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Capture the Bag is a game mode that has appeared in all of the TimeSplitters games. It is a team-based mode in which each team has a suitcase which acts as their base. The objective is to fight your way to the other team's bag and steal it, returning it to your own base to score points. The first team to reach the target score, or with the most points at the end of the game, wins the match. This premise is similar to Capture the Flag from other first-person shooter games.

If a character carrying a bag dies, they drop the bag. If this bag is then collected by its own team, it is instantly transported back to their base. However, it can just as easily be picked up by another member of the opposing side, in which case it will stay with that player until either they are killed or they succeed in returning it to their own bag base.

The bags appear as generic coloured briefcases regardless of the map played.

A note is that if you are holding dual weapons and pick up the bag, you will be forced to wield one weapon until you score or die, getting rid of the bag. This makes sense, because otherwise you would have 3 hands. This happening is unexplained for Kypriss.

In the original TimeSplitters anywhere between two and four teams could take part in a Capture the Bag match, but this has been reduced to just two in subsequent games, perhaps because a four-way Capture the Bag game proved a little too frantic. Another alteration is that in TimeSplitters 2 and TimeSplitters Future Perfect it is impossible to score if your own bag has been stolen; it must be recovered first. In the original TimeSplitters, the presence of your own bag had no impact on your ability to score points.

Trivia[]

  • A rather annoying occurrence in the second game can transpire during Capture the Bag matches if a bot on the enemy team succeeds in taking your bag to their base but their own bag has been stolen. The bot will stand idly on the base, and be unable to score until their team's bag is returned.
  • Files exist in TimeSplitters Future Perfect for the announcer calling out events involving yellow and green bags, but in-game only the red and blue teams can participate.
Modes
TimeSplitters Deathmatch · Team Deathmatch · Capture the Bag · BagTag · Escort · Last Stand · Knockout
TimeSplitters 2 Deathmatch · Team Deathmatch · Capture the Bag · BagTag · Flame Tag · Virus · Assault · Elimination · Vampire · Shrink · Thief · Leech · Regeneration · Zones · Gladiator · Monkey Assistant
TimeSplitters: Future Perfect Deathmatch · Team Deathmatch · Capture the Bag · BagTag · Virus · Assault · Elimination · Vampire · Shrink · Thief · Zones · Gladiator · Monkey Assistant
Other Modes Story · Cut-Out Shooting · Cat Driving · Monkey Mini-Games
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