10 Video Games They Were Right To Cancel

10. TimeSplitters Next

In 2021, Deep Silver announced a long-awaited reboot of the beloved FPS franchise TimeSplitters, with original developer Free Radical Design even being reformed to oversee production with numerous key personnel from the earlier games returning.

Word went quiet for the next two years, but at the tail-end of 2023, Free Radical owner Embracer Group revealed that the company had been closed, in turn resulting in the cancellation of the new TimeSplitters.

Fans were naturally heartbroken, or at least they were, until subsequent leaks revealed that the original vision for "TimeSplitters Next" was to make it a third-person Fortnite clone.

The anonymous leaker not only posted gameplay footage of the project, but revealed that it was intended to be a free-to-play battle royale title - a direction most of the dev team themselves were against, let alone fans.

The leaker added that the Fortnite clone was eventually scrapped sometime in 2023, with Free Radical then focusing instead on a more conventional remake of the series' consensus-favourite entry, TimeSplitters 2.

While it's a damn shame that the TimeSplitters 2 remake will never see the light of day, it's totally logical that a Fortnite knock-off cynically posing as a TimeSplitters reboot got thrown in the trash.