It has been a while since some volunteers have been trying to recreate the Timesplitters games in the form of a game known as Timesplitters Rewind. They had even stated back in July that they were facing development issues because of CRYENGINE. Well, now it has been confirmed that the game is alive and well and Cinder Interactive Arts has even released some screenshots from the game.

The screenshots are from the game’s Siberia level and it should be interesting to see how much better these levels look once they’re completed. The game will be a standalone multiplayer game and will feature characters, maps and weapons from the original games.

Anyway, it is nice to see this fan-made project back on its feet and hopefully, we will get to see more of the other levels soon enough. Thoughts on this? Let us know in the comments section below.

TimeSplitters was probably one of the most inventive first person shooters of its time, a glorious game that a lot of fans look back upon fondly. With shooters getting a renaissance of sorts in recent times – games like DOOM, Titanfall 2, Overwatch, Splatoon, and more are far different from the ordinary expectation of what a shooter should be – now is as good a time as any for a TimeSplitters revival.

Thankfully, it looks like TimeSplitters Rewind, the previously announced remake of the original games in CryEngine, will be releasing later this year. The game is a standalone multiplayer game being developed by fans of the original Timesplitters series. It will include characters, maps, and weapons from all three games completely rebuilt in the new engine. While this is a far cry from a brand new TimeSplitters, for many fans, even this may be enough.

You can check out a trailer for TimeSplitters Rewind below.

While it will be arriving on PC, TimeSplitters Rewind will also be heading to the PlayStation 4 (although a Wii U release is most definitely not happening). This is interesting, considering that Rewind was to be free on PC, with the success of the game to be used to decide on a console release.

The developers are targeting a pre-alpha phase for December which will allow players to test out the feel of the characters and levels. Stay tuned for more details on TimeSplitters Rewind, and let us know below what you’d like to see most in the final release.

“I think it’s going to be an off-the-table thing for now… But I don’t want to throw it out there just yet. But it’s all based on hardware limitations – because with such a small team we need as much support as we can get.

We can make it scalable on the PC, but in terms of console development… we don’t want to say like ‘Wii U’ and then not be able to present like, anything – or if it looks, like (for the lack of a better word) crap. We want to wait; we don’t want to half-ass anything.”

“What’s holding me back on the Wii U, is as I read on the Wii U – it’s not really an HD contender in terms of Xbox One versus PlayStation 4…When it comes to the Wii U, it’s going to take a lot for us to scale things back so we can work on that. But…it doesn’t mean that what we have right now wouldn’t allow for us to scale things back, because if we’re going to be able to make it scalable on the PC – so players with lower-end systems can play – then hopefully we can do the same thing for the Wii U.”

TimeSplitters Rewind will be heading to the PC only for now. Stay tuned for more news on a release date.