What Precisely Is The Story Concerning Free Radical Design & RareWare?

I remember when Time Splitters came out for the Playstation 2 thinking it had an uncanny resemblance to FPS RareWare titles (particularly GoldenEye) and wondering what the the story was, brushing aside a coincidence. Especially considering that, as far as I knew, RareWare was still a Nintendo Third party company, and FRD was certainly not, who developed the latter title.

Back in the early stages of this decade I did not have access to the immense forum that video games have these days. It just occurred to me at work recently of all the crap I've discussed online down the years concerning video games I have never brought this up.

Not a life changing topic, but I do struggle to get a straight answer from the web. I get bits and pieces about coders leaving and forming new studios, but nothing satisfactory.

Long story short, there was a core group of 8 developers at Rare that worked on GoldenEye. They all started work on Perfect Dark, but 4 of them left to form their own company at some point before it was finished, yielding Free Radical. One of the remaining 4 at Rare, Martin Hollis, later left to form yet another company.

There are a lot more details, but basically, they're similar because they were developed by some of the same people. :P

martin hollis is at 'zoonami' i think.

Long story short, there was a core group of 8 developers at Rare that worked on GoldenEye. They all started work on Perfect Dark, but 4 of them left to form their own company at some point before it was finished, yielding Free Radical. One of the remaining 4 at Rare, Martin Hollis, later left to form yet another company.

There are a lot more details, but basically, they're similar because they were developed by some of the same people. :P

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Lol. that'll do. You should Wiki that. Christ. I've spent time trying to find a an answer like that. I'll stick to forums in future.