The TimeSplitters reboot may have ended up in the trash after developer Free Radical shut down, but purported images and various graphics from the project have now surfaced online.
Free Radical recently closed as part of the massive corporate downsizing of Embracer and the brands it owned. Now, after the shutdown, material related to the game has begun to appear on the ArtStation pages of several artists working on the TimeSplitters reboot.
Among these Characters, NPCs, and locations are visible, in addition to items largely used for map design, but potentially usable weapons were also excluded. Plaion and its parent company Embracer announced in May 2021 that original founders Steve Ellis and David Doak had created a radical new free design to “revitalize” the TimeSplitters IP.
Art for the untitled TimeSplitters project that Free Radical Design has been working on has started appearing online thanks to former employees.
Credits: Will Brown, Elmo La Mantia, Callum Summers pic.twitter.com/5WFBfiVLcH
– TimeSplitters News and Archives (@ts_archiv) December 16, 2023
unannounced #Time Dividers Concept art project online!! Credits to: Mark Normington (guns), Will Brown (setting), Simon Lloyd Rogers (characters), and Elmo La Mantia (computers). #artstation #artistic work #FPS #damages #Models #Goodluck out there guys! pic.twitter.com/tshsS3xbfn
– E1M1 Magazine (@E1M1Magazine) December 16, 2023
Are TimeSplitters fans really lost? pic.twitter.com/Pusfe00LY7
– Tom (@ithedestrxyer) December 16, 2023
#gamedev Twitter, here’s some work from an unreleased project I have permission to share! ????#Environment_art #gameart #uehttps://t.co/Hb12QUa94t
– Will Brown (@willbrown_98) December 16, 2023
