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Each game in the TimeSplitters series has its own unique soundtrack, mostly created by composer Graeme Norgate (although he was aided by Goteki and Christian Marcussen in TimeSplitters 2 and TimeSplitters Future Perfect. Norgate also worked on many famous video games made by Rare for the Nintendo 64, such as GoldenEye and Perfect Dark. Indeed, the "Spaceship" track from the original TimeSplitters is notably similar to some of Perfect Dark's Skedar-themed music.
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Availability
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The majority of the music from all three TimeSplitters games was available for download, free of charge, from Free Radical Design's web page. The website also offered printable album artwork. However, since the company was bought out by Crytek, the website has closed down and the music is no longer traceable from the developers themselves. It is still available for free elsewhere online:
- TimeSplitters Music Box offers the complete music from each of the games, including certain cues that were never available on Free Radical Design's official site.
- Graeme Norgate also has the music to the TimeSplitters games, as well as many of the other videogames he has scored, on his own website. However, the selection is not complete, with Future Perfect in particular lacking some cues.
Official Music
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TimeSplitters
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| Track | Composer | Notes |
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| Tomb | Norgate | |
| Chinese | Norgate | |
| Cyberden | Norgate | |
| Cyberden Launch | Norgate | |
| Village | Norgate | Norgate - "How do you write music for a village? No idea, and to me, this sounds more like Delerium." |
| Chemical Plant | Norgate | |
| Planet X | Norgate | |
| Mansion | Norgate | Norgate brands this "Horror Lite!" |
| Docks | Norgate | |
| Spaceways | Norgate | Norgate's sci-fi leitmotif is first heard here. It's heard again in TimeSplitters Future Perfect, on the VR track. |
| Graveyard | Norgate | |
| Site | Norgate | Norgate - "Sort of guitary industrialy type tune." |
| Streets | Norgate | |
| Castle | Norgate | |
| Bank | Norgate | |
| Spaceship | Norgate | |
| Mall | Norgate | Melody comparable to stereotypical elevator Muzak. |
| Compound | Norgate | |
| Warzone | Norgate | |
| Alien Tileset | Norgate | |
| Gothic Tileset | Norgate | |
| Industrial Tileset | Norgate | |
| Virtual Tileset | Norgate | |
| Title Screen | Norgate | The original TimeSplitters main theme. The menu music in TimeSplitters 2 emulates this. |
| Unknown | Norgate | Dubbed "Spaceport" by TS Music Box. It's heard in the Spaceport Tileset. |
TimeSplitters 2
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| Track | Composer | Notes |
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| Siberia | Norgate | |
| Siberia Chopper Attack | Norgate | A faster and slightly edited version of the main Siberia song. |
| Chicago | Norgate | |
| Notre Dame | Norgate | It seems to be inspired by Mozart's Lacrimosa |
| Notre Dame Portal Daemon | Norgate | Loosely inspired by "Never Let Me Down Again" by Depeche Mode. |
| Return to Planet X | Norgate | |
| NeoTokyo | Norgate | Features the NeoTokyo leitmotif, which is heard in several places in TimeSplitters 2. It is an obvious homage to the end title music from the 1982 movie Blade Runner, a film which heavily inspired the NeoTokyo level. |
| Wild West | Norgate | Norgate - "Described by The Edge magazine as Ennio Morricone on Acid - sweet." The track's guitar parts were played by Richard Parr. |
| Atomsmasher | Norgate | |
| Aztec Ruins Exterior | Norgate | |
| Aztec Ruins Interior | Norgate | |
| Robot Factory | Norgate | Norgate - "I'm not sure why I thought this, but I wanted to write the oddest tune I could come up with. If you think Robot Factory you'd think, mechanical, rhythmic and repetitive wouldn't you? Seems, I didn't." A edited version of this song is used in the story menu. |
| Space station | Norgate | |
| Mexican Mission | Norgate | |
| Ice Station | Norgate | |
| Hospital | Norgate | |
| Training Ground | Norgate | |
| Scrapyard | Norgate | |
| Nightclub | Norgate | A more upbeat rendition of the Chicago track. Norgate comments that this piece took a long time to compose. |
| Hangar | Norgate | Also used in the Chasm level. |
| Ufopia | Norgate | |
| TS2 Streets | Norgate | While the level remains the same, Streets featured different music from its original incarnation. This track is also the Alien Tileset's default music. |
| Circus | Norgate | |
| TS2 Industrial Tileset | Norgate | This is the second track to feature the NeoTokyo theme. |
| TS2 Virtual Tileset | Norgate | This is in fact the Alien Tileset music from the original TimeSplitters. |
| Anaconda | Norgate | |
| AstroLander | Norgate | The NeoTokyo theme arises again here, this time in a considerably slower and more 'primitive' rendition. |
| RetroRacer | Norgate | |
| TS2 Title Screen | Norgate | A remixed and updated continuation of the original TimeSplitters theme. |
| Story Level Select | Norgate | A segment of "Robot Factory" slightly edited for length. |
| TS2 Credits | Norgate | This song is also the virtual tileset's music in TimeSplitters Future Perfect. |
| Goteki TS Remix | Goteki | |
| Mission Success | Norgate | |
| Mission Failure | Norgate | See Article |
| Aztec Background Noise | Norgate | |
| Mapmaker | Norgate | A curious inclusion, as there is no background mapmaker music in TimeSplitters 2. |
TimeSplitters Future Perfect
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| Track | Composer | Notes |
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| Scotland the Brave | Norgate | Norgate - "One of my all time favourite tracks I've done, and it's got bloody bagpipes in, I ask you!" |
| Castle Tank Boss | Norgate | The same song is used for the demo played at the beginning of the game. |
| The Russian Connection | Marcussen | |
| The Khallos Express | Marcussen | |
| The Khallos Express Helicopter | Marcussen | |
| The Mansion of Madness | Norgate | Norgate comments that this was influenced by The Shining. It also sounds similar to some of the score music from the 1999 movie End of Days. |
| What Lies Below | Marcussen | |
| Breaking and Entering | Norgate | |
| You Genius, U-Genix | Marcussen | |
| Machine Wars | Marcussen | |
| Something to Crow About | Marcussen | |
| You Take the High Road | Marcussen | |
| The Hooded Man | Marcussen | Same as Mars Prison |
| Bunker | Norgate | |
| Disco a Go-Go | Norgate | The music from the Disco level. |
| Horror Hotel | Marcussen | The music from the Hotel level. |
| Siberia | Norgate | |
| Spaceport | Norgate | This was based upon a remix for Illumina. The very beginning is also similar to the melody of a Russian folk song. |
| Mind the Gap | Norgate | The music from the Subway level. |
| Who's the Mummy? | Norgate & Goteki | The music from the Temple level. |
| Venice | Jeremy Taylor | This is actually a fast-paced remix of the Funeral March for Queen Mary. |
| VR | Norgate | This map uses the familiar sci-fi leitmotif seen in original TimeSplitters's "Spaceways". |
| Zeppelin | Croker | |
| Egyptian Tileset | Norgate | |
| Horror Tileset | Norgate | |
| Lab Tileset | Norgate | This is the same song as "Cortez Can't Jump". |
| Military Tileset | Norgate | Same as Siberia of the same game |
| Cortez Can't Jump | Norgate | This is the same song as "Lab Tileset". |
| Like a Monkey | Goteki | "Like a Robot" with 'monkey' replacing 'robot' at every juncture. |
| Like a Robot | Goteki | |
| Like a Robot (instrumental version) | Goteki | "Like a Robot" without lyrics. |
| Mapmaker | Norgate | |
| TS3 Title Screen | Norgate | The theme of TimeSplitters Future Perfect is a different composition from the previous games. |
| Movie Suite - Action | Marcussen | The three Movie Suite cues are used in cutscenes throughout the game. |
| Movie Suite - Sneak - Bad Guys | Marcussen | The three Movie Suite cues are used in cutscenes throughout the game. |
| Movie Suite - Sneak - Good Guys | Marcussen | The three Movie Suite cues are used in cutscenes throughout the game. |
Unofficial Music
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TimeSplitters Advance
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The music for TimeSplitters Advance was probably done solely by Graeme Norgate, but since the game was never released, we can only assume this.
TimeSplitters 4
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The upcoming music for TimeSplitters 4 is expected to be composed by Graeme Norgate and possibly Christian Marcussen.
TimeSplitters Gold
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TimeSplitters Gold uses MIDI renditions of the official music in TimeSplitters Future Perfect. These renditions were arranged by Monocledsardine of TeamSplitters.