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TimeSplitters co-creator Steve Ellis said that he has ‘unfinished business’ with the sci-fi shooter series, in an interview with Video Games Chronicle.
Earlier this week, THQ Nordic announced that Ellis had joined Deep Silver to ‘help plot the future course’ of TimeSplitters. Ellis stated that when the opportunity arose to come back to the game, he couldn’t refuse.
‘Personally I always saw TimeSplitters as “unfinished business”,’ he said. ‘It was a series that was ahead of its time, from the days when shooters were all brown and games weren’t online. It feels like it’s time has now come, so the opportunity to work on it was hard to ignore.’
Ellis had been trying to create a TimeSplitters sequel for a while before this serendipitous partnership with THQ Nordic. In an interview with Edge magazine in 2012, he said, ‘I spent the whole of 2008 going round talking to publishers trying to sign up TimeSplitters 4. There just isn’t the interest there in doing anything that tries to step away from the rules of the genre – no one wants to do something that’s quirky and different, because it’s too much of a risk. And a large part of that is the cost of doing it.’
The last game in the series came out fourteen years ago, and now seems like the perfect future to release a new one.
