact:
Michelle Seebach
Kjell Vistad
Eidos Interactive
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Return to the breakneck frenzy with this sequel
to the critically acclaimed first-person shooter
San Francisco, CA (July 13, 2001) — Eidos
Interactive, one of the world’s leading publishers and developers of
entertainment software, today announced the development of TimeSplitters 2 for
the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system. TimeSplitters 2 is the sequel
to the hugely successful and critically acclaimed TimeSplitters, which was
released to coincide with the US and European launches of PlayStation 2. The
game is being developed by Free Radical Design of Nottingham, England, and is
set for release in Spring 2002.
"Free Radical Design demonstrated with
TimeSplitters that they are one of the world’s leading development teams,"
says Mike McGarvey, CEO of Eidos Interactive. "To say we are excited about
TimeSplitters 2 would be a massive understatement."
TimeSplitters 2 will improve on many of the
features that made the original so awesome and fun to play. The game offers a
more involving single player and co-operative story mode, featuring a complex
narrative with multiple objective-based episodes and superbly animated
cut-scenes. The game engine has been extensively upgraded to accommodate bigger,
higher detailed backgrounds and dizzying graphical special effects, while still
providing the distinctively smooth fast-paced action of the original.
TimeSplitters 2 offers a completely rewritten animation system incorporating
inverse kinematics bringing even more lifelike and dynamic movement to a new
collection of ‘loveable rogue’ characters.
TimeSplitters 2 will retain the unique MapMaker
in an enhanced form, which opens up even more potential for the player to
completely customize game scenarios. The multiplayer mayhem of the original will
be back, and TimeSplitters 2 further extends the possibilities with I-Link
support allowing multiple consoles to be linked together.
"With TimeSplitters we were just finding our
feet, now we can go to town and show people what we’re really capable of doing –
TimeSplitters 2 will be an exceptional game," says David Doak, Managing
Director of Free-Radical Design.
Eidos Interactive’s Background Information Eidos
Interactive, Inc. is a leading developer and publisher of interactive
entertainment products for the PC, PlayStation® game console and PlayStation®2
computer entertainment system, Sega Dreamcast, Nintendo® Game Boy® Color and
the Xbox video game system from Microsoft. Eidos Interactive is part of
London-based Eidos plc with additional offices in San Francisco, Paris, Hamburg,
Tokyo and Singapore. For more information on Eidos Interactive’s product line
visit http://www.eidos.com.
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