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 Lifeguard Opportunity at Bayview Beach |
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Rastafarian
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 Pass the Dutchie on the left side, mon. |
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Star
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 Looks like Han is sleeping solo tonight |
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Episode
128
 Dexter takes a cheap shot at Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney |
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Episode 127
 Mary & Dexter discuss the American flag |
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Episode 126
 Dexter & Marley go shopping for female hygiene products |
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Episode 124
 Marley goes Easter shopping |
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TimeSplitters 2 - Goldeneye Lives On Written by DetErest In 1997, the first person shooter gaming world was changed forever. That was the summer when Rareware released Goldeneye 007 for the Nintendo 64. Goldeneye was an instant hit, and became one of the most popular games of all time. Several key members from the Goldeneye team have since left Rareware, and joined Free Radical Design. As most fans of Goldeneye already know, the faces for the guard characters in Goldeneye were actually the heads of the team members. Shown below, are members of the TS2 team as they appeared in Goldeneye 007:
In the final credits for TS2, the following text can be found...
It's good that no innocent monkeys were injured
- Even though they always tend to huck grenades at you... |
Stephen
Ellis
David
Doak 
Karl
Hilton
Graeme
Norgate 
In
the very first mission of TS2's story mode, we're given an aerial
view of a dam in Siberia. Of course, this mission is nothing at all
like the Dam mission in Goldeneye. But letting the players view a
dam right off the bat was an excellent touch, and immediately brought
feelings of nostalgia.
This
screenshot shows an area near the starting point of the Siberia mission.
Just
like Goldeneye, TS2 also has a mission called 'Aztec'. Although in
TS2's Aztec mission, most of the level is played in the jungle as
you try and locate the temple. The temple is shown from outside in
this screenshot. It looks rather impressive, and the clouded sky and
palm trees create a nice effect.
Shown
here, our character is inside the temple. Note the ancient carvings
on the walls and pillars. Excellent detail.
In
the Atom Smasher mission, Harry Tipper finds himself strapped to
a chair, with a laser beam about to slice him in half. Nothing like
this appeared in Goldeneye... But as Bond fans will remember,
Agent 007 (Sean Connery) was in this same situation during the movie
Goldfinger. That scene features one of the most famous lines
of all time, with James Bond asking: "Do you expect me to talk?"
When
inside one of the buildings of the Compound arena of Arcade mode,
the walls slightly resemble those of the Archives from Goldeneye...
Of course the green and grey are reversed, and the floor is tiled
with checkers instead of plain squares... It's either a clever tribute,
or a total coincidence.
One
of the mysterious Multiplayer Awards earned in Goldeneye 007 was
the "AC-10 Award". It's awarded for a player who grabs
a lot of Body Armor during battle. They made an official comment
on this, revealing that it's a reference to an old video game, where
a character could have an Armor Class of minus ten. This
obscure reference from Goldeneye has also made its' way into TS2.
It's
always annoying when guards trigger the alarm... You can accidentally
trigger the alarm yourself too. For whatever reason, it took me
a while to notice that the alarms in TimeSplitters 2 very closely
resemble those found in Goldeneye 007.
Just
something small from upstairs in the guardhouse near the beginning
of the Dam... In the very top room where you go to open up the doorway
to the actual dam itself, there is a map of Russia on the wall.
Although
this detail here doesn't deal directly with Goldeneye 007, it does
involve a Nintendo 64 game cartridge... Once again in the Siberia
mission, make your way through the dam and re-surface into the second
building. You can find shelves in the first room past the entrance,
where this little game cartridge will be sitting on a shelf. You
can zoom in and check it out with the Sniper Rifle, and it's in
the shape of a N64 game cart, with the label "Anaconda"...
Picking
up this little game cartridge will make it appear as an item in
your inventory. If you pause and select the game, you'll take a
break from your mission and be able to enjoy a quick mini-game.
