TimeShift on Xbox 360 (2007)

First Impressions

Kristofer Lee from Hertfordshire, England [Highly rated reviewer] , 02/09/2007

After playing the demo of this game I can tell you that this game is going to rock. Only a few months ago this game was literaly taken back to the drawing board and they have managed to completley save this game. True without the great new time controll feature it would fall into your general FPS catogory... but it has the time controll so it dosen't. In the game you can stop time, slow time to a crawl or reverse it. This adds many layers to combat making no two encounters the same. It also brings a puzzle element into the game but nothing to taxing, just enough to extend its uses beyond the fray of combat. Now it all may sound a bit easy as you can just stop time and shoot every one before they even realise you are there but the game makes up for this by limiting the time you can use these features for and the enimies can lay down some extremly impressive firepower. The A.I isn't to bad but could use a bit of polish. The environment is highly detailed and fully destructible making for some hugley chaotic battles. So all in all a fine game that with a bit of polish could be made truely great.

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Timeshift- Average

mikey12 , 16/11/2007

If your looking for your usual 1st person shooter, with little you haven't seen before - get this. Good graphics, average enemy AI, boring objectives and a sotry that makes no sense, coupled with your ability to stop, forward and rewind time (doesn't work as well as you would hope)...but hey, your looking for just a fun blast right? If your looking for something more intelligent, head Halo's way. 6/10 !!

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Brilliant

Jonathanat38 from Brandon [Highly rated reviewer] , 10/12/2007

I was slow to like this game at first, it just seemed like a pointless shooter and slow moving story line, but once I began to move round Alpha district and get a feel for the game I was hooked, the story line was intriguing and it is only a shame the ending was a bit lame, they often are, there seems to be some much build up and then nothing, but all the action and game play was definately there in Time Shift - the dynamics of the gameplay and graphics seemed quite close to half life 2 - but I'm not fussed about that. All in all I really liked this game, it took 3 days to complete, and on that account I'm so glad I rented as oposed to buying - waiting now for timeshift 2!

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WORTH THE WAIT

A customer from Birmingham , 01/09/2007

development time for this title was increased by the year, and what a year!! played the demo AND ITS WICKED!!

CANT WAIT FOR THIS GAME!!!!

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A waste of TimeShift.

Canks from Craigavon , 19/10/2009

In 2007 Saber Interactive released one of my favourite trailers of that year showing a time travelling super solder taking on a tank by freezing time and kicking ass iin some post apocalyptic city.

It was meant to be an action packed sci-fi shooter with time changing elements.

Sounds good right? WRONG!

Its as generic as they come and might as well be an on-rails shooter for all the little freedom your given.

As for the action, there's plenty of it but its very boring and frustrating as enemy's are bullet sponges and can take a whole clip from your machine gun just to go down....and more often than not get back up again to soke up some more of your precious ammo. I guess the enemy's are meant to be hard as nails to encourage you to use your 'Timeshift' ability, this is the games selling point after all. Well f**k this novelty time raping bulls**t! It doesn't work! To perform the Timeshift you have to hold the shoulder button while selecting your desired ability using 1 of 3 face buttons for rewind, pause and fast forward. Sounds simple doesn't it? Well not if your being attacked by 10 super bullet eaters, a heavy machine gun and a robot! Besides it glitches so often that your Timeshift can stop at random even when you still have half your time gage left.

Speaking of glitches I found a lot that forced me to restart the level, couple that with how often i died as a result of hard as balls baddies, I was left looking at the overly long loading screen countless times. Believe me, it is long.

I haven't mentioned the story because there isn't one. Ok there's some stupid plot about a scientist going mad and using the Timeshift suit to cause havoc. Luckily there's a second suit for our silent protagonist to use to save the world...blah blah blah.

I can't recommend this even to fans of no frills FPS games as there's to many glitches and unbalanced game play to make it worth your effort.

Rating:

F**k it!

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Timeshift- Average

mikey12 , 16/11/2007

If your looking for your usual 1st person shooter, with little you haven't seen before - get this. Good graphics, average enemy AI, boring objectives and a sotry that makes no sense, coupled with your ability to stop, forward and rewind time (doesn't work as well as you would hope)...but hey, your looking for just a fun blast right? If your looking for something more intelligent, head Halo's way. 6/10 !!

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