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Why Would You Hide A 4K Remaster Of TimeSplitters 2 In Homefront The Revolution

When it launched, one of the few redeeming aspects of Homefront The Revolution was the fact that it had two fully 4K remastered levels from TimeSplitters 2 hidden away in an arcade machine. However, all these years later, it’s now been revealed that there’s actually an entire TimeSplitters 2 remake in there. Apparently, this is an easter egg no one noticed and no one ever found, because it made news earlier this week on almost every press site. There is a code out there somewhere that relates to this, but it’s been lost to time according to the developer who added it in. Below is a video with the two levels we know of.

This information came from an easter egg developer thread on Twitter. Developers were sharing what easter eggs they’d added to games in the past, and Matt Phillips chimed in with this one. My question is why would you hide this gem inside a game like this? No one expected Homefront The Revolution to sell well, and it really didn’t. The game has been lost to time, and so has the code to unlock the full TimeSplitters 2 4K remake. I have no doubt that a hacker will be able to pull it out with time, but why would you hide it in the first place?

The only thing I can think of is that a middle manager said the easter egg would take up too much space, or they had an idea to pitch the full 4K remake themselves. That obviously didn’t work, and now we have this locked up piece of history just stored inside an arcade machine within a game. I honestly can’t fathom why the full remake couldn’t be made available. Unless the code is somewhere in the game where players can find it.

If any developers are reading this, please put full access to this sort of thing in games, not just a couple of levels. I can’t imagine how hard it is to justify, but it’s definitely easier that the frustration the entire gaming community now feels over this tiny little code that no one can remember.

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