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Homefront: The Revolution TimeSplitters 2

Screenshot: Deep Silver
Screenshot: Deep Silver

What an odd game Homefront: The Revolution was. A sequel to a genuinely abysmal game that thankfully had almost nothing in common with its predecessor, this was an open-world game set in a North Korea-occupied Philadelphia. It was also buggy, unbalanced, had a lengthy tutorial that bore nothing in common with the actual game, and the poor game was caught up in the demise of THQ, shuffling through numerous publishers. In amongst its muddle of huge achievements and dismal failures, however, lies an arcade cabinet. And on that cabinet are two levels of TimeSplitters 2.

But the story gets even more bonkers. Because while TS2’s Siberia and Chicago levels were intentionally made available to players, years later it was discovered that the cabinet in fact contained the entire game. But the programmer who put it there, the whole thing rendered in 4K, forgot the cheat code to access it.

After an appeal on Twitter, h4x0rz got to work, and the long-lost code was recovered. And so now, years after release, you can now play the entirety of TimeSplitters 2 in Homefront: The Revolution, not emulated, but ported in 4K.

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