10 Video Game Franchises Dying For A Comeback

10. Timesplitters

It's one of those dormant, if not dead, franchises that arouses the most wishful thinking amongst fans: what if TimeSplitters came back?

Recent debacles around HD remastered code of the second title and other dubious Easter eggs have kept the flame fanned still, some sixteen years after the release of the third game.

It is baffling, on the face of it, why TimeSplitters should be absent from the gaming horizon currently, at least from a critical point of view. Consider the Metacritic scores for the three games of the trilogy on PS2: 81, 90, 84 - most franchises would be envious of such consistency of quality. Revisiting this trilogy is a must for anyone interested in the history of the medium.

Another key aspect why TimeSplitters needs a comeback, beyond simply deserving one, is how the incredibly ambitious time play and design could be executed these days. The technical potential a reboot of the series could draw upon is staggering to even consider idly.

One can only hope that murmurings of the franchise are indicative of work going on behind the scenes, despite denials from THQ Nordic to that effect.