Why has the TimeSplitters trilogy never been re-released?

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VGPolyglot on 19 February 2018

Unfortunately, it seems like nobody cares enough about the franchise to bother re-releasing them. It's a shame because I love those games.

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VGPolyglot on 19 February 2018

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Future perfect is thr only one with a control scheme that would remotely work these days. They'd reallly have to put in some serious effort for a small audience. I cant imagine the level editors being easy to remake or remaster either.

What? The control scheme is essentially the same as the first-two games.

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ZODIARKrebirth on 19 February 2018

i never played them, but i remember the games. but i understand you, it's like i'm always waiting for a remaster or remake of xenogears😉

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zygote on 19 February 2018

Because the original team is separated and torn apart. I’m not even sure who has the rights to it anymore.

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VGPolyglot on 19 February 2018

zygote said:
Because the original team is separated and torn apart. I’m not even sure who has the rights to it anymore.

Well, the original team doesn't have to develop the re-masters, or make a new game really. But as to who owns it, I think it's still Crytek.

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VGPolyglot on 19 February 2018

Ka-pi96 said:

VGPolyglot said:

Well, the original team doesn't have to develop the re-masters, or make a new game really. But as to who owns it, I think it's still Crytek.

Possibly, but they did sell the studio that made the games to Deep Silver, just dunno if any IP (other than Homefront) went with it.

I don't know if they sold the IP to them.

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Nobody cares about this franchise imo.

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Ka-pi96 said:

VGPolyglot said:

I don't know if they sold the IP to them.

Neither do I. I sure hope they did though since Crytek just left it unused for the entire time they had it! I'd love to see it change hands again since if it did the new owners might actually decide to get some use out of it.

I know the new Homefront has a TS2 easter egg.