TimeSplitters. Underappreciated gem of the PS2 launch lineup. Awesome multiplayer modes to keep you and 3 friends busy for weeks.

Free Radical, the developers of N64's Goldeneye 007, Perfect Dark, and as of late, the TimeSplitters series, have answered just about every complaint gamers had about the original. Story mode feels alot like their previous console FPS's, with multiple objectives throughout the creative, story-based levels. Multiplayer is even more polished than the previous title, thanks to a slew of new modes and levels. 126 individual unlockable characters. The only problem that still lingers? It's hard. Not just "Hey, I gotta play this part over again" hard, either. We're talking "OMG I JUST THREW MY CONTROLLER OUT TEH WINDOW!!!!" hard.

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You can play these games after finding them by pressing TRIANGLE when you have the temporal uplink.

• Anaconda: In Siberia, in the first room with all the shelves and boxes and watermelons, go to the left when you enter the room, just past the shelf, to find the Anaconda cartridge.
• AstroLander: In 2019 NeoTokyo on Normal or Hard difficulty settings, a cartridge can be found. It is inside the locker room in the research facility in the left locker.
• RetroRacer: In the 2315 Robot Factory level on Hard difficulty a cartridge can be found in the bunker with armor underneath one of the ramps. Under the other ramp is a RetroRacer cartridge.

Beat the level and unlock these secret playable characters:

Medium level difficulty
2280 Return to Planet X: Ozor Mox
2019 NeoTokyo: Sadako
1853 Wild West: The Colonel
1972 Atom Smasher: Khallos
1920 Aztec Ruins: Stone Golem
1990 Siberia: Hybrid Mutant
1938 Chicago: Big Tony
???? Notre Dame: Jacque de la Morte
2280 Return to Planet X: Ozor Mox
2019 NeoTokyo: Sadako
???? Robot Factory: Machinist
???? TimePortal Station(?)

• Beat Arcade League, Honorary League, Elimination Series, Baking for the Taking with a Gold medal or better: Chef Hat
• Beat Escape from Neotokyo with a Gold or Silver medal: Big Ears
• Beat the Story Mode levels on Normal: Big Head Mode
• Complete Arcade League, Elite League, Duel Meaning, Golem Guru with a Gold medal or better:.Fat Characters
• Complete Story Mode on the Hard: Infinite Ammo
• Beat all of the Challenges with at least a Bronze: Paintball Mode
• Beat ''Trouble At The Docks'' with a Gold or Silver medal: Pirate Hat
• Beat Pane in the Neck with a Silver (Challenge mode): Rotating Heads
• Beat Silent But Deadly with a Gold or Silver medal: Viking Hat

The Stone Golem is impervious to fire, so light up those flamethrowers!

Have you ever wondered if you could be invincible and slide all over the place? Well you can if u hop on a turret ,in a virtual mapmaker piece with the ramps on the side that lead out to a bridge like island the sticks out from the middle with a turret on the end of the bridge, and you turn with your back facing outward fire downward, you will look like you're dead but you can still fire and move around.

Beat the game on Easy difficulty to unlock cardboard characters.

Beat the game on Easy to unlock the Streets arcade level.

Beat "Pane in the Neck" in Silver (Challenge Mode) to open up Rotating Heads cheat.

Earn a Gold medal in "Adios Amigos" (Arcade Mode) and unlock playable characters Hector Babasco and Lean Molly.