Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli's recent comments at this year's E3 regarding fan-favourite IP TimeSplitters have led to a petition demanding a Kickstarter campaign to resurrect the series.
The Facebook Group is campaigning for fans of the cult FPS to step forward and make themselves known, with Yerli himself taking to twitter to try and drum up some more support for the initiative.
Speaking to CVG at E3, Yerli said: "Look, I wish we were working on it. I will say that. I think hopes are high, but change has to happen in the platform space. I'm very excited potentially about the idea of a TimeSplitters for G-Face."
"The thing with TimeSplitters is, if we made a sequel to TimeSplitters, nobody would accept this apart from some fans, and we don't know how big the fan community is unfortunately."
He later added: "I've been asked this question internally and I said, 'how can we do a kickstarter? It wouldn't feel right.' I suppose if someone really, really wanted to..."
"I guess the other issue is this; the reality also is we're quite a large company, but also we have capacity limits and we don't want to hire 15 people just to do this game. Kickstarter is a concept we thought about seriously... we'll see. Time will tell."
Time will tell indeed. If enough fans emerge from the woodwork would Crytek and Free Radical (the original devs of TimeSplitters and a company acquired by Crytek in 2009) take to Kickstarter and revisit the IP? We'll just have to wait and see.