Free Radical Design

Free Radical Design

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foundation = 1999
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location = Sandiacre, Nottingham, England
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key_people = David Doak
Steve Ellis
Karl Hilton
Graeme Norgate
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industry = Computer and video games
products = Video games
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homepage = http://www.frd.co.uk/
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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.Citation| last = Hwang| first = Kaiser| title = Free Radical: The Face That Launched A Thousand Games| newspaper = PSM| pages = pp. 18 - 19| year = 2007| date = June 2007| url = ]

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. [ [http://www.gamerankings.com/itemrankings/simpleratings.asp gamerankings.com] ]

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. [ [http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=169743 News: TimeSplitters 4 - first details - ComputerAndVideoGames.com ] ]
*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) [ [http://www.gamespot.com/news/6156330.html GameSpot.com] - an article over the upcoming Lucasarts and FRD title] [ [http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=146932 Free Radical scoops Battlefront] - "Computer and Videogames" article]

References

External links

* [http://www.frd.co.uk/ Official site]
* [http://www.godofgod.co.uk/frd/ The Unofficial Free Radical Blog]


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