Free Radical Design

Free Radical Design is a video game developer based in Nottingham, England. The company is well known for their TimeSplitters video game series and as a first-person shooter developer.

History

Initially, most of Free Radical Design's employees previously worked for the game developer Rare. While at Rare, they (David Doak, Steve Ellis, Karl Hilton, Graeme Norgate and Lee Ray) worked on the Nintendo 64 first-person shooters GoldenEye 007 and Perfect Dark. From late 1998 to early 1999 this team left Rare to form Free Radical Design, which was established in April 1999, their first release being TimeSplitters for the PlayStation 2 in 2000. TimeSplitters attracted attention at the time because of the former Rare employees' work on the critically acclaimed GoldenEye 007.

TimeSplitters 2 was released in 2002, and became the highest-ranked first-person shooter on the PlayStation 2.

Works

Released

• TimeSplitters (2000) for PlayStation 2
• TimeSplitters 2 (2002) for PlayStation 2, GameCube and Xbox
• Second Sight (2004) for PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox and Windows
• TimeSplitters Future Perfect (2005) for PlayStation 2, GameCube and Xbox
• Haze (2008) for PlayStation 3

Upcoming

• TimeSplitters 4 - According to Free Radical Design's website, a fourth installment of TimeSplitters is in development.
• Unknown LucasArts title - This will be released on either the Wii, Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. (Rumored to be the 2009 Battlefront title listed on amazon.com)

References

External links

• Official site
• The Unofficial Free Radical Blog