There were an abundance of first-person shooters released in the late 90s and early 2000s, both for the PC and the home consoles of the time, but it could be argued that none reached the creative heights of the TimeSplitters series. The franchise was developed by Free Radical Design, a UK-based game studio headed up by David Doak, who had previously worked on such titles as GoldenEye 007 and Perfect Dark.