5 HD Gaming Collections That Should Be Released

2. Timesplitters

I€™ve written before on the subject of Timesplitters and why the world needs to experience its greatness once again, so my apologies in advance if this is something of a rehash of things that have been said previously. It€™s rare to see a re-release of a first-person shooter, as sequels in the genre generally make their predecessors obsolete €“ few people will still play an older game such as Call of Duty: Black Ops online when there is a larger community for the more recent Call of Duty: Black Ops II, for instance. Unlike most modern shooters, however, the appeal of Timesplitters wasn€™t in its online play (though the third entry in the series did include it). Rather, it was beloved for its silliness, featuring characters ranging from fez-wearing bears to gingerbread men, as well as the sheer variety of content that it offered, which ranged from some of the best offline multiplayer (remember when games had that?) ever seen to a single-player experience that incorporated a traditional campaign along with challenge modes ranging from stealth missions to a game mode in which players faced off against an ever-growing horde of zombies (sound familiar?). The company that made the games, Free Radical Design (themselves founded by people who€™d worked on Goldeneye and Perfect Dark, the former of which has been remade, in a way, recently), may have been absorbed by Crytek UK, but the legacy of the series is still strong. Crytek may be unwilling to make a sequel, despite fan demand, in a market dominated by Call of Duty, but a strong-selling HD collection of the original greats could be the thing to convince them to continue with the franchise once more.