Shout Out / TimeSplitters

TimeSplitters 2

• The Oblask Dam in the Siberia level is a shout out to the Bylemore Dam level of GoldenEye. It uses a very similar dam, camera movement in the intro and a lot of the same noises. Hardly surprising given that some of that game's devs became Free Radical Design members.
• The Chicago level features a bar called O'Leary's. The antagonist, mob boss Big Tony, also calls to mind another girthy mobster called Tony.
• The Notre Dame level features a hunchback ally.
• The Neo Tokyo level takes its name from AKIRA, but is intended as a homage to Blade Runner. It has the floating cars, the Asian-influenced culture, and the the incessant 'Cross Now' from the street signs.
  • It also pays homage to Neuromancer, as the protagonist of the level, Ghost, is similar to the character Case. His gallery description mentions an AI Core and lists his occupation as a "cyberjock."
• The "Sincerest Form of Flattery" Arcade League Series consists of missions that parody other First Person Shooters: Aztec the Dinosaur Hunter, Half Death, and Dead Fraction.

TimeSplitters Future Perfect

• "The Khallos Express" seems to be a homage to GoldenEye's "Train" level, down to using the aforementioned intro camera movement.
• Within the first mission, "Time to Split", a Marine can be heard saying to his compatriots, "Come on, Marines! You want to live forever!?
• In What Lies Below, when Cortez checks the files on Crow's computer and the self-destruction sequence starts, an animation appears with Crow wagging his finger and the caption "You didn't say the magic word".
  • The contraption that Jo-Beth is strapped to as a sacrifice to "Princess" is similar to the one from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
• In Breaking and Entering you activate a cleaning robot to get past a security door that's locked because it's after work hours, just like in the developers' previous game Perfect Dark.
• In You Genius, U-Genix, Cortez obtains the ID card of a scientist named Gordon.
• Also in You Genius, U-Genix, a fleeing guard cries "Game over man, game over!", a reference to the film Aliens.
  • An earlier reference to Aliens occurs in "Time to Split", when a space marine is heard saying, "Shoot anything with teeth bigger than its face!" and "They're coming outta the walls! They're coming outta the goddamn walls!".
• Crow's last word is "Rosebud".
• The Ghost Gun in the haunted house level is a shout-out to Ghostbusters, but it acts like the Ghost Dematerializer from Filmation's Ghostbusters.
• The soprano song that features through the haunted-house level comes from End of Days.
• The zombie levels feature the NPC Lenny Oldburn, whose shakey demeanor is based on Ozzy Osbourne.
• The Disco Club ending could be reference to a certain third-person shooter that was also made from devs' former company.
• The multiplayer:
  • It features a cyborg monkey that looks suspiciously like a simian RoboCop.
  • It also has Clip Clamp, a zombie character that, when selected says "Do I have red on me?" This is a bit of a mutual reference, as Shaun of the Dead had a scene in which Ed plays TimeSplitters 2.
  • When selected, the Insetik SD/12 says "By Your Command".
  • The description for the zombie biker character Jed notes that "Jed's dead, baby".
  • Selecting Deadwina has her acting possessed and giving softened quotes from The Exorcist.
    Deadwina: Do you see what your cunning daughter has done...? My mother sucks lollipops in hell!"
  • The description for Headsprouter references Little Red Riding Hood.
    My, Mr. Headsprouter, what big teeth you have!
  • Selecting Jack Sprocket has him doing the crane kick from The Karate Kid.
  • Robot Louis Stevenson's name is a reference to Robert Louis Stevenson.
  • Vlad the Installer's name is a reference to Vlad the Impaler.

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